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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Feb 22, 2024

degenburneracct

Recommended

I will never make anything as effortlessly surreal as Wonder Egg Priority. The script crams so many bizarre and captivating things in at every moment that it's a miracle it makes sense at all. But it not only is it coherent, it flows with a weird intuitive logic. It makes a ton of sense, believe it or not. I feel a lot of people see surrealism and feel like someone is trying to outsmart them. They see surrealism as a challenge, the creators telling the audience "this is deep, and if you disagree you are a stupid person". I don't think adding unreal elements to ... your story makes it deep, and I absolutely don't think it needs to be justified. Girls who killed themselves hatch from eggs bought with pocket change. Thats stupid? Okay mr writer in his big boy writer pants, where should the suicided dream girls come from? It's a cool premise, the steps to get there are flavor. What matters isn't the consistency of the dream logic, it's the consistency of the characters, it's the emotional truths running through the story.

You'd be forgiven for not realizing that the topics covered are even controversial, if you were like a space alien who didn't know anything about human culture. We never indulge in horror, save for a couple ill-conceived moments towards the end. It's the earnestness of wonder egg that allows it a lot more room to explore risky territory than it would otherwise. It nails the tightrope walk between flippant and exploitative, even as it just runs the gambit from self-harm to suicide to depression to gender dysphoria to body dysmorphia to etc to etc. And it does it all with a sort of looseness/honesty because why wouldn't it, what girl hasn't had to fight one or two or all of the above to stay alive?

We focus on the after, not the during (Rika's scars are barely mentioned; Koito has already died before the pilot; despite most characters committing suicide the act is rarely shown). I think the lack of weight given to any particular one trauma rings truer than any Very Special Episode could. It's not about lessons, it's about connecting. These aren't events or obstacles, they're just things that every character lives with (even the dead ones)

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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