Wonder Egg Priority

Following the suicide of her best and only friend, Koito Nagase, Ai Ooto is left grappling with her new reality. With nothing left to live for, she follows the instructions of a mysterious entity and gets roped into purchasing an egg, or specifically, a Wonder Egg.

Upon breaking the egg in a world that materializes during her sleep, Ai is tasked with saving people from the adversities that come their way. In doing so, she believes that she has moved one step closer to saving her best friend. With this dangerous yet tempting opportunity in the palms of her hands, Ai enters a place where she must recognize the relationship between other people's demons and her own.

As past trauma, unforgettable regrets, and innate fears hatch in the bizarre world of Wonder Egg Priority, a young girl discovers the different inner struggles tormenting humankind and rescues them from their worst fears.

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Ooto, Ai Main

Aikawa, Kanata Japanese

Kawai, Rika Main

Saitou, Shuka Japanese

Sawaki, Momoe Main

Yano, Hinaki Japanese

Aonuma, Neiru Main

Kusunoki, Tomori Japanese

Kurita, Kaoru Supporting

Misawa, Sachika Japanese

Frill Supporting

Yamaguchi, Megumi Japanese

Awano, Kotobuki Supporting

Miyamoto, Yume Japanese

Ura-Acca Supporting

Takahashi, Hiroki Japanese

Nagase, Koito Supporting

Tadokoro, Azusa Japanese

Acca Supporting

Uchida, Yuuya Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Umehara, Shouta Producer

Herek, Samantha Assistant Producer

Wakabayashi, Shin Director

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Jan 27, 2025

Naneo

Recommended

This anime tell a story about young girl dealing with depression and trauma. Not very literally, but in some way so that it can still be fun to watch. Going into another world, fight monster, catchy fight scene, something like that to keep the average viewer engaged. The subtlety message lay in the form of scene like that. As a person that enjoy analyzing media, I really like the approach they make because it appeals to both parties, the average anime viewer and the target audience for this kind of genre.

The magical girl or supernatural genre is among one of my favorite. Its not straight ... up fantasy, they still take place in our real world, but with a twist that is magic. Makes us wonder if that kind of power do exist. The protagonist in this anime consist of four normal girls at surface, but who know that they're actually a badass in another world slaying monster. I love every protagonist, even though they can be explained in one sentence cus they feel one dimension, I still love them. In fact because of it, their lore is not very complicated so I can digest it. My favorites are Rika and Momoe. They both are the only characters that I can relate to, and you know how much you love a character when you both literally have the same life.

The writer meticulously blend in the trauma/depression narrative and the main plot. Each epiosde have a recurring theme where the characters grow into a better, more understanding person after they beat the "trauma". Quote on quote because they beat it literally and figuratively, the monsterfication of it. Exploring the psychology of the youngster which I'm interested on. We all are young before, but sadly we are still struggling to understand them. And this anime is the perfect representation of that.

But if I'm being honest here, I'm gonna say episode 11 and 12 of the anime doesn't exist. This anime have a very very good story, until the last episode where everything just abruptly put together. It's all a mess and I don't know why. They are cooking with the first 10 episode, so why not the last 2 too you know. I really like the vibe they give off on the early days where everything is a mystery to us. I bet we all have so many questions upon watching the first episode. And honestly, its better if it were left without explanation rather than the mess they created at the end there. That is my only complain.

Now we're gonna see this anine from the perspective of an artist, not a writer. Very very beautiful art style I should say. Though some people may think the vibrant bright color doesn't match with the show dark tone, well they're not outright wrong. But for me, I really love the contrast between the story and the animation. I already watch some clips of this anime and thinking to myself it can't be that dark right? Given the vibrant design of every protagonist, and I was wrong. Sometimes this anime throws you off too. They have slice of life scene with just the girls doing cute things. And then before you know it they are drenched in blood. Like I said above, I really love the contrast.

I already know 3 out of 4 seiyuu that voicing the protagonists thanks to Love Live. That anime is one of the reason this has been on my plan to watch list since 2022. Another reason is because a YouTube essay video explaining the psychology behind the show. Back to the audio talking, the OP and ED is sung by the seiyuu themselves. Not really surprising considering their previous roles. But yeah I adore it so much when an anime do that, that is also why I never skip it.

Overall I enjoy the series, even with the dissappointment toward the ending, but as a whole this anime is a great watch. I even manage to convince my friend to watch it together with me, and they didn't get bored thanks to the action scene. Will definitely looking forward to watch the OVA, though I don't put much of an expectation. I guess that is all I wanna talk about this anime. Thank you for reading my review.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Oct 30, 2024

fh1478

Mixed Feelings

wonder egg that needed more time

I had a good time with the anime. It was one of the most fast-paced show I had watched and didn't hold your hand. I certainly got good animation, Love the character design, the friendship dynamic, the themes of it all if just had Struck the landing.

The story about finding girls that committed suicide and fighting against their personal demons is just amazing, how it tangled so many different problems that women had is just so well done. I really think it's one of the best shows when it's doing that

And the friendship the girls get ... where they speak so honestly to each other, feel so refreshing. how the personalities are set up to each other so they get many good conversations.

It's just a lot of fun, It has many moments I really enjoyed and it's just so well done.

But the problem with the show is it feels like it doesn't have time to breathe. There's to few episodes to the story that is being told and the last two episodes are just so rushed, it feels like it's crashing and burning before your eyes.

I don't have anything against what the story ended with, the way it was handful just feels like a crash.

Would still recommend the quality of what it's doing, It's still amazing. It's just has a bad taste in the mouth afterwards.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Sep 9, 2024

Giratinaswrath

Not Recommended

Pretty bad. I went in hoping for a show that would tug on the heartstrings and left irritated.

The series introduces a lot of themes that have the POTENTIAL to be deep, but it only ever skims the surface and acts profound. That or it handles the topic very very poorly. There were a lot of scenes that had me scratching my head thinking, "Is that really what you wanted to tell the audience???" This would be forgivable save for the fact that the subject matter is SUICIDE and very often SEXUAL ASSAULT. In fact, the series brings up and deals with sexual assault flippantly, never ... ever delving into it. The whole thing ends up coming off as pretentious, especially with the next problem.

This series likes to drop random plot points and heavily obscured symbolism in the hopes of being deep and shocking. Many of the story beats have zero foreshadowing, are completely misaligned with the running themes, are unreasonably unlikely/illogical to the point of humor, or are never elaborated on. This theorycraft bait for anime Matpats ends up destroying the plot and making the characters come off as unrealistic and unbelievable. The problem is it isn't being done alongside the plot, but rather INSTEAD of the plot. Essentially the author tells you, "Isn't this so bewildering and mysterious? No I'm not telling you anything about it, watch a youtube essay or something." Ham-fisted.

Also I don't really need to say this, but AN ANIME 13 EPISODES LONG DOES NOT NEED 2 RECAP EPISODES.

In case you were wondering: NO the special episode (HALF OF WHICH IS ANOTHER RECAP) does NOT make things better. It makes them WORSE.

Please spare yourself the waste of time and skip this one. 3/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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