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#1Wouldn't it be cool to have an SF anime with aliens, time travel and everything? I think it would.
This anime delivers on that front and has pretty good animation for the 2020s, but it's a bit unfocused. Cute Girls Doing Cute Things meets SF, is what it feels like for most of its runtime. There's a lot of poignant social criticism baked in, but what is missing is a character arc. Things happen. Good things, bad things, incredible things, but nothing leads anywhere. There's no payoff.
The two part movie is an alternative version that is shorter and has a different ending. I should have probably watched that one and skipped through this series to see what the differences are instead. It would have spared me the biggest issue this anime faces: it drags on. If it was just a bit shorter it would probably work better, is what I thought during it. Well, the movie is just that, but I didn't feel like watching the entire thing again, but different. I was glad when it was finally over.
Still one of the better anime of the 2020s I've seen so far.
This anime delivers on that front and has pretty good animation for the 2020s, but it's a bit unfocused. Cute Girls Doing Cute Things meets SF, is what it feels like for most of its runtime. There's a lot of poignant social criticism baked in, but what is missing is a character arc. Things happen. Good things, bad things, incredible things, but nothing leads anywhere. There's no payoff.
The two part movie is an alternative version that is shorter and has a different ending. I should have probably watched that one and skipped through this series to see what the differences are instead. It would have spared me the biggest issue this anime faces: it drags on. If it was just a bit shorter it would probably work better, is what I thought during it. Well, the movie is just that, but I didn't feel like watching the entire thing again, but different. I was glad when it was finally over.
Still one of the better anime of the 2020s I've seen so far.
