Sep 12, 2023
An anime with entertaining earlier episodes, but with disappointing later episodes.
I didn't sign up for an anime which romance, drama and sci-fi with advanced artificial intelligence are this anime's primary genres.
If I understand right, Ai and Aoi are literally the same character, since Aoi is a near perfect replica of Ai.
The 4 other girls, even though they're based on Ai, are more different than Ai and Aoi.
Assuming the first girl includes both Aoi and Ai, how to care about the other girls of the protagonist's harem after episode 8? These girls were not real after all.
What's the point of a "harem" anime where I'm
...
not supposed to care about any of the girls except the first girl?
Was it even necessary to make this romance anime a "harem"?
Literally none of the girls can win, but the protagonist can still technically get a girl outside of his harem.
Unfortunately there's not enough focus on any girl who could become the protagonist's girlfriend.
There is at least one external threat, which is a rogue AI who tries to take over the world....
...which turns out to be irrelevent since a third party was strong enough to stop the rogue AI without any help.
The third party's intervention adds an advancing wall of doom for the protagonist's quest "in order to maintain tension and engagement in the story". But was this necessary?
Before the third party arrived, the protagonist already had to deal with an enemy army which was controlled by the AI.
In a scenario without the third party, it could be possible for the protagonist's party to be defeated because the enemy army was stronger than the protagonist's party.
The third party just wants to save the world from the AI, they just can't tell between the AI and the protagonist's party.
There's no moral dillemnas about the prevention of the destruction of the virtual world, because the protagonist's actions have no impact in the world, since the protagonist and his "harem" are too weak to prevent the destruction of the virtual world.
The only moral dillemna in this anime would be :
Should I go back to the virtual world to talk with my dead friend one last time with the risk of never coming back to the real world?
Or should I stay idle, which is safer, but boring?
And finally, where's the fan service after episode 7?
Initial score : 1/10
Final score : 6/10 because the first 7 episodes exist.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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