I had mentioned of believing that a video game, especially in Japan, they're mostly called with the term "gacha", is announced as a sequel to an anime series that served as a prequel, is also doomed from the start? If I had known Takt Op Destiny (TOD) was like this, I wouldn't have planned to watch this weekly as a dreadful chore to fulfil.
Because out of all the video game/visual novel adaptations, whether they're compressed of the original source or its anime is served as either a prequel, sequel or a spin-off, 99% of it has made me believe that I shouldn't get my hopes up for their anime adaptation to be made of worthy storytelling; not to mention that there are many scenes that's blatantly telling me, or whoever notices like me, that TOD is a blatant gacha ad in order to get anime viewers to purchase and play the gacha one in the near future. And that's how TOD fails to do this for I've seen some comments from gacha lovers that after watching TOD anime, they've lost motivation to be interested in the gacha.
For starters, TOD should've gotten another cour to flesh out the characters, important plot elements/devices and coherent plot progression that would've been able to make me like it like what Princess Connect anime adaptation did for me. Nonetheless, there are some one-cour series that have managed to do what I've just mentioned above.
The trouble with TOD is that the writing department staff thought that they should put all of the potential elements crammed into 12 episodes because these elements are made up of good quality writing stuff, right? No and no; because too many good ingredients can make the dish taste bad when the ingredients aren't managed properly.
TOD's disorganised ingredients includes the male protagonist who just go with the flow of whatever the plot wants him to do and whose conveyed feelings feels monotonous in my ears especially, a major supporting female character who just kissed the male protagonist out of nowhere without any scenes indicating her body language (particularly her eyes) that she's in love with him from the start, the female protagonist's character development was unmemorable, not to mention she's only developed when her body language doesn't keep up with so-called character development, and the villains of this anime are one of the lamest & uninteresting ones I've ever seen in this medium. Did I mention the main villain's death is too ridiculous to take it seriously and that his Musicarts make me unable to care whatever they're doing to make the protagonists from completing their destiny? Lame pun intended.
Oh! I almost forgot to mention that a beautifully drawn Musicart, whose voice actress is listed as part of the major supporting cast, is unceremoniously used as an obvious plot device. And that which lead her to become a "throwaway waifu" character for she only appears in 2 EPISODES. The obvious sign is that she was behaving inconsistent in these two episodes.
TL; DR Takt Op Destiny is definitely a trainwreck that I would only rewatch until I turn into an old grandma in fifty years time. But if you are in need of a great fighting stuff and couldn't care less about the storytelling getting derailed after each passing episode and could tolerate some animation inconsistent quality as long as the classical music soundtrack sounds magnificent for your earworm, then Takt Op Destiny has fulfilled the qualifications I've just mentioned.
