Survival Strategy! Destiny!

Written by marvizgam on May 8, 2012 at 10:53 PM

After seeing the end of the first episode you might say that this is one unusual or even creepy anime. The story revolves around three sibling Kanba, Shouma and their sister, Himari, who is diagnose with an incurable disease which eventually took her life. It started out as your normal splice of life drama, however, when their sister miraculously revive that’s when things got weird not because of the penguin hat but because by the end of the first episode you can’t help me but feel that there is more to Kanba’s feeling towards Himari than just brotherly love. What I like about this anime is that each episode offers something new that makes you watch it just so you can figure out what’s really going on. This is a character driven anime and each characters is very well though off and despite the fact that almost each character has his/her own bizarre and weird behavior what makes them relatable are the circumstances that made them that way. There are a lot of things that made this series interesting from the struggle to obtain Momoka’s diary, to the terrorist group led by Sanetoshi, and of course the mysterious Penguin drum. However, despite the richness of the storyline and diversity of the characters there are some areas which were not tackled like the existence of the Boiler Room, the “corrupt” society that the sibling parents are trying to revolt and there is also the issue of Momoka’s ability to alter fate, not to mention the existence and role of the “penguins” on their hunt for the Penguin drum that wasn’t fully explained adding to an already complicated plotline and leaving more questions than answers, characters like Mario wasn’t developed which is odd since he wears a penguin hat like Himari which could have made this series a lot more enjoyable to watch. However, I do found the ending to be quite satisfying although I felt it to be a bit of a rush as they try to piece together everything that has happen. This is an anime about trying to “temp fate”, are we subject to a destiny we could not alter despite our best effort to avoid it, or is destiny something to be shaped as long as you have the power or opportunity to make it so? This is anime may or may not have answered that question but it is well-played through-out the series and it’s definitely one of the best series in 2011 as far as plots and characters are concerned.