May 10, 2017
Here's a quick summary: The first 2 episodes suck ass, judge it after watching episodes 3 and 4. Episode 4 is where it starts to get real, the characters seem lifeless but they will get better.
Story: (9/10) (it only says 10/10 because that 6.66 is bs)
Sakurada is a town that is disconnected from the rest of the world where everyone living their openly show their powers yet no one outside knows about this.
It starts of with Haruki a girl who can turn back time for 3 days but is useless since her memories revert back as well, Kei
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the guy who has picture perfect memory and is able to affect Haruki's reset. If it seems interesting now stick to that feeling cause you're in for a really shitty first few episodes.
While it is a super power anime it more so focuses on out smarting you opponent rather than blasting him to pieces and the way their powers interact with one another and how they use it to their advantage is something to note.
The story telling while it may seem very poor at first it gradually improves over time and at a certain point everything that takes place will make sense, especially everything that Souma has been referencing up to this point.
The main reason why everyone has been dropping this anime is because of the atrocious first few episodes. Feeling rushed and unpolished, leaving no room for logical thinking cause they literally straight up tell you what their powers are and what the specifics are instead of determining that for yourself and also these random ass quotes (that will make sense in the future) that try too make it sound cool.
I as well felt that the story telling was trash almost even dropping it. But it makes up for the next few episodes where they tie things up.
Character: (8/10)
The characters seem lifeless with no emotions, speaking in monotones and a boring personality it's very obvious.
But their character do develop, it might not be a very drastic (like Midoriya from BNHA) but you know they are improving you just have to look closer, in how they speak in how they interact with one another and their gestures.
They may not break down crying when their sad or clench their teeth and grip their fist when their furious but you can still feel them.
Like Haruki's motionlessness and slight pulsing of the eyes when she felt extreme sadness or Kei's, when he's sad is a bit more submissive and speaks his mind less and is lost in thought. These slight nuances make their character.
Their development while kind of obvious some people miss, like when Haruki's is in complete distrust with Kei due to the fact that he can use her ability to his advantage and eventually instead of not trusting she doesn't follow anyone but him. There's a lot more to talk about, but then I'd be spoiling it.
Art & Sound:
The art is beautiful and the VA's and SFX do a great job. Even while speaking in monotones they never seem "unlike" the character and the slight nuances to the way they speak also shapes the characters really well.
You can really tell they spent a great deal of time in this, especially to the animation (even more specifically to that wave scene, must've taken half their budget for that)
Conclusion
While it may seem like shit at first they really fix things up in the later episodes. This is also quickly becoming one of my favorite Mystery anime of all time (maybe even better than Another, Shiki, Hyouka).
What you have to do is stick to that synopsis and how good it sounds, but most important of all is keep an open mind because even a piece of gold is shit if you keep perceiving it like shit.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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