Deep Insanity: The Lost Child

The story starts with the 1st episode establishing the setting,then 1 episode each for everyone of the main cast to be fleshed out and establish the bond with the MC,while the rest is about unveiling the plot.

All the important characters are fleshed out a lot,expect for the main villain sadly,the main character starts pretty weak but develops pretty well and has good pay off to his development and so does fleshing out his bonds with the others.

If you can get past the horrible CG with the mostly bad animation,which admittedly is a pretty big hurdle then you are left with a decent cast of characters,a ... simple yet tight plot with some small twists(there are no excess characters as all of them are plot relevant in some small or big way)and some okay music and voice acting.

The first episode as i said its mostly set up so it does not give an idea what the show is about but while not amazing its a okay watch.

I like the initial concept of the story, and i do enjoy the anime quiet a bit. I am not a person who complain a lot about art but i think the anime suffer from the fact that the anime seems like an advertisement for the game and it make the story and dialog kinda dry for me.

I think the main protagonist dialog is kinda short and dry is because of self insert element from the game. And the anime is bland, kinda like most anime which came from games .but overall it's a decent anime to watch if you kinda bored and have time ... to waste.

It's quite complicated to talk about Deep Insanity as it is so uneven.

Indeed we find a very complex scenario but once it is finished it makes sense. Sometimes it's even too complex and tries to make things confusing where they don't need to be, but the scenario remains relatively readable and not unpleasant to follow.

In the same way we have interesting characters to see evolve and develop, especially one whose name I won't mention to keep the surprise for those who haven't seen the anime. But here again the development of the characters is only interesting when it's set up, once that's done everything is ... stopped and the characters stagnate in their permanent status quo spoiling some potential in them, yet developing the heroic thirst of the hero in this world totally hostile to this kind of dream in connection with the past of another character of the group would have been very interesting for example (the anime even promises us this way in the first episodes) but no, we stop at this promise. And it's the case with all the characters, it's really a shame...

The aesthetics is the big black spot of the series, with a great lack of dynamism in the staging of the action scenes and the strong moments (especially the climax which is a complete failure as it falls like a bellows) and it spoils a lot of good ideas of the scenario already well annihilated by its timidity to propose more.

In short, an anime that is not as catastrophic as my review suggests, it can be watched without too many problems but this potential spoiled by a sudden stop of the writing bothers me a lot and gives it barely the average on my side.