Review of Texhnolyze

First of this anime is not for everyone, it has a slow pace which i don't mind myself but other people won't; With a complex thoughtful provoking story and a heavy ending, which is not suitable for those who expect a happy ending but keep in mind that the anime itself makes you see this is not happy at all, this anime is Nihilist, that means everything is lost, negativity at is best. Story *May contain spoilers that could explain things that you could miss* A complex story, really difficult to keep with, i really had to pay attention to it but when i did catch up,i got questions to make and no one to answer, not because i got confused but some things didn't make sense. Texhnolyze is not just about making people into have a robotic part, but more about the research of Eriko ''Doc'' into creating the perfect human/texhnolyzed (Ichise which make sense when is explained and she even falls for his ''creation'') by using this flowers called Laffia that only appears in the city of Lux, and that was the intention from the people of Class the city above Lux but is useless because people above lost hope of keep living and this was one of the things that didn't make sense is a sci-fi not a supernatural anime and what i mean is what happened to them, don't want to spoil but didn't make sense for a sci-fi; That research is used in a different way by Kanno who to me, acted like a kid would act, meaning he wanted everyone to lose what he didn't have in the first place meanwhile there is a war between almost everyone caused because no reason explained by this guy Yoshi (another thing that didn't make sense) who at the beginning met this girl in Gabe (a city below Class) Ran the prophet who saw the future, which was this old man Sage dying, Sage then explains to Yoshi that Ran can see a POSSIBLE future (and she has another role too) and he was right because what she saw didn't happened because it was changed and that's another thing that didn't make sense, in the whole anime Ran says that the future can't be changed but that's not true seeing that Yoshi changed the future before but now it can't be changed just because no reason, when it clearly could be changed, i call that BS. Another thing that didn't make sense was Shinji, when he was headed to shoot everyone in that one place and suddenly he has a human index finger on his texhnolyzed finger and can use it to shoot, that makes no sense, there are a few more examples of nonesensical BS but better mention the story is imperfect and some episodes were there to make it more slower, and not everything is explained or they are explained badly.
I felt sad watching the fate of Ran and i just cried because of the song played at that last scene, i was expecting a sad ending obviously but that ending was too heavy, maybe if i was new to anime and saw this first i would feel depressed and empty and be Nihilist, but for some reason i didn't felt anything of that, is true i cried a little because of the song and felt shocked with the heavy ending but after it ended i felt normal, not everyone reacts the same but i understood the shock this caused, the hopeless ending. I'm splitted between liking and hating the ending, i'm in the middle. Despite all that for some reason i found the story very good but by a little.

Art & Animation
I think is not my kind of style, where everything had greyish white/black tones, it has colors but they are not vivid, it was more the intention to make it that way to create a dark atmosphere, which i sensed but i wasn't affected by it, but because of that style, it got me thinking that this was not going to have a happy ending, and i appreciated the heads up, and i get this was intentional, the thing is that i found flaws and i didn't felt what the style was meant to make me feel, tho in one part i felt creeped by the shapes at the end. Overall was good.

Sound
The voice acting did a very good job, sometimes i felt that it could be better and they should portray emotions more intense, for example with Ichise, he sounded creepy whenever he screamed of rage and it was good 'cause he scared people but the voice actor seemed had a problem in his throat, because he couldn't scream Ran with despair of not reaching her, almost felt like just by saying Ran was a problem for him to speak. The music is almost little, but the backround songs that are there, are pretty good for the theme, not to mention the great OP and a great ED song that has a melancholic melody but with lyrics that shows hope. Overall was very good.

Character
I wasn't attached to the characters, i felt they were dull half of the time.
-Ichise since the beginning is an emotionless character, even before losing his limbs, he was hopeless full of rage and rarely speaked, he suffered a lot, but he develops some feelings and hope because he meets Ran and feels he's her guardian angel and feels he's in debt with Onishi and ''Doc'', he's still emotionless and is hard to get attached to him but you want him to have success.
-Onishi was really interesting, i liked his character, he always wanted to make everything change for the better, one of the few good people and one of the best characters.
-Shinji was cool too but he was a little crazy, he's obsessed of being the best, wants to be like Onishi or outbest him, and he was a little dumb at the end.
-Eriko the sexy beautiful ''Doc'', i was really interested in her, i wanted Ichise to have some feelings for her just like she did for him and i didn't like to see her depressed, if only Ichise wasn't emotionless and said something to cheer her, it would be another story for her, she just wanted to feel loved, that prick.
-Ran was really dumb, she kept saying the future couldn't be changed, when in the beginning the future changed from what she saw, to be honest, everything is her fault, if only she told Ichise what really would happen, if only she accepted her fate to be the prophet in the first place... oh well.
There are other good interesting support characters like Yoshi or Touyama etc. but they are interesting and nothing more, they needed more development, good characters in general.

Enjoyment
The anime pace reminds me of Shigurui but Texhnolyze is more complex and both are produced by Madhouse and if you have seen one and liked it, then you must watch the other. I wasn't bored but i was not feeling it until the ep. 15 where everything gets interesting, a shocking heavy ending that is not for everyone or the ones that expects a happy ending, very good enjoyment if you know what you're getting into, just like myself, i was always expecting something bad would happen because the anime makes you think that, a little shocking because it was more than what i expected, it reminded me of Wolf's Rain ending without the last 5 min. of ''happy'' ending.