Rating: 6.9
Favorite Episode: No return
A violent story about nature vs nurture, eugenics, regret, redemption, and racism. The presentation was great, and the OP was incredible. The series evokes a sense of melancholy that hits you like a train when it ends. Plotwise, the series is haphazard, and most of it boils down to bland characters: Kohta is just a nice harem protagonist, Yuka is an obnoxious (and incestuous) tsundere, etc. Comically villainous characters ruin the nuance of the conflict: Bandoh is a psychopath who primarily yells and threatens to shoot anyone and everyone. Those children that found Lucy's dog and decided to beat it to death in front of her, come on, children aren't that blatantly evil. Excessive nudity that has little purpose: we can't go 2 episodes without seeing a naked underage girl. Plot points are either poorly executed or make no sense altogether: Kohta "forgetting" his trauma with Lucy despite meeting Lucy again eight years later is stupid; anyone with trauma has trouble forgetting their trauma, that's literally PTSD. Soldiers throughout the series (even in the ending) shoot Lucy when their whole goal is to recover her because she is needed to start the new human race. Lucy's true origins were never explained. Why was she orphaned in the flashbacks? How did Kurasama and co figure out she's Eve? Why is she Eve anyways? Lucy and Nyu flipping places whenever the plot demanded: They tried to show that a strong emotional reaction from Lucy's alter ego (the shell) or large concussive forces can trigger a mind flip, but this isn't consistent as she was upper cutted into a graveyard in episode 3 by nana and didn't flip, and also was sedated and flipped because her "alter ego" went to sleep. If this was the case every time she went to sleep as one person she'd wake up as another, doesn't make sense). The ending is open-ended, and threats like Chief Kakuzawa are still going strong. A poignant show with sloppy execution.
Favorite Episode: No return
A violent story about nature vs nurture, eugenics, regret, redemption, and racism. The presentation was great, and the OP was incredible. The series evokes a sense of melancholy that hits you like a train when it ends. Plotwise, the series is haphazard, and most of it boils down to bland characters: Kohta is just a nice harem protagonist, Yuka is an obnoxious (and incestuous) tsundere, etc. Comically villainous characters ruin the nuance of the conflict: Bandoh is a psychopath who primarily yells and threatens to shoot anyone and everyone. Those children that found Lucy's dog and decided to beat it to death in front of her, come on, children aren't that blatantly evil. Excessive nudity that has little purpose: we can't go 2 episodes without seeing a naked underage girl. Plot points are either poorly executed or make no sense altogether: Kohta "forgetting" his trauma with Lucy despite meeting Lucy again eight years later is stupid; anyone with trauma has trouble forgetting their trauma, that's literally PTSD. Soldiers throughout the series (even in the ending) shoot Lucy when their whole goal is to recover her because she is needed to start the new human race. Lucy's true origins were never explained. Why was she orphaned in the flashbacks? How did Kurasama and co figure out she's Eve? Why is she Eve anyways? Lucy and Nyu flipping places whenever the plot demanded: They tried to show that a strong emotional reaction from Lucy's alter ego (the shell) or large concussive forces can trigger a mind flip, but this isn't consistent as she was upper cutted into a graveyard in episode 3 by nana and didn't flip, and also was sedated and flipped because her "alter ego" went to sleep. If this was the case every time she went to sleep as one person she'd wake up as another, doesn't make sense). The ending is open-ended, and threats like Chief Kakuzawa are still going strong. A poignant show with sloppy execution.