A beautiful sad story that's well worth watching. It has heart felt emotional moments, action, and a little bit of world building. It's also a bit of a tear-jerker. At five episodes, the series is quite brief, and very easy to binge.
Some have compared it to a long movie, honestly it reminds me of an OVA. Each episode tells a relatively self-contained story that fluidly bridges into the next one. A lot of the reviews criticize the series for being short, which I think is actually one of its strengths. The series quickly makes you invested in the characters, particularly the leads Momo and
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Dec 17, 2023
Just a guy, his online buddies, and an amazing video game world. And somehow it just works. While several other anime have done the "VR MMO" concept before, they typically rely on real world elements to "raise the stakes" and create some kind of dramatic tension (I'm trapped in the game and can't find out why, if you die in the game you die for real, etc). The show doesn't need any of that nonsense, and is able to keep it's simple premise compelling.
As the show consists of exploring a video game world, and lacks either complex characters or dramatic conflict, it is ... |
