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This Review has SPOILERS but they are spoilers that talk about the show's theme in general which is set in the later episodes. The spoiler sections have "SPOILER" heading on them so you can skip that section if needed.

This show was truly good, but its not a show for everyone. Definitely if you have a history of depression or anxiety, or suicidal thoughts, never, I DO MEAN NEVER watch this show. This should not even be touched in that case. This type of show should have serious warnings publicly written for this.

Aside from that, this show had an extremely extremely amazing plot, at least in ... the start. Episode 1 and 2 made me think that I had probably found a 10/10 gem and by episode 7, it was still a solid 9, but then it does go downhill. It establishes a really nice mystery with it, and its almost to the point of perfect, but then it doesn't really develop on it and shifts to something else.

I did not really dislike the new plot, it was kind of a "oh, I wasn't expecting this. It is good, but its not as amazing as I thought this mystery would be". The show explains nothing and whatever basic characterization or things are given to you, show bases everything else off that.

Inconclusive endings are not something I appreciate, but there are some shows where I can understand having an inconclusive ending.

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The inconclusive ending really portrays the theme of the show nicely. What is good ? What is evil ? nobody can define them, all of them are attached to many other things, morals, responsibilities, your life experiences, its different for everyone. And with that inconclusive ending, who won ? Seizaki ? Ai Magase ? I can't say for certain. The show definitely has a protagonist and antagonist so there definitely are good and evil characters but the show doesn't really end with only one of them winning. The post credits may say that one side won, but what the other side did also stopped a much bigger collapse from happening. The story never finished though, and we will most likely never get a conclusion about the actual law. But considering the theme of the show, I can really understand having an inconclusive ending due to the inherent nature of good and evil.

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Its still a good show, but give a really deep thought about watching it, because its one of those that can genuinely affect your mind.
MAL doesn't have a system of decimal score, but this show will be 7.5 for me. It was great on the initial story, but did go down compared to what I was expecting it to be.

EDIT: After careful thought, I have come to realization that I really enjoyed this show much more than what I originally rated it at. I would give this a solid 9, but I will agree that the last arc was not that great. Still I believe it wasn't that bad, it was just, I had hoped for better. But it was a good arc for me. So instead of 7.5, I am giving it an 8.5
Also not to mention, how amazing Ai Magase's voice actor was. The voice acting was genuinely 11/10 for me.

Amount of negative reviews on this is way damn high. Well, not complaining, everyone has their own preferences.

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---ABOUT ME ----

I am a guy who focus heavily on the story of an anime. If an anime has 100% of everything, 90% of all is story for me, 8% is soundtrack and rest 2% counts for everything. and i can say if you are a guy like me, emotional and not a heavy anime watcher, you will definitely like it a hell lot. I do not watch all those big anime which everyone is a fan of. Yes i am referring to one piece, naruto, dbz ... etc etc. I like different types of anime.

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Charlotte has a pretty slow start according to me, even after being a 13 episode long anime. I was just dragging myself till 5 episodes. Things picked up after it reached the mid of its episode count and after that it just kept on getting better and better.
Charlotte is an anime for story related watchers. This could be my opinion but everyone i have met likes all those fighting animes like dragon ballz, naruto etc etc. Charlotte is not like that. Heavy focus on story and love.

I actually wanted to give this a 10 but there were a few things which werent heavily focussed on which i actually wanted. Some of the things were left unexplained and you just had to suck it in and continue.



Story : Pretty awesome. Only if a few things were explained, i would have given it a 10.

Art : Fair art, similar to almost all average budget animes, nothing special on that.

Soundtracks : Average, nothing much notable except one or two.

Charecter : Great, liked everyone with their roles.

Enjoyment : Enjoyed like hell. Couldnt have been better.

Overall : 9/10. A must recommended anime.