Fantastic Children · review
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I had a good time with this one. The OST was good throughout and I think the series mostly delivered pretty well on its mysteries and had a pretty satisfying conclusion that brought things to a fitting end without jumping the shark. There are elements of this that didn't quite come together for me and plot threads that are still left dangling, but they don't bother me too much. Narratively, it's not doing a whole lot to stand out even though it does have some interesting ideas (really not helped by the entire arc on Greecia feeling pretty rushed and also including most of theplot holes of the series), and despite having a few pretty strong characters (I particularly appreciated how the Children of Befort eventually had to reckon with the lives they took along the way, and the amount that Helga and Thoma have to wrestle with their past lives helped elevate them), some of them either felt a little basic (Gueroca and Titus in particular, despite being pivotal to so many events in this story) or just were tools of the writer rather than interesting characters in their own right (Cooks and Alice). Still, this was absolutely a worthy watch that explored cool concepts and sent me down a rabbit hole of theories in a good way.