Positive
*Anime’s don’t always live up to my expectations and unfortunately SR was one of those. Now despite everything that I’m going to say in this review and everything that I’m going to complain about in a minute, I still believe that, at its core, SR is a very good anime. If I take away all the things that bothered me, than I find an anime with a very well written story. SR is an anime with a lot of dept, this is a complex anime with a story that has 5 times more dept than your standard seasonal anime.
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*Also the characters, and especially our two main characters were really well designed. They have very deep, complex and realistic personalities. They are not your day to day anime main protagonists. The effort that has been put in designing the characters and in creating their personality and psychology is something I applaud.
*With the characters also the relationships between them are very complex and deep. During the anime there emerges some kind of romance between Kei and Haruki but again, it is everything but your standard anime romance. So overall the core of this anime was very good and it had a huge amount of potential.
Negative
*But, and I find this extremely unfortunate, the execution of the story was bad. And I mean really bad. In the first place, this anime was incredibly boring to watch. I, honestly, had multiple times that I almost fell asleep whilst watching SR. The way the story is brought is without any excitement, even a psychological anime like SR needs to contain some form of excitement and thrill. And I missed that completely in SR.
*Secondly, this anime was incredibly difficult to follow and I like anime’s with complicated storylines. But in SR there were multiple episodes where I had no clue on what was going on. Especially when the second halve started, things started to happen where I was completely lost. Like the arc in the dream world. It was so difficult to keep up with everything because next to the main story that was happening, there were always other things happening in the background and the relationships between the characters were constantly changing. When we got the final arc, then I was able to follow again because there there was a clear goal.
But most of the time, SR confused me. There was also a 2 year timeskip at a certain point that I initially completely missed which only added to my confusion about this anime. There were times that I really had to force myself to watch the next episode and that’s not a good sign.
*So in my opinion, the execution completely destroyed the well written core of this story. My assumption is that the LN, which was the source of this anime, is way and way better. Because a written story in a book, lends itself more to such a complicated storyline than an animated adaptation. The book is usually better than the film.
Conclusion
So as a conclusion, SR is probably my biggest disappointment of the past year. This could have been an gold anime if the source material was adapted properly with more excitement so that I wouldn’t have fallen asleep with it. So overall, with pain in my hearth, I’m going to rate Sagrada Reset at 2 stars. This is such a shame in my opinion. Now I’m not going to say that you shouldn’t watch this anime. It’s not because I found it to be boring and confusing that you will too. So if you want to give a shot, go for it, maybe you’ll be more entertained than I was.