Amnesia

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Japanese: AMNESIA

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jan 7, 2013 to Mar 25, 2013

Premiered: Winter 2013

Broadcast: Unknown

Producers: Geneon Universal Entertainment, Frontier Works, Movic, AT-X, DAX Production, Showgate

Licensors: Sentai Filmworks

Studios: Brain's Base

Source: Visual novel

Genres: Fantasy, Mystery, Romance

Theme: Reverse Harem

Demographic: Josei

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 5.99¹ (scored by 150,188 users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #9876²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #819

Members: 297,334

Favorites: 1,038

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Synopsis

After fainting at work, a young lady awakens in the back room of the café she works at with no memory of her life or those around her. Two of her friends, whom she soon learns are named Shin and Toma, are called to help her get home safely. Once she is alone, she meets a spectral boy named Orion that only she can see and hear. He explains that she lost her memories because of his chance visit to her world, so he vows to help her remember who she is.

However, regaining her departed memories without worrying those around her may be more difficult than she realizes. In addition to the gloomy Shin and the protective Toma, she must be wary of arousing the suspicions of the captivating Ikki, the quick-witted Kent, and a mysterious man who lurks in the distance. As her amnesia entangles her in the lives of each of these men, her fragmented memories return piece by piece, and the mysteries of her circumstances slowly come to light.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Ukyou

Main

Miyata, Kouki
Japanese

Shin

Main

Kakihara, Tetsuya
Japanese

Touma

Main

Hino, Satoshi
Japanese

Ikki

Main

Taniyama, Kishou
Japanese

Kent

Main

Ishida, Akira
Japanese

Orion

Main

Igarashi, Hiromi
Japanese

Heroine

Main

Nazuka, Kaori
Japanese

Sawa

Supporting

Moriya, Satomi
Japanese

Mine

Supporting

Akutsu, Kana
Japanese

Waka

Supporting

Takahashi, Hidenori
Japanese

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Hayashi, Youhei

Producer

Yamazaki, Asuka

Producer

Yamazaki, Fumiki

Producer

Ikeda, Yasutaka

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Opening Theme

"Zoetrope" by Nagi Yanagi (eps 1-11)

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Ending Theme

	1: "Recall" by Ray (eps 1-11)
	2: "Hoshiboshi no Wataridori (星々の渡り鳥)" by Nagi Yanagi (eps 12)

Reviews

Nov 10, 2021

katsukidayou

Recommended

I think this is my first review. I can't hold back the urge to write one because of how many bad reviews it has. First of all, if you don't know, this anime is based on an otome game with the name Amnesia: Memories. As someone who didn't play the game before watching, (I have already played the game until kent's route) I enjoyed this pretty well. It can be quite confusing when it comes to the plot if you don't know the story in the game though. So I recommend, to fully enjoy the anime, play the otome game first. I assure you that ...

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Feb 8, 2024

Yachito

Mixed Feelings

It's a basic romance anime. The heroine is surrounded by some handsome boys which is not so bad. She must uncover the truth about her past and her relationships in order to regain her memories and find her true love. It successfully blends romance, mystery, and the supernatural.. The animation is nice and gives this dreamlike vibes.

The character development is nor bad or good, with some good emotional connections while others feel rushed or underdeveloped. The protagonist's lack of a distinct personality is kinda annoying.

I really like the opening it's sets the mood for the anime.

In the end it's worth watching. Despite some narrative ...

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Aug 11, 2023

AnimeEnjoyer420

Not Recommended

Overall Impression: A convoluted plot, questionable designs, and a memorably terrible protagonist add up to make this one of the worst shows I've ever watched to completion. I don't recommend watching it, even in the sense of gawking at a car crash.

Positives:

+ If you like goth twinks, there are a lot of them here.

+ The ED is pretty catchy, I guess.

Negatives:

- A stupid and unlikable protagonist. Officially credited as "Heroine", the main character of this reverse harem series is so unbelievably dim-witted that you will be screaming at your screen in frustration every time she puts herself in mortal danger out of sheer idiocy. ... We're talking "toddler wandering into traffic" levels of self-awareness here, and that's not even an exaggeration since *she does that exact thing more than once*. She's almost more like an empty vessel than a real character, she has no personality aside from being meek and the plot revolves entirely around her even though there is just nothing there to get interested or invested in.

- A time travel/parallel worlds plot that keeps you in the dark for 90% of the series runtime and then exposition dumps the answers to all the mysteries all at once in the last half of the series finale. To make matters worse, key parts of the plot are contradicted by the eventual explanations you get, including the central explanation for the protagonist's titular amnesia. It's a confusing mess that executes the few good ideas it has so incompetently that you'll leave the series with more questions than answers, even though the ending is intended to be definitive.

- A common problem with visual novel adaptations, the attempt to mash all the routes together into a single coherent story in 12 episodes leaves a lot on the cutting room floor. The bulk of the story is the protagonist cycling through abridged versions of the routes for each of the 5 main male characters, but it doesn't spend enough time with any of them to give you an idea of who the characters are or build any sort of romantic chemistry between them and the protagonist. Once a character's route has come and gone, you'll barely see them again for the rest of the series.

- Hideous character and color designs make this series a pain to look at. Each of the main male characters has a Spencer's Gifts mall goth look that was a decade out of date when the series came out in 2013, and has aged even more poorly since then. The hair and eye color gradients are distracting, and when combined with the costuming, make everyone look completely ridiculous. All 5 of them look like when you create a garish create-a-character in a video game and they start showing up in cutscenes. It's impossible to take any of the drama seriously when all of the characters look so outrageous.

- Uninspired voice acting, especially from the normally reliable Kaori Nazuka in the main protagonist role. Her line delivery is consistently bland and unenergetic, and all 5 main male characters have identically aloof line readings as well. There's little to differentiate any of them as characters besides their hair colors and clothing.

- Without spoiling anything, more than one route becomes troublingly abusive, and the abuse is handwaved away for being done out of love or something similar. As a straight male that is very much not the target audience for this series, far be it for me to judge you if you're into that sort of thing, but it made me uncomfortable. If you're looking for a series with an empowered female lead, you're not going to find it here.

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