Apr 16, 2019
I have not read the story, but only watched the anime, and the review is on the stand alone season of the anime without taking future season into context.
[Story]
The story starts out with a dark and tense feeling, but doesn't keep on delivering such a mood throughout. When the story, or characters, try to be clever it's all done off screen, and presented to the viewers as a twist even though we could barely know there was anything to actually twist.
The main characters were dull with the oh so familiar moody one, the cheerful naive one, and villain who never actually got around to
...
do anything.
Seeing as the characters were dull, the background story of the world was what kept me interested at all, the why and hows of the world where the story is played out, and we didn't get to know anything certain about it at all in these 12 episodes but I will make sure to watch the second season to see if it in any way redeems what we've seen here.
[Art]
The art was fair without anything really standing out to me, good or bad. It didn't really have a lot to work with in way of scenery or effects, but did well with what little there were.
[Sound]
I'm usually a fan of the sound effects and music in anime and this didn't disappoint, but neither did it stand out as something terrific. There were some places where the music seemed a bit off for me, and got a bit too 'jazzy' when the mood felt rather tense, which got me out of it, but other then that it didn't feel too out of place.
[Character]
To me there were no stand out characters at all in the series. The main characters were not really fleshed out, not that the setting really made that an easy task, and everyone else just felt like extras with no purpose other than to fill the plot and setting with something at all. The villains were bland, and the looming background threat has made nothing so far to peak my interest.
Overall it was a bland anime with no stand out features except for the main plot in itself which I felt wasn't explored well enough. The intrigue and cleverness was all done off screen and left me with a sense of being robbed of the character development that could've been had, and the twists that the series offered felt forced and didn't do much to make it feel more intense and interesting.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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