I knew nothing about Blue Archive coming into the anime besides seeing and liking some of the character designs.
Worldbuilding was terrible and impenetrable to an outsider. Where do these women come from and where do the go when they age out of high school? What is a "mystic" and why does having the "strongest" mean? Is there a limit to the size of the city? I can appreciate a mysterious setting when it serves the story (like Big O), but this felt like they didn't try to fill in the details instead of building a mystery.
Story was okay. Kinda interesting layers of conspiracy and inter-school drama.
I don't like to throw "AI generated" around, but the character designs have that feel. Who designs kemonomini without tails, but then demon girls who have them? The world and NPCs are also super bland. I've seen game pics and fan art that give the mob girls lots of charm, but none of that here.
Action was bad.
The music was maybe the single worst aspect of the show. I've never watched an anime before where the music was distractingly bad. The ED was good though.
I really liked some of the characters, especially the dumb criminal gang. They made all of their episodes fun. But the ultimate villain was all-style-no-substance. As the only other outsider to this place beside Sensei, there was way more potential being a foil. But since Sensei has absolutely no depth, there's just kind of nothing.
At least the girls were cute and the criminals were fun. 3/5 show.