The real tragedy here is that, thanks to the episode listings on aznv.tv, I watched this entire series thinking there were 14 episodes. Then 5 minutes before episode 13 ended, I realised the title said ‘Episode 13 (Final)’, and by then it was too late to psych myself up for sadness. What a bummer. I was all prepared to bawl, after hearing about how sad the ending was supposed to be.

The ending was ok. Nothing too unexpected, aside from the fact that they didn’t kill off every character in the show like I thought they might. They didn’t address the whole thing with the crazy old director guy and the scientist woman, didn’t explain why those guys had horns, didn’t tie up the relationship between Kouta and Yuka…but I guess that’s what happens when anime writers run out of manga to rely on. And what the heck was up with the clock at the end?? Totally didn’t get that.

I really didn’t like the extreme violence and the completely unnecessary nudity. Shock factor is good and all, but after the first episode we kinda get the idea. The whole person-being-nice-gets-abruptly-torn-in-half thing got old after a while. And I thought the back story they used to explain Lucy’s psychosis was a bit lame – after enduring eight episodes of flying body parts, the bullied/ostracised as a kid deal just doesn’t cut it. Should’ve just blamed it on the genes. And the nudity? I suppose you could justify it with something like, it’s supposed to emphasise how pure and innocent they are or some such bullshit, but the scenes with them playing with each other’s boobs and frolicking in the shower are just . . . (ellipse worthy).

The main character was your typical useless guy. It’s like they took Takayuki out of KimiNozo and put him in here with different clothes. But I liked Nana a lot, even if I didn’t really get the little psycho phase circa episode 8. She was probably the only character that elicited any kind of emotion from me.

In any case, it was still a pretty good anime overall. The story was intriguing at certain points, and I liked some parts of the soundtrack (definitely not the latin part, good god). I just feel kinda let down. I can’t believe I didn’t cry. I mean, I cried on episode 3 or 4 of Bleach (the one with Orihime’s brother). How anticlimactic. Pfft.