Story 7/10
Why 7? Because the concept was kind of creative. This kind of killing mission where only people who just died are used to kill aliens is not so bad. But the problem is not here.
Art 4/10
This anime is quite old allready. 2004, so the artstyle became old. The details are not really present and the colors are kind of poor. The characters are not really beautiful to look at, but I would say that this aspect goes well with the plot, which has to be a bit psychological and/or stressed. Having bad looking people make the anime less "ideal" and give a bit more of realism.
Sound 5/10
I saw this series in streaming, so on an extremely legal way. The sound was there... but I didn't noticed a special theme that was putting emphasis on the situation or the atmosphere. The sound was there... it wasn't perfect, but not awful either.
Character 6/10
The characters are HUMANS and we can FEEL it when we see the serie BUT the way they interact with each other is REALLY BAD. I think the show wanted to create a "bad society atmosphere". But this anime puts it a bit TOO FAR. People are not so DUMP and BAD. Our society is not nice, but the people, ALL the people would lend a hand if the danger was not going right towards them.
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For example at the beginning, the two main characters are killed by a FU**ING TRAIN. HOW COULD THEY POSSIBLY ACCEPT THAT!!!!! This is a REALLLLLLLYYYYY BAD choice of the autor. Why? Because they tryed to get away from the rails by running down the station. And NOBODY COULD HELP THEM GETTING BACK ON THE SIDE? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?!?!!
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The whole problem in this anime is the way the people interact with each other and the way it is shown. Everyone become USELESS in this anime. Everyone stay where he stands and wait for the others to DIE. I thought this was a good choice at the beginning to show how the anime works and than get rid of this way of doing and get a bit of dynamic in the action scenes. BUT NO. From the beginning to the end EVERYONE has a gun and 80% of the people get killed because the others are watching them die, without trying to help. They only shoot when 60% of the group is dead.
Normally, when ONE human is killed. The person/entity who did it is maybe the target of the group, when EVERYONE HAS A GUN. But no, 70% has to die in a REALLY dump way to understand that THIS IS A THREAT which CAN KILL EVERYONE.
If this show wasn't so dump, I would maybe have enjoyed it.
So,
Enjoyment 3/10
No I didn't enjoy this.........
Overall 5/10
To end this review, I would say that you CAN'T LIKE THIS only because of the way the anime was realised. The way the action is less then slow and all the characters are perverted humans with snails in the head instead of a brain. The main concept was interresting.... but it was a bad way to show it, to use it. Every single thing could have been better.
But the show is old. So some of this mistakes are due to a lack of technology and experience.
