Not gonna lie, I had some realllllly high hopes for this show. The first 3-4 episodes do a pretty great job setting up an interesting mystery and building intrigue around this charming but unreliable main character. And even after those eps, it brought up some real neat ideas! How are young people reacting to a society that ignores and belittes them? What are they capable of? How many (legal and nonlegal) ways are there to “save the world”?
But after all that set up, all you end up with is characters you don’t care about, an unfulfilling endpoint to the mystery, a suspense plot with no exciting climax, and a romance thats dead on arrival. It’s textbook definition of disappointing.
I feel like my biggest gripe has to do with the main characters. Esp for our main heroine. I never once felt anything toward Saki because she lacks any agency in the story or the plot. Like I thought a certain theme was developing with her that would make up for her nonaction in the story, but nope! She’s just there to be Akira’s love interest. Which isn't bad per se, but the romance felt so inorganic and flat and just plain weird at points. Like she finds a naked man with no memories, a gun, and a phone that gives him whatever he wants, and only in the later eps (past ep 5) does she start getting suspicious or ask any real questions about who he is! Cmon!.
She doesn’t even seem to care much when her friends are in danger, it just all Akira all the time!
Speaking of, Akira is ok. He’s charming, but I felt like his logic and intelligence was being hindered for the sake of the “mystery” I guess?? He asks alot of questions, but he keeps making the same mistakes and the way he keeps getting tripped by by the other villians and the way these obvious clues kept going over his head made him seem way dumber than the mysterious “mastermind” the story wants him to be. Also the secret behind the reason he lost his memories and his big plan were pretty anticlimactic and nonsensical.
Music is great, random movies references were fun, character design is lovely, and so is the animation, but god everything else is just meh.
Was really looking forward to this one :(. Terror in Resonance was a better time honestly and I still gave that show a 7.
