Let's first start off with the story. The story centers around a bunch of high school kids in their adolesence or teenagers who have some type of "illness" that was caught since birth. The Illness holds some sort of "Power" which varies from person to person. Meaning to say, each teenager has a different power from others which has it's advantages and disadvantages. The illness was caught from a random mysterious comet named "Charlotte" which only passes every hundred years or so. And the Protagonist, Otosaka Yuu has the "Possesion" ability which lets him posses another living being for a mere 5 seconds. He was well known as a Handsome Genius in his school and was looked up to by classmates and peers alike. But little did they knew...that yuu was actually cheating using his abilities and gets away with it unnoticed...until the president of the student council came barging into his life, stopped his treacherous acts and told him to stop using his ablities for wrong doings. So instead, the president forcefully recruited our protagonist into the student council and decided to let him help track down ability users and stop them from misusing their abilities.
Actually this is where the plot is messy. Instead of focusing on advancing the plot smoothly and centering around the tracking down of ability users, They wasted some episodes on inconvinient character developments. That is not how you do character developments....not like that. Imo, they should've just focused on tracking down of ability users and project what yuu did on episode 13. Only with more details and more dialouges. And not only that, many questions were left unresolved...this is why you don't do a 22-episode story on a 13-episode one. Everything felt so forced with the plot...but i guess that can't be helped. Anyway this is just my own opinion. Oh btw, the death of Kumagami was pointless too.
Oh! But the art was one thing that i deeply loved! Seriously! The background,The Secenery,The Character Designs (especially.their eyes),The Shadings and also the Animations. I'm a sucker for art and seeing this level of art made me very pleased. This is also one reason why i wanted to watch this anime. The Art was so blend in and perfectly fitted the flow and the feelings of the anime. Like it was calling out to me, Telling me that art is a very blissful thing...a melody. As a amateur artist, i am deeply touched by this kind of art. It tells me the beauty of creativity itself.
The Music and Songs were great too! I even downloaded the full set. It somehow lacked impact on the whole premise of the anime but it did leave a very good impression on the viewers! Hearing the singing and the beat of the music was pleasing to the ears and can calm one's mind. I love the composure of the singing as well, especially the OST and the OP song. Good music is always a treat to sore hearts.
I didn't hate the characters that much but i didn't find them interesting either. Yuu is a flat character.....sometimes he is full of himself,sometimes he is a coward, and sometimes he even has the same line of thoughts as most protagonists do which is very repettitive...but i don't mind it that much. He was a good guy at heart and i liked him for that. Nao was....well.....rather...a flat character as well. More like she wasn't suited for a romance anime and she was more suited to a mystery/horror anime. Nao's personality is really...i don't know. I can't describe her well since i never really felt the same way as she does and i can't really relate to her. Other than that, she was a likeable character as well. That goes for most of the characters.
Like i said on my introduction, i actually enjoyed this one despite being a ecchi and harem guy fanboy. The comedy was okay and it made me laugh a bit here and there, not to mention they brought up some jokes from their previous works which i found funny at some points. And some references as well. It was a fun ride.
Overall for me, this was okay. It wasn't the best out of all Key's productions but it wasn't that bad either. If you ask me, i could list down my Top 10 that's way worst than charlotte on the same genre. If anything, charlotte was better than most. This is my own opinion and i hope you guys can respect that. My point of view is different from yours. Anx nothing can change that. Hey! No offense here! And here's to hoping that we can get a OVA that will fill in the plotholes and explain the aftermath of all that happened. Too many things were left unresolved but i don't hate it.
Anyway, i'm still inexperienced when it comes to reviewing stuff so i hope you guys point out my mistakes and give some advice as to how i can make my reviews better and point out on which i should focus on reviewing instead. Thank you all for reading my review!
