The setup hooks you immediately: a loser finds out he's secretly chosen to command alien girls in a battle royale where the stakes are actually real. The ecchi never stops, but underneath it there's a legitimately engaging tournament where you care who survives because the show bothers to give each Sekirei her own reason to fight. It's trashy and it knows it, but that's the point, the fanservice doesn't hide the story, it IS the story, and by episode six you're invested in outcomes you didn't expect to care about.
Minato Sahashi is a brilliant 19-year-old who buckles under pressure and has now failed his college entrance exams twice, leaving the people around him to write him off as a loser. His prospects look grim until a girl named Musubi, who is under attack, comes into his life and pulls him along as she flees. Musubi is a Sekirei, a superhuman being, and Minato turns out to be an Ashikabi without ever knowing it: someone with the genetic trait that lets him partner with one of the 108 Sekirei. That bond, sealed with a kiss, lets a Sekirei draw on her full power in a survival contest called the Sekirei Plan, run by the sinister MBI corporation. Minato and Musubi enter the competition together, unaware that more is riding on it than the contestants have been told. The show mixes action, comedy and ecchi.
