I did have mixed feelings about posting this but decided to say fuck it for once and let it be whole thing is completely spoiler free and you can find a tldr at the bottom Girls Frontline can be summed up with one simple concept being a huge hit or miss where the hits are not sufficient to balance all the blunders. Plenty of the osts are either eargrating completely unfitting for what is being shown in that moment or cheap rehashes of the game soundtrack there are a couple osts that make me go aww that sounds like that one ost of that chapter but thats about it. Of course it would be stupid of me to expect osts at the same level of the game but the anime soundtrack just feels like a farcry to what you actually get to experience playing some of my favourite game osts for example I left the last one as a pure link because of characters spoilers The art is very heh all the characters faces look like paper copies of one another and since basically the majority of the budget went into the op the animation sometimes was alright and sometimes it gave us bad boys like this one 220https://i.ur.com/4ftRbled.webp?maxwidth=640shape=thumbfidelity=medium.jpg it was that memorable people even modded games to bring this cursed abomination to life I just had to share And finally the story for last. I do acknowledge that the initial story is not that good even in the game: its repetitive at times bland and mixes the more highstake moments with flatter ones rather poorly but in all honesty I always thought that the story managed itself alright. The difference is that the anime manages to suck in all the already not abundant life of the initial story rushing the earlier chapters in the shortest time possible and bundling everything in a messy soulless blur with few saving moments that truely leave an impression. Continuing on this with a slightly more personal opinion another word I could describe the whole issue with is uncanny because yes this is indeed the adaption of the game the community has prayed and memed for years but it is also that constant feel of wrong. When I was watching the anime there was always that underlying uncannyness a sense of familiarity for what I had gotten to experience that at the same time never felt truely right and a constant cycle of compromising and trashing my expectations onto the depths of earth because even being aware that eventually there will be a better they decided to make you suffer to reach that. But despite everything I honestly still gave a 6 because I have watched worse because Im biased and because my critical sense is screwed but if the anime itself or this review have remotely interested you then I wholeheartedly reccomend giving a shot at the game cause after having played it for more than 2 years at this point if youre up to it I can tell you that the story is worth it.