Robotics;Notes. When one sees the ";" in the name, their mind jumps straight to Steins;Gate and their hopes for it skyrocket, without any regard to the fact that the same company made Chaos;Head. Playing off this weakness, it seems Nitroplus tried to make Robotics;Notes into another Steins;Gate. Just one problem:
Robotics;Notes is not Steins;Gate.
The story is slow to start and would immediately turn off anyone who isn't familiar with Nitroplus' works. Even when the story starts to pick up, it is incredibly slow. Nitroplus continuously tried to liven things up with countless cliffhangers at the end of episodes, but were only successful in doing so when they decided to kill off one of the characters. This was successful until the end of the next episode when I stopped giving a shit since it was only a minor character. After that point it was just more boring plot development.
Characters are introduced and developed almost a slowly as the story and in some cases were even less memorable. While I thought the characters were slightly better than the story, it wouldn't take much to beat this story. I found myself able to connect with characters every so often, but there was only one character that I could say I really liked (try to guess who).
The soundtrack, well, sound in general was probably the best part of the series. Music matched the moments though I didn't care for the OP's nor the ED's. Art wasn't all that great, but since that's never been much of a concern to me and I'm no art critic so I'm just gonna bypass that and finish this review up.
In the end, I felt like only a few people in the anime were really taking the events of the end serious, thus causing me to feel the same. In fact, I could almost imagine one of the background characters saying "Oh no, the lives of 5 million people are at stake, hey wanna get some ice cream?" All in all a crappy, anticlimactic end to a subpar anime that even pales in comparison to Chaos;Head.
