Audience reviews
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SgtSalamander
Despite an admittedly strong premise with a complex and contemplative core, it fails to capitalize on its ideas at all and ends up being kind of a nonsense title. It's supposed to be evaluating the value of direct experience versus simulated reality, along with the moral considerations of what it actually means to be alive and what value the mind brings to experience versus the body, etc. Instead of functionally exploring these concepts though, we get a totally delirious fever dream, an anime that has no idea what it's saying or how to say what it wants, or even what tone it wants to say it in. Is Interlude supposed to be funny? Tense? Horny? Existential? Everything at once? Even then, what genre is it? Sci-Fi? Psychological Thriller? Slice of Life? It's like they wanted to tell a story th…
Read at the sourceRandomguy5570
I enjoyed the story as I felt it was a fun mystery to unwarp. The story was only about two hours long yet the world building made it feel like it was 10 (in a good way) and with the show did an amazing job with building a cool atmosphere. The story had some sad parts which Ill admit got me in my feels, but though some people would say the ending is sad I saw it was a more hopeful ending. I don't want to spoil it but I just would say if you watch the show to think at the end if you felt the choice he made was the right one. Overall great show.
Read at the sourceHellother
An underrated piece.
Well built atmosphere, possibly more emotionally invasive than you realize.
Impressive story with deep topic, and good pace.
Occasionally ridiculous moment which unexpectedly enhanced contrast.
Seemingly childish music, but again, enhanced the bizarre feeling, mixed with depression yet hope. I watched this several years ago, with no expectation. Then I realized this is a despariring yet encouraging story, with unexpected psychological mark left in my brain. The feeling simply came back to me from time to time, but I couldn't remember where it came from. I couldn't even remember if I watched it, or if it was just a dream.
Yes, maybe it's just a dream.
Read at the sourceberserkersoul
its been a while since i wrote my last anime review. this one really made me want to write because its so fascinating
~SPOLIERS BELOW~
STORY 6/10
-quick summary:
the anime starts off with our MC (akio) in high school with his childhood friend tama. the day goes on per usual however every so often he begins to see odd things, experiences vivid nightmares, and remembers people/events others around him dont. he bumps into a girl named aya and through her, realize that he isnt alone in what he experiences; she too has experienced the disappearance of her entire town, has memory lapses, and saw things other around her didnt (before they disappeared). they both soon discover there was an unnamed and ambiguous catastrophic event that wiped out all but 12 humans on earth. for the survival o…
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Look at the poster again - can you see 3 large women? Good. One of them, the long red-haired one is a question mark. While she does vaguely resemble one useless character in the plot, whether it is she on the poster or not, either way both in the anime and on its poster the viewer is left thinking who and what the heck is she even doing in there?
In many respects this summarises the feelings you get after watching Interlude, whose plot doesn't fail to get you worked up with expectations but at the same time gives you a headach for the most part due to it being basically pointless. It is one of those animes where the authors tried too hard to twist things up but end up in the end getting twisted themselves with loose ends all over the place and leave the mess up for you to fill in the bla…
Read at the sourceLightningHound
My first review on an OVA so here it goes!
Interlude, by Merriam-Webster's definition, is an intervening or interruptive period, space, or event. How this can be applied to this OVA is moot. We can conclude that the most likely meaning of the Interlude in this anime is the world of memory, in which all of our characters live their lives in this "intervening pause" of the apocalypse. The tautology of the word can clearly be seen in every intro where one of the heroines gives a monologue (or even a soliloquy) about an abstract idea concerning despair in regard to personal ambition, the point of life, or obliviousness to the world around us. I may mention the motifs and symbolism I see throughout the series, which may be full of praise, but this does not reflect my actual review of the OVA a…
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This anime does a number of things really well ... and then flops in a number of other areas. The very first thing to understand about this anime is that you aren't going to understand this.
Story
The entire anime plays out similarly to the end of Evangelion where absolutely nothing makes any sense. This is an area that could have used significantly more polish. Done properly, this could have been a mind-twister that really made you think about some important questions in life. In stead what we have is a Half-life/Evangelion hybrid that just doesn't feel right about half of the time.
Art
This is by far the series strongest area. The art is relatively well done. There's better out there, of course, but this really isn't bad. The characters feel individualized, well drawn, and well animat…
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