Review of Amnesia

I am trying to think of the nicest way to put my review, but I find myself stuck on the fact the first episode of Amnesia drew me in, only to have the latter episodes highly disappoint me in the way it was executed. I mean, the art work is great, the plot premise is interesting as are the various characters. However, the more I watched the Anime the more I was reminded of Twilight. I'm not saying here that the character is a Mary Sue. She's honestly got enough fatal flaws going on and the scenario is believable. The characters can be related toa lot easier then with the Twilight saga, but the poor pacing was there through the entire thing. I think that honestly was the main thing that killed it for me, the fact that the pacing was horrible. That, and we didn't get to meet the characters as much as we could have.

To much just dragged on and on. There were periods of silence. By that I don't mean no sound, but places where no action happens, nothing happens. Said places could have been filled in with more character development, more hints, but on the flip side there wouldn't have been as much confusion for the plot line. Don't get me wrong here. I'm not saying that the material can't be confusing for the viewer, but you really should wrap it up somewhat towards the end. Of course, the mysterious aspect where you toss things at the various readers can also be one of the hardest to pull off.

I honestly don't think that whoever put the Anime together knew exactly what they were doing. I say Anime and not the otome game because I haven't played it and my review shouldn't be taken as a reflection on the game, though if the game is actually good, it's a major shame the Anime didn't do it any justice and may instead have tarnished its reputation. And no... it being an adaptation off an Otome doesn't excuse the poor pacing either. There were to many things I felt could have been edited and there are good adaptations off Otome.

Then there is the characterization. Don't get me wrong here, I liked the characters a lot. It felt like we barely got to meet them. In a way this is another way that it felt like Twilight. It felt like you were meant to self insert yourself as the main character and feel what she felt as you were going along, but the way the characters were barely touched upon made it feel like... I think the best way to put it is, in an Otome game you are able to make the choices, but in the Anime all the choices were made for you. You weren't able to explore and discover things. It's almost as if they tried to hard to capture the “essence” of an Otome game, forgetting that we're dealing with two different mediums here.

In the long run, I wanted a WHOLE lot more then what I got out of it and I felt the people plotting out the story line did a very bad job, which pretty much took every other persons work, the animators, the sound technicians, the voice actors hard work and pretty much threw it into the trash.