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Another cyberpunk genre anime has ended, and as much as it annoys me , it has that same vibe of SAO Alternative Gun Gale, where people finds escape from the reality of life into the virtual world, except in SAO the character can go offline, while in Caligula the characters were trapped in what can be called as Astral Syndrome that was created by some company who were responsible for creating Mobius. Now , the story was very good since it wasn't always that we get to see a story plot where a group of rogues, aka Go Home Club members wanted to go back to the real world and face the reality of life rather than running away from it, were it's either that they realize that the virtual world of Mobius was fake and that they were unwilling participant or they're tired of all that rewind since they always find themselves repeating the same high school life that there is no excitement anymore and they'd be better off going back to the real world. Either way such story plot does provide some kind of uniqueness, where them Rogues weren't just gonna be allowed to go back without the Musicians who acts as some kind of corrections offices who will prevent them from escaping so, watching this can be compared to the movie "Escape Plan 2" where it stars Sylvester Stallone and Dave Batista. As for the art, the school uniform may have the same color style, like Grey Coat , white shirt and black trousers for boys and skirts for girls, but that's not always the case, as usual illustrator would alter the styles of the characters uniform design according tho their personality, like that of Suzana's pencil cut long skirt with a slit on the side indicating her reserve character, Naruko's plaint skirt that indicated her bubbly personality, but then again the differences as to how the character wore their uniform really does matched their characteristic to the tee, but unfortunately there were a lot uf over the knee type of stocking around here. For the sound, I really don't give a shit about the characters voices but I do like the closing theme "Hypno" which was sung by them girls of the Go Home Club and the opening theme "Paradime Box" which was sung by Sawashiro Chiharu and Takeguchi Shunsuke, when it come to the character, I was taken a back when the casts' true identity in the real world were revealed, like Satake Shougo who was already in his 30's, Tomoe Kotaro who is the youngest in his early teen, Kawashiba Kotono who is a single mom in real life amd the one who has given this anime it climatic impact was the Ritsu Shikishima... who we thought at first he has abandoned his fellow Go Home Club when we see him waking up from his home, but it turns out that he isn't Ritsu Shikishima and the real one was actually a loner who has difficulty of interacting with his workmates, who is the main guy who has created Mu and Aria and the very guy (I Think), who has cause the Astral Syndrome and quite frankly the character who we thought we knew , has some thing unexpected and that has add to some excitement, so here's my take on this.
Story-Very good 8: like I've said it was the fact that the story plot about a group of people wanting to go back to the real world was something else.
Art-Good 7: since the style as to how each character wore his school uniform matches their personality , but , there were too many over the knee stocking around, also underware service was only on Sweet P.
Sound- Very Good 8: For the closing theme Hypno and Paradigm Box the opening.
"Aihan suru kanjou wo sutete shimaitai yo
gensou ga shinshoku shiteku bokura no kokoro wo
unmei no shinfonii kanaderareta senritsu yo
kasou sekai no yoru wo koete narihibike!"
Character- Very good 8: I maybe pisssed about the deception about the characers whom we thought we already knew, but an unexpected comes when we thought we knew them. Like Ritsu who we thought is that one who we thought to be was not who we expect. And Marie Mizuguchi was we thought is sweet but is actually a crazy yandere unabomber bitch.
Enjoyment- Good 7: It was exciting, but the fact as to how this astral syndrome came to be was confusing. Also, why did Ritsu refer to Aria as Mu.
Overall-Very Good 8: This is one anime that I can say that is better than a game, cu'z it has a very good clean ending. So feel free to watch it.
