I normally don't write reviews, but I feel I ought to in order to save some future viewers from attempting this anime. Years ago (and I mean years) I picked up this anime (I was going through a phase of gory, messed up story lines etc.) and I dropped the series smack in the middle. I should have learned from that lesson, but alas, it was one of those that was haunting my inability to finish. Thankfully it came on Netflix and I had my chance to finish.
The start isn't terrible, the first few episodes really sink their teeth into you and leave you with a sense of anticipation. I mean a messed up jail where inmates literally get publicly executed! Red-man, branches of sin! It had so much going for it.
Once again, I felt my interest wan in the middle, but decided to stick with it this time. The storyline became convoluted, the characters were not growing. Some you would meet and get a back story only for them to be killed of quickly and the main protagonist Ganta cannot do a damn thing except cry about his helplessness. Even the shogun quality to this anime was weak. I wanted to learn more about the red-man and Shiro's tie to being the "Wretched Egg." We even meet mockingbird, a strong character who knows who Shiro is, right at the end. My thought was that there could be no way the story could be tied up in a nice package at the end, hoping against all odds that I would get some sort of answer. Well, I can't say that I've spoiled anything because there absolutely is no conclusion. It's a big ball of mush that I just wasted precious time watching.
