That's going to be great.
That was my first impression.
Fairly quickly I realize it's one of those "traveling protagonist" shows like "Katanagatari", "Majo no tabitabi" and to some extent "Ergo Proxy".
(all of which I really enjoyed)
A new place, a short story told in a few episodes. It can work really well.
Well let's get straight to it.
Simply put I thought the story is told in an overly confusing style.
The story is too busy trying hard to be deep to give me context so I basically just sit there to watch some borderline-psychedellic events happen on the screen while puzzling it together and wondering why I'm supposed to care.
The characters I saw for the short time there were on screen were all forgettable and the show didn't give me a single good reason to care about them at all. Which may be alright for side characters but I didn't even care about the protagonist, which is a problem.
Then there's the visuals. The artstyle is interesting enough, +1 for effort, but honestly? I wouldn't call it beautiful or anything like that. It's very nauseating to look at sometimes.
I believe I gave it a fair chance with 7 episodes, finishing 3 of 5 stories.
It just simply couldn't make me interested.
You can hate me for this but in my opinion this show is just overly pretentious, trying to appeal to elitists by trying to look "unique" and "deep", when it really isn't.
A show does not need to be praised for it's uniqueness and shouldn't be rated highly just because of it. Unique doesn't necessarily mean better.
Still watching a few episodes and seeing if it's for you or not can still pay off.
It's neither a good nor a bad show.
To me personally it was about as exciting as watching paint dry.
5/10
