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The opening song and gore was next level, the animations was pretty clean for something that came out in 2011, i cant believe they decided to go with heavy CGI in the sequel movie and messed it up.

What stood out to me were the monsters (elder bairns) , They were honestly my favorite thing in the anime, like i was just on the edge of my seat waiting to see what monstrosity would appear next to slaughter humans and fight the mc, kinda like Neon Genesis Evangelion when almost each episode a new angel form would appear . I personally really liked the Spider ... and Skeleton monsters , the train monster was a bit creepy but i felt more could have been done with it.

Personally , i really disliked Sayu here (which is the complete opposite feeling and opinion of her in the sequel finale movie) , like i understood they messed with her mind and memories but she can be so useless sometimes. She would straight up watch the monsters slaughter her friends or some random people who she swore to protect then take forever to draw her sword and protect them or defeat the monsters and save them. A good example is the spider monster, she literally watched 3 of her class mates get killed and 2 eaten before deciding to fight it so they can escape and half way she enters a mad episode and starts screaming like a psycho and the crab went on to kill the rest of them. The fight with Nono and the shadow is also another example, she literally watched the shadow monster goble up an entire street filled with people and did nothing .

I also thought the plot twist with all her friends faking the entire thing and their deaths to be extremely dumb, like we literally saw these people getting torn into pieces, halves, eaten in one frame and then at the last episode its revealed they had a charm that protected them and they faked their deaths using replicas of themselves to mess with Sayu for the sake of Fumito's plan.

Its hard to recommend this anime to someone, if u turn off your brain and just watch, you'll be confused af in the end, its unavoidable and if u recommend it to someone who's going to watch it for sake of the plot , writing or seriously etc, they'll just think its dumb.

As a longtime fan of the terminator series I would say this anime is the best thing to happen to the franchise after Terminator judgement day. Not exaggerating.


The plot and story is very good. Most of the main characters and the terminator are likeable . They almost never make any dumb decisions. The music is the perfect blend of something new and a bit of judegment day's theme. The gore is alright but ive seen better, There's a handful of nostalgic callback scenes from the original first 2 movies . the terminator felt almost like arnold's terminator from the first movie, like an ... unstoppable killing machine that almost no one can help u escape , hes also very mysterious, reminds me of a homeless toji zenin . I love that this anime cleared up a lot about the effects of time traveling and changing the past and how it effects the future with the war and skynet . Although its only 8 episodes i appreciate that there's almost never a dull moment . Seeing a T-800 dual wielding M82 50.cal sniper rifles is prob the most badass thing ive seen in anything terminator related, like it honestly tops Arnold's shotgun on a motorcycle flip reload and minigun scene.

I have a few complains
The CGI for the terminator's skeleton and the AIs holograms were a complete eye soar, they stood out pretty badly since everything else looks really good but ive seen way worse cgi to be fair .
I hated the plot armor on a certain character is absolutely annoying, like she straights up fist fights and shoves T-800s around as if they dont weight a couple hundred kilos more than an adult human and as if they're not made of titanium .
The kids were very annoying , they were straight up war of the world kids level of annoying .
It felt as if the creator was a hardcore fanboy of spy family and just wanted a Yor forger in the series in the form of Misaki with how she fights and same voice actor.

BIG MAIN CHARACTER IMPROVEMENT .
Sayu in the original anime series was one of the worst main characters ive seen , like almost as bad as Yuki from Mirai Nikki, she would watch her friends or multiple people she swore to protect die to the monsters and take forever to draw her sword and do something about it, she would also never use her OP red eye powers until she gets beaten down and just one shots the enemy. Like if she was smart she would use that power from the beginning and minimize casualties and saved so many. In the sequel movie, The Last ... Dark, shes an absolute beast, shes literally the polar opposite of her former self, she would use her red eye powers to basically 1 shot assassinate her foes before they have a chance to fight back and if she did get into a full on fight, she would look for an opening and strategically use her red eye powers to deliver the killing blow.

For me the biggest let down was the change in art style, the original 2011 anime series animation and artstyle was straight up eye candy for its time and still holds up very well to this day, they should have kept it instead of going the heavy CG route .

I would say its definitely worth watching , even if u didnt like the Blood-C series, its a big improvement but there's a lot of CG to digest.