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I'll keep the review short and simple just to get my grievances out.

After reading so many reviews that compared this anime to Stein's;Gate (my personal favorite, I was pretty excited to start it. I kinda regret it now.

At first glance Robotics;Notes comes off as a simple story about a couple students scrambling together what support they can gain to keep their robotics club open, build their dream robot and enter a competition. That's really all it should've been. But sadly, a secondary story line is shoehorned in to, in my opinion, make the show seem more complex than it needed to be and in ... the end it just comes off as boring, hastily written and a bit pretentious.

The second story line deals with some vague event that occurred in the past (which is mentioned once or twice) that gave both of our protagonists strange "abilities". Then it gets increasingly strange when the story delves into some faceless organization that wants to severely minimize the Earth's population to invoke a tyrannical dictatorship (how original). While it was an interesting concept, it just didn't work, especially considering the other storyline. The entire time it just felt like the show was taking a break to tell another for a couple of minutes and then get back to the story that was interesting (in this case it being revival of the robotics club).

To be completely honest the only reason why I gave this anime a 6 rather than anything lower is simply because of the main characters. Our two protagonists are starkly different from one another, but you get the sense that there is in fact a deep history between the both of them and their friendship feels powerful. In addition to that, the secondary characters we're introduced to all have their respective quirks and they all mesh very well together. The writers attempt to give them their own dark backstory, but just like the main plot, it's completely half-assed.

In the end what we get with this anime is a story that tries to be more ambitious than it needed to be.