Review of Texhnolyze

Ok... so I will be straight up. This might be an anime that is too smart for me. Here is the problem... I think I am fairly smart and really tried to pay attention. Said a different way... this comes across a bit pretentious in that it doesn't hold the viewers hand AT ALL. Like... there is subtle, hidden, and then this which is something FAR more difficult to understand. By the halfway point I really didn't understand this anime much at all. It goes out of it's way to not explain things, relationships, or really much of anything. In an attempt to be subtleand edgy it just becomes confusing and a hot mess. I can see that it did a LOT of things right and it's world and tone are very interesting... if only it would explain a lot more, not try to shroud most things for a "big reveal" at the end and it might be pretty good.

Also... I think my main issue was at the end nothing was really solved, I was still left not really understanding the relationship between most people and major and I mean MAJOR plot points went so far over my head I was just left confused and frustrated. You can't get emotionally connected if you're just confused the whole time. This is a miss for me though some people may really like it if they are able to get it.