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Probably spoilers ahead. It's 6 minutes so just watch it before bothering with reviews.

It's weird, possibly I missed something vital for me to come to the same conclusions as I have seen on both the positive and negative reviews so far. I've watched it twice now because it was sitting there unwatched for so long and I just decided to give it a whirl. I still don't know what to make of it. I'll come back to this, the "story" after I give some of my thoughts on the different aspects of the short little anime called Shelter.

The art is ... a cool mix between CGI and classic animation, to my unprofessional eye, and it works well together while still being nice to look at For me, it felt like the obvious contrast in the art style and direction and the story are well played, albeit cliche, as a sad monolog is paired with bright cheery character designs and sets. Let's just say it's good.

The sound feel flat for me because I just didn't feel it really added anything other than a nice BGM. The music, from what I understood or actually paid attention too as I was trying to figure out what was going on.

Call me crazy but I don't find this uplifting in the slightest. Nor do I feel like I was being taken to the pity party of tropes to tug at my heart strings. I saw a duo of delusional. Because I feel I should not try to go deeply into a 6 minute short, I'll keep it short. To me, I walked away with the feeling that this was a display of human arrogance and selfishness. I'm no nihilist mind you but placating yourself on "Sheltering" a child doomed to live in a purgatory of sorts to.... what? All in all, I enjoyed it. Mostly because I'm probably in the minority that perceived this not as a feel good story or cheap pathos but a small mental puzzle that everyone will solve in a different way. That is if they care about it enough to do so.

Anyways thanks for reading. Feel free to ask any questions you might have of this slightly vague review or because this is the internet, flame the hell out of me and tell me how I've missed the point. I like having my opinions challenged. :)

Heads up, this is not a faithful adaption to the manga. I'm not saying it's going to suck but I was really looking forward to a anime adaption of the manga. I was disappointed but you might not be.

PS. I wish they used another voice actor for young Jin, it's just the voice is so unique that I can't get into Zetman mood when I keep thinking of FMA or Deadman Wonderland.

This is not really a review but a personal opinion on the current direction of Yosuga no Sora.

Well, I have finished the fourth episode and was surprised at the "The End" screen and came to realize that this series will probably be much like Amagami SS and will give each heroine an ending/arc. When Amagami SS came out it was pretty clear on giving each girl a different ending resulting in short unrelated arcs and the synopsis reflects this by not inferring to an overarching storyline. The fact that Yosuga no Sora seems to be going for this setup is, in my opinion, ... a bad move because on the synopsis page it states, "All seems peaceful and familiar. However, beneath the surface is a secret promise that the twins made with each other long ago, the whereabouts of an important lost item, and the real reason they chose to come back here." pretty heavy right? This seems like a pretty cool 12 episode anime premise but by going the each heroine gets a separate arc way they will be forced to cram what I think could have been a cool series into an arc.

This could all be proven wrong with the coming episodes, this is just my opinion.

-aHuman