One day a town is annihilated. Yuki, the lone survivor, manages to escape the calamity and whatever captured her. She joins up with our motorcycle deliveryman Takuya, and head off to where it all began.

You know what? I don’t care. The way this show plays out doesn’t make me want to care at all, and I dropped it after four episodes, though I really should have dropped it by the second one. The storyline, the main pair, and the people helping them all go on endless rides in circles through the city, making stops everywhere except at a clear destination. Throughout the opening episode, the second, and the third, and beyond, all we get are mindless action scenes, people running around like headless chickens, and some sad attempts at building a "plot".

Picture this scene. Let’s say you live in a city where sheep are revered. There is a slight problem though – everyone has a sheep except you. All you have is a dog. Undeterred, you decide that you’re going to turn it into a sheep. So you get your hands on paper, shred it, and paste the bits on your dog to make it look like a sheep.

Congratulations, you have something that looks like a sheep! Except it is still a dog, and to top it off it looks like the aftermath of it falling into the overflowing waste bin of a paper-shredding machine as you were swapping it out for an empty bag.

That is in essence the spirit of the show. Particularly from the third episode, an absurd amount of elements begin to be slapped onto the plot to make it seem “epic”. Except the additions don’t make sense at all. We suddenly have an idol group stuck in a time loop, and then “discoveries” that are just made. Not worked out, not deduced. “We said so, therefore it is the case” is this show’s definition of plot advancement. By the fourth episode, the show makes it clear that things are going to stay the way they are. More terms, more “happenings”, therefore more excitement!

Oh. My. God.

To top things off, the characters in this show have zero personality. They deliver the lines required with the passion of a wooden block in order to get the plot to move somewhere. But they don't make you sympathise with them, or relate to them at all. They're just there.

The closest I come to sympathy is when I hear the voices behind them and think, "these are voiced by people who had to slot recording sessions for this show and its deadpan script into their schedules, when they could be taking on other projects or taking some much needed time off."

Art and sound design are middling and nothing to write home about.

This show is shovelware through and through. The dog that you tried turning into a sheep earlier is now howling in disbelief and agony at your screen, and probably at you for dedicating so much time to this show. You now have an animal cruelty accusation to fend off.

The scene of Takuya crashing his bike at the end of the very first episode was meant to foreshadow the things in store for you. It was a cry for help, and a warning – that this show would be a massive waste of time. This town called Lost wasn’t the only thing annihilated that fateful day, when I decided to pick up this show. I would like my 1 hour and 30 minutes back.

Summary
Story (50%) - 0 (Abysmal)
Characters (20%) - 0 (Abysmal)
Art (10%) - 4/10 (Middling)
Sound (10%) - 4/10 (Middling)
Personal Enjoyment (10%) - 0 (Painful)