Reviews

This anime series was created by Lynn Okamoto, the creator of Elfen Lied one of my favorite animes ever so I was pumped to watch this. It revolves around high school boy Ryouta Murakami, who cannot forget his female childhood friend whom he let die in an accident. Feeling that he must fulfill their promise of proving the existence of aliens, he has continuously looked up at the starry sky as a member of the astronomy club. One day, a girl named Neko Kuroha who looks exactly like his childhood friend appears as a transfer student who also turns out to be a witch. Okay this series, I enjoyed it as a whole. The plot is fairly simple, which for you could be a good thing but for me it held this show down. Things just happen here, it tries to convey emotional weight to scenes and they just fall flat which falls mostly on the characters. I didnt like many characters in this anime. The main character Murakami, is a typical main character that does everything as he should and completely throws his life in disarray for these girls he barely knows. Neko, the second lead in this anime is one of the most bland characters I've ever seen in an anime. Nothing she says or does for the most part is interesting and honestly if she was a more compelling character I may have enjoyed this anime more. Most of the characters were average and didn't have much to them and when they died I didn't affect me much. On the other hand, Kazumi was great, I grew to love her brass attitude and perverted ways and to me she was the highlight of this anime. Art and sound were good but nothing special to me. The villains were weak and had uninteresting motives as is because they weren't given much depth in the story. The best thing in this anime was a scene with time travel that I wont spoil but it was really well executed and had me in a frenzy watching it. But the weight and purpose of that scene was undermined later in the anime with something anticlimactic that I guess they had to rush because of the short 13 episode run time. Also the twist ish plot development near the end of the anime felt like a let down and characters just appear out of nowhere and have no real purpose except for plot exposition and to get the important characters from point A to point B. Overall a decent series that had highs that were fun to watch but mostly just slightly above average and not much compared to Okamoto's previous masterpiece Elfen Lied.