This is an actual scam.
Imagine you buy the bluerays for that show and you get 2 full fledge recap for 11 eps lmao I'm fairly sure you can put them to court and win that trial because there's no way that shit is legal.
There is nothing memorable or interesting whatsoever in Wonder Egg Priority apart from its gorgeous chara-designs and avant garde arthouse animation. If you think there's anything else that's worth or of any quality you were manipulated by the deceitful confusing script and the pretty visuals that anything else mattered. To keep it short, the story tried to pander to your senses and you ate that up like a little sheep, because if you just thought about what was really happening in front of your screen you'd realized how horrendous the entire script is. Once the concept is established: main girls go on buy the eggs, they go to sleep, suicide girl wakes up, we learn about her trauma, main girls fight the monster, suicide girl blows up, episode end. You quickly notice that every episode is the exact same past episode 2 and the only one which differs, episode 10, is the worst one in retrospect with the sheer amount of unexplained events and ideas it displays in such a short runtime.
Only at the end when the show completely fails its attempt at a proper conclusive ending that I realized:"Wait, of course this ending sucks, how could there be any ending at all because there wasn't any plot in the first place"
WEP tries to handle SO MANY THEMES in SUCH SMALL RUNTIME while also being an arthouse show FULLY FOCUSED on presentation, it just couldn't achieve an ending with an episodic/monster-of-the-week format. That's why when you think about it, nothing really standed out at any moment of the show. No great moment of action, no intense dramatic scenes, no climatic conclusion to a character arc, because everything was so rushed and unexplained, you just remember the show for one thing alone, it had extremely cute girls with very good chemistry. This is one of the only aspect which I think, spoke to the audience all throughout the plot duration, since the point the group is established at ep4/11, then the only thing keeping you going is their palpable friendship, what was supposed to be the main plot, finding why Koito killed herself, is completely forgotten and casted aside.
What is this setting? Is it supernatural or Sci-fi? Am I supposed to consider bringing people back to life by fighting spirit monsters in a dream is in the realm of scifi because it was actually created by a superAI from out of nowhere? I can get behind the 2 dudes creating a superAI but how in the hell did they managed to inplant their brains into fully functionnal puppets, create devices which allow interactive lucid dreaming in relation to dead people, and most importantly, interacts within said dreams with actual screen display of it and ability to communicate with the sleeping people in this dream? It would WORKS if it was purely supernatural but it isn't, the penultimate episode reveals that actually, everything that happened before is due to a duo of top IQ individuals who founded an high IQ society and all dreams are just AI techno-fuckery.
The main girls fought for nothing because all their revived friends were memory wiped. Unlike Madoka, which this show HEAVILY takes from, they didn't broke the system, worst of all the main girl herself fell for it in the end and will keep on working for the maniacal immortal puppets who created an AI that give suicide incentive to young girls.
The main cast got separated despite their friendship being the only redeeming thing about the show and one of them was revealed to be fake, thus destroying her entire character so far for the sole purpose of justifying something that wasn't even an issue, her silent and untactful personality.
What we get from this ending is quite simple: Momoe is a coward, Rika doesn't even care, Neiru was lying all along and Ai is the dumbest idiot alive to keep on risking her lives for the same dudes who lied to her in the first place, go on girl fight to bring back to life another girl when the last time you did this, the girl forgot your existence.
A shameful experience, high hopes for such miserable result.
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