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Just a quick review. At first view Charlotte would be one of the best anime of the season. Good animation studio, nice writer and good producers. Unfortunatelly it doesn't show well as expected.

Story: 5
The first episode shows a different reality of how the series develop. The ups and downs are quite frequently and occur suddently, giving the implying a certain rush in cover the storyboard in just 13 episodes. Another problem is all the way like "hero's journay" but without major loses.

Art: 8
The artwork is really good. As expected of PA Works, they kept the great quality of the Key animes.

Sound: 8
The last association ... of PA Works and Key was Angel Beats!, and the music was simply another main character in the series. With Charlotte the music isn't bright as AB! but has its importance. But everything as expected.

Character: 5
The previous char from Key's works were a lot better and complex, and the storyline help them to improve. Charlotte presents us such simple characters, they are predictable. The story doesn't force any psychological analysis.

Enjoyment: 6
Predictable story. They tried to put a little climax in every episode and this wrecked the turn around of the history and then you watch the episode knowing that something will happen.

Overall: 6
Below the expectations for a Key's work. Poor history, simple characters, no over-psychological analysis. The only deep analysis I can do about the history is the importance of the teenage for the country, as the suicide rate at this age has increased in Japan. The technical aspects as artwork and sound/music was O.K., as expect, but the rest was below the avarage.
I recommend for the newcomers to watch Clannad and Kanon (2006), they are the traditional Key animes and way better.

I was really expecting a lot of this series, but it showed not this good

Story: the story had everything to be a very good one: slice of life, four friends quite different of each other and a supernatural mystery. Although was not well developed, the situations were not envolving. Nevertheless it's watchable. Rate: 6

Art: not so good with pretty failures, with the technology used nowadays it's unaceptable a poor art, and it's becouse of this tech that was not worse. Rate: 6

Sound: nothing against. Rate: 7

Character: other item that had "potential" and was not well developed, the characters was all different of each other but ... don''t developed during the series, was disappointing. Rate: 7 for the main idea

Overall: 6. Very good main idea, but not well developed. Others recent slice of life of the style are a lot better: Ano Hana, Hanasaku Iroha and Tamayura.