Today, I have decided to check a new local anime streaming site and picked one of their anime to watch. Knowing that this anime is having an EGOIST song as their ending, I quickly clicked for this anime movie. This is an anime produced by WIT Studio, Empire of Corpses or Shisha no Teikoku
While the premise of this anime is very unique and the progression is pretty good, I found the ending is a bit disappointing. The ending is not as grand as what I have thought in the beginning of the movie and left me with a feeling of "What? Why?" just because it is a little bit rushed in their way to the major villain's reveal. Most maybe caused by the travels that supposed to feel a little bit longer in that time feels too much fast like they were travelling with planes which was not invented back then. It was not immersive. I think the best way to fix this is to make the travels a bit longer and that's why the first half is better than the last half.
Which that leads us to the character building of this anime. I think almost all of the character is not fully built and I think it as a major flaw caused by how the story flows. I felt like Friday and Watson's background was not explored enough to make us attached to them even they are the main characters of this anime. It is a bit saddening since I really wanted to know more about Friday and Watson's relationship before Friday's supposed death.
The soundtrack is pretty epic for their action sequences but I think the most impressive is the ending by EGOIST which has this vibe of mystery and made the anime ended with more mystery lurking around it.
Overall, I think this anime have so much things to be patched with. Since the world build has been done so well, this anime have a great potential but ultimately wasted it in the last half of the anime. You still should give it a try, though.