If you want a normal girl, facing hardships and trauma and growing from them, this is not the anime for you. If you want a bad-ass female protagonist, this is not the anime for you. With nil character development and a core concept that can't decide whether to make her 'normal' (yet go all the way to, god forbid, any sense of reality in her reactions) or a fighter. you're left with imo, the single MOST annoying female character ever.
And it's unfortunate because the plot had the potential for a LOT of solid character growth.
It's like they wanted to capture a sort of nuanced take on the personality aspect of 'normal' girl who is a god chara w amnesia, so they focus a lot of screen minutes per episode on her 'emotions', yet fall so far short of the mark, those minutes only exacerbate the ridiculousness.
It's also like they want to milk the 'mystery' aspect as much as possible so they end up having every conversation inanely cryptic, even among those in the 'know' and those outside, and then make the characters ok with it, when even 1% reality would have had them respond, "hold up, wtf are you talking about.' Like we get it, you want to create suspense, but ffs, have your human characters behave even a bit like humans??
Back to the useless, pathetic crybaby who constantly insists she can handle it to the point of trying to 'protect' her brother, but invariably ends up crying 'i can't, i can't' when faced with any danger, irrespective of how many people die and suffer around her, when she can protect them so easily. While it is understandable in the beginning because it's not easy for a 'normal' girl to up and become that brutal or violent w zero misgivings, by the 7857465th time it gets reeeeeaally old.
Till it makes me wonder why the Red Shield is wasting fuel on carting her from place to place.
With the Lycee school arc she seemed to have gotten her act together, but in the climax at the Plantation she went back to being perfectly useless when required only to kill her own comrades in the end w/out even taking out Karl. I gave it 14 episodes because of the reviews but i CANNOT take it any longer.
100/10 save yourself a lot of frustration and do NOT watch.
