Kaishaku is an author/s that I've really grown to love. All their works look like the most 2000s thing ever (and they are), but once you scrape past that purely aesthetic layer and you look deeper into their stuff you realize that hey wait a minute... this is actually good. Kannazuki no Miko seemed like a weird yuribait ecchi only to end up being very yuri, slightly edgy and kinda beautiful. Eternal Alice may have a budget of four Burger King coupons and be paced like a cheese missile, yet it manages to be a very beautiful story about fiction and escapism. And now UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie, which at first seems like a vague recollection of 2000s tropes and looks thrown together in a blender without much cohesion... Is pretty much that, but it is a lot of fun tho which is what matters

I want to elaborate on what I mean by a cheese missile since it applies to Ultramaiden too, what I mean is that it's paced extremely fast, the first few episodes fly by as they either do silly surreal episodic stuff or introduce plot elements without taking that much time or care for the viewer, but it can pull that off because 1) who cares and 2) the anime is so cheesy, so ridiculous, so aware of how insane it is that yea sure this is the key of time and it controls reality or whatever. While I first used this to describe Eternal Alice (not in a review but in a random discord message) this applies MUCH better to Ultramaiden, as Eternal Alice is still a "serious" work while Ultramaiden (though having a plot) remains pretty silly through and through

If you liked the definition of a "cheese missile", you'd probably like Ultramaiden, and maybe Aquarion too which is getting its 4th season revealed/premiered this March 24th of 2024 at Anime Japan. If you're not yet sold, then let me try to make a more normal review out of it

UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie is a fun silly anime about a guy that runs a bathhouse somehow ending up with an alien super magical girl from Valhalla who age regressed for some reason and can turn into a full powered adult with a kiss of the mentioned boy, a twist on the classic "boy meets overpowered demigod girl" that dogass franchise Fate has unfortunately brought upon this world. Along the way we meet other characters such as: A catgirl maid with a gun that turns girls into catgirls to serve her and also she LOVES Valkyrie, another more violent magical girl that is forced to age regress through tao magic, a princess who always crashes her ship, a war veteran bunny who gets tortured and mangled by Valkyrie constantly, a cyborg princess who might not be a cyborg but she is a massive otaku and a troll. Shenanigans ensue as the eclectic and ridiculous setting of a maybe alien invaded earth or maybe just a normal earth clashes with weird technomagic thingies and the many weird princesses from Valhalla who aren't quite sure on how good this boy really is. In other words: It shows its age, it's fun as hell, and I love it

It's not the most serious show in the world, and 90% of it is pure stupidity, and yet somehow that last 10% (like the ending of season 2 or the final OVA) still managed to hit pretty hard, I guess that's the power of having a ton of charm. And I think that's how I'll end this review: By saying that this anime has a lot of charm, 2000s charm, or 2000s rizz or whatever the kids are saying