Despite my age I don't actually hate modern anime but there are some trends that need to stop and all will be clear in this review on Majikoi.

Majikoi is based on a visual novel/hentai game where male lead Yamato Naoe a self proclaimed pervert can choose between a variety of girls who each know a certain combat skill.
It starts off in fantastic fashion with a big school battle between classes and were introduced to the cast one after the other, there are a lot of characters so it's better just to introduce the five love interests and Cookie the robot.
We start with Momoyo who is a larger than life and battle crazy girl, fighting with her bare hands and using super powers like a Saiyan warrior. Her sister is Kazuko who does nothing but train and for some reason is nicknamed "Doggy". Miyako is crazy as hell trying to sleep with Yamato at any moments notice, she's the one usually seen with Cookie the robot who looks very retro and usually gets dragged into everything. Next is token foreigner Christiane who other than speak gratuitous German is into old period dramas; and finally a character who will certainly be on the Walk of Fame very soon, her name is Yukie Mayuzumi; how do I put this? She speaks to her phone strap called Matsukaze who resembles a pinata horse but is actually historically the horse ridden by Keiji Maeda. It's unclear whether Matsukaze is a spirit or Mayuzumi is using ventriloquism to really express her real feelings without saying them herself, but it's a clever design and earns a lot of serious points in my book.
You can probably tell it's a harem series but it doesn't always stick to predefined tropes, Yamato never feels bothered by his female entourage (Even Miyako) and he's actually intelligent and is a believable character, the other male characters aren't so bland that you'd forget them either and there is enough good action and high tension fighting to really sell well so why the poor comment at the start?
Because it tries to be intelligent.
A basic rule for all harem anime is to have plenty of fanservice along with a genuine love dodecahedron or whatever number of girls involved.
Equally a basic rule for martial arts anime is to have intense fighting.
Both are dumb genres and don't require a thought process to enjoy it but Majikoi after the half way point tries to get political to the point where the series is trying to force us to care about the state of the country.
I get that political stories often get forced into martial arts anime to appear more intelligent but at least when they tried it they were easy to ignore because we still had good fighting; there isn't enough episodes in Majikoi to try something that complex when the harem stuff quite often creates sudden mood shifts, this includes the ending as well.
It's a shame, it had great foundations and a brilliant dub with allstar casting including actors I thought previously retired, but this series represents a major flaw in modern anime and a number of other shows I've reviewed recently, for everything they get right they then try something that ruins everything. In Mayo Chiki it was failure to resolve the plot, in Okami-san it was the need to build up a story only to fall flat when it realized it ran out of episodes, with Majikoi it was thinking that it's viewers were intelligent enough to understand a political story within a martial arts, harem anime based on a hentai game, again it runs out of episodes only after giving us the whole political story and you can't help but feel disappointed that you didn't get enough action or fanservice.
Final Verdict: Have to relegate it to budget anime I'm afraid, it makes you follow a plot that has no business in the show in the first place and your ultimately left unsatisfied.