Review of Dies irae

There are not many animes that look good on first sight and have interesting synopsis, but end up as something way worse than underwhelming or bad. It's just awful. The plot was confusing and messy, however even these two words are not enough to describe how much of a trainwreck Dies Irae was to watch. Every episode generated more questions randomly popping out from newly introduced characters or themes, without of course answering most of stuff that had happened earlier. Bad plot and chaotic writing could've been fixed a little by characters present in the show. Well, in this case they weren't. Characters are bland and actvery often in edgy matter. Both protagonists and antagonists didn't feel realistic, relatable or even likeable.

Art style and effects? They were okayish. I had hopes to at least see good looking fights, but they were chaotic and not that good looking.
Character designs were nothing special.

Music and voice acting? Music wasn't bad, but felt to be used in random manner, as if creators thought "hey, let's put this classical music tune here, maybe it will fit what's going on on screen". Don't get me wrong, because there were moments where the music fit the visuals, but doe to chaotic plot I described earlier it's hard to tell whether most of scenes with classical music playing in the background actually fit the atmosphere.

Why such low score? I think this show deserves it. It might look good and have few moderately good looking scenes, but it can't compensate all those elements that simply were sad to look at.