TOP Advice to best enjoy this :
1)GO BLIND!!!!! you wont regret it !!!
2)WATCH IT TILL THE VERY END!!! or else you haven't watched Bokurano
3)DONT JUDGE !!! the art may be too realistic or turn off some but seriously give it a shot!
4)THIS IS NO TYPICAL MECHA ACTION ANIME! so don't go in expecting that
5) BE PREPARED TO THINK!!! or else you loose half the fun
6)BE PATIENT , & WATCH EP 1 TILL THE END !! though i personally don't think you'll be in need of too much patience afterwards , it'll hook you by the end of first episode.
Personally i started the show due to a youtuber's recommendation, and the man mentioned absolutely nothing about the plot , and i think it was the right thing to do,
and thus i'll start my review from why i liked it, over the plot description.
-Charming Points / Reasons i Enjoyed it:
Going in Blind. I had my mind open for ANYTHING, i didn't want to read anything about it , didn't want to form any predication to the plot , no expectation so i don't get disappointed ( ive been suffering from watching good anime recently ) And ... I was overjoyed by my decision!
The show got all those plot that you don't expect, at every other point in the story you think you've got it figured out , and that "Oh, i bet this that this is gonna happen next " and then you might be wrong you might be right , but most likely there is gonna be that "one little thing" you didn't take into consideration even though it was more or else there from the very beginning.
It's nothing so "OMG where the heck did THAT come from ?????? did they just make it up ?"
but more "Oh ... Oh , Ooooooooh , makes sense!!! :) .... but wait ... Nooooooo does that mean ...?" and it continues like that , until the very last episode.
Honestly as other has said about it, its true worth in watching it ALL the way to the VERY END (something i tend to say about Shinsekai Yori, its true masterpiece by watching it till the very last 5 min of the show, only then do you say you watched those two and seen their true meat)
-"THE STORY" :
Going blind is your best option
saying anything about the very first episode will be spoilers of its own
though please do give the boring-ish first 15 min a chance , it's worth it
This is one Thought provoking anime, nothing too complicated ( ie Serial Lain ) by the end of the show you'll understand what they want you to , and you'll still have space to think for your own of other things too.
It may be labeled under the Mecha genre, but .. its not Gundam or Code Geass in that sense
there is barely any form of action. so don't go in expecting that.
-"CHARACTERS"
15 may be alot of characters, but trust me, you wont feel the burden. It's well written in that you can get to know (almost) All of them and feel like any of them are cardboard cut stereotypical chara, even though the first episode may fool you into thinking that.
-"ART":
is on the realistic spectrum of anime. is it bad? no i think it did the atmosphere and story justice
the mecha where as realistic as any mecha could look in the real world, their movement too
weird but good weird.. or at least the " you get used to it" weird
-"Sound"
Surprisingly i watched the Opening of EVERY episode, and the second Ending as well. I'm the type of person that skips that and some to get straight to the episode.. so that ought to say something right ?
The lyrics are all TRUE to the story though , so at least read the lyrics, just as the others here in the review section mentioned. OST though ,... nothing really struck out in my mind, and i just got off the last episode.. so i don't know what to say about that.
-"Enjoyment"
i think the fact I'm rating it so high is proof enough of how much i loved it
WARNING:
Prepare tissues
Its a tad bit too heavy to watch ALL in one setting, but at the same time you can't give too much spacing between the eps, so Pace it well. You might want to watch a comedy episode of some other anime in between ^_^
-"OverALL"
THIS NEEDS TO BE WATCHED!!!!! especially for those out there like me who are running out of anime to watch and take seriously.
PS:
This is my VERY first review , i hope it was well written. Thank you
