May 18, 2021
*Updated Review*
Tokyo Gang Brawling, Violence, Time Travel, Relationships, and Male bonding, such powerful topics to include in anime; but it's all wasted by a brainless protagonist. The more episodes I watch the more flaws appear in this anime. Each of the characters surrounding the protagonist are more interesting, better drawn, change and teach us more about life and the world they live in, than the protagonist himself. Every episode we see the same confusion, tears, and screaming from the protagonist, and every time he time travels he becomes even more useless, when he should be learning and growing. How can he hope to change the
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past or the future, when he won't even change himself?
Fair story, good art, great sound, dreadful main character personality choice, leading to a mediocre anime overall.
*Previous review*:
It's been a while since I've seen potential in an anime's plot and characters. Time travel, the mix possibility of change, hope, and tragedy; from its characters art to the little sounds of crickets, punches, and voice actors, this anime has it all. I really want to enjoy this anime because it encompasses the male psyche in a world of crime, horror, violence, and primal drives. I feel that I get to experience a bit of what my husband talks about when he reminisces his time in high school fights. The only problem here is the protagonist, he has the brain of a potato. The protagonists mind jumps from confidence, remembrance, to weakness, and confusion; his choices are poor and rooted out of self defeating confusion, in nearly all the situations he's thrown in. While we watch him reflect on his life in both or rather all past, present, and future; he see's and knows his own flaws yet consistently is confused, and scared. Now I don't have a problem with characters or people who aren't smart, or live in waves of reasonable fear; what's holding the anime back, is that the growth that one is expected to see when you are given a second chance, is absent at the most crucial of times in this anime.
Resolve: the drive that propels humans onto changing fate through choices and will. When you care about someone, when you experience real grief; if I told you, you could change their fate, their death, prevent it, improve it, or even give them an hour of life more in happiness, you would do absolutely anything for them, or at the very least think about what you could do for them. We see more resolve from supporting characters than the main character.
Self Defeating Identity: the thing most people hold onto because trauma and expectations due to ones past. The main character has this Identity, unfortunately one of self pity and belief of incompetence. I hope the writers/director has some sort of change in store for the main character; because what's even sadder than a self defeating main character is the wasted potential of the anime.
This anime doesn't have to be a masterpiece, I just wish to see some sort of life lesson spawn out of character growth; in terms of quality of art and music this anime is great.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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