Exception

Animation's framerate is not high so watching it on 1.5 speed really helps show to be enjoyable.
There are multiple science-fiction genres in this show.
Biotechnology and neuroscience is super advanced, space travel and physics are also advanced. Has is own unique atmosphere.
Each character has differences and unique principle.
There is also one more thing which is too important; printing weapons is forbidden besides they do not want to solve their problem with complete violence. But you will see progression of how and when they decided to switch to brute force. Storyline was good and immersive. It was not cliche. However ending was not unique.

People are talking about how bad the animation is and how bad the ending is. I would like to counter those opinions with the fact that the build up was the most important part not the ending itself. Sure you could say the ending was mediocre, i guess. But all the morale dilemmas, the tackling of existential crisis amongst most of the characters, etc. is whats the most beautiful part to me.

so basically what im saying is that if you arent a stickler for animation quality and you dont mind an ending that is just used as a means to an end rather than ... the gem of the show. THEN youd love the show like i did.

tldr; its a show that caters to people who love sci-fi psychological horror (in the sense of existential dread and morale dilemmas) and you will hate it if you cannot get past the animation quality WHICH is only bad for the characters animation. just saying. the characters are the only bad part of the animation...

Exception is unwatchable, even at 1.5x speed as people recommend to try and get past the awkward, slow and stilted animation style that they're going for.

I only decided to watch this after how bad "Make My Day" was so I wanted a bit of background on the studio and it's somehow far worse than even that trainwreck of a show. At least Make My Day was sometimes funny bad and had a fairly decent pace to it even if it occasionally crashed into a wall, this show is so slow paced that if a competent studio had worked on it, they could've got it out ... as a 1 or 2 part OVA.

The story is simple enough, humanity has left earth and ahead of the main colony ships, they've sent a ship with a crew of 5 experts to get the planet ready for them. These people are "re-prints" though, basically clones that are grown after the ship has got close to the target area but during the printing, a solar flare causes one of the 5 to mutate into a half-human, half-something.

The 5 characters are some of the ugliest characters I've seen, not just because of the poor animation, but just their general character designs are hideous. They're also generally all interchangeable, less because they all have similar personality types, just the show routinely has characters change personality for whatever point of the storyline we're currently serving.

The main storyline for the first half of the show is "Should we kill the mutant?" and nearly every character takes their turn saying "Yes, we should" and shortly after "No, we shouldn't, it's murder!" It doesn't matter that the mutant has already killed (which doesn't matter because they just get instantly cloned again, which yes, does make the fear of death totally pointless). There are several conversations on the ethics of killing the mutant because "He's still TECHNICALLY a human" even as he growls and runs around smashing pieces of the ship and trying to kill them.

It's like a long and drawn out remake of Alien, but without the likable characters or interesting villain. Every single time they're about to kill him, something just happens to occur in time to change someone's mind about killing him or for him to escape. It gets so tedious as it keeps repeating on a loop.

When they've beaten that dead horse for awhile, they suddenly decide to reveal that there is a traitor among them, which then causes the mutant (who basically is just human again because he saw a necklace from his girlfriend) and the newly cloned version of himself to team up to try and find the traitor. Cut to more everyone arguing, changing their minds constantly and turning on eachother until the big reveal... that it was the most obvious character. The show has 5 characters. We have the main character, the mutant, the nice father guy, the angry obvious red herring and then the other woman who keeps messing with their plans. It was pretty obvious to guess.

It then falls into a trope I hate, once the woman is found to be the bad guy she starts acting crazier and more evil like someone flicked a light switch.

One of the biggest issues the show has is that these characters are just clones, which is one of the central themes but it also diffuses most of the tension. "Oh no, Mack died - Oh, he's back, nevermind." "Oh no, Nina di-, oh she's already back, nevermind." "Oh no Lewis is a monstrous mutant, should we kill him? Well, let's just create a new clone of him in the meantime." It's hard to have a dramatic death when the character is just a clone sent out on a mission where they will die terraforming a planet long before anyone arrives, and one of the people arriving will be their original. It also makes it more awkward that despite several characters being re-cloned throughout the show, everyone is so against killing people trying to actively murder them or destroy the mission even though when people die they're back within minutes of screentime.

The show then just kind of ends. The planet is terraformed and the last of the clones dies of old age long before the other humans arrive. I'd rather they have failed because that would have at least been a tiny bit interesting, but we couldn't even get that, they just succeed and the story ends in the most basic way possible.

Had to watch at 1.5x speed and ended up skipping through a lot of conversations of them just discussing how they can terraform the planet or the 18th discussion about the ethics of killing the mutant. If it was a 40 minute OVA or maybe a 2 parter, it'd maybe get a 3 or 4 but at 8 episodes with the last being a double episode, it was painful to sit through.