Warning this review contains spoilers.
First impressions, so I am doing a review on an anime that is the top ten on my anime list at the moment what could possibly go wrong.

Story, 3/10

So the story begins with this guy named satoru a falling mangaka.
who has the ability to time travel when ever some one dies near him and he is forced to save them unless he wants to live out a time loop for the rest of his life.
So one day while going to visit his mother or something like that he finds his mother dead and out of nowhere people see him covered in blood and see his mum dead body and now think he killed his mother Just before the police arrest him.
he is just magically transported 18 years back into the past,
Where during this time a string the children marders was happening, realized what's happened goes on a quest to solve the mystery behind these marders

Ok so this sounds good enough I mean we got some mystery shit going down with who is the person who is killing these kids and we got this we got to save these kids before they killed going on in the background.
So overall the story for eased sounds like a good idea on paper.

The story basically is him living out his younger years and befriending an abused girl who will become the first victim in this series of child killings.
And him solving the mystery of who this child killer could be.
Which I thought overall the story was interesting and it has this sort of nostalgia feeling to it.
Because main character is getting the opportunity to live out his childhood years again and play dragon quest with his old friends.

The only positive I am going to say is that the mystery is interesting and they build it up very well and it's really sad that this is where the pros end.
Because time for the cons

One problem I had with this show is that the main character who has this time travel power with nothing explained why he has this power or if there are other people with powers like him.
Another problem I had with the whole time travel thing is that it kills all tension in the plot because when somethings bad happens he can just time reset and very thing goes back to normal.
It makes the drama that comes up in this show very cheap, forced and overall not engaging.

Oh yes speaking of drama. It drama for the most part in this show is mallow drama and shock factor involving a little girl being abused my her mother Because reasons.

yet people will tell me that this is realistic and not forced in any way.
Also quick question how many of you guys reading this review right now just level with me here how meany people do you know that are abusing there kids right now?
Like they could have done more with it instead of using it for shock factor and cheap emotional manipulation.

Ok another problem I had with the mystery.
Because as a mystery show this so this is so god dam convent when it needed to be.
Like for example the killer info dumped about that he was the killer and why he did it.
Oh if you want to know why he did it I will tell you it was because why the hell not.
I mean one day you when your an adult you get little bored and then this idea comes to you a geat way to pass the time by killing kids you know this happens all the dam time you see it in the news so often.

Also there also some romance in this show.
That is pretty much the text book example of paedophilia
With the main protagonist being sexually attracted to a ten year old girl.
And Just because he in a ten year old body doesn't excuse it.

On paper it's fine just sadly it put pretty colors and presentation over actual substance and depth

Characters,3/10

The main character is as bland as toast and also comes of as a complete loser that learns nothing.
Because i would actually expect a character who is an adult to have some sort of personality.

The side characters are one very one note.

Like even the kid characters don't even act the like kids like when could kids psycho analysis on an adult who lives in the Internet age. I know the some children can be very smart and can pick up thing most people will miss but I don't believe that those characters are those type of children.

Also the Main bad guy was very disappointing as well I mean all that build up for that.
And also the main character didn't even figure out who it was Because the killer just info dumped what he was doing and his evil plans to the main character.
Who at the time didn't come to the proper conclusion to who the killer was like he was close but he still had other factors to think about before he reached the actual conclusion.
It like that thing in movies where the bad guys like info dump there plan to the good guys and then the good guys stop there plan.

Art,7/10

Very well done animtion.
It also fits the tone of the show with this Kind of dim color scheme and also the fact it also winter In The anime with makes it quite.
The background animation is fine as well it goes very well with the whole it's winter.

The character designs I quite like them.
Because the kids look like real kids.

Sound, 6/10

The opening is quite nice to listen to.
But it didn't really catch my interest but I still think that quite a few people could get some enjoyment out of it.
The ost is ok there are few parts that don't really fit with the whole tone of the show.
The ost was done by yuki kajiura who has done the ost for sword art online and fate zero.
Sub voice acting as ok-ish

Enjoyment, 5/10

So the only thing I like about this show as the idea and the ost.
other than that I thought that this show is over hyped and i also think it doesn't deserve to be on the top ten anime list on m.a.l or any site for the matter.

Overall, 4/10

So if you want to see a good example of over hype and how it can destroy a show as a whole then this will be a good show for you to watch.
It also a good example of what not to do when your writing the story.

If you like mysteries or want to check out mystery shows.
then maybe esraed would be good one timer experience,
But other than that I couldn't really recommend it.