Ladies Versus Butlers! is not a good series, by any stretch. It takes the maid chic so popular, and beats it over the head until it loses what little appeal it had. That said, what I read of it said it had lots of T&A, and so I had to give it a chance. It's not that bad. Just... not good. The most I'll say about it is, as you can see from the side image, that it's more a triangle sort of anime than a harem. Which isn't saying much.
The opening itself is somewhat typical of a harem anime, though. Very cute and peppy, which I like. And an ensemble cast; Love X Heaven has as its singers Kawasumi Ayako, Nakahara Mai, Koshimizu Ami, and Kugimiya Rie, all of whom of course have rather extensive CVs at this stage in their careers. None of them really take the lead, per se, though sometimes they do have little short, one line solos.
Unfortunately, unlike other multi-seiyuu songs, this is mostly fluff. Sometimes in these songs, you get a good expression of emotion. In this case, they're simply trying to sound cute. And, to be fair, they do a good job of sounding cute, but that's not the point. There's more to a good opening than sounding cute and throwing out a lot of pink visuals in the animation. In this case, they could as well be extolling the values of a particular brand of dishwasher detergent.
thus, we're left to the music to actually convey something. In point of fact, there's a weird little effect the bass has going through the verses that I think is pretty neat. Past that, though, the only things to suggest this song are the driving beat and general, peppy tones. As noted, I like peppy. Peppy is why I listen to anime songs so much... but this is a bit too much.
3/5 stars for this, mostly on catchyness and general genki.
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