

Zaregoto (戯言) - in English, nonsense. Is suitable for concluding this anime. It takes advantage of the viewer's gullibility at believing whatever is presented by the story and ignoring any minor detail. I am not skilled enough to write a review without spoiling the show but the spoilers included are out of context enough that you won't get it until you watch the show
Our main character, Ii a lifeless teenager and his master, Tomo Kunagisa were invited to live on a island owned by the company of a certain wealthy girl's father. On that island only geniuses and their caretakers were invited, genius at cooking, academics, art and engineering. A island where the geniuses' daily conversation would involve something philosophical, questioning the actions and behavior of the human species or questioning life itself. However ironically, on that island lies many secrets and misfortune that is about to unfold under the notice of these geniuses. As they continue on with their daily life, that soon, will come to an end. And our main character will throw himself into a pit full of cactuses
Studio shaft, or rather Akiyuki Shinbou (director)'s great ability to hide the true story is amazing, or maybe its because of the author's great writing, not sure who but it is incredibly amazing. By splitting important details into small background details that the viewer will most likely regard as nothing, the true story is able to be concealed. Every frame, every object, every scene, every word spoken by the characters, every actions and every events are not just there to fill up the story to keep it going, no, it could be a diversion to hide the true story from us by devaluing the information, the detail. Like I said before, we are quick to believe what the story is presented at us because that is how most stories are, if the story said they were all geniuses then they most be geniuses. "There is no way to proof that the story is wrong", in some cases yes but the opposite can be said as well. Biased thinking, the story presents us this information so that we will be biased when making decisions and predicting what will happen next. We all already fell for the trap since the start of episode 1
Combined with studio Shaft's "philosophical animation" and the unique way of telling a story, this anime is enjoyable, not on par with the monogatari series or other studio shaft's works but if this had more time to include the background of our main character and what happened beyond episode 8, then it will be. I also love that I cannot determine the plot of the show in 1 episode, in animes such as romance and isekai, you can mostly determine where the story is heading from 1 episode because they all follow the same formula to attract viewers, and that is fine, I in fact also like isekai but it is nice to have a change of pace once in a while
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