The Testament of Sister New Devil

Shinmai Maou no Testament has everything: cute girls, fantasy, mythology, action, and romance. But excessive ecchi ruins it. Main character's power-ups rely on lewd acts? Frustrating. It's like the writers took a solid story and threw in unnecessary fan service.

Female characters are reduced to objects for protagonist's "growth," which is disappointing. They have potential, but it's wasted. Action scenes are intense, world-building's impressive, but ecchiness overshadows.

I'd love to give it a higher rating, but the ecchi content is overwhelming. Watch the censored version for sanity's sake. Fans of High School DxD, Trinity Seven, or Date A Live might enjoy, but beware.

A missed opportunity. Worth watching (censored) but disappointing. Engaging plot and lovable characters can't save it from unnecessary fan service. With more restraint, this could've been a top-tier anime.

Between love and hate I couldn't decide, but I didn't stop watching it either.

With an amusing twist in the first episode the ecchi starts on a good foot, cheese and stilted dialog aside.

As the season progressed and much as I wanted to hate "ToaNSD" for its predictability, "Fan Service" and shoehorned ecchi moments it grew on me.

The "broken" protagonists growth was imperfect, the animation and story made me think it was a dated early 2000's anime vs 2015. But for all of that, for every flaw easily critiqued, I kept watching the anime and before long the first season was over.

The 2nd season was even more over the top, more Demons, more cheese, more fetishes and seemed to make even less sense.

Pros:

• Classic Ecchi moments.
• Predictable but lovable characters.
• Consistent animation.
• English Dubbing.
• Amusing "Fan Service".
• There is an OVA.
• Only 2 seasons.

Cons:

• Early episodes have some silted dialog (English Dubbing).
• Story often advanced with little explanation, I'm assuming those who've read the Mangas could follow allow better.
• Story details left unresolved, for example the protagonist has two mothers, and a former god is watching over him, but that's left on the table.
• Main characters are chumps in one episodes and nearly godlike in another (without a training montage to justify the "upgrade".
• Some seriously over the top "Fan Service".
• Fight scenes are often cut short and lack any epic flair.
• The protagonist takes demon drugs for "reasons", seems like an unneeded story device.
• Much if the audio effects seem "sampled", pretty sure they used the "Tardis" sound effects and different audio details from other anime's.

The Testament of Sister New Devil is pretty much a clone of High School DxD (I actually thought a HSDxD trailer at the end of the disc was for another TTOSND release!). The character designs and voice acting are nigh-on identical. Both also feature a TON of fanservice; the difference is that HSDxD does it right. With TTOSND it's shoehorned and drawn-out so much it actually starts to get boring (never thought I'd fast-forward so much through boobs and upskirt). It's frustrating because TTOSND is a pretty decent fantasy yarn - the mythology is pretty cool, the characters are interesting, the action is well-done, and the girls are cute. If they'd just cut the whole (stupid) 'master-servant pact', that would have fixed it. They could still have had plenty of T&A. What's good gets this a 7/10, but it could have been higher.

It would've been better if the succubus's part was replaced something meaningful. I liked the direction and storyline (apart from succubus's deeds and actions and their consequences). Thank you.

First of all, I rate the character design highly. I gave points for adding black, red, blue, and purple characters to each character because they were easy to recognize. But... it's a story. This is a story that can be seen in games, just like old Japanese stories. As it is an action genre, friendship plays a big role. But you can't be strong if you can't do dirty things...? If you're a man, you might like it. But the setting of the main character and his father is too overdone. So if the main character doesn't work, the surrounding characters won't work either. But it's not that bad, so it's not something you can't watch.