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After watching the whole series, I can say that I am completely disappointed in this show. Now before I expand on this let me just say that I LOVE these kinds of animes. I was so excited for this show from the beginning so i'm not really biased. If you like the whole MMO/Fantasy type anime such as NGNL or SAO then you'll like this at least to an extent.
Now the reason why I give this a 6 is because the plot is SO lacking. The entire show is fillers with an underlying plot that is never ... truly fulfilled. You basically go through this whole show thinking that maybe something interesting will happen or maybe certain characters that are introduced for an episode will be presented more in depth but none of this ever happens. I don't want to give anything away, but it's like they just thought of a plot, never really did anything with it, made 10 filler episodes around it, and then gave it a lackluster ending with a lame boss fight.
The animation is colorful and pretty to look at, but the characters are just ok. They barely took the time to get into any character in the show. There's no character development, like at all. The main protagonist is the same as every other average teenage boy in anime. The other characters have the potential to be interesting but you never really learn anything about them or their pasts, or they just show up for one episode and then disappear. The whole thing is just constantly pointless.
This anime really had potential, and I was hoping that it at least would have a satisfying ending to make the whole thing worthwhile- but it didn't. If you need something to waste time then i'd say the show is fairly interesting, but don't get your hopes up because you will be severely disappointed as I am.

This is by far one of my favorite (if not my favorite) anime of all time. Why, you ask? Well i'm about to tell you. From the beginning of the story I fell in love, not only with the animation but with the music and the characters and all other aspects of this show. I just thought it was so wonderful, keep in mind that this is my first review ever though, so the quality of it will be who knows how bad or good- and i'm sure that many of you probably disagree and that's okay. Now onto the review:

Story: (8/10) The fact that ... not much is explained until almost the last episode is cool. I see a lot of people complain about that, but the reality is that it's from Akihito's point of view and we get to know just about as much as he does. Al though this is true, some things could have gone further explained- youmu for example. Youmu come from people's jealousy, hatred, and malice, they also range from humanoids to insectoids- that's just about all i got, why do they possess humans? Why can some take on human forms? Why are some good (ex. Ayaka and Ai)? I also would have loved to have seen different encounters with humans that were possessed by youmu, and i feel as if a lot could have been explained about Izumi and the one guy who was trying to let the kyoukai no kanata destroy the world for some reason. Another flaw in the story would have to be going into depth about the character's pasts. In conclusion, they could have gone into more depth about the characters but instead they chose not to. While reading the light novel I found lots of things that seemed crucial to the story that were left out. Other than things not being explained thoroughly enough and the slow-ish pace, I thought the story was great. Although slow-paced, It was very captivating and humorous, the episodes could make me sob one minute and laugh the next.

Sound: (10/10) The sound definitely gets a 10/10, i'm the kind of person who will watch the opening and ending once throughout the entire series and then never watch it again. This wasn't the case for this show, I love both the opening and the ending sososo much and haven't skipped it once. Not sure if special effect sounds are included in this, but I saw no flaw in those either. The background music always fit the scene, and the character songs were marvelous. Everything in the musical aspect was great.

Character: (1000/10) Geez, this set of characters is by far my favorite ever. I am super picky with characters, honestly most of the time I really don't necessarily favor any of the characters in a show or anime that I watch. There were no two characters that were two much a like, they all stood out in their own little ways. Whether you're looking for a funny, over-dramatic, cute, pervert character or a masochistic, emotionless, yet very funny character you're going to find it and everything in between. Mirai and Akihito's relationship was honestly perfect to me. I hate stories that overly focus on the romance aspect and spend too much time dwelling on it, in this story you get to see them slowly fall for each other, which I find to be the cutest thing. I love love love the occasional cute moments and act of affection that have actual motives, which is what I found here. Since it doesn't explain the characters in much detail, you get to learn about them yourself. You get to see them grow confident in themselves, fight different battles, and interact with others. For a show with a measly 12 episodes I thought the character development and character's in general were pretty great.

Enjoyment: (10/10) This is quite obvious. The mere fact that I am taking my time to write this review after sleeping for about an hour last night and continuing to not sleep just so I could watch the show, shows that the enjoyment level was high up in my eyes. I take lots and lots of time to finish an anime, especially if i'm not too interested in it. I definitely wouldn't have to look forward to watching it every week the minute it comes out (even if that means doing it in class) if the enjoyment level wasn't a 10.

Overall I give this anime a 10, with the only weak point being the story (or how they portray the story in the anime, i should say) this anime deserves a 10. I hope this review is helpful for whatever reason and I hope there are others who can find as much joy in this show as I can. Thank you for reading.