Jul 12, 2024
I personally loved it. I think it’s easy to say that the animation and sound design was top notch in every way. That's the easy part though. After the amazing episode 1, the following episodes were controversial among the community with a lot of people saying it fell off. I personally felt like it was definitely a change of pace, but for sure for the better. It would have been such a dry and terrible show if every episode was as intense as episode one. Instead, the show decided to take its time in building its characters with a pretty realistic plot. Aqua, Kana, and Akane were pretty big characters in this first season and definitely stole a lot of the spotlight, but that’s not to say that Ruby and the others didn’t have their screen time as well. The show was able to balance the complicated relationships and plots alongside each other in probably the most perfect way I could imagine. I don’t think I have any complaints for where they decided to take the show. There were still surprises and drama throughout while also just being something entertaining to watch and look forward to. Voice acting of course was incredible and each character definitely sounded their part. As a complete story, there’s obviously much more to be explored but I’m very very glad that nothing was rushed and that time was taken to make each scene hit how it should. If you look back, you can clearly remember the big parts that stood out: the EP 1 ending, akane falling into dispair, akane mimicking Ai, Kana overcoming herself in the last episode. And just those scenes having such impact makes me disagree with the fact that the show fell off or wasn’t as good as episode 1. Episode 1 was just a great start to a still great and persistent show. I gave it a 10/10 straight after finishing it but taking recency bias into account and the fact that s1 by itself isn’t complete it is more realistically like an 8 or 9.
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