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DISCLAIMER:

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"The recency effect is a cognitive bias in which those items, ideas, or arguments that came last are remembered more clearly than those that came first. The more recently it heard, the clearer something that may exist in a juror's memory. This is common when information is given in lists – the last thing heard is recalled, while those at the beginning and in the middle may be forgotten. As a result, the party delivering the final closing argument has an advantage."

It may come off to be a little unexpected of seeing this passage in an anime review but I would have to present this at first since it has been known that people do keep mentioning about this show as if there were none other than Lycoris Recoil that started a sole revolution and innovation when it comes to taking advantages over the plot convenient by realizing an intriguing narrative throughout episodes. Lycoris Recoil definitely wasn't the first show that changed the perception of anime industry as a whole but might as well be the latest one of information that recently has come into memory.

Speaking of which, I will eventually try to convince others who seem to have a skeptical opinion, like I usually do, about the recent anime series that often lack quality and engagement in story-telling and narrative, no matter what plot device or world-building these shows use to eventually explain the details of story.

Because, story-wise, Lycoris Recoil did really come up with a novel perspective that solely intrigued the other anime enjoyers to really 'feel' their on-hand experience in watching a fresh and insightful anime show. Those people could really say anything that they wanted to deplore or applaud this show - from "depthless slice of life", "Cute girls doing counter-terrorism", to "John Wick with anime girls", all of these seemed to show a completely new nuance from undertaking of something that no one has ever thought it would happen. But personally, I would rather refer to this show as "Zankyou no Terror but as cute counter terrorists with the mix of John Wick and Yakusoku no Neverland" because why not? I didn't see any problem to this definition, since I also have been waiting for this kind of show.

Before I continue, be make sure to not view the spoilers if you don't want to get spoiled.

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The story started from Takina, who was the DA's Lycoris, as she got caught up in a trouble after RADIATA (DA communication system) got interrupted by a hacker - who later turned out to be Walnut - during the process of on-going negotiation to retain one of her teammates who became the terrorists hostage. In the headquarters of DA, Beta, Charlie, and Delta are done with their job. Meanwhile, Mika is targeting Alpha 1. Takina found a machine gun and used it to kill the criminals. Fuki thought Takina wanted to kill Erika, but she doubts it. Fuki feeling unsatisfied with it and continued to punch Takina in the face. While then, in another perspective, there was an energetically slacking girl who had happened to wake up late, so she did eating the bread scene, jumping over the scene to only get told that she was late and had to leave the scene

Takina was instructed to transfer from DA Headquarter to Café LycoReco, as she was ignoring the order and made the operation fail. When she arrives at Café LycoReco, Mika introduced Mizuki and himself, and later on Chisato came. She straight up introduced herself and excited about her new partner. Kusunoki says Chisato is a top-tier Lycoris. Mika contacted Kusunoki, said according to intel, over 1000 guns were disappeared. She's looking at a profile and it was a hacker called Walnut, a famous Wizard on the Dark Web. She tells them to kill him no matter what. Meanwhile, Chisato and Takina are going to school. In school, Chisato told the teacher that Takina can speak any language that she can speak, since they're both going to the same school. Next up, they both head up to Kodagumi, where they both got blocked by a worker. The boss later says that they're guests. Chisato gives what the boss orders. Takina tried to use her gun, thinking it's an illegal item but turned out to be coffee powder. Chisato says they're regular customers at the café. Later, they leave Kodagumi and Chisato said to change their gear, since they're heading to police station next, but it's too early. So, they rest at the playground nearby, Chisato drinks her tomato juice while talking. They Both discussed about dangerous criminals and the DA. Later on, Chisato told Takina to lend her a hand and they both stood up. The first eyecatch is Takina pointing her gun at Chisato's head. While the second eyecatch is Chisato giving a flower to Takina.

• Takina is kicked out from DA, due to disobeying orders during a mission.
• Takina goes to LycoReco for the first time.
• Chisato goes to LycoReco in the morning.
• Chisato becomes partners with Takina.
• Chisato and Takina go to a preschool, university, and Oshiage Police Station.
• Chisato and Takina go to another café, meeting Saori.
• At night, Chisato and Takina complete a mission against assassins.
• Yoshimatsu visits LycoReco for the first time.

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Takina and Chisato were shown talking to each other on Episode 1.Alright, the spoilers will NOT continue so time to analyze every single aspect of this show. And apparently, it would also evaluate its pros and cons. ___ Yep, let's start the analysis I guess.

"Overall, the story narrative did successfully in calibrating the chaotic environment in terms of terror with the ideal perspective of modern society, which implied to be utopianism as the core ideology, and not to mention that the action genre of the story did really cover the in-depth lacking to compensating the failure in representing a slice of life show as it is, or rather, the show didn't really focus on revolving around such theme rather than the clash between its own utopia ethnography, whereas everything has to be perfect without any form of defects and or evils, with the anti-thesis of it, or dystopian ideology which brings a caution whether such ideology is perfect or not, to annihilate its opposed ideal and dared others to not rely fully on authority as to the decision-making."

And here comes the worst part... get ready.

"However, it could also have observed that the show did not really follow a realistic political premise and therefore ended up being somewhat abruptly farcical, or in other words, an absolute joke for those whom have learned the way politic works in the modern society. And there appears to be a little political involvement or it lacks thereof, especially throughout the latter stage of these penultimate episodes. And it did really demonstrate how abysmal this political aspect had been throughout the series, especially when those 'political figures' did really come up with hilarious statements about the movie that was being released to attract others as if really did happen and people were idiots instead of being more transparent about the existence of both Lycoris and LilyBell with somewhat a missing opportunity to make them being really accepted by the society as a whole for who they are, and not like this."

"The characters appeared to be the fond of this show, whose contributions to the plot were really significant to somehow cover the aforementioned pinnacle of whole circus around the politics portrayal. Chisato and Nishikigi were the best characters and developed the most throughout the show, while there also were notable characters, such as Mika, Yoshi, Kurumi, Mizuki, Kusunoki, etc who did wonders to the plot development and instead of using these absolute duo to carry on the whole show, every single character made, despite unnoticed, a great contribution to the plot so it would at least become discernable... no, that would be an understatement since these characters created a massive role to the plot development overall, supported by high quality of art style, CG visual, sound effect, and talented voice characters despite some of these VAs were new to anime studio."

Verdict:

• Do watch if you want actions that orchestrated by adorable girls and a badass villain.
• Don't watch if you want a slice of life with a deep and insightful meaning about the world.
• While this show also has a compelling ideological view about society and its ideal perspective, don't expect any amusing political background - you won't get any of these.

Okay, that is all and thank you for reading this review.