Hello folks~! Gongju Lee here!
I don't express my anime opinions openly usually, but Amnesia is one such anime that I cannot resist the urge to express my experience and thus provide a review of this anime. I'll try to break it down in categories of relevance, like story, art, character development and overall personal enjoyment. So without further ado, let's get started shall we?
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ART:
It's bloody stunning. Seriously, the BEST thing about Amnesia IS THE ARTWORK. It was the gateway way to making me want to watch the series in the first place. The opening scene alone is just a great big dose of eye candy
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of bishounen and all the otherworldly "Alice-in-wonderland" card type scenario you can feast on. However, what's more impressive is definitely the interesting character design for the main characters. Each one is uniquely different from the others, but still run in the same card suit-type theme. It's very creative and still useful, because you can use it as a fallback if you have a hard time remembering who is who in this lovely reverse-harem. Also the coloring is BEAUTIFUL! It's definitely one of the consistent contents of Amnesia that I thoroughly enjoyed, episode to episode and was a driving force that kept me watching. I mean, did you guys look into those colorful bishounen's eyes?
MUSIC:
The opening theme is definitely by far the best thing going for the soundtrack for this anime. I usually pride myself appreciating anime BG music, (i use them to listen as I study or to fall asleep to) but, sadly, the soundtrack to Amnesia is nothing too special. It's not bad by far, but it's not outstanding either. It does have it's share of 'sentimental' and 'emotional' background music that works well with the respective scenes, but for the most part, the soundtrack is forgettable but like I said, the opening theme is definitely a win point.
STORY:
This story is soooooo confusing and soooooo hard to follow. It literally jumps from one moment to the next and the transitions are so choppy, it's difficult to know when you've moved on to another scene or another part of the story all together. And also speaking of story, there's not really much story development going on at ALL for the like 10 episodes! And it's a 12 episode series!! I understand it's a reverse-harem, but it seemed like the focus of the story was more about the heroine trying to recover from her amnesia than with the relationship with the respective guys. And with that said, it should NOT have taken so long to actually develop the "story plot" of the series. I think because it was done in that manner everything was just rushed...and truthfully left you more confused than where you started in the beginning of the series.
CHARACTERS:
Ok. Let me get this out the way. I'm gonna break these characters down as gently and nicely as I can: THEY ARE ONE DIMENSIONAL AS THEY CAN GET.
The Herorine: MY GOD, she could not be any more bland. She's too submissive! She let's the other male guys push her around or boss her around or bloody just does the weirdest worst things to her, and she just takes it like, 'oh, it's okay. as long as you're happy.' It's disgusting. She doesn't think actively for herself to which results to her making way too many stupid decisions. And this woman only has two ranges of emotions: confusion and worry. I know it's based of a visual novel, so I, as a female viewer, am suppose to easily place myself in her shoes and pretend that all those lusty, desirable things the bishounen saying to her are meant for me. However that is simply not good enough. She doesn't really develop over the series and just remains this shy, submissive, emotional-less character that just doesn't make me feel empathy for her or her struggles throughout the series. It's kind of sad.
Shin: He's the tsundere and does tsudere things.
Toma: He's yandere and does yandere things.
Ikki: He's just the playboy who is misunderstood.
Kent: The smart one.
Ukyo: The weird one but weird for an important reason.
That's pretty much how the series played those characters up. The only reason why I reamed the main female character so much, is that she's suppose to be the main character, the one I care most about, but in the end, she's always outshine and out-empathized by the main male suitors around her. The development of their characters, as one dimensional as they are, was just that much more defined to provoke those kind of emotions out of the viewers but unfortunately not for her.
Fortunately, the characters do look pretty, but if you're looking for anything past the cover of those pretty books, you'll be sorely disappointed. The characters of Amnesia, ultimately are: bland and predictable but can provoke a good emotional moments that really holds you in and keeps you around long enough for the next episode.
PERSONAL ENJOYMENT:
As many bad things as I've said about it, I honestly enjoyed watching Amnesia. I think it could have been so much better than what it was. It left me in want because they ended up rushing the development of the story plot to like pretty much the last two episodes, that I wanted to experience more now that I had a better understanding of what the hell was going on. The art was simply BEAUTIFUL. I can't express that enough!! I already saw the art on merchandising and the visual game, and I though that the anime would bring that amazing quality down, but not at all. The anime was able to retain that beautiful artwork in the color and environment. Truly, a captivating sight. However, Amnesia definitely suffered more negatives than positives. The story was lost for ages, the characters were one dimensional, so much so it was almost annoying at one point, and the heroine is completely emotional-less and my issues with that characters are so great I just don't want to talk about her anymore.
Amnesia is a decent reverse harem, especially one with beautiful art, color and environment, story is pretty much lacking in developing in a timely matter, the pacing is slow and the transitions are hard to follow. But despite the negatives overpowering the good, I still enjoyed it but unfortunately it left me wanting more...in a bad way...which in the end may be worse than not liking it at all.
OVERALL RATING: 5/10
The artwork is BLOODY CAPTIVATING: 3
The on and off emotional moments that capture the viewer: 1
The opening theme song is pretty catchy and saving grace of the OST.
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May 5, 2013
Hello folks~! Gongju Lee here!
I don't express my anime opinions openly usually, but Amnesia is one such anime that I cannot resist the urge to express my experience and thus provide a review of this anime. I'll try to break it down in categories of relevance, like story, art, character development and overall personal enjoyment. So without further ado, let's get started shall we? ~*~*~*~*~*~*~ ART: It's bloody stunning. Seriously, the BEST thing about Amnesia IS THE ARTWORK. It was the gateway way to making me want to watch the series in the first place. The opening scene alone is just a great big dose of eye candy ... |
