This review will implicitly spoil the first episode. If you want a mindgame anime that I feel deserves a spot alongside Code Geass, then I highly recommend giving this a watch.
The first episode subverts quite excitingly, and the central theme is an excellent question centered around upbringing, and responsibility of evil actions. The main character must maintain a lie of a life, while killing off their fellow students one by one. The catch is, their fellow student have superpowers, while the protagonist has none, and they overcome this in some very cool ways.
The main criticism I see of this show is "It's so obvious who the killer is, the other students are so dumb". However, the show addresses this. The students are in middle school, they are children and think like children, and this is important both to the plot and the theme (basically, the government is scared of these children because they have insanely powerful superpowers and prefers them dead). The "antagonist" is quite intelligent, on the level of the main character, and part of the joy of the show for me is how they have to proof absolutely that the protagonist is the killer, despite their near certainty, because the protagonist is just that good at manipulating people.
The first episode subverts quite excitingly, and the central theme is an excellent question centered around upbringing, and responsibility of evil actions. The main character must maintain a lie of a life, while killing off their fellow students one by one. The catch is, their fellow student have superpowers, while the protagonist has none, and they overcome this in some very cool ways.
The main criticism I see of this show is "It's so obvious who the killer is, the other students are so dumb". However, the show addresses this. The students are in middle school, they are children and think like children, and this is important both to the plot and the theme (basically, the government is scared of these children because they have insanely powerful superpowers and prefers them dead). The "antagonist" is quite intelligent, on the level of the main character, and part of the joy of the show for me is how they have to proof absolutely that the protagonist is the killer, despite their near certainty, because the protagonist is just that good at manipulating people.