SPOILER ALERT!!
(Btw, lotta f-bombs in this review, I have too much passion for this show to not fully express my hate and disappoint without them, so, sorry.)
It's like watching Game of Thrones in the sense that all the good characters that you fall in love with end up dying, and it's like instead of Joffrey dying, he just wins and everyone else dies and you finish the show feeling like shit.
This show has some of my favorite characters of all time, most specifically Cal Devens my favorite female character of all time. The characters, as many others have said, is where this show shines, it definitely has some of the best character development I've seen in my life, all the important characters have a well developed back story, and even the side characters have well-thought-out motives for the schemes they plot and actions they take, however a lot of times the characters in this show go full-retard for no reason and make some of the worst decisions that literally piss me off in real life to the point where I can't watch another episode until I cool down. Also, there's a bunch of problems in logic and physics, plotholes, and just bad writing in general for certain parts of the story.
Time for my list of questions about the stupid things in this show that will never be addressed:
- How did Reiji slice through Ein's mask without cutting her face in half as well? (this complaint is a bit nit-picking, but none-the-less I wanted to address it)
- Why doesn't Ein just kill Reiji when she already knew he was hiding in that old broken down room that Scythe master and Ein find him in, where he waited for 3 days? (Scythe Master wasn't around at the time, so no one was there to order her not to hill him)
- How was Ein able to catch up to Scythe Master and block him from a bullet when she was several yards behind Reiji when he shot the bullet? (PLUS, she was wounded and barely even able to walk, does she gain fucking super speed when she's injured, that whole scene was bullshit)
- How was Ein able to snipe the statue in the meeting Room where the Godos were becoming members of Inferno, they clearly zoomed in from where the bullet was show, and they had to pan the camera around a building in front of where she was shooting from, can Ein both shoot and see through fucking entire buildings while sniping?
- Why doesn't Reiji even attempt to check if the burning apartment actually killed Cal, he just assumes she's dead without any true evidence? (I guess though, one could assume he was in shock and committed to the idea that she was dead)
- Why the fuck is there a completely unnecessary two year gap in the story? (This has to be one of the most forced story progression tactics I've ever seen, in fact they skip a lot of months in the show to further the story when it's not really necessary, but the 2 year one is the largest and most apparent of course.)
- How did Cal age so much after just two years? (I'm sorry but that amount of body development would take around 5 years, I guess you could say it was a growth-spurt, but that's just total cop-out for and unjustified amount of aging she did)
- Now for my biggest gripe against this show. WHY DOES REIJI FUCKING KILL CAL?! He made zero attempts to truly apologize for abandoning her as well! This really pisses me off for two reasons, Cal in my favorite female anime character of all time because of how they built her up and showed the true sadness of her life and background, and the fact that Reiji was able to save Ein on several occasions and even talk her out of killing herself or himself in multiple occasions, but when it came to Cal he went full-retard and just said 'yup, gotta kill her' he didn't even try to resolve the issues between them under any circumstance. AT THE VERY LEAST! He could've decided to not mortally wound her, by maybe shooting her hand, shooting the gun out of her hand, shooting her in her arn socket, shooting her before the music stopped in some place that would stun but not kill her, the possibilities are endless, main-point he didn't have to kill her by any means. And even if you do decide to accept that she died, had to die and there was no other way, you just end up feeling really shitty, and as the story continues it goes more downhill and you feel shittier, and then Ein and Reiji suicide/die, and then you're just left feeling like shit now that the whole show is over and everyone fucking died, FUCK! The ending of this anime where Reiji and Ein die, I can somewhat find myself accepting, but everything that led up to them having to do that was fucking BULLSHIT!
- Not a question, but it just really pisses me off that the villain flat out won and got away with basically everything he wanted like the asshole he is, I'm talking about Scythe Master of course, I know that they did end up killing him in the end, but he got away with everything he wanted before that, so he just indisputably won in the end.
- One gripe I gotta mention though, the ending scene where Reiji and Ein kill themselves is incredibly confusing upon first view, I had to actually go into wikipedia and look on that episode specifically to understand what just happened, I'm sure a lot of people who watched this anime didn't even realize that Ein suicided by eating a poisonous flower, and were just wondering "why did she smile at Reiji collapsing?", I know I did.
