Ayakashi Triangle

あやかしトライアングル

6.43(24K votes)

Ranked #8235Popularity #2598

episodes

Type

Status

Finished Airing

Aired

Jan 10, 2023 to Sep 26, 2023

Studios:Connect

ActionComedyRomanceSupernaturalEcchi

Synopsis

Ayakashi are strange, supernatural creatures invisible to the majority of people. Though most are harmless, some ayakashi attack humans to devour their life force. Exorcist ninjas are tasked with protecting people from these spiteful spirits. Matsuri Kazamaki is a young exorcist ninja born to a prestigious clan. His childhood friend, Suzu Kanade, is an ayakashi medium—an individual with immense vitality that attracts ayakashi. Matsuri deems all ayakashi threatening and wishes to keep Suzu as far from them as possible, but this clashes with her desire to remain close to them. One day, the pair encounters Shirogane, the "King of Ayakashi," who is hellbent on consuming Suzu. As she is about to be eaten, Matsuri comes to the rescue and manages to seal the ayakashi's powers—but not before Shirogane takes revenge by turning him into a girl! Until he finds a way to transform back, Matsuri must adjust to his new, peculiar lifestyle while fighting against hostile ayakashi. Moreover, Suzu is now conflicted about her feelings toward Matsuri—further plunging their relationship into a state of ambiguity. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

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Worth Watching? — Global Verdict

6.2/10

Average Review Score

64%

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International Reviews

GravenER

Not RecommendedFunny

Listen, I know, sometimes they need to censor scenes for the actual broadcasting, but this is just ridiculous. It doesn't show anything: all the 'important parts' are covered by a cat sticker in an almost mocking way. They're not subtle at all, and that's terribly irritating. What even is the point of watching it, then? Surely not for the plot or the characters, because those are abysmally generic and uninspired. It's stuff I've seen done way better a dozen times. Highschool DxD showed boobs and butts more than a decade ago and even managed to slap a hint of plot into it (enough not to makeme doze off while nothing of relevance was on screen if you know what I mean), while today, 2024, I need to buy a blueray to see some backwater, generic ecchi-supernatural anime as the author meant it - all that because the media industry is getting increasingly prudish. It's like removing all the blood and violence from, say, Chainsaw Man, and forcing you to buy the blueray to see them. What about no? What is the rating even there for? Miss me with these petty schemes.

37 found helpfulFeb 5, 2024

Episodes (12)

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Community Discussion

As a huge fan of kentaro yabuki's To Love Ru, and someone who enjoyed Black Cat, this show sort of missed on all cylinders. It basically tried to fuse those 2 shows, and it didn't excel in either. What happened. Why is everyone so apathetic towards this show. Needless to stay, this probably isn't getting another season based on comments from twitter, so we are reviewing this based on what is here so far. Yabuki may not get another series animated for a while. It wants to be an ecchi, wants to be an action show with lore, wants to be a romance, wants to bea comedy. So there is a fundamental identity crisis. As an ecchi, it is incredibly uncreative an just goes for the usual topless scene, usually focused just on Matsuri. Compared to Love Ru, it just feels lazy. As an action show, nothing to write home about in 2023 with unimpressive action. It will look great in manga form, but this studio unfortunately won't be able to meet modern standards. Powers more or less ripping off Naruto characters like Sai and Ten Ten. Sosuke was a cool villain but unfortunately a fairly villain of the week one. The story lacks a lot of structure, and if you aren't a fan of his art style, you will likely lose interest fast. It switches between action then sol, and more or less does the same thing. As a result, the simplistic story is not going to cater interest. It more or less just there to explain the transformation and becomes less relevant later on. The biggest problem is definitely the characters since despite a smaller cast than TLR, Lucy and Yayoi feel way too secondary to even most of the TLR cast with no role to right home about. So there role feels gimmicky like Risa from TLR. Comedy was good at the beginning with the transition but sort of fizzledo out later on, and I don't think the romance is well written. It is basically I have feelings and such. He is a phenomenal artist but probably shouldn't try to tackle a manga by himself. To Love Ru didn't deserve to die for this. There are extremely talented writers like Koshi Tachibana that can fuse ridiculous fan service elements into an amazing epic. But Yabuki has shown he isn't one of them.

XhionPime

Recommended

It's a classic ecchi with genderbend, but it hides a more interesting and better plot than most of the current productions. Although it doesn't escape from the cliches of the genre, at least it didn't make me roll my eyes with every joke; in only 12 chaps the characters had a greater development than others have in two seasons, the music doesn't shine but it fits perfectly with the story, its worldbuilding is not really elaborated but it's interesting, and the animation is attractive and fluid enough for the genre. In short, it's a series that, while not quite good enough to be a gem, iswell-crafted to shine on its own. It's really a shame that we probably won't see a second season (a somewhat weak start and its months-long hiatus didn't help it in that regard). We'll have to wait for the uncensored Blu-Ray sales to find out.

8 found helpfulSep 26, 2023

allie-mes

Recommended

Loved this show and even bought the manga. Now look, this show is definitely not for everyone, I can understand this. Cons:The censorship sucks in a show that is suppose to be rated R+, and the scenes that show skin are even that bad, the "sexual" scenes are clothed, and just a little foreplay. Yes, the humor is pretty dry and they skip around from the manga and (personal opinion) if they had follow the order and made it 10 episodes instead of 12, the consistency would be better. Pros: Opening is a banger, and the animation is pretty decent. The character interactionsare more generic, but have a cute factor to it. The cat makes this better than it is, and at times the action gets more intense than expected. The balance of yuri, ecchi, plot, and humor is something I don't find much in anime nowadays, which this show does not too bad. MAIN POINT: Overall, Read the manga if you really want to enjoy this and support the author's work (who made To-Love Ru) or go watch one or two episodes and see if it's your cup of tea. You want something to watch when you're bored, it got my stamp of approval.

1 found helpfulJan 15, 2024