Kono Yo no Hate de Koi wo Utau Shoujo YU-NO

This anime definitely had a great start. It was interesting watching anime that had something to do with the history of life and ancestry, obviously history about the anime world itself, not human history.
I really wish I could give this anime a 10/10 but the ending was rushed. I feel like if they had gotten another season, it would have been great!
Animation is great, story like is pretty good and character development is there but not crazy.

the reason I recommend this anime is simply because it is a good watch, and it is different from the regular anime you normally watch. This ... anime has multiple genera's it could fall under, i would say this anime contains, Action, Adventure, Sci-fi, Romance, Historical fantasy, and I guess Isekai due to the fact this character is able to cross into different versions of the world.

Meant to write this ages ago and I accidentally wrote it in the comments section of my personal rating.

I struggle with my rating for this because the first half or so of the series had a really good thing going. It was very suspenseful and kept me on edge. Then about halfway through it brought in some new plot elements which added a different sub-genre to the series. About 2/3 of the way through the series it shifted genres completely and at that point it didn't really even feel like the same series. The final episode left many plot holes and unanswered questions, although it ... is hard to seamlessly wrap up stories involving time paradoxes. This show overly complicates things by employing both the grandfather paradox and causal loops. The protagonist must repeat the past several times over until they have taken the course of action which will alter the future. Yet we find out they are continuously stuck in the same casual loop despite this. There is a lot of fancy talk about causality, but not real explanation or conclusion on the subject. The one thing I will compliment them on is at least they took out the incest which apparently is abundant in the original visual novel.

What a fucking mess. That's what this series is. I'm going to advise anyone who is reading this that to not put your expectations anywhere near subpar... actually, don't bother with this series at all, and here’s why:

This series is a visual novel based adaption that has various elements of other genres. The problem is that these genres are not incorporated in any logical form whatsoever. Many times you will be left wondering what it is that you are even watching. To some that might be a good thing as it can be an element of surprise, but I assure you, you won't feel any ... emotion other than frustration. Nothing makes any coherent sense and that's the biggest problem with this. The themes the series shows at its audience do not feel natural at all. It's as if the author just picked randomly whatever elements of genres they thought was cool or "dark" and just threw them into this... corspe.

The main protagonist is dreadful. There is only one quality about him that one might consider a strength, and that is his unique personality... make no mistake however, his personality does NOT make up for his sheer stupidity and lack of common sense. There are many times where the stakes are dire and he (without spoiling) has the means to change things around with ease, but instead decides to keep going with brute force like it's so effective (it's not at all). It's just irritating to no end and it's so obviously done because the story demands that there must be conflict.

Characters apart from the protagonist are, more often than not, horrible proxies just to excuse the author's "dark" (practically fetish) forced genre elements—all of which, most of them being female. I mentioned before that this was based on a visual novel. Well the thing is, it's not just some ordinary visual novel, but an eroge (or hentai) one. No, there is no straight up hentai content, but I don't think I need to explain where I'm going with this as I'm sure you can see why I mentioned female characters and the author's "dark" elements. It's tiresome, plain and simple.

Lastly, the story is just a try hard sci-fi flick where it wants to be this awesome "woah, what a twist" type of story. It just doesn't work and there is a lot of material—more so towards the latter portion of the series—where the author really just did not think the story all the way through. Lots of unanswered questions, half-assed exposition for important plot events, bad characterization which coupled with a bad MC makes an unpleasant experience, and a nonsense of an ending. Yeah, the ending wasn't even like a "wow, that was great." No, it was unrewarding.

Please consider yourself warned for this mess.