The reason I chose to write this is because I've seen a lot of negative reviews about this anime.
First of, I started watching this without being biased one way or another.
In other words, I had never heard of this anime or read anything about it, nor the manga.
I was just happily scrolling my netflix one thursday night and Ajin came up.
The story sounded great so without looking it up or reading anymore than what was on the recap on netflix, I pressed play.
The plot, EXACLTY as great as I thought it would be. I love it, just right up my alley. I love the main character even though after 13 ep you still don't even begin do scratch the surface of Kei's depts and who he is or what he might become, which shows the potential this anime has! And yes, there is character development! Kei is a character you might not like in the first ep or even the third because there is so much happening that to understad and get to know Kei takes time, and it really keeps you hungering for the next episode!
Kei is actully smart, which make you (well, me) like him A LOT. Its not one of those characters thats your typical two-dimensonal hero who just "have to save everyone!" who runs in, messes up, cries, gets some mystery power and saves the day because he got lucky- or gets saved by someone else and hopes that his power will come when his girlfriend is in trouble-type of guy. No, Kei is extremely smart, efficent but also kind and hounorble. In other words, he's a realistic type of guy and never makes you scream at your screen "RUN ALREADY YOU STUPID HALFWIT!!!".
The only negative thing (except it being just 13 ep!?!?!?!?) is, as you might have guessed, the art.
Or (I'm new to anime so forgive me), to me its not the ART itself. Because if you freeze the anime or look at it from at freezeframe point of view, I think the art is quite beautiful. Special, yes. But beautiful.
What makes it "bad" is, (again, new at this) the animation in itself?
Its like the characters and the flow and movement of all objects, charaters in particular, is just so... Awkward. Everytime I see the bodylanguage I think of those bobbled headed dogs, you know, the dolls you put on your office desk or something and the head bobs up and down?
Or it feels like watching a trailer of the sims 2.
Thats how they move in the anime, and not just the characters.
So yes, that ruined it a bit but after a few episoded I got (sort of) used to it.
No, wait. Let me put it like this.
The plot and characters were just too good to drop it or make me wanna stop just because the art was a bit "bad".
As a whole, this is definately a new favourite! I REALLLYYYYYYY loved the plot and characters and I can't wait for a second season!!!
