Review of Amnesia
Are you a lonely teen who really wants a perfect boy to tell you that you're cute and kiss you during break? but you also want a multiverse, timeloop plot? but you ALSO want to date a cute and romantic interpretation of joker (like, the card joker)(and the other cards) ? Then this is pretty much what you want! Do I have to explain this is an adaptation of a PSP visual novel? because it is - and because of that I just went in expecting a bad story and character development, but it's actually pretty good! You see, It doesn't ask too much from you, it'ssimple, but well made. It's about this girl called... oh wait, they actually don't tell us her name - she is pretty much just a vessel for you to live the story through her eyes - She wakes up one day and doesn't remember anything, not even her name. So let's call her MC...
MC is then greeted by a... um... a fairy boy, named Orion, who tells her that he sorta 'triped' in the timelines and messed up some by accident, so now she needs to find out the answers to the following questions:
who is she?
what was her life like?
who are her friends? enemies?
does she have a boyfriend? who is it? which one of the super hot cute boys around her is she dating?
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There are 4 boys who she is dating - whenever she dies, she goes to another timeline where she is dating one boy. So it basically goes like this: she is dating emo boy -> she has an accident -> she wakes up in another timeline where she is dating idol boy and emo boy is more in the background.
However it's not just the boys that change, but some events in each timeline are diferent form each other, one exemple is her death. Oh... yeah... she dies, a lot in many diferent ways, which is kinda weird (and predictable - it's like "I know it's 3 in the morning and my ankle hurts, but I will follow the misterious shadow in the woods!" and then she dies )but yeah, the storie is pretty much that. it's about those little cute couple scenes she has with each boy and you talk about which boy is your favorite with your friends, i guess.
Visuals:
Pretty great actually, the animation isn't super great, but it looks nice, and I like the wacky character designs.
Sound:
To be honest, there isn't much to be said here... it sounds fine.
Characters:
they're pretty simple, honestly. just pretty much stereotypes, nothing to write home about. - except thoma, he was... honestly more intersting, misterious and fucked up then THE misterious joker guy
Oh! the misterious joker guy!
well...
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well... I wasn't disapointed because I was expecting shit, and this isn't shit, but it's not super good either...
the joker guy is in love with MC, however they can't exist together. Everytime they are in the same timeline, one of them has to die, it's usually her. both because she is the one jumping through time and because the joker guy has a split personality who is kinda like "love you to death" and "you're so cute I want to kill you", but also he wants to live, so sometimes he kills her.
I thought that over all, in a series that is suposed to be about drama, romance and wacky timeloop... the amount of death was kinda weird, none of it is grotesque or exagerated, just weird that it's there.
Some characters have good development and it seems to be because they are fan favorites, like thoma, Shin and Ukyo have interesting plots and moments, but Ikki and kent(I had to look up his name, because he was so boring I literally ignored his part )... there's so much left to be desired. And Orinon... he is cute, not very anoying, just odd and kind of uneeded but I am thankfull he disapears when he is not needed.
It may seem like a dumb task to review an anime that was only made to sell more copys of the game, but this can pretty much work as it's own thing. it's not outsanding, but it's worth it, if you like cheap romance and like to turn your brain off a little to enjoy eye-candy.