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Warning this review may contain spoilers.

First impressions, so we got a super natural marrder mystery going down with harem elements going in the background. Sounds interesting enough.

Story,5/10

So the premise and setup of choas head is pretty simple for the most part because in one way or another it's has been done before a lot of time.
You know Like we have the main character living his Madame life. There are some mysterious murders that have been going down in his local area. He doesn't pay attention to these things and then out of nowhere he is then quickly dragged into the middle of it.
with him now trying to figure out what has been going on and finding out that things are more than they appear and him also finding out that he's got got super natural powers that give him the ability to make his imagination real and along the way finding out that there some girls who also have the same power as him.

Which now in retrospect this kind of thing has been kind of done before and some times better in the choas head case.
Now I am not saying that choas head is bad in any way. Because I thought it was quite interesting for what it was because it tackles some interesting concepts, like how realty can change so quickly or how you shouldn't trust everything you see and how do you describe the concept of something that as real for not.
Which is really something you don't see that very often.

But the problem I have with chaos head as a whole is that it's presentation was very disappointing in quite a few areas. I am pretty sure and don't quote me on this I am pretty
sure that the presentation in the visnel novel that this was based off was a lot better. But problems I have for one is that the pacing is very fast.

From a nartive stand point it feels like to me that it's hip hoping to every major plot point in about 12 episodes.
Which kind of kills all build up and because of the small amount of episodes the show never had time for cool down moments or side story's to help flesh out the setting.

One of the things that the anime did get right when it came to presentation was the creepy atmosphere because this a story about mystery and murder.

Now another problem I had as the ending because it was very wft and it is one of those open endings where you don't know what really happens next.

Characters, 6/10

The main character taku was some what interesting.
Like his personality wasn't that special because he was a shut-in otaku who really doesn't have much of a personality. But what made him interesting was his mental problems which his ability kind of made it more fun because you don't really know if any off the things that he is seeing are real or something that he is thinking off.

The side characters.
Where also kind of interesting in way as well.
Because they all had something interesting about them.

like for example one of the characters mostly speaks in cryptic word play.
A different character who was also interesting as a girl who only speaks using ner mind.

Even though there personallys are genetic as hell.

One problem I found was the character relationships.

Because of the pacing and ep count we never these characters come together naturally.

Now You could say that to some extent that they became closer together because they shared a common enemy that was a huge threat and because of that they became closer.
But doesn't really justify the fact that some of where some what close to him even though thay had only know him for a short time.

Art, 6/10

Now animation for choas head for the most part looks very nice for the most part.

It has some very nice backgrounds.

It also has a nice colors as well.

Sound, 6/10

The quite liked the op and ending themes
They where quite nice to listen to.
But they not really worth looking for.

The ost well kind of lacking for the part on its own.
But it did bring the right atmosphere to every scene that showed up in the anime.

Enjoyment, 6/10

Well on of the things I quite liked was the idea behind it.
Because on Paper this would have been a really good idea if it was presented better.
I liked it's idea of realty being contently put in a state of Mind fuck.

I also quite enjoyed the creep atmosphere.

But pacing and ep count did put a major dampening of how I enjoyed is show. Because
While watching this show it really did feel that it was missing something more to it.

Overall, 5/10

If your into v.n anime adaptation then you will probably like it even though it feels a like fan service for v.n players.

But if you not into gennic story's in general and you do t like gore or maid fuck then stay a way.
But you like the idea of choas head.
Your probably better off playing the game.