World's End

First of, this is my very first review of anything here on MAL ever and it will therefore also considering this to be an 1Episode OVA be rather straight forward and not too long. Have you ever been thinking how the future might affect your past and viceverse? Well, what this 1 episode OVA tries to do is to sort of make your brain twist around 360 degrees and make you think once again about how the future possibly could be like, aswell how it could affect your past and how the two are connected to eachother. The story is in my opinion slightly mindtwisting due tomy previous statement but does however do well considering that it infact is only 30minutes long and the creators actually manages to deliever a message which I believe is rather hard to do in such short amount of time. Story: It's hard to really review the story without spoiling anything so it'll be a rather short one. It is basically a story about 4 high schoolgirls who has leapt through time, 6000 years from their current present time into the future. They are stuck in that very loop of time without any sign of any other mankind. I didn't really get what their goal was or what they were trying to achieve but nonetheless it got me interested and I sat hooked to it throughout the whole OVA since they brought up some interesting ideas on how future and past could be connected to eachother. Art: It's fine, pretty much today's avarage anime quality. Sound: I found that they really had put alot of work into the quality of sound, aswell as having a good amount of sounds and effects, suiting every situation really well. Character: For the characters they aren't really anything to mention, there is no introduction to them except for Yakusa whom seems like the main protagonist of the story, overall they are just like normal high school girls. Overall: Hence I found the story aswell as their theories quite interesting and all of the sound fitting to each and another event, which hooked me to it. I think people should give this OVA a chanse because it has some really interesting stuff to "tell" you. Thanks! PS. I'm sorry if you find the parts of the review repetetive and if there are some errors in there, but it is as said, my first review here on MAL. :)

First point: you won't really understand the story unless you read the manga. Already an inconvenience. How many people can really say they will read a manga AND a light novel to understand a 30min anime? If you're in to that, off you go but otherwise, stay with the group of people who were just interested in something about the anime I can't even remember. This anime is actually a really good short but its one major flaw is the fundamental one - the plot line. Every other aspect is either average or good like the animation (one of the better ones I've seen) or thesound (particularly good.) Actually one of the better aspects I liked was how the voices of the characters suited the characters. Yes they were the typical, short-skirted school girls but they way they spoke and what they said just seemed, in some weird odd way, absolutely befitting. I can say no more of this. On an emotional basis, you're pretty much on your own. Some cry, some don't but this anime just seems to be in the grey. Once finished, I felt some weird mixture of sadness and was slightly unsatisfied. But that's not a total turn off. If you're in to questioning the "vision of the future" and the future of mankind, go for it but if you're not, that cool too because even though the anime is essentially centered on that, it doesn't bombard you with so much existential questions that you have to go re-evaluate your life. Personally, I though it was a slice-of-life anime. Not everyone's cup of tea, but not completely distasteful either. Look, long story short, you're gonna be confused and emotionally weirded out by yourself. This review was more a weird string of thoughts than an actual review but, you know, que sera sera.

I know its just a one EP ova wtfffff OK I say this Anime thinking it would be good time traveling Anime ....... But at the end all i was doing was scratching my head out of confusion of what was going on and how they solved the problem. Look they story this anime is trying to do is very interesting.. Four high school who are time travelers they been sent 6000 years into the future, from their present in which the same day is endlessly repeated, in order to evade human extinction is a very interesting idea. you would think this anime would beawesome right ... wrong this anime just puts you in this would not know who the girls are or what there past are you get to know nothing about this girls and when they do a flashback whit other characters you are left confused wondering who this people are what relationship do they have whit this girls but you get nothing.. and in the opening when Arata Nakamura is introducing the movie there making they never tell you whey they made this movie in the first place.. In the end its not bad its fair and if you like time traveling anime"s and good looking anime then you should watch this its only one episode watch.... its just that if this it had 12 or more episodes would have a better character development and would have been a interesting and thrilling Anime.........

Did I miss the point, or was there just not one in the first place? Multimedia projects always have the failing that in order to get the whole story, you have to go through each different part of it, as only then will everything fit together and make sense. And as nice as it is once you have finished, to be able to explain everything and appreciate how tightly woven every detail is, you will always be confused by whichever part you start with, and get spoiled about some aspects of the next. Quite often, that part can be not just confusing, but ends up really unsatisfactory,so much so that it discourages going through the rest of the project. This would be Arata naru Sekai, which left many questions but no real reason for me to go and find the answers. ---- Arata naru Sekai is very light on story. Aside from a few flashbacks, the protagonists mostly just wander around an abandoned cityscape, exploring a few locations they knew in the present. However, rather infuriatingly, the characters seem in a rush to move on. They notice and experience several unusual things, but leave them all be, even though I would expect them to play on their minds like they did mine as the viewer. This continues all through to the ending, which is incredibly perplexing. Again, I would expect it to maybe have some meaning in relation to the other parts of the project, but I'm not enticed to them after its poor execution. It's almost as if they had run out of time and decided to hurry to a close. Like the plot, there is not a lot at play with the characters. The protagonist, Arisa, who prompts most of the flashbacks, has the setup for an arc, but it never gets resolved. Rather, it is completely absent from the ending, not even instantly reverted. As for the other girls, I can't seem to recall them actually having stories of their own, they struck me as just other speakers for Arisa to bounce off of. The flashbacks themselves are probably the best part of the OVA, as they are where most of Arisa's character work is done, as well as featuring what I'm led to believe is the whole project's overall deuteragonist, Kirishima. of course, being absent from the majority of the OVA doesn't really give a lot of opportunities for him to be explored. Just like Arisa, he has the seeds of a character arc, and also just like Arisa, he doesn't get an ending to it. ---- Story aside, the technical details are just average. Stylistically there is nothing of note, the artstyle is generic and the lighting and colouring are neither garish nor muted. I can't say much for the music as I don't recall any, and last of all the animation is passable but often times sidestepped. The OVA used a lot of diagetic sound, which i think worked towards its favour when trying to create the desired tone, and almost worked if not for the plot issues. I don't recall an OP, and the ED was forgettable. The world design was decent, but it grossly underestimated how much a city would change after 6000 years of abandonment. I guess I could excuse this if it's supposed to be 6000 years of the same day, but I'm not certain if that was actually what occurred. What was interesting was how the protagonist started already in the future, and I assumed it would never directly show the present, though this was not the case. The various locations felt like set pieces, but nothing was really done with them. Overall the setting is a missed opportunity, which more or less sums up the whole OVA. ---- There isn't a lot that could be improved about Arata naru Sekai without changing it entirely. If I had to point to something, perhaps isolating to the future world could be interesting, as I mentioned it initially began with. Since it does not show a time machine or the process of arrival, perhaps adding even more ambiguity to the present day might help. Overall, it was disappointing and directionless. There's nothing to close the curtain on and I'm still at a loss as to what really happened. If adaptations of the manga and LN parts of the project were announced, I probably wouldn't bother.