Deep Insanity: The Lost Child

Best Sci fi anime of 2021
The only thing went wrong was that they weren't able to sort out the plotlines

Characters-
The MC's are Shigure and Vera. That was unexpected from their intro pov. Watching the first episode you would never expect that.
The relationship development aspect amongst the platoon was unexpectedly good as they were the only ones introduced.

Art-
The Art and fight scenes were awesome and the supernatural in it was another awesome sight to behold.

... Story-
The base apart from story development was solid.
The story as in the setting and backstory of the characters introduced wasn't cliched like in other animes, if given proper consideration it would have been the hype

What I can see in the series is the potential to grow. You know like how sometimes series are rebooted and bam! They are the most viewed

This was a mixed source i.e. Manga, PC/Mobile game so you could consider this to be an teaser of sort. In games, the setting is usually the most important thing for purchase so there you go. I have seen many game based animes similar in the skipping sense

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.

Spoilers be warned, though I find no incentive of hiding the full fact from all of you.

Just who was this show made for, other than to promote Square Enix's brand new IP: Deep Insanity? No, not one, it seems. In all circumstances, this show is just outright horrible on every angle, and this is a classic case study of how NOT to formulate an anime that wastes everyone's time and money, resources of which are timeless and cannot be earned back.

For one, Deep Insanity hinges very heavily on its mixed-media themes, because without the context of either one of them, you would be very lost, ... and I honestly don't blame you if the anime itself doesn't really offer a lot to begin with, much less execute the "show, not tell" golden rule in a very bizarre and unsatisfying way. The context is that this IP has 3 forms of media attached to it: the manga, anime and the mobage, ALL of which are intertwined in one form or another to the central plot of the series as a whole, which tells of a world where humanity has fallen into comas as a result of the mysterious illness called "Randolph Syndrome". The illness spanning from the South Pole in this deep underground "Asylum", and the quest to go explore and find a cure or even find any sorts of treasure lurking around. And before you ask, don't ever expect "Made In Abyss" levels of lore in this one, you'll be severely disappointed.

The context continued, is that while the manga (named Deep Insanity: Nirvana, written by Akudama Drive co-creator Norimitsu Kaihou and Psycho-Pass screenwriter Makoto Fukami) features a boy immune to the Randolph syndrome and simultaneous an Antarctian trader journeying into "Asylum", and the mobage featuring a main character who's the only sole survivor of the syndrome, the anime itself takes place in between both mediums and treads that line with Deep Insanity: The Lost Child, featuring the MC Shigure Daniel Kai who joins the Antarctica Front as a "Sleeper", exploring the Asylum with monsters called "Scarred" and humans called "Exiles", the infected ones referred to as "Cultists". We basically see what the hell is going on within the Asylum and the Antarctica Front members as progressing plot unwinds to open up the big picture.

Except that the big picture itself...is just a burgeoning mess really, and for real. Shigure just feels like the typical MC in the mobage where we have full control of him as a character, but have no narrative control as you would in a typical RPG. Of all the choices he could've done, he is a blind follower whose dream is to be a hero, and not someone whom has exactly a sound mind to discern what's right or wrong. Instead, he is the literate definition of a new recruit: coercing and making friends with other Sleepers (Lawrence Larry Jackson, Reika Kobato and Sumire Motiki) whilst traversing through the Abyss with their leader Leslie Blanc. And man, does the experience don't get any better than this. If you need an example of a walking trope, these characters all are their own one-of-a-kind mind-numbing boringness, the biggest sin being Commander Vera Rustamova because nothing pops out from her mouth, only action matters to reach her goal.

The issue with setting up such plot where the Sleepers (and us the audience) only knowing that they have to exterminate the Scarred, while being silent about the true issue at hand: the psychological battle between Vera and this unknown organization with members of gay-centric Hayden and rabbit-tamer Nadia to target this "Child of God" The Lost Child named EL-Cee, whom harnesses the power to destroy the world. First come, first serve, that's it. So in the words of Gordon Ramsay: crap, on top of crap, on top of crap, on top of crap, on top of crap...it's not hard to see why the anime version of Deep Insanity is just that: an all-out dysfunctional atrocity. And knowing that Silver Link in-house scriptwriter Kento Shimoyama had his hand on this, with the horrible works that he has done before (Masamune-kun, Death March, Nakanohito Genome (this I can at least acknowledge that it's decent), KimiSen), I find it hard to swallow how does this guy manage to one-up himself by being worse and worse.

Speaking of Silver Link, not even head director Shin Oonuma can save this travesty, because this is got to be one of the worst productions ever done in the studio's history, and yeah, good luck with the karma of KimiSen airing directly in the same season last year. The production values just went ham on being too dark to try its best to evoke the depths of the Underground Asylum Abyss, and that in the process, just mysteriously gave up altogether, because it shows of the roughness and unpolished feel of the show as a whole. Even as a Kadokawa and Square Enix-produced show, this easily scrapes the bottom of the barrel.

Speaking of Kadokawa, this is the sole reason why I don't rate this show a pathetic score, just because of the euphemism of the OP & ED songs and their importance to the show. I have to conceit that Konomi Suzuki's OP is just quite mid that's fitting with the subpar visuals, but while the same also exists with Kashitarou Itou's ED, knowing his debut performance with Deca-Dence only raised my expectations, and the whole show IMO is worth it for the glorious ED alone.

When all is said and done, I've definitely gushed more than enough to "understand" this show because like many others, I just don't care that all for this mish-mash mess that does everything the exact opposite. Just avoid this one, it's pure atrocious and you would not want to spend even a second of this, even for caution.