The Ones Within

CordobezEverdeen★ 9

A great anime that for some reason went almost unnoticed in the most lackluster season of the year. The story is nothing spectacular and the show has so many main characters that its harsh to focus and develop a single plot on only 12 episodes without eliminating the relevance of the other characters. With that being said i feel like we ended up having a good understanding of almost every MC on this 12 episodes. Iride and Himiko ended up less developed than the others but to a certain point i can understand this choice since mistery is kind of a part of their character. Art wise thisfeels a lot like Kagerou Project. That being said this is a better Mekakucity Actors than MekaActors itself, balancing characters screen time, not disrespecting the characters personality from the source and not overcomplicating anything. Sound wise aside from Anya who sounded like a angsty brat 100% of the show i felt that the VA was fantastic. Yuzu in particular is incredible with all the shifts in emotion that the character goes trough. All the characters have a certain charm to them (except the white haired guy since it feels like he is the most childish of them all after Anya. Hell i cant even remember his name). All the characters get almost the same ammount of development. I was looking forward to the show every week altough after the first episodes i realized that the show was way more lighthearted than i was expecting. This isn't bad at all since many shows are sickeningly boring when every single new plot point is: "If you fail, you die" and you damn well know that they arent going to die. AKA every single shounen out there. Finally. No this is not a Danganronpa clone, this is something else with a similar plot. Danganronpa anime is complete garbage anyways.

slavemaster_1991★ 2

Warning: some spoilers below. Random stuff: the anime. This is a more fitting title to this show. The plot: random streamers are abducted to play some games and will be released when they hit a view count. The start itself is not the problem, execution is: games are so random in each episode that I got more and more frustrated from episode to episode. Some mutant overgrown pandas, mimic plants that can even copy personality traits, ghosts and demons, hi-tech cameras and a ghost town to the top - what is going on, who even thought that those things bunched together would make something wholesome? It feelsmore like some kind of bingo, where all the "cool stuff" got tossed into the pot disregarding setting and if those things are a good match between each other. Oh, and cherry on top: this anime doesn't even cover the source completely, so it is not a full story, so this whole mess is never explained properly. Art and sound: average in every way, nothing to add. Characters: another big problem. Everyone is supposed to be a streamer, I am ok with that. But can you tell me, since when streamers have highly letal poison vials or flashbangs? And the characters themselves aren't really complex, everyone pretty simple with a single "drama" trait to show in their personal moment. Enjoyment: none. All 12 episodes I was more confused than amused, more trying to figure out what is going on than enjoying the show. Overall: can't recommend, at best it is some nieche anime, at worst - waste of time.