Well it ends in a hot mess. I liked most of Wonder Egg Priority, I thought the concept was really creative, with the Wonder Eggs taking characters to a dream-like world where they help a random girl resolve some sort of trauma they had before their deaths. Well "resolve" as in "beat-up-bad-guy-le-epicly-anime-style" but I think it works as a contrast to their pretty regular lives otherwise. The fights are also pretty colorful; this is a colorful anime in general I like the contrast between Ai's yellow hoodie and her blue hair it makes my eyes sing. The symbolism/metaphors in the egg world aren't anything too deep or complex but if you aren't a real stickler about that stuff it's fine. Could be better but fine.
The characters are the real strength of this show I'd say, all four of the girls Ai, Rika, Moemoe, and Nieru (who reminds me of a Younger more anime Katara) are all pretty interesting, and all have their own unique struggles and trauma that brings them together. It sets up a nice dynamic between how their business in the egg world relates to their personal lives. I cautiously say that each character is complex, within reason of a 12 episode anime of course - you aren't going to get any Breaking Bad level characters here (I've never seen Breaking Bad.) Rika is the only one with a real completed "arc" here I'd say and even though her character is a bit obvious I still would say it handled her well enough.
The ending is where Wonder Egg Priority dropped from a "man this is kinda cool" to a "bruh 3/10". The anime affords having interesting characters by building them up pretty slowly, which left me with a very familiar feeling at episode 9 where you wonder how they are going to wrap this up in the span of 3 episodes, which is absolutely solidified in episode 10 as the anime begins introducing more and more crazy stuff as if the main plot was just beginning and everything you've seen so far is just a buildup for season 2- but jokes on you mah boy there is no season 2! Episode 11-12 continues on that trend of raising the stakes and introducing plot elements despite the show concluding (especially episode 11). By the end Ai has been very clearly rushed in her character arc and nothing is really concluded yet. Disappointing for sure but whatever 5/10 right?
But then you find out there's another episode, a "special" which is essentially a 40 minute attempt to conclude the entire show, and it's the disaster you'd expect. Without diving into details it'd be like if when Akira Toriyama was writing Dragonball Z he finished in the midst of the Frieza arc and released one more episode where he rushes to tell all of the Cell and Buu saga in 40 minutes, with the first 20 minutes being a recap of what you've already seen of course. I've read online that this was the result of a disaster behind the scenes, with remote Covid production and general overwork and all that which I definitely believe. There's no way the original creators meant for it to go down like this, unless they were literally making it up as they went along. I wish we above all else got to see a proper resolution with Ai's arc, her situation was particularly concerning but it never really gets explained in the detail it should.
Wonder Egg Priority ends up feeling like wasted potential for a world with alot of mystery and intrigue. I would've preferred that the show was just was left unfinished, because it'd at least leave the rest to the viewers imagination, but with the rushed ending it sets everything in stone. Now watching you can clearly see the cracks where it's like "huh they didn't explain that" or "that doesn't really make sense". 3/10 may be a little bit dramatic because the first like 9 episodes are still pretty enjoyable if you take them for what they are, but ya boy is very disappointed that an anime with such a cool title was wasted.
THEME SONG REVIEW: 4/10 on the theme song I wasn't too crazy about it. I think it's kinda boring honestly. Very default anime theme song singing that starts and ends pretty lowkey with a mild orchestral buildup in the middle. Or at least I think it's orchestral. Keep in mind I don't know what I'm talking about. The visuals are nice. I like the part where they splice in the real life photos with the anime.
