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Sep 1, 2024
Preliminary (11/26 eps)
During the first few episodes, I gave it the benefit of the doubt, they were introductory so I was somewhat interested in what goes on, who the characters are, their motivations, what the world is like. But around episode 5-6, I really lost interest and motivation to keep going. Somehow I was able to watch the first 11 episodes and at this point I felt like I was forcing myself to continue and decided to drop it, because it's clearly a waste of time.

I want to make it clear that I'm not looking for constant adrenaline-pumping action, but AT LEAST SOMETHING must happen, but in the few occasions it does, it just feels completely forced. For example, I couldn't help but draw some parallels between this and Naruto with a two siblings here having a relationship almost identical to that of Sasuke and Itachi, even its resolution was almost the same. There were other characters that felt like were inspired straight out of Naruto and I don't consider this to be a bad thing, except in the case of Nabari no Ou, it just felt so poorly executed in the sense that it was almost the same and where it tried to be different, it felt forced, fake and poorly though out.

The protagonist and another character are made to look super indifferent, almost like they were copying the behavior of Sasuke and Shikamaru, but in a way where they act emotionally aloof in a way that draws even more attention on them and has other characters doting on them all the time. I can't really explain their behavior very well, but it's like "I don't care about anything, because that's super cool", but beyond that, the characters feel plastic, fake, lacking any emotions to the point where they feel like some kind of psychopaths or sociopaths who are way too mentally troubled to be left alone in society and need to be in some institution locked up instead. It's scary how emotionless the characters are and it's not just the impression they give, they back it up with their actions.

Which is where it feels forced - the main character's "goal in life" is to be as indifferent as possible about everything, it's as if a 15 year old cringy edgelord came up with this manga and it somehow made it big enough to be made into an anime. Then a few episodes in, the main character suddenly decides he wants to do something, but continues to act indifferent, nothing really happens, when it does, it feels forced, because the events that take place just feel so distant, displayed through a prism of sorts where everything is distorted and barely possible to identify with as a viewer.

Even when characters talk and discuss problems, events, motivations and what they are going to do, it feels so prolonged and boring, like a soap opera with 1000+ episodes where it's their goal to make it as prolonged and as slow as possible.

Overall, I think this story is not entirely horrible, but it's very, VERY poorly executed and if this was an OVA series with 5-7 episodes, it would have been better, because as it is right now, it's just too long with almost nothing happening in between episodes. At one point I started asking myself "is this made for girls who like people talking about their feelings?", but when I looked closer, they don't even talk about their feelings, they just yap away in the most dull way possible about the most dull things. I don't even know what the main theme of this anime is supposed to be. Drama? Depression? Teenage angst? Emo phase?

Simply put, this anime feels like nothing, the only bad things come from how long it feels and how nothing really happens. I have no idea how this is rated so high. There is one review where it says it made the reviewer cry... twice. I don't understand how can this be. I also get pretty emotional about things here and there, but this anime is so devoid of any emotion that it really feels like it was (along with the manga) made by children or teenagers who don't yet have the skills to convey a story in an intriguing way.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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