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A perfect idea was cold-bloodedly killed by a hideous realization

The idea of time shifting and the setting - 10/10.

Plot - 7/10. Ok, it can be a little more twisted. But here it turns out that 80% of the screen time we are given a kind of backstory. At least there are enough moral dilemmas and problems to ponder over.

Realization - 2/10. There is an unspoken rule in literature: “Don't tell, but show”. Anime, as a visual type of story, is designed to have most, if not ALL, of the story shown. But no, most of the story is told to us by the voiceover. “I ... decided, I went, I did.”

Characters - 0/10. Yes, they should be sympathized with and empathized with, but everything is so skimpy and flat that they come off as just boring.

Bottom line: the setting give a lot of room for an interesting story, but it is chewed up and crunched down to 1.5 hours of screen time. It turned out badly.

I like world of "Blame!" but this collection is hard to be simply scored, 'cause stories are too different.

* 'Netsphere Engineer' and 'BLAME!²' are canonical parts of 'Blame!' story. 10/10
* Kozutsumi (Parcel) - very cool story in the style of 'Blame!'. 8/10
* 'Zeb-noid' and 'Senshi Kouchuu Suzumega (Winged Armor Suzumega)' - nice sketches about endless battles in far space 5/10
* 'Pump' and 'Numa no Kami' - they look like dark horrors and are stylish, but they are a bit pointless and cannot really scare anyone. 2/10
* All 'Blame Gakuen!' parts are school parodies with characters from the main story. I didn't find them funny and ... feel like "WTF I was just reading!?" 1/10

So stories in collection are really from 1 to 10 =) And rounded average is just 5 (precisely - 4.5)