Maken-Ki! Battling Venus

Takeru enters a newly coeducational school where students use magical items called Maken in duels, then searches for one that suits him.

Synopsis

The Anime Lad

Takeru Ohyama chooses a school that recently became coeducational and does not require entrance exams. His expected high school life changes when he learns that students wield special items called Maken to release magical abilities in duels. Takeru still needs to find a Maken that works for him. The easy enrollment has therefore produced a more complicated curriculum.

Super Eyepatch Fox

Enroll at a newly coeducational school without taking an entrance exam. Discover that the students use magical items called Maken to unleash powers in duels. Takeru must search for a suitable Maken while handling romantic complications at school. The ordinary high school life he expected has a supernatural combat requirement.

Gigguku

Takeru thinks a newly coeducational school without entrance exams will deliver the high school life he wants. Then students start using Maken to unleash magical abilities in duels. Everyone else seems ready for the hidden combat side of campus. Takeru still has to find a weapon that works for him while every romantic complication keeps crowding the same school day.

Father's Basement

The romantic comedy is built around a perverted teenager and substantial fanservice, so compatibility will be obvious quickly. The battle-school premise adds a concrete problem. Students wield Maken to use magic in duels, while Takeru has not found one that suits him. Fitting into the new school means understanding a combat system he never expected when he enrolled.