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Honestly, this anime was a huge disappointment.

What really irked me here was the execution of the story. It felt awful, especially when compared with the LN. The anime glosses over details and worldbuilding in its attempt to fit as much mecha action in as possible, and, of all things, uses a narrator - a disembodied voice - to give whatever small bits of exposition they might have considered important. In this kind of anime.
As for the rest, they seem to be relatively good in comparison. The art isn't anything special, but it works well enough and delivers on the premise. Sound is okay, even if ... ....... Characters aren't that well explained, either, due to the continued skipping of actual worldbuilding in favor of more battle scenes...
In all, it's a fun series, like the LN, but this anime adaptation skips so much content it's pretty much impossible to really get into it.

Sakurada Reset feels like one of the most underappreciated anime I've seen. This anime delivers a deep, nuanced plot that takes time to fully grasp and comprehend, but which makes it much easier to appreciate the nuances it includes. It appears incredibly elitist to claim that this anime is only really for those "with brainpower", as many others have said before me, but Sakurada Reset truly is a more thought-provoking anime than most.

The story is, for the most part, well presented, almost like a mystery as various elements are gradually presented, each with their own importance. Many details that may seem trivial or irrelevant often ... are revealed to have a deeper significance: the show does an amazing job at subtle foreshadowing, sometimes far in advance of when it is eventually used.

On the other hand, the art could need some improvement. There is little animation within scenes, resulting in a decent amount of time passing without any significant change, and characters may somewhat awkwardly hold their poses for unreasonable lengths of time. Even so, the drawing is clean, and nicely captures the environment of Sakurada.

With regards to sound, Sakurada Reset does a great job on its soundtrack. It manages to perfectly capture the ambience of each moment, which amplified the enjoyment I was able to get out of it. The OPs and EDs also include some pretty good music, which are composed in a way that doubles down on the themes seen in the anime.

A criticism I've seen a decent number of times is that the characters are like "robots", without emotions. This claim has its merits, but it doesn't tell the whole story. There are people, in real life, who do tend to approach things calmly and rationally; these characters can simply be seen to be the same, and can keep their cool, unlike the characters of many other anime, even under pressure.


In the end, for me Sakurada Reset was a quite enjoyable anime, as the depth of the story and its excellent presentation more than made up for the flaws in art and character expression. I hope you, as a watcher, will be able to look past some of the surface flaws to discover the rich world within.