It's very pretty, I will give it that. The art style is lush, and the eyes are unlike any anime eyes I have ever seen.

BUT, I have serious doubts about the story, and that's only from one episode.

The hero, Raishin, is a Japanese "Puppeter," a sort of Technomancer, and Yaya is his "Doll," a living puppet who is brought to life by her magician's mana. Basically a Familiar. Considering how some of the other puppets eat, it's not definitive that they are purely mechanical.

It starts with an action sequence, where the train they are on heading to an English school for puppeteers goes runaway. Raishin and Yaya rescue the train stopping it just before it smashes into its terminus.

Raishin gets to the school, but is admitted only as the second to last lowest rank. But all that matters is that he is there. He has a goal. He wants to get into the top 100, where they have one all or nothing, last man standing battle called the Evening Party, and he gets to earn the singular title Wiseman. It's not riches, fame, money or power that are his goal, although if he wins all those will be his. It's revenge.

Part of his strategy is to Take the rank of one of the top 100 students. In this case a blonde tsundere pettanko named Charlotte Blue (Who is still very, very solidly tsun at the moment) by defeating her in a battle. Her familiar is a small shoulder dragon who scales up to full size for a fight. She is a total terror feared by everyone at the school, and friendless.

Perhaps most annoying though, is Yaya, who is constantly jealous of any perceived interest of Raishin's in any other woman, which she tries unnecessarily to thwart by making awkward sexual references to herself and Raishin, and physically molesting him in their dorm, or choking him in public. She is quite a cute character design, but I am definitely not enamored of her personality.

The purpose of the school is to train the best puppeteers where they will then go on to lead armies of puppets for the nations of the world. They are there to learn War. But frankly, this looks like Pokemon battles to me, and I hate Arena Combat shows.

It sure is pretty though.

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