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Well, at least they tried.

tl;dr: Fatuous. Hackneyed. Enjoyable.

I can't complain much - I am just more demanding than most anime fans, and I accept it.
The targetted audience would be - I'd say - 13-15 year olds, which would explain why the story, characters, and pretty much everything about the series is cliche, extremely stupid, and just plain annoying. If I'd get one cent for every time I had to roll my eyes, I'd be a millionaire.

1. Story.
I feel like they're not even trying to be original anymore. The story tries to shock the viewer with its incredible *wink* unpredictability *wink*. Its shocking gore ... moments where the author is killing EVERYONE in the most brutal way in an attempt to leave us in disbelief are unfortunately easily predictable and quite annoying. The story itself is rather easy to predict.

2. Characters.
Oh, right. We are served with yet another idiotic protagonist, who is, of course, a very good, simple, unoriginal person. He screams loudly to express his emotions and reminds me of EVERY SINGLE SHOUNEN PROTAGONIST EVER. Slowly builds himself a harem which contains many hot anime chicks, just so little weeaboo fans would fall in love with them and buy those waifu pillows. At least I think that's how the marketing works in the weeaboo world. Overall poor, very poor work.

3. Enjoyment.
Not sure why, but I have enjoyed watching some parts of the show. I would not rewatch it, ever, but overall it was fairly enjoyable. I'd guess that the reason for that would be the place where the plot was developing. I think I enjoyed being thrown into a fantasy world for a change since I haven't watched any anime of this kind in a long time. As poorly, as the plot and characters were made, I must admit that I had enjoyed certain parts of the show, but at the same time, I could barely get through most of the episodes without rolling my eyes, pausing the video, or even dropping it halfway.


To sum things up: I did enjoy some parts of the show, but for the most parts I hated and despised it. As long as you're not looking for an original plot, an ambitious storyline and deeply developed characters, you might be in for a ride. Otherwise, I think the show is fatuous and a waste of time.

*SPOILERS*

Story: 3/10. Hackneyed.
So we have a main protagonist who is a little bit of an outsider, but he's actually quite a friendly guy. Also, he learns that he kind of likes younger girls (between 29, which he is and 17 years old, which the romance counterpart is, there is quite a dipsarity), which ruins the romance aspect, at least for me. He lives an ordinary life, works as a pizza boy and is a failed mangaka. Oh, and he also can go back in time. Right. So, the first thing that hit me was: what are the rules to his time travel? What engenders this ... phenomenon? I'm at episode 7, and there still has been no straight-forward explaination. Also, if this guy can go back in time, how come he's just a pizza boy? Why, at the very least, wouldn't he go back in time and fix his mangaka carreer? Just saying. Nevermind, of course, these are all problems that we can swallow, but there is one thing that I cannot accept, and that is the predictability of the story. It really becomes quite obvious what is going to happen next after a short while. As for example, the episode 6 ended with our main character getting arrested...so, what ways do we have? OF COURSE he is going to go back in time, I mean, he's not going to prison, we still have a couple of episodes to launch.
The idea of going back in time and saving someone is just too overused, but even so, it could have potential if it wasn't so predictable. I am disappointed in this show.

Art: 8/10
The art is really good. I guess the budget was fine. When our main protagonist goes back in time to 80s, to his childhood years, you can see a massive change in the scenery, you can feel the cold of winter and it's slightly more depressing note. The art is what sucked me in. The scene in which Kayo stands alone in the park is quite remarkable. The characters look great, there's alot of detail to them, and the facial expressions are well-done.

Sound: 7/10
The sound...It seems to be really neutral, which is what it should be.
It doesn't exceed at anything, the sound is just here. Voice acting is good,
the opening is quite good, but that's just a case of a taste in music I guess.
The way the sound builds up the moments seem a little bit fatuous, but everything is fine overall. Can't really write much more, since there is nothing special. It's just good.

Character: 5/10
Again, hackneyed. Everything that you see in this anime, you've probably seen somewhere else so many times that it just won't work. The main character is your usual dude who delivers pizza, prefer's to stand aside and live his own life. He's kind of cold on the outside. Good. Also, travels in time *BONUS*. There's also a girl, Airi, who is a really good hearted, all-understanding person, unbelievably mature for a highschool girl. She obviously ignores the warnings on the TV, she doesn't listen to the Police (rebel), and decides to help her weird, weaboo friend from work, who barely builds his strength to say hi to her at work. What the fuck? I only feel sympathy towards Kayo, but then again, she isn't a very original character either and her sad, 'gettin beat-up' moments are forced and pointless. Why not show a little backstory behind what's going on? You're just going to tell us that her parents are bad and beat her for no reason, even kind of enjoying themselves? I'm not buying this. The visuals are great, which I have stated above in the art part. Edit: There has been an explaination in the episode 9, but it wasn't very satysfying.

Enjoyment: 4/10
I really liked how it started, it sucked me in right away for about 4 episodes...but then it became very cliche, predictable and just plain boring.
I watched episodes 6 and 7 just waiting for them to finish, because I wanted to do something else.

Conclusion.

Is it worth watching? It depends. If you don't get irritated by silly and overused protagonist model, if you don't mind if a show is predictable and are here for nice cute things, really forced sad moments and nothing original at all, then yes, it is worth it. Otherwise, don't waste your time.