This review has a spoilerfree section and a spoiler section. All I can really say about Wonder Egg Priority is: what happened? The first episode of WEP is probably the best first episode across pretty much anything Ive ever seen. Its surreal its melancholic it establishes character wonderfully it pulls at your heartstrings and its unsettling. The tone is clear from the getgo: this is a show that will handle a lot of delicate topics and it asks you to come to it with nothing short of sincerity. This review will be hard for me because the first episodes of WEP are SO strong and meticulously lovingly crafted and then it just kind of...falls apart at the end. The best takeaway I can offer before I jump into a more intensive review is to watch episode 1 and then stop. Theres no point getting sucked into the rest of the mystery of the story when WEP doesnt deliver. I walked away from WEP mostly thinking what was the point of all that? I will say that Wonder Egg has some of the most incredible visuals and framing in anime. The way some scenes are shot is incredibly masterful. The use of color is amazing. The character designs are charming and shoujo/magicalgirlesque while still feeling very much like a type of girl youd see on the street. The main girls are a very colorful cast each with their own personalities strengths weaknesses and traumas and watching them bond and come together was nothing short of wholesome. The show loses itself at the end by turning away from its characters and trying to concoct a narrative along the likes of Lain or Madoka Magica but where Lain succeeds as a character analysis of one very intricate girl and Madoka Magica wins as a plotintensive story furnished with fun characters WEP just doesnt really do any of that. Spoiler review begins here. I dont really know what else to say. I dont really feel like I disliked WEP but I was definitely let down by it especially as the first 7 or so episodes were really shaping the show up to be one of my alltime favorites. To be given that and then walk away with a hollow feeling is a strange sort of disappointment. Giving it a 5/10 feels wrong but giving it a score any higher or lower than that feels equally wrong. WEP just is. It happened I watched it and thats about all I can really offer. But I wanted to talk about the weird emptiness it offered me so what better place to complain than a review on an anime site? lmao. EDIT 6/30: My Priority just came out and given the generally negative reviews it received Im not going to waste my time with watching it. But since I mention the upcoming special episode in this review I thought Id at least add a blurb about it here.
50 /100
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