Review of Wonder Egg Priority: My Priority

Imagine being an animator at Studio CloverWorks and being worked to the point of hospitalization as production mismanagement causes the entire finale to not only miss its air date, but get pushed back an extra three months. Imagine being forced to continue to grind and toil for three more sleepless months. Imagine all of that, and the final product is a complete joke - a non-ending that spends half its runtime on recapping the events of the series (meaning that 2 out of 13 episodes are recaps) and the other half sputtering in narrative circles. Questions remain unanswered, conflicts unaddressed, the genre and tonal clusterfuckis entirely unresolved, which seems especially egregious when you spent 22 minutes reminding your audience of each and every one of those open points.

WONDER EGG PRIORITY SPECIAL: MY PRIORITY wanted the abstraction of NEON GENESIS EVANGELION's original ending, but provided none of the thematic weight or substance or artistry, and instead I can't help but think this show was a total sham. The early episodes trick the viewer into thinking that it will be a thoughtful piece about the societal pressures and mental maladies that bring people to the point of suicide. At first, WONDER EGG PRIORITY is flashy and dramatic and oh so mysterious, an enchanting facade meant to lure in the suckers, but the moment you venture deeper it becomes apparent that the foundation is shoddy, the construction utterly careless, and the entire framework collapses upon the most surface level inspection. WONDER EGG PRIORITY was a scam, the ruse fell apart, the charlatans in charge were forced to cobble something together to appease the mob, and this half-assed, meandering, timewaster of a special is the result.

Imagine being worked like a slave and for all your work, all your effort, this is the final result - not because you didn't try, not because you didn't care, but all because the people in charge never knew what they were doing in the first place. What a disaster.