Yeah, this adaptation could have used a doubled, maybe tripled, budget.

I was really excited for this adaptation, because while the manga certainly falls into line with the genre and other trashy harems, its level of execution is right up there with One Punch Man and Vinland Saga.

And I kept back to panels from just the first volume. I keep saying it, but the action in the manga is sublime. They are brilliantly illustrated, brutal, multi-page sequences.

I don’t typically stick with harems, either, unless there is something special about them. Mato Seihei no Slave is literally the only anime or manga of its ilk, that I’m still reading.