DerekL

Glasslip starts out interesting enough...  setting the stage with a bunch of long time friends in their final years of high school in fairly small town when suddenly a Mysterious Stranger appears in the midst.  Sadly, by the end of the first episode you've seen pretty much all the story and interest there is to see as the series fast descends into a morass of half thought through relationship drama, teenage angst, and unexplained Mysterious Events.  There's kind of an attempt at the end to gather up the bits and pieces and have them make sense...  but it's too little too late.  Too much backstory untold, too many relationship threads all tangled, too many themes and issues raised but not adressed, and in the end the series just peters out with no resolution.  The story feels more than anything else like a rushed rough draft, the final episode like a tacked on like a temporary bit that they meant to come back and fix later.

The animation is lush and well done, the sound excellent, and voice work well done, but it's all wasted because of the muddled characterization and lack of a coherent plot.