Story 1/10
The story, if you can call it that, is a pathetic jumble of messy delusions. If you hate scenarios where it ends with, "it was all a dream", then steer clear of this series because it happens like every 5 minutes. I mean it's not like it's too confusing or anything, just frustratingly stupid. It hurts to watch and then there's no pay off in the end whatsoever.
Art 6/10
I mean it's Madhouse, so it wasn't bad. It was even pretty good for 2008. Not much else to say, so moving on.
Music 7/10
The music was good. Very out of place in such a terrible anime. The opening is sung by the queen Kanako Itou herself. The ending was meme bad, but check it out if you want a laugh. I found myself enjoying the soundtrack and thinking it would be so much better if used in a better anime.
Characters 1/10
The characters suck. I didn't like a single one. Not a single one! Nishijou Takumi is one of my least favourite protagonists in all of anime, and none of the other characters are any better or more likeable. I feel like everyone likes an anime with character development and this anime has it... but it's all abrupt, happens for no reason, and is never explained. This anime has absolutely no redeeming qualities in terms of characters.
Enjoyment 1/10
I didn't squeeze an ounce of enjoyment out of this anime. It was bad and not even "fun bad" just boring, hard-to-watch bad.
With all of this being said, I give this show 3/10. If you're here for a harem anime then just... no. I'm hard-pressed to even call this a harem anime. I would call it a shit anime with harem elements shoehorned in like a couple of times instead. It isn't so much a mystery as it's just an assortment of confusing, unexplained plot points, only some of which, get explained and none are interesting or satisfying. Psychological? I guess. Sci-fi? For sure, but not a good one in either genre. I would call it supernatural before I would call it sci-fi, but it's stupid more than it is fun or interesting.
SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!!
If I haven't turned you away from watching ChaoS;HEAd by this point, then either stop reading here and watch it to avoid spoilers or read on if you don't care about spoilers or if you've already seen the show.
So like every character in the show is a Gigalomaniac, which I found to be stupid and I feel it takes away the uniqueness of being a Gigalomaniac. "And when everyone is super, no one will be." To quote Syndrome. I also want to take this spoiler section to further elaborate on all the characters I hate (ie all of them). Is Rimi a murder? Turns out no, but I feel Takumi puts his faith in her way too quickly and with no justifiable reason. Ayase becomes suicidal somewhere in the middle of the series for some reason, but after jumping off a building and being saved by Takumi, because boom he can make flowers, she's fine just as easily and inexplicably as she became suicidal. I feel like Sena had the potential to be my favourite character, but the shit with her dad was just annoying. She killed him out of revenge in a delusion and regretted it. Then she went to kill him in real life, but he ended up saving her from being shot and she was sad that he died. Make up your mind woman. Nanami was pretty inconsequential and annoying as well, so other than those two huge factors no complaints about her. Kozue (or Piipii or whatever they called her) couldn't talk normally for some reason, which I didn't even know until she started talking normally, again with no explanation. Yua isn't memorable enough to talk about and Seira doesn't exist, but don't let that fool you, she's still annoying. That just leaves two more characters I want to talk about. The girl who ended up being the killer who was written off minutes after the reveal, which is inexcusable no matter what you say to me. And lastly, Genichi. Genichi had the making of a good villain. His motives seemed interesting and almost just in a twisted way. Too bad they weren't explored at all and he got like 10 minutes of screen time. With that, I am done complaining about this terrible anime. If anyone reads all this, thanks for reading. :)
