That said, this anime was a 8.5/10, bridging on a 9/10 before the very last episode.
The build up was wonderful, the characters pretty decent, but the relationship between Haru and Takaku or however you spell her name was the cherry on top-- I love that specific dynamic of hardcore/badass protector with an innocent, relatively defenseless protected character, especially in yuri pairings.
However, the ending was absolute garbage. Episode 11 leaves off on a massive cliffhanger that actually is resolved pretty well when you finish the series, however where that cliffhanger is cured, an ENTIRE different slew of problems arise.
I absolutely cannot stand deus ex endings, and I really, really don't like in general how they wrapped this story up. It had so much potential, so INCREDIBLY much potential to be a great anime, but they choked at the very end with wrapping up the story. They could've done almost anything else, they could add a truly thoughtful message/action in, they could culminate the relationship of the characters, but instead? They just threw a bunch of garbage together and had it be completely ineffective.
I still recommend watching this anime if you're into battle royale style anime. Throughout the entire thing, I was wondering how this was rated so poorly by the community because it was extremely good, but don't expect anything good from the ending whatsoever. It was the biggest let down of any anime series I've ever watched.
