***THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS***
The supposed hidden gem of 2021 turned out to be a total garbage
It's embarrassingly bad, i've got drawn into this anime after i watched a GIF, it was that GIF where the red hair girl is reaching her hands towards the audience and her hand is bloody and she is smiling
when i saw that GIF i though maybe this is a deep anime, i mean it has 8.33 score, it should be good right?
one of the major theme of this anime is bullying, and we know this because of a background sound that literally says:"if you see bullying pretend to not see it", there are so many issues with just this sentence,
if you are smart you would immediately know this anime is nothing but pseudo-intellectual trash.
here are the reasons:
1) there are no schools in developed countries that say this, if you report bullying there are always consequences for the bully. (it's not relatable, it's like saying if you see rape pretend nothing happened!), there isn't a single explanation why they say :"Pretend you don't see it", there is no benefit in pretending that we know of
2) a good anime NEVER gives the message of it's story by saying it to us directly, that destroys any symbolism the anime is trying to give
the bullies are displayed in the form of cringy and creepy dolls who are jumping slowly towards the protagonists with an axe (don't misunderstand it, it's not exciting, noting scary happens, heroes always get to run away) and the dolls never use their axe but only once and that's in the first episode
and as for the characters we have it all!
we have that super silent and lonely character who speaks only one word in response to MC because she doesn't want her friendship at first
we have the Tomboy who maybe gay and the anime gets super preachy about why gender is a hoax or it doesn't exist or it's irrelevant... TLDW i don't care!
didn't like the opening song as well, soundtracks were good though
so yeah fuck this garbage, don't watch it