Review of Texhnolyze

I was promised a good psychological anime with a raw depiction of humanity, and what I got was gore and poorly executed gang violence. I have watched just about every psychological anime under the sun at this point, I love shows that make me think and question things like 'why are we here', 'what is morality', stuff like that. Texhnolyze ended up on just about every list I could find while looking for new recommendations that fit into that mindfuck kind of category, so I gave it a try. I can sort of see where those lists are coming from, but it really didn't get tothat point at all until maybe the last 3 episodes. The pacing is terrible, and I was never really fully interested in the show. The animation was also lackluster in my opinion, not terrible for being an early 2000s anime, but there were multiple scenes that had so many added effects that just made them hard to watch. Texhnolyze had a lot of creative ideas in the production like a lack of dialogue and a mildly interesting plot, but the execution was poor in my eyes.

Blood and gore are part of psychological anime and I've come to accept that fact, but this one got borderline triggering to me at some points, so beware of that too.

Overall, I wouldn't say that it's the worst anime I've watched, but I was let down and wouldn't recommend it. It took me nearly 2 months of me telling myself that it will get better before I could finally finish the show.