Imma just dive in real quick, spoilers are ahead, you’re warned. This show gets a 3/10.
Story: Please stoooop
It’s just one of these stories that jumps from one accidental occurrence to another. Like every step just feels random. Oh, a hidden mine field? Guess someone has to die. Let’s put toxic gas here, haha another one bites the dust. Uh, a city that is for no reason not damaged by sinking Japan? Not anymore, let’s kill all the citizens. But before that let’s party and pretend like Japans just fine.
Yeah, another thing, you might realize. Every episode there has to die at least one character cause I guess that’s fun. It’s like in one of the last episodes, no one had died yet and they had restored important knowledge in a sd card or sth. The brother held the chip in his hands and let it slip. Maaan, nobody had died in a long time, let’s make one of the characters retrieve the card while dying in the process. Sure. It just takes the shock and drama out of people dying. It’s just used to remind you that Japan in fact is sinking and it’s not the adventurous journey of a random group of people through Japan.. Sure people die when there’s a disaster but they don’t die in patterns. The deaths didn’t feel written in a natural way but forced.
Also about this Japan sinks thing. Like nobody saw it coming but this random scientist. And he knows like every detail of when which part and where Japan is supposed to sink and also when it’s supposed to pop up again. Sure, there is only this one person in this whole universe that saw it coming and also can predict Japans future. Maybe it’s his doing..
Last thing: mood swings. Like is this show trying to be a happy adventure like ‚yeah Japan sinks, let’s paaarty‘ or does it want to be a bloody, dramatic piece of weirdness. In one moment everyone’s crying and dying and in the next they have a rap battle about equality. Like literally, I’m not even lying.
P.S. the plot is freaking predictable. The mc cuts her leg like in the first episode and doesn’t get it treated - why are you so stupid just talk to people. I was just rolling my eyes like boy it will get infected, she will lose her leg. Congrats, she did!
Characters:
These characters are so unlikeable and unrelatable. They feel so unreal and behave like they’re on their period the entire show. How am I supposed to get emotional? That’s it, there’s nothing left to say.
The conversations feel so unorganic like two apathetic potatoes would talk to each other. And the urge to take photos of everything? Like boy, Japan is sinking and you have nothing better to do than to take a photo? Wait, maybe that’s the only behavior that’s making sense.
Also there is a scene, where the cast joins a dude with a car. The dude is being a horrible jerk and forces himself on one of the ladies, the others kick him, steal his car and leave him behind. I guess one character even said something like ,That felt good‘. Wtf, human decency, anybody? Tie this jerk up and take him or put him somewhere where he gets a chance to survive? No, let’s kick him, steal his car, feel good about it and leave him to die while the country goes down.
Art:
It’s decent most of the time but sometimes the characters have like these creepingly big swollen hands and warped faces.
Sound:
Sometimes nice, most of it was forgettable.
Overall:
This anime dragged itself and made me wonder why I watched it. I loved Devilman Crybaby directed by Yuasa, Masaaki and I had hopes that he would manage to direct something nice again but boy was I wrong. The idea of having a disaster and putting a cast into it can totally work but rather than the show telling about a disaster it was one itself. Sad thing tho, it wasn’t the kind of bad where you go ,it’s so bad, I can actually enjoy it‘. It was just bad.
