Review of Amnesia

This review will include spoilers! I'll admit, Reverse Harem anime's are my guilty pleasure and every so often I watch one on a whim and I usually walk away feeling disappointed, both in the show and in myself but sometimes the feelings I'm left with are anger and disgust. Amnesia is the latter. So let's break this down. Story: 3/10 The story is honestly one of the more disappointing aspects of this show. The premise is interesting and the caveat of the protagonist having to try and figure out which new timeline she's in in order to avoid completely messing everything up is probably better utilizedin the original game as here it simply results in her looking confused 90% of the time and being totally useless the other 10 percent.

None of the individual time lines are fleshed out before the protagonist invariably finds herself near death and in a new universe again.

There are many much better Time Travel/Alternate Universe hopping anime out there.

There was only really one relationship covered in the show that felt rewarding or good at all and it ends well before it reaches any sort of satisfying... well anything.

Art: 6/10

The Art is pretty but nothing to write home about, the boys are inevitably attractive enough. Really nothing to report here. The only aspect that stands out at all is that the female protagonist's design is at least marginally different from most generic otome game girls.

Sound: 6/10

Again nothing to write home about, honestly I don't remember much of anything about the music or sound design, which can only mean it wasn't horrible enough to warrant remembering.

Character: 1/10

The characters are bad, worse than usual reverse harem fair. Our protagonist is generic, has no personality so you can project yourself onto her, reverse Harem girl. A trope I wish, quite frankly would die. She's also useless, helpless and probably going to die by stupidity.

The main boys are, frankly, horrible. Only one of them (Kent) seemed to care at all about what the protagonist wanted and was willing to work with her to better their relationship and his is the shortest story line.

The least offensive of the remaining boys are boring at best, and irritating at worst. They include a boy with a fan club that he just lets harass main girl, in Ikki and Shin who is a childhood friend and is protective but mostly leaves our protagonist to her own devices to die by literally everything. (Unlike his older brother whom I will touch on in a moment.)

The other two are, well, abusive. This is a trope I see gaining lots of traction in Reverse Harem/Otome game animes and it's frankly angering and very very terrifying. These boys are never called out on it and indeed garner their own fanbases.

Toma (Shin's older brother) Literally locks our protagonist in a cage, against her will, for her protection. But not before he drugs her into sleeping for two weeks straight. AND THE PROTAGONIST IS A-OKAY WITH ALL OF THIS!

Ukyo is the last of the potential love interests and unfortunately the one the anime tries to convince us is the best choice in boyfriend. Ukyo suffers from split personality disorder, that he gave himself, by dying multiple times over trying to save our protagonist. This second personality tries to kill our protagonist at literally every turn. Which is (warning, incoming sarcasm) soooo romantic.

Orion is the only remotely interesting character and he gets sidelined so often the show just gives up on ever doing anything with him.

In summary: Amnesia is bad, it's worse than bad, it's disgusting, pro-abuse, and definitely harmful to young girls. The only thing it made me feel for any of the boys is how much I wish the anime was about her and Kent only.

Skip it, and for the love of god, don't glorify Toma!