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Mar 27, 2022
This manga is now complete at 50 chapters. (Plus a few side chapters. Plus a couple NSFW side stories.)
I loved this, although I’m a sucker for cute, endearing, yuri, slice-of-life stories. ;)
It’s nice to see a blind person depicted in a straight-forward, capable, confident way. Lily’s blindness impacts the story a little at the beginning; after that it’s just who she is. She “sees” as much or more as the sighted characters and is really the one who controls the story progression.
Heath is a kind person with a lot of pain, fleshed out more than I expected. I was able to empathize with her
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fear around trying to be vulnerable to humans.
I also enjoyed the side characters. They were varied and interesting, many with their own back/side stories that gave them depth.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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May 31, 2021
Re:C is an example of how you don’t know whether a series is worth watching until the very end. It does start bumpy and gets tedious in the middle, but at the end provides a payoff that I felt was worth it. (I’ve now watched the series twice and enjoyed it more the second time.)
The reverse-isekai premise is intriguing and quite more complicated than the traditional one where the transported person frequently understands the new world better than those who live there. It’s one thing to be the only real person in a fictional world, especially since you’re already familiar with the existence of fictional
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worlds. It’s another to suddenly discover you’re a fictional character now living in the real world inhabited by people who have god-like power over you and your world. And then to interact with your creator and discover they’re weaker, both in strength and character, than you. Pretty soul-shaking and devastating, actually. Now watch several fictional characters deal with that and interact with each other at the same time.
Re:C doesn’t explain “how” this situation came to be but it does explain “why”, because that’s important to character motivation and how things then play out. (And that isn’t fully fleshed out until the very end.)
Characters:
Of course fictional characters brought into the real world would seem comparatively 2D, without any depth. (It’s necessarily accentuated since the “real” world here is actually fictional, so nested fictional worlds begin to look toy-like.) That’s the point. But then they develop depth and evolve away from their story versions as they wake-up and adjust to the real world.
There are a lot of “creation” characters here. It would take a long time in this series to develop complete depth for all of them. So they do this for a few (hence the tedious middle), they delay it for some until the very end, and they avoid it for many. Some might find fault with this but I don’t see a way around it. The thing I might prefer is to have a few fewer characters to deal with.
The music is top-notch and the animation is quite good.
*Slight spoiler*
The ending is supposedly a plot written by the anime “creator” characters. Some of it feels a little predictable and trope-like, but isn’t that what you might expect from some “anime writer”characters writing for a nested fictional world? But that’s just to lay the groundwork for a truly novel final ending that I felt was emotional and satisfying.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Apr 5, 2020
The thing I loved most about this anime is the art: the rich colors, the deep detail, the hyper-realism sometimes. It is set in present day, yet the visuals & attire feel Victorian - suitable to a Sherlock Holmes feel.
I was also captured by the idea of Sherlock Holmes operating in the world of magic. I am a big Holmes fan. And the adult Waver character captured many Holmes-isms (tall, dark, slender, brooding but given to sudden intense outbursts, a lot going on under the surface, more concerned about the case than his personal safety), but was still obviously its own character, not a mere
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copy.
I felt the plot was interesting enough. I was distracted enough learning about the magical world to not notice/care about any leaps or weaknesses.
The second thing I most loved was the character, Gray. She embodies such extremes that it’s fascinating seeing how she holds together.
Here’s hoping for more seasons!
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Aug 25, 2019
FUN!
This is one of the most unusual anime I’ve seen. More unusual than I could have even imagined (while still winding up liking it).
First I LOVE the artwork. I’m not even sure why. It’s just so simple yet detailed, colorful, unique, and CUTE. I adore the eyes.
Characters: very unique. Child inventor-genius who is still waaay too childlike. A robot high school girl built by her who is waaay more mature. A set of high school girls whose inner thought life erupts in an explosion of art-style, color, and bizarre acting out. (Pull a bazooka from behind your back and blow away the guy you like
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because you suddenly feel embarrassed. Wait - did that really happen?? No time! Moving on!)
The Japanese voices for the characters are wonderful - matching the emotions and feelings of the characters perfectly and then some.
The theme music is totally awesome and over-the-top (matching the anime). And the opening credits accompanying the music is itself ramped up even more. (It’s like the songwriter saw the anime and said “I can be even crazier than that”, and then the anime staff said “challenge accepted”.)
But ... you have to accept that this is a fever-pitch, run-away, non sequitur, minimal plot, slice-of-life story - with occasional forays into alternate reality stories involving the same characters. Don’t get too attached to linear thought.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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