-> The story is about a parallel dimension ("Red Moon Night") and some highschool students who entered on this zone for some strange reason. They all have special powers, and in the Red Moon Night dimension they fight against the Black knights, this is the basic premise of the show.
-> Later, while remaining kinda episodic with the Red Moon events, the plot gets some twists and gets deeper, involving more and more stuff and relating it with the premise with the purpose of having a strong, complex show.
-Overall, the plot isn't really bad and the twists, although predictable, conserve some logic, but there are plotholes, and big ones.. In fact, when analyzing the plot you get absolutely no reason of why the students were forced to enter the "Red Moon Night" on the first place, therefore nullifying the premise, and of course, eventually all the story, it just doesn't make sense once you get all the pieces.
-> The art and sound of 11eyes was pretty decent in my opinion and a strong quality of this show, both the art and sound helped to get into the "Dark" environment that the Red Moon Night was supposed to be, with some graphic violence here and there to make the things more impressive. It works, and it works well, so no complaints here
-> 11eyes also tries to have action and romance, but in both aspects failed miserably, on "action" there isn't much scenes worth of mentioning, and worse yet, what could have been the best scenes, are either cut to continue the story in another place, or never happen. To avoid the spoilers i will just say "The ultimate battle is something you don't watch"
->The romance is basically a jealous driven love triangle between Yuka, Kakeru and Misuzu, the 3 main characters, but the problem here is Yuka becomes an extremely awkward character, ruining everything (and serving as a lame trigger to the situation of the final episodes). As for Misuzu, she spends more time dealing with her own feelings instead of competing for Kakuro, and worse, Kakuro was never doubtful.. So in the end you have an awkward character resulting from an imaginary, and ergo, no romance
-> The last major problem of 11eyes resides on character development, because as soon as Kakeru "awakens" his power the rest of the cast slowly becomes less and less relevant.. The show also gets "deus ex machina" at times, maybe because the show wasn't clearly enough with the concept of "dimensions"...
In conclusion, 11eyes left a bittersweet taste because it had the potential to become something awesome but it just doesn't, still as i said earlier, the plot doesn't fall into complete nonsense and you can actually get some enjoyment from it, i did, at least for the first half of the anime.
Story 6/10
Art 8/10
Sound 9/10
Character 4/10
Enjoyment 5/10
Overall 6/10
You should see at least: Hmm, since in my opinion the "Red Moon Night" becomes episodic, then if you find it dreadful at the 4th episode you should stop, but if you don't, continue until the end, and enjoy the coherent with the plot but ridiculous final 2 episodes :D
And that's it, another review.. not much anime for me atm (exams week) but maybe i'll review a "classic" next..
Good luck y'all and be happy, because Hikikomori is now an Oxford dictionary entry :D
