Exception

Let me first preface the fact that yes this is a 3D CGI Anime. I personally don't hate 3d anime and actually think they can be enjoyable rather than outright denying their worth. In the anime community 3D CGI anime are frowned upon like a curse but there are exceptions like Beastars and Houseki no kuni (Just to name a few).So I'll appreciate if you read this review and watch this anime with an open and appreciative lens.

The story is basically similar to among us, What would happen if a group of strangers suddenly woke up on a spaceship out in space and were clueless ... about why they're there or who they are. The plot alone sounds convincing enough right? Well it definitely maintains its mystery and thriller aspect as the people on the spaceship try to figure out their purpose. But all is not what is seems, Dont worry I wont give you any spoilers because this is a story meant to be experienced as spoiler free as possible. There are some plot twists aswell which are the most part nicely executed. It has a good production value and nice sound design. Especially for a show like this, which is set in the bleakness of space, Sound design matters a lot and there's an eerie vibe to it. The staff definitely nailed the stranded alone in space vibe.

Now let's come to the one glaring negative, While the 3d CGI isn't bad by any means. Sometimes the framerate or whatever its called (sorry I'm not an expert at this) drops really low. As a result of this drop the scenes feel somewhat laggy at times but thankfully it doesnt take away from the show as a whole.

Its definitely an underrated gem in my opinion because I've never seen anyone talk about it which is the reason why I'm writing this review haha.
I'll recommend binging this in one sitting because the pacing and the surprises will definitely feel better that way.
Thanks for reading!

Honestly, I believe this is why people don't enjoy Netflix shows. This show could have been way better if it had better marketing and animation put in motion. Overall this show asks the question of should humans have the ultimate ability to print each other through their science.
Besides it's overall poor choice in animation and color saturation for a show released in 2022, there is nothing really bad about this series.
It has well rounded characters with each person having their own purpose in the bigger picture.
A somewhat abrupt ending but still worth the entertaining watch.
I'd say the music choice and sound effects are pretty ... poor, but the story really didn't require it lacking peak action and all.
I do commend the story's plot, purpose and pace though, I could go far as to say it was a masterpiece but the ending just doesn't tie up for the entire story.
The whole story really just defines how greedy each human really is with the crew members having their own goals for being on a mission to a new haven for humanity.

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.