Review of Night Head 2041

Having watched the original series of 2007 years ago i can see the similitud and how much both shares, now i have to say that i was having it under my radar since the anouncement of his release when i watched the teaser but it took me a little bit of time to actually watch it. This is gonna be my humble opinion about it and im gonna compare it with his predecesor in some areas wanting to bring to those who until now didnt hear any about it and were planning to watch it (or already did it) the approaching of this new installment inhow good or bad was.

This is not an secuel of the original series and neither is an remake of any nature but an reinterpretation with the inclusion of many new elements that in many ways tries to adapting the original story with the inclusion of complete new characters that takes an good chunk of spotlight even going so far to say that to an degree taked the same (if not more) screen-time than our main protagonist this time with characters like kuroki yuuya and kuroki takuya (who wasnt in the original one) , differents settings and an direction that although respect most of the main plot desviate just because the incorporation of so many new cast.

I could see the direction in which they wanted to take this series trying to appeal maybe an more broad audiencel, because though i can see that keeped many of the origins and events in this series with our protagonist kirihara naoto and kirihara naoya (that had an completly new design btw ) and we can see them from the begginig, the pacing was too fast almost aboviating many things going straigh to the point and is due to the narration that had in comparision with his predecesor an more accelerated and less darker one losing many subtleties in how was told and really in this aspect the attention span that they might had in mind when they were making this series was probably focused to people who was declining to an much more aciton based series with some touches here and there of mistery.

There is always an lack of good narration and compressed many revelations in just one episode which makes it confusing and pretty clear how little importance and care had in the mistery aspect and overall plot.
Many could attribute this faults to his format of 12 episodes but the reality is that if you see it can realize how at his core wasnt pretending nothing very elaborate but rather simple from the beggining.

Character development was ok with at least our four protagonist because the rest of the characters mostly were discarded without any proper treatment and used just to serve some purpouse to move with the plot, which also leaves to the next thing many key characters like misaki for example were just mentioned a couple of times and just like most of the elenct in this installment everything just handle really superficialy wihtout to much though about it.

To newcomers who never heared about night head i think gonna find very interesting the overall premise to even some going too far to say that was very good or amaizing but i would reccomend you after you finish this one to give it a try to the old one (night head genesis) so you can grasp the charm and the essense that was lost in this new installment.

What i find very strange was the use of cgi which in general terms was good (making me to remember another series like ajin or knight of sidonia) with 2d animation and i say this because in many scenes there are times were our protagonist are in cgi and intereacting with another character that its 2d feeling pretty off in my opinion i mean in both cases the quality if not bad but not the most smart decision if you ask me.
Sound wise worth to mention the sound effects are dope as f@ck there are a couple of them that just sound epic like the sirens or the power itslefts and the quality is top notch, the ost was mehh not bad neither good the op and ending was good though.

RESUME

Nigh head 2041 in general terms is an decent series that although might not be close to the old one (night head genesis) losing so much of what made the series good wasting to much of the story with a pretty fast pacing and focused in the action for most of the time which leaded to a pretty confused narration and dissapinting way on not only handling key character but also giving them a proper screen-time yet managed to hold an good quality in the animation and at least in general terms was enjoyble although i could reccomend that when you finish it give it a try to his predecesor and see how much of a difference are in between these two.