Sep 27, 2017
This is my first time ever reviewing anything so excuse my writing, I just felt the urge to share my feelings of disappointment towards this anime.
I really liked the premise when it premiered, I thought the characters were interesting at first, the animation was decent, it immediately became my favorite among the shows of this season, I was really hyped about it, but with time the hype faded away and I became less interested every new episode.
My biggest problem with it is it's tone, it tried to be dark and edgy but it didn't fit the high school setting at all and it really bugged
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me, it was so over dramatic about ridiculous scenarios that could be considered a small problem in real life but in the series they treated it like some sort of tragedy or a life or death situation, if these scenarios were in JoJo's I would be laughing my ass off, but instead they took them seriously in this, which in return I couldn't.
"Someone got in a fight and now the case is taken to the court, if we don't do something he might get a death sentence". That's an exaggeration but that's how the tone set it out to be, it's like whoever made this forgot that it's set in a high school and the characters were only 16 year old students.
And what's up these episode titles, can it get any more pretentious than that? Inserting famous quotes doesn't make the show clever, just stuck-up
Also another problem is the characters, they suck, the MC speak in a robotic tone all the time and show no emotion whatsoever, I guess that's what he's supposed to be because I guess he used to be a lab rat or something but they didn't explore that side of him much so it's still hard to understand him or his motivation.
The main girls are also bad, one is supposed to be tsundere, which I don't mind if it was done right, but in this case, it wasn't, the other is a bubbly cheerful girl but it turns out that it's all an act and she's actually a bitch, but that was just for one episode, it was suddenly thrown in there just for the sake being shocking and edgy, only the characters in the background acted like students but they were out of the main focus of the story
Overall it was a very (meh) anime, it did nothing new and the premise of mysteries in high school is just a rip-off of much better anime like SNAFU and Hyouka, the characters traits are also a rip-off of the mentioned shows, it did keep me coming back until the end though without seeming like a chore to finish which means it may have done something right I'll give it props for that, but in the end it wasn't worth it. If it was more lighthearted maybe I would have liked it, but I guess I'll just stick with Hyouka and SNAFU
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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