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Mar 11, 2021
review no. 4
The show is a post-apocalyptic one where teenagers wake up to a world that can kill them at any turn. If you read the genre tags I'd say only heed the adventure, drama and mystery ones. I swear the romance ones are there solely because a motivation is living to find/find out what happened to their loved ones. Anyways, decent enough start but depending on how you weigh your annoyance at the characters verses interest in world this may be a decent to terrible show.

Story
The story is generally about groups of people learning to live in their new environment. The story somewhat breaks into mini paths following the different groups. A core part of the story is the exploration and mystery solving. It is a little hard to follow due to it skipping around which I wish they put better tags or set up the transitions between story threads better. The flashbacks and stories of how characters got to a place are fascinating and probably the best part of the show. The characters are the core part because we need to care and be worried about them in this new world they're experiencing, so your mileage will very wildly depending on how much you can stand the characters in the beginning. If they're grating I don't suggest continuing.

Characters
This sounds bad but just go with what the show is doing, like don't get caught up in learning everyone immediately. It will happen and honestly there are only a handful of characters out of the like 28 total that matter and need their names remembered. I know some people who didn't appreciate the speed in which everyone who was introduced. I think the groups and characters are introduced in a good order and pace it just takes a little bit to figure out who we need to care about. Anyways, just get to know a few and the rest will come.

The first group of people are the starting group who are exactly as confused and uncertain as teens dropped into an unknown time and place. As you travel with this group you meet others of varying competence. I can clearly say I don't enjoy everyone but it also feels natural. Debatably, the characters are too surface level, the first group especially. In group one we have the capable woman, somewhat capable but nice guy, the bully and the clumsy wimp. They're not deep especially when first meeting them but I also wonder if that's because we are thrown into the fray with so many questions. Group 2 is full of clearly more capable people. I think it's trying to introduce a few too many ideas at once and getting a little tangled in that. The next groups are more solid but like don't get bogged down with the names.
In character conclusion, if you don't like Arashi (nice guy from group 1), Natsu (wimp from group 1), Semimaru (bully from group 1) and or Hana (capable girl group 2) then you may wanna think hard about how much you like the world you'll be experiencing with them.

Sound
Fun op. I think it and the visuals set up intro better than the show's actual opening minutes. Good beat that carries the start of the show. It's got some unique sounds for all the new creatures and good background music for the environments. The background music is quite nice it really sets the mood. I think it needs better balancing when the background music comes in because the music is quite loud for background music but otherwise good.

General feel
It takes too long for the show to finally get comfortable and find it's pacing. Like it dips in and out every time it skips to a new group it's gotta find a new rhythm. Very adventure-y but it's gotta stop jumping, it does it like twice an episode and it doesn't work.

Mixed thoughts
This one is hard to talk about cause it sometimes really shows it's age. Like the manga started in 2001 just for reference, not old but like it can really show it. The show doesn't really start off on the greatest of notes, it picks the lovable doofs who admittedly aren't that lovable upon first meeting them. So like not great character moments in the beginning but I'd say as you go through they grow on you. The CG is kinda meh like the shots they use are fine if the object is still not natural but whatever. If the CG is asked to move well then it's probably water and probably real weird to look at too closely.

Positives:
- Beautiful world boosted by the art
- Interesting look into people
- Encourages you to discover and learn as the characters do
- If you watch it in one go it tends to make more sense. If there were week long breaks the story would have been more erratic and confusing
- Easy to binge

Negatives:
- The number of characters
- If you watch the first ep and find everyone grating I don't suggest continuing
- Depending on which group's story you care about you're somewhat stuck waiting for it to come back around
- Skips around to different story threads aka groups
- Trigger warning [attempted rape (it is treated as a bad thing and it's not til the end (ep 22?) but warning regardless)]
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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