Gyakusatsu Kikan

At first I though of not even bothering with the review, but as I sat there after suffering for an hour of watching this turd I grew progressively more annoyed and angry with it. In the end of the day it gets a 1 from me, I actually despise it, I actually dislike everything about it and about the ideas it tries to work with in a simplistic manner. I have no idea about the LN it's based on and therefor only measure this as it's own entity.

Straight out of the bag - there are few dynamic, if you can call them that, scenes that ... are far in-between, it had some cruel moments that follow usual conflicts. Besides that you have a god awful art quality that is worse than your shitty average Isekai, where while backgrounds are tolerable but characters and both their quality and animation are garbage.

Animation? Wait.. Was there animation? I forgot as 90% is static and they lead their pseudo philosophical disputes as if I'm back in my teenage years when everyone read their first Kafka book or whatever was popular and suddenly talk deep about topics they know jack shit about. It's like you are trying to watch a horrible version of Monster, where Monster (and it's an insult to bring it up here) actually provides interesting points.

Story is incoherent itself, it doesn't particularly succeed in any meaningful world building beyond the - US is full China mode with scanners at every corner and muh 9/11 and war on terrorism bs. At first I was thinking they will go into the depth of the dystopian reality where made up terrorism (which was literally created by different agencies for that purpose by being funded, trained and taught) lead to massive surveillance over usual citizens with all the negative implications it brings, but NOPE. They are not criticizing or questioning any of this. And I get it the original novel was written back in 2006 when that crap was in full swing, but the studio were working with that a decade later where some things were already different. And maybe LN was better or different in a sense, but I won't bother reading that one, not in the near future at least.

They also decide to go to a poor country that the US and their allies bombed to fucking oblivion and decide to now blow it up with a Nuke. Wtf is wrong with the author? Couldn't you just make some fake Azahdastan loosely based on a real country?

All in all this is trash and it has no redeeming qualities at all. In fact the ideas this story has are completely irrelevant, fake and outdated to follow. It reminds of me of those pseudo-intellectual low budget anime from early 00's which work well if you need to fight an insomnia.

Move along and leave it in a trash it belongs.