Jun 11, 2024
What started off as a story with an interesting premise, quickly fell like a shooting star, becoming snuffed out with nothing left to offer.
That is how Unnamed Memory can be summed up.
The story begins with a prince afflicted with a curse that kills any woman he'd marry, on a journey to find a powerful witch that could hold the power to break his devastating curse. Upon finding the witch and gazing upon her beauty, the prince decides that he should take the witch as his bride. Surely such a powerful woman would have no trouble being with him albeit his curse.
Not a bad premise,
...
if you ask me.
Unfortunately, that's where the story loses its spark. The rest of the anime is just a downward spiral of vagueness and lack of depth.
The story completely lacks any world building, even this far into the anime, I know barely anything about the setting. Of course, there are many anime that don't give you much information about the setting but are still good, right? Well yes, but those anime have something else this anime completely lacks, character development.
What few backstories this anime has are extremely vague and add very little if anything to the plot. We learn nothing about the main characters family, friends, childhood, even about his curse. We are just stuck watching this surface-level characters in a world with absolutely no depth and no exploration of any plot points that pique your interest.
The anime goes like this:
- introduce main characters, proceeds to not explain anything about them
- main characters live together
- introduce random baddie, which gets defeated and is never brought up again
- random love quarrel, also never gets brought up again (but they say they aren't in love)
- introduce more random characters that get a full episode to themselves and are barely seen again
- more love quarreling (but they still say they aren't in love)
- another random baddie appears with no further explanation
- repeat
This anime plays out like one of those school romance anime where the two people in love don't realise that they love each other. They bicker and go through little problems until ultimately falling in love. You never really learn about anything about their families or the setting, it's just focused on their day-to-day interactions.
The problem with that is, it just doesn't mix with the ultimate story the anime is trying to convey. When you're mixing a cursed prince and a witch, you can't just use the same formula as your average teen romance manga, and Unname Memory furthers that fact.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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