Classroom of the Elite

Classroom of the elite initially presents itself as a "system" anime; the system being the rules revolving around the school and how it affects the lives of the students. The title promises elite students, but the anime brings some of the least interesting kids I've ever had the displeasure of watching.

The first issue a viewer would likely notice is the very, very high amount of fanservice given to the viewer. While fanservice isn't really a hindrance, and is probably the least bad issue with this series, the amount of it is just distracting and gross. Pretty much every girl in this series has the most luxurious, huge, back-breaking tits that are deserving of their own sound effect at all times. considering the high-school setting in this anime, it's pretty gross to constantly see them moving around immediately when the plot takes a break.

Positives

I guess the soundtrack is alright. It isn't a masterpiece but it doesn't get in the way of any enjoyment unlike the rest of the content found in this series.

Character Negatives

Starting off with the characters, it always feels like every single character is constantly fighting to be the worst one on screen. Our main girl, initially giving the typical tsundere dialogue blurbs that put her in this category of girl that isn't really anything special but has enough of a personality to be on a couple of niche tier lists. After probably episode 1, Horikita just becomes this bitchy figure that is always in disagreement with our MC. She's probably my favorite for this reason.

The MC isn't really smart, and is honestly a complete asshole for the entire runtime of the show, and the amount of people that either try to be like this guy or look up to this character has atleast a partial effect on why so many anime fans lack a secure friend group. There isn't really much to say about this character, because whenever there's a mystery in this show it's like the writer personally tells him the solution before it can begin. Please, don't make characters like this MC.

The worst character aspect probably has to be this one short haired girl, Karuizawa, who, after about 2-3 episodes breaks down and threatens to fake a rape accusation. This isn't brought up again for any reason and her character is pretty much the same nice girl for the rest of the show afterward, so why even do this? It just makes her awful.

Plot Negatives

The plot is pretty much redundant. There's a system put into place but the anime loves to pretend its such a huge threat instead of fleshing it out and making us interested in it. The system originally makes itself out to be something detrimental but pretty much every student can easily live without it and just bitch and bitch and bitch about not having any spending money when they can't use it. It really takes the "Elite" aspect of the show and ruins it.

If you don't like the school plot, I don't blame you. It just revolves around this asshole redhead kid who really has no reason to be there yet the characters decide he should be with 0 explaination. So what's the next arc? Some uninteresting island setting with a completely new system concept. Now, even the term "Classroom" is made redundant. The island arc drags on and has a pretty shitty conclusion that leads to a sort-of non-ending.

When you take the term "Elite" and "Classroom" out of your own story just because of how your direction is, all you get for a name is "of the". Which, as boring and pointless as that sounds, perfectly describes the experience you'd have with this show.

Classroom of the Elite is meaningless, pretentious trash.

1/10