Reviewing this show is difficult. Its almost like I watched two different shows. To start with you have the theatre idol parts. Those were in my opinion when the show was at its best. This is pretty much 3/4s of the show. There are the scifi things mixed in throughout but its all integrated pretty well. Then....you hit the last quarter. Suddenly everything that was built up everything that had happened is either forgotten reverted or pushed entirely to the side all to make the sci fi completely and totally front and center. There was a lot of time spent learning about the cast going through many different things but now theyre not important. Theyre just extras that never get to have a role fulfilled. If youre going to switch main characters do it via death or do it early on. Thats my opinion on these things. Also if youre going to have lots of character growth and development dont get rid of it just so you can tell your chuunibyou sci fi story. This might seem like harsh words but if you saw it youd know what I mean. So many nonsensical terms start getting utilized and the plot goes completely off the rails as off the rails as the romance that the show was working with in favor of a romance that I can guarantee you is poorly suited to the audience they were marketing this towards. Will use the spoiler tag here Even ignoring how poorly this show ended up handling the actually pretty well done romanceto that point you have the scifi plot. The plot that really is something youd read out of some middle schooler or high schoolers notebook of ideas. Its as coherent as youd expect too. Nothing really makes sense in the end. And the final scene before the reused footage scene yes they used over five minutes of reused footage at the end with a really odd dub over that felt entirely out of place just....what? I wanted to love this show. I was loving this show. It was such a brilliant mix of idols theater and sci fi. But then everything went wrong. It really was as if some other writer entirely took over. There were so many contradictions that I didnt list because its too much to pin everything down. But the stuff in the spoiler tags and what was alluded to outside them should be more than enough of an idea that something went very wrong. This really could have been something special something different. I mean what other anime Thats why this gets the score it did. I would have given it a much lower score but before everything went wrong stuff was so very right. So a 65 feels a fair representation of my experience. I dont know if it was a case of producers/etc going you cant show this kind of stuff on TV and thats why the romance parts of the show started making no sense all of a sudden. Or the writer themself are the cause. But either way thats how things went. And a show that had shown so much potential was dumped into HInamizawas swamp...