However the biggest thing that let me feeling lukewarm on it was the story. The anime are 12 episodes of 10 minutes each and basically just plays like a movie from start to end. The story was in and of itself decent but my issue comes from the excessive use of "Deus ex machina" and "Deus ex diabolus". Without spoiling the story, machina and diabolus two sides of the same coin which effectively just means "It happened because the plot needed it to happen" and i felt that was the story all the way through. almost everything in the story happened from the point of an omnipresent being that could time literally everything perfectly, every bad and good event were "mysteriously" timed to happen precisely when it would have the biggest impact or move the plot forward.
This overuse rendered effectively all agency of the main character entirely void, everytime he tries to do something he is prevented, everytime he doesnt know what to do he is told, even if the movie tried to convey helplessness it was just overdone.
It was a decent watch and i dont regret spending 2 hours on it, it kept moving the plot forward and making mysteries that it solved, however all of those solved mysterious just felt void because the character basically had nothing to do with solving them.
