I give it a 6/10. The story starts off with our protagonist, Yachi Haruaki, a high schooler who is immune to curses. His traveling father sends him a mysterious metal box in the mail. Due to their special skills, the Yachi family collects and effectively removes the curses from demonic tools, dolls, etc. Assuming the package is just another cursed tool to be cleansed, Haruaki stacks the box in the basement with the rest of the items. Of course, the box mysteriously morphs into Fear, your typical tsundere, flat-chested girl of petite stature later that night, surprising Haruaki who assumes that the noise coming from his kitchen is a burglar. Fear is a cursed tool from the middle ages, and can summon a wide range of torture devices to assist her in combat. Thus begins our cliche action/love triangle epic.
The story is pretty generic. The entire experience reminded me of a slightly cheaper Shakugan no Shana. I was actually surprised C3 was produced by FUNi, as the whole time I thought I was watching something from JC. There's roughly three arcs spanning four episodes each, focusing mainly on outside forces trying to get their hands on Fear. Almost any episode is mainly broken into a few parts: Fear making fun of Haruaki's friend Konoha's large breasts (which is such an old, stale humor device that I groaned every time it happened), Fear trying to fit in with everyone, and all the good guys fighting the bad guys.
The animation isn't great. It gets the job done, but at times it's really sloppy. Fear especially has some interesting expressions when she gets worked up during a fight. This show isn't afraid of gore, and I can remember at least twice during the first 3 episodes where someone was dismembered. At times during the show it looked like the art director was trying to pull some ef: Memories-style modern art thing, making the show just look disjointed.
The characters are pretty typical fare. Fear the petite, flat-chested tsundere. Konoha the childhood friend, a large breasted, megane tsundere (wow TWO tsunderes!). Kirika the stern, cool class-rep with a soft spot for Haruaki. Anything else would be moving into spoiler-land. But, there's a few more characters thrown in there that follow an established mold.
The OST and OPs/EDs are largelly forgettable.
Looking back, it seems like I've written a totally negative review of C3, but it isn't all that bad. It was entertaining enough for 12 episodes, it was just missing something. I would recommend C3 to anyone who likes crazy fighting and likes some blood and gore and hasn't been totally jaded by the old breast jokes. If you liked C3 you'd definitely like Shakugan no Shana, which is a similar yet superior anime, in my opinion.
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