Anime comment: Kiznaiver

Hello boys and girls, Sakti here. This time I bring you a comment on one of the latest Trigger animes, Kiznaiver.

First of all, allow me to say I was really excited to see this new production by the studio who brought forward the jewels of Kill la Kill and Little Witch Academia. Both of them had amazing art and plots, and if I'm honest, I would have LOVED to see more of Little Witch Academia. So this set the bar high for Kiznaiver.

Upon watching the first episode, however, my hopes were crushed and turned into a pulp sent down the drain.

The reason? Kiznaiver starts with the all-familiar boy loser who can't even stand for himself (yeah, thanks for that legacy Shinji Ikari). But things get weird as heck with the boy (Agata) and the episode ends up with the discovery that the pain shared between a group of selected people ("modern sins" in an effort by the writers to make this BS more flavorful) is thanks to a machine implanted on them (by a mystery girl named Sonozaki). The whole point is that the guys with such machines are an experiment to determine whether people can stop having wars and generally being assholes to each other. A new way to make our society and species evolve, to say the least.

While I would agree that this plot sounds interesting to many, I have to be a raging nerd and bring forward a much more elaborate plot from which this anime was derived. And that series is called Sense8, by the ever-illustrious and wonderful now Wachowski sisters (yes, the Matrix dudes).

Sense8 is a Netflix original series that narrates the lives of a group of 8 people whose emotions, pain, and thoughts are linked. They help each other survive multiple dangerous situations, while at the same time attuning to their new capabilities and friends.

Deja vu? Yeah, pretty much what Kiznaiver is about, or rather, will be about. I am willing to make a bet the series will turn to the resource of making them help each other to survive, while adding a lame background story with Agata to help distract the raging nerds like me compare it to the much better realized series of Sense8.

So in my opinion, Kiznaiver is not worth your time. So instead go watch Phoenix Wright in Ace Attorney, or even the bike girls of BAKUON!!