It's certainly not terrible- the production values are there, but I find it very derivative. If you've seen less than a hundred anime it might blow you away, but there was nothing in it a seasoned viewer hadn't seen before. The writing is very contrived at times, and the show winds up leaning on its excellent animation and scoring to make up for what the script fails to bring to the table. The character writing is all too often oversaturated with misery porn and diabolus ex machina moments to try forcing an emotional reaction out of the viewer. It's the kind of show older watchers could see themselves having utterly adored in their teens, but later looking back on and finding kinda mid.
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