The protagonist, Yuu, possesses a unique ability: He can temporarily possess others. He uses this ability to cheat his way to scolarships, girl's hearts, etc etc. In other words from the very start he's a dick, whose only redeeming point is caring for his little sister, Ayumi, who he has to raise alone. Eventually, two people suspicious of his success bust him, including Tomori, the student council president of a school for teens with special powers, who blackmails him into joining the student council, after beating him up. There Yuu has to help Tomori apprehend other people with special powers and offer them an ultimatum: Risk getting captured by scientists who want to experiment on them, or join the academy.
Warning: Spoilers:
Along the way we learn that Tomori has trust issues after her brother was sold out by her parents to scientists, who is now continuously sedated in a hospital, in an effort to surpass his dementia. Considering his current state, along with the fact that she frequently gets bullied at school (a subplot that doesn't go anywhere), she is naturally very lonely, and in fact is part of the student council only to feel like she has friends. Eventually, Yuu's sister dies in an accident, and after a brief hospitalization Yuu is left alone, suffering from depression which he releases by abusing his ability to torment ruffians and gangs. In the end Tomori finds him and convinces him to get back to his previous life, which is the start of their romance....
EXCEPT:
We have a girl whose big brother suffers from dementia and is extremely lonely and a guy who just lost his little sister and feels depressed. Can someone explain to me WHY this didn't evolve into a proper complicated/very interesting relationship? Come on people! The s@#t practically writes itself! "Hey! We're having something that resembles a romance but in truth is a substitute for the family love we're lacking, which we intentionally turn a blind eye to but will eventually have to face if we want to move on." And now the audience is crying buckets, WAS THAT HARD? Oh what the hell, it's not like this is the show's only f@ck up, no reason to linger here too long.
Final Ep Spoilers:
Ignoring that it felt incredibly rushed, ignoring that Yuu for some reason didn't go all power-mad (lets be honest, you'd go power-mad, I'd go power-mad, he should go power-mad), ignoring that "courage" as a power is simply retarded, we have an extremely stupid ending of the protagonist waking up suffering from amnesia, which causes Tomori to be sad. First, Tomori quite clearly just offers her body as a prize in the last episode to motivate the protagonist, and in fact seemed turned off by the protagonist confessing to her. Her reaction is understandable, but what isn't understandable is her getting sad over being forgotten upon his return. If she didn't have any feelings for him like the episode implied, shouldn't she actually be happier that she won't have to keep her end of the bargain? Second: So... What sort of relationship did Yuu and his brother have in the end? It's also quite clear that his brother hated him at some point for getting Pooh killed (despite it being Yuu's brother fault...). Three:... Oh what the hell... Hold on...
Better Ending 1: Instead of Tomori Yuu wakes up next to Ayumi who is heart-broken by his memory loss and in fact ends up hating their other sibling for making Yuu go through with his suicide mission. The show ends with tears of joy from the reunion or something like that.
Better Ending 2: Yuu wakes up next to Tomori but instead considers her a threat, Tomori is forced to use the music in the mp3 to save herself and Yuu remembers (either the whole thing or at the very least the melody). That way he is "saved" the same way he "saved" Tomori's brother earlier in the series, passing the message that good deeds do get rewarded.
Better Ending 3: Yuu dies and instead we get shots of "happily ever after" from the rest of the cast (Ayumi with her other brother, the two student council goons with each other, Tomori at the hospital etc etc), while his brother is drowned in guilt.
There, 3 endings that I thought of IN A MINUTE that work way better than the crap they offered us that couldn't decide weather it wanted to be sad or happy.
And of course other than the endings, the show suffers from waaaayyyy too many plotholes along the lines. Just to name a few:
1)Yuu remembers time spent in the lab that never actually happened in his timeline.
2)Yuu clearly plundered the glasses-guy at the first episode, how did he keep his ability all this time?
3)Metal songs used for warm comfy memories.
4)Yuu doesn't heal his right eye because... ... ... ?
5)Goverments not giving a crap about explosions happening all over the world.
6)Why didn't Yuu consider Tomori a threat when he woke up? He was clearly half-crazy.
7)On that note, why didn't he go on a sleep-walk rampage like before?
8)Ayumi is way too accepting of staying underground with people she never met before.
9)Misa is way past the magic age of 16 when the powers are supposed to disappear yet keeps her fire-bending abilities.
10)Yuu blamed for way too much crap that he wasn't in any way responsible for and the show wants us to feel like he was.
11)...Nvm I'm tired.
I can go on of course.
In conclusion: Makes a worthwhile effort to be a drama, but just misses way too many chances and has way too many plotholes to be something truly great and memorable. Still, nice visuals.
