AMNESIA's execution kind of reminded me of
last Summer's Arcana Famiglia carrying that interesting
premise and ending up being quite an annoying series. I guess there really is nothing to expect from an anime based on an
otome game. Seriously.
The best thing AMNESIA probably did successfully was the
merging of all routes. The sequence of the story also worked well as it gives a
pretty nice development on the heroine's decisions. But for her overall
character, she was barely good enough given her amnesia being the biggest
obstacle in her personality development.
Setting the heroine
aside, the different routes had their own strengths and weaknesses and as the
series progresses, it's a good thing that each route becomes better than the
previous one (excluding Ikki's route, I guess. It was just the worst for me). The
series didn't had much character development giving only a couple of episodes
each character. The change in their positions each arc is the reason for this
which makes it a bit understandable. The only characters who were retained
throughout the series was the heroine, Orion and Ukyo and all of which were
pretty decent characters.
As I have mentioned
earlier, despite how the heroine seems a bit weak for a main character, her
development went on pretty smooth. The constant changes of the worlds she's in
developed her decision making throughout the series as she tries to figure out the
situations in each world she ends up. As for Orion, aside from trying to
explain the situation to the heroine at earlier episodes, his character didn't
really matter much in the series but the heroine pointed out at the end that
he's mostly her source of encouragement. I guess that makes him a bit useful at
the end :P Finally for Ukyo, his character was not fully explained until the
end of the series since he was the final arc and the final guy the heroine
dealt with although his constant appearances in the previous arcs were pretty
interesting and very well build his presence in the series as it established
things in his character.
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The art of the
series is pretty decent as expected from Brain's Base although dark art isn't
really something I'd like to see from them, it's basically just the nature of
the series itself. Aside from the characters' lack of costume change (LOL),
there are scenes wherein you'd feel that AMNESIA
really came from an otome game (not that I've played that kind of game).
All in all, AMNESIA is predictably a series not worth the
time. Its opening episode worked itself pretty well as it gave a pretty
interesting premise; continued its run in a mediocre manner with one guy after
the other; and finally ending it with a decent arc but poor execution.
