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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Feb 17, 2025

Riverscuomo

Mixed Feelings

I still mourn Wonder Egg Priority.

It's my opinion that even if a project fails on the whole, there can be elements of it deserving of praise, and WEP is chock full of wonderful, worthy things. Every little thing about it from a design standpoint is excellent. And I maintain that the first episode of WEP is the best first episode of any anime (outside of, maybe, Cowboy Bebop), a perfect pitch for a perfect show that never came to be.

It crashed and burned so bad. An absolute trainwreck. Trainwreck is a really apt metaphor, now that I think about it, because you really ... get the sense by the middle of the series that the tracks are being laid just inches ahead of the train, barely keeping pace as it careens in random directions, desperate to avoid a crash.

Here's the gist: about halfway through the series, it becomes apparent that no one knew where the story was going when production began, including, apparently, the lead writer. Character arcs fall apart, promising plot threads are abandoned, and to compensate, entirely new characters and ideas are introduced very late in the game to try and tie up what is left of a broken story. It's upsetting and silly.

My sincere, no bullshit advice for anyone interested in Wonder Egg Priority would be this: watch the first 5 or 6 episodes and stop. Imagine the rest from there. Whatever you are imagining is better than what follows.

Wonder Egg Priority was an anime made by people with incredible taste, incredible talent, and absolutely no foresight. It's your coolest but least responsible friend taking you for a daytrip that starts well but ends in a lockup.

With allllll of that said, I still hold out hope that others in the industry will mine Wonder Egg Priority for its best ideas and most audacious choices. Buried inside this mess are genuine treasures, things worth emulating. So much of it is gorgeous, and it would be a real shame if all the good bits got tossed out with the bad.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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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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