Jun 29, 2021
I'm writing this review to let out my frustrations just shortly after watching it. Sorry if I appear overly critical. There will be spoilers.
Wonder Egg Priority is a show that I was never the biggest fan of. Its premise was interesting but its execution left much to be desired. After watching episode 12, I was incredibly confused and concerned as to how just one additional episode would be enough to wrap up everything that was introduced in a satisfying way.
And of course, half of the special is a recap. I already thought it was pretty ridiculous for a 13 episode series to have just
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one recap, but two? I lacked faith that all of the plot points and conflicts introduced near the very end of the series could be concluded in the initially believed 40 minute runtime, and upon learning that the new content would be the length of a normal episode, my little hope was lost.
And I wasn't exactly incorrect. This episode didn't conclude the story. It didn't conclude anything. It instead left me with even more questions than I had previously, with a clear bait for a continuation that may or may not happen.
I'm not sure how to accurately describe it, but the entire episode almost felt like a fever dream. Things happened and scenes went by, and yet by the end it felt like hardly anything had happened at all. Very vague "explanations" for things were randomly thrown at the characters because hey, where else are you going to put them?
It introduces a new conflict over halfway through the episode and then doesn't do anything with it, and nor does it go anywhere with all the previous characters the show randomly threw in. The Accas and Frill are hardly even in the episode, to where I even forgot they existed.
The entirety of this episode just feels disconnected from not only the one before it, but the entire series. Rika's desire for revenge is quickly "resolved" and forgotten about. Momoe is apparently fine enough to be friendly toward the others again despite saying in episode 12 that she wishes that she hadn't gotten involved with Ai and the others. Neiru is gone for practically all of it, and Ai just randomly transfers schools at the very end. It crams in a flashback and her suddenly deciding to see Neiru again after an unnecessary timeskip.
I just didn't understand why any of this was happening. Momoe never appears again after the karaoke scene, and the last we see of Rika is her breaking down and showing many signs of contemplating suicide. Ai threw her phone when Neiru called her for no reason other than she didn't want to talk to her, and then she basically abandoned her friends. Rika had just vented about the loss of her friends, and then Ai leaves, too. Epic. By the very end, the status of all of the main cast except for Ai is unknown.
Whether this gets a continuation or not, this was a really unsatisfying and frustrating episode. It didn't answer much of anything, and still managed to disappoint me even when my expectations were extremely low. I understand the reasons for the delay in-between episode 12 and the special, but that doesn't make me feel any better with how un-worth it the wait for this feels like.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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