Jul 12, 2020
[CONTAINS SPOILERS]
All I can say after bingeing the show for around 4 hours is: what the fuck was that?
Honestly, I really had high hopes for this show. The animation reminded me of The Girl Who Leapt through Time. Naturally, I expected it to be full of emotional moments between close characters who are desperately trying to survive through an apocalypse. And, instead, what I got was random passing characters who appear out of nowhere and die just as quickly.
The first episode was great. It set the mood for what was about to come, and the intensity from the first few moments until the end of
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the episode didn't drop. Unfortunately, everything went downhill from there. Since the story was going to center around the family, I had expected it to focus on their relationships and how the apocalypse was going to test them. Instead, unnecessary characters were mixed in and I could feel their desperate attempt to make us like each one of them. Especially that fucking cult arc, man, what the fuck was that??? Also, Ayumu had time to work at an infirmary AND party during her stay in the cult, but didn't think to treat her big ass wound???? She worked at an INFIRMARY for fuck's sake!!
The last episode would actually have been a good ending if Episodes 2-9 went towards a decent direction. Needless to say, I didn't feel any sort of attachment towards the characters (maybe except Kite because he carried the whole group to survival). I didn't even feel a thing when Ayumu was crying on her hospital bed. Not even during the montage of all their happy moments. Nothing. The character designs were decent, don't get me wrong, but they lacked so much buildup that I didn't feel any sense of connection or importance from them at all. In fact, the characters themselves were so indifferent whenever someone in their group died that I eventually got desensitized to all the deaths as well. Like, oh, her mom died? That's sad, I guess.
Honestly the only things that stood out to me in this show were the soundtrack and the fire rap battle. Those were the only things that made it enjoyable.
[TL;DR]
Me: Oh shit an apocalypse show about Japan centered around a family!! This is going to get emotional and shit
Japan Sinks 2020: *Randomly inserts cults, sharks, rap battles, and a freaking high tech underground lair*
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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