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The anime started off strong, but as I watch the latest episode I just think to myself; "where did it go wrong?" It started off strong but really just devolved into mediocrity, even worse because it seemed like it was going places. However as the anime goes on, stuff gets ass pulled and the plot just becomes "whatever."

I feel like in most time travel anime, the main character is smart enough to take that future knowledge and even be able enough, to improvise if things go different. However the MC is a failure by design, I'm sure this is the authors intention but I'm not ... going to wait around waiting for him to change and get good when it's been going downhill for 4 episodes already.

Lastly just because the manga might be good, (as I have not read it) that doesn't mean the anime will be good. Really not sure what all these other good rating reviewers are seeing in this that I'm not.

I really don't have anything else to say right now, maybe I'll come back to this review as I intend to finish it after getting this far. However I don't have any hopes that's for sure.

Final note: In the drop down menu 4 is 'Bad' but when writing this review a 4 is 'Decent' which this isn't. Therefore my rating dropped to '3' in line the appropriate description of 'Poor.'

So I gave it the tried and true; watch four episodes before rating. However since some in the anime group I'm in like this anime, I joined them for episode five which is where my patience dropped for this anime.

The themes of exploring racism, first / third world countries, proxy conflicts and acceptance of fate. These are interesting topics, but the way the anime tries to present this to me I consider bad. This is because while the initial backdrop of the entire show is interesting, the characters are not. I've watched many, many anime and this series attempt at this is the worse ... I have in recent memory. All I can think when watching this is, I've seen it done much much better.

All I can say is the characters, especially the Major with whom they relay the themes through to try and get you to sympathies with the situation falls completely flat. The inept commander angle just makes the whole situation come off as cliché. I come off cringing during serious moments because the character mediums for the themes are terrible, often throwing in, what I can only call "typical Japanese" with the worse timings. Stuff like something serious happening but a girl see's her crush looking at her and blushes, it's - it's just frustrating.

The action is just whatever, just a canvas for whatever topic is being explored with at the time. Explosions going off, it's "cool" but there's no strategy or deeper grandeur to it so it's all flash.

The grievance I had with this anime that lead to me to come on and immediately write a negative comment was, they lead the already weakly presented story to mysticism as well as ass pulling a plot thread that my response was "you never thought to tell anyone about this up until now? / no bothered to figure this out until this late." I gave up at this point. The greatest sin of this anime is that such a good animation studio is wasting time animating this rubbish.

EDIT: I'm still watching this as my anime watching group is still viewing it, it's gotten better over the last 2 episodes. We'll see how the ending goes but I still would of dropped it personally on episode 5 if it weren't for my group.