Reject Humanity, Become Fairy

/anime/10357/humanity-has-declined (Note - For the simplicity, I'm going to refer this Anime as Jinrui). I'm writing this review simply because this seems like a niche Anime on AL. There isn't a single review or discussion thread for this and even one of the three people I know who watched this, ended up dropping it (while the other two gave a 9/10). But now, after completing this just few minutes ago, I'll say this; ##This is a very unique Anime, but I'm NOT recommending this to everyone.

#Post-apocalyptic Fairy Tale

Jinrui takes place at a time where humanity is at the brink of it's existence due to decline in birth rates. But a new chibi life form known as "Fairies" who have very high intelligence and a sweet tooth for sweets & happy things, are starting to take over the mass population of the Earth. Our nameless protagonist, who refers herself as "Watashi" (means 'I' or 'Me'), is a mediator who helps to maintain a balance between declining Humans and overgrowing Fairies. That didn't really sounded like a post-apocalyptic setting now, does it? I mean, just look at this vibrant & relaxing art-style and tell me they look like they're in loss of hope and existential dread;

(Ok. Maybe the last image does gives away)

#Humans are intelligent Dominoes

(Because we tend to follow each other)

Jinrui is just, Watashi throwing quotable satires on everything she interacts in this world like Politicians, Business, BL fans, Manga, and some other pop culture media & storytelling cliches. And the protagonist's cynicism and dry sarcasm makes it all funny but can be a miss sometimes (or a lot of times, depending on your type of humor). But my favourite satire is from episode 2, which is a satire or callout to sub-watchers. The scene goes like this;

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"Watashi enters a dark room. In there, is a council of a skinless chickens who are planning to conquer the entire world and they're explaining their plan like a B-movie villain to our protagonist. Since she couldn't understand chicken language, a fairy that hangs around her gives her "Translator Glasses", which translates the chicken language into Japanese subtitles. But she had to adjust synchronization speed & size, because she couldn't read those subtitles".

This entire scene felt like it's calling out all the sub watchers cause, if you're a sub watcher who once downloaded Anime or any other media form, you know damn well the problem of unsynchronized subtitles. And the Anime is filled with a lot of these satirical moments.

Miss Protagonist-san

Name: Reject Humanity, Become Fairy
Item: Humanity Has Declined
Rating: 75
Author: R2R

In this cast of eccentric characters, no one really has a name or atleast won't call each other with names, which is ironic when you find out there's an entire episode dedicated for naming fairies. The protagonist refers herself as "Watashi", the grandfather is called "Grandfather", assistant is called "Assistant" and pretty much everyone is just like that, except one person. Protagonist's friend "Y", and even that doesn't sound like real name, more like a code name. The fairies are pretty cute which goes against their destructive personalities. They all carry these dark & negative thoughts that hit home a bit, but they're mostly left like that. It goes more in depth into it's human characters, mainly the protagonists, in it's last couple of episodes that follows her life in her school days. And now comes one thing that's a bit problematic;
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Not Uncertain but very Random
The Anime is in achronological order i.e., it shows events out of order. The problem is that, even though it's basically a satire, it doesn't feel coherent or ordered. You're thrown into events without a clear introduction or explanation, with only dry humor that doesn't sit right with it's cutesy art style as only entertainment, which makes it feels like it's confusing. If you're patient enough for 4 or so episodes, you might get the hang of it but it can feel really boring, considering the only entertaining point here is, satire & dry humor, and the achronological order makes it unnecessarily confusing.
Jinrui has a total of 7 arcs that are individual to each other. You don't really have to watch one arc in-order to know what happens in the other arc. It's just there only to form a jumbled timeline. It goes like this;

The Release Order (the Creators intended order) 1. The Fairies' Secret Factory (Episode 1 & 2) 2. The Fairies' Sub-culture (Episode 3 & 4) 3. The Fairies' Homecoming (Episode 5 & 6) 4. The Fairies' Time Management (Episode 7 & 8) 5. The Fairies' Survival Skills (Episode 9) 6. The Fairies' Earth (Episode 10) 7. The Fairies' Secret Tea Party (Episode 11 & 12)The Chronological Order (the Timelapse Order) 1. The Fairies' Secret Tea Party (Episode 11 & 12) 2. The Fairies' Earth (Episode 10) 3. The Fairies' Time Management (Episode 7 & 8) 4. The Fairies' Survival Skills (Episode 9) 5. The Fairies' Homecoming (Episode 5 & 6) 6. The Fairies' Secret Factory (Episode 1 & 2) 7. The Fairies' Sub-culture (Episode 3 & 4)

I'm a "Creators order on first watch; Chronological Order on a rewatch" kinda person. Even though, the intended order has it's problem, it's better to watch it that way because that's what the creators wanted view it as, but I think the intended watch order might not make an entirely enjoyable watch, it didn't for me atleast. I found a couple of episodes boring, but it was a good watch overall.

#Conclusion If dry humor and satire is your type of comedy; If you like weird but not completely explained Anime; If you're OK with cute but slightly dark stuff; This is for you. Now, excuse me.

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