This show ended up being so terrible. I'm not even talking about the plot twists or whatever they tried to do narratively at the end because stuff was already done for by then, they just threw another pile of shit on top of it.

I mean, in the first half or at least the few first episodes It really felt like it was trying to be original and creative visually and have an interesting enough social commentary about otakus(i.e passionate people, not just weebs) and their culture. Instead it managed to fail to do both except the 3 first episodes and episode 8, it was all uninteresting visually and looked like a slideshow sometimes, on the polar opposite of what the few first episodes like episode 2 were. The fundamental message that felt like it was going to be the core of the show was just meaningless later and even straight up humiliating at the point where it looked like a parody of itself. Sometimes it was as if it wasn't even trying to anymore, it was just randomly dropping it's leitmotiv "I want to like what I like as much as I like" to remind us that yes this show was serious and in tune with its message at some point. I realized I had crazy expectation from this after the 3 first episodes and I still think it coulda been crazy, I thought the core of the show was going to be more (instead it was even less lmao) than just a commentary of the place of otakus in society and instead push it further to actually and seriously talk about how neoliberalists societies exert domination over people who don't fit in the mold, ostracizing and alienating, trying to uniform them. The worst might be that sometimes some characters or some scenes tries to show something interesting and in harmony with the narrative core of the anime but everything surrounding it is so unplausible anymore that it's impossible to be taken seriously and neither does it try it to be taken seriously anyway. Some ideas and design from the anime also show that it was trying and God it's so so frustrating because so many things just highlight the fact that there was lots of interesting ideas behind this whole show.

The one thing the show definitely did well is the soundtrack. From the opening to the ending and all the OSTs it was pretty amazing with a lot of diversity in genre and crazy songs. Well, I guess this makes sense since Jun Inagawa is also a DJ (Look more into the guy btw he's pretty interesting). The opening and the ending are particularly great, both could definitely be contender for the best of the year especially the opening. The song perfectly fitting the visuals from the slow start to the insane change of style in the middle of the song showing all these psychedelic visuals at a bewildering pace was such a delight to watch at the start of every episode.

Honestly I think Kill la kill just does most of this so much better and more interestingly but it's sad that this so interesting premise ended up failing everything it tried to be because it sure could've been contending for my favourite of the year if it kept the early highs through all of the show