It just looks like a lot of humdrum, generic futuristic japan setting. The cinematography doesn’t imbue anything extra to the show’s meaning in such a way that the setting becomes its own character. Which unfortunately, it really just wasn’t all that impressive either with animations during action scenes were filled with handfuls of lackluster CGI. And one of those strengths is the cinematography and the animation. I’m duly aware anime from video game adaptation ever rarely can live up to the original, but it can nevertheless rely on the strengths of its medium. But since this is shown in a very short time, it doesn’t contribute anything to their characterization unlike what happens in the game when you spent a good amounts of hours interacting with them. There’s cute little cutscenes where the anime shows Tsugumi doing some gardening or Luka doing some workout with barbells. I don’t even think anime viewers will recognize these character’s abilities or even more so what their hobbies. With this interactivity is gone now, you just can’t help but wonders why these side characters is so attached or loyal to Yuito/Kasane in every cases without having a much of relationship between them. For people who haven’t played the game, there’s certain persona-esque bonding events that occurs in-between the main chapters where Yuito/Kasane bonding relationships with their teammates. The anime adaptation was just too linear to even bother with the interactive element, and as a result there is just no time to fleshing out the characters beyond the main one. At times, there just seems to be a scene missing where there should be one.
Y’know how certain games have a “movie theater” feature where you can watch previous cutscenes without having to replay the game? Imagine if you sat down and played these cut scenes back-to-back and you’d have something much like Scarlet Nexus. It just feels as though you’re watching aĬollection of disjointed events held together by a thread rather than one-cohesive anime. You see, Scarlet Nexus has a lot of elements under its belt Brain-Eating Aliens, Ancient Civilization, Taboo Experiment, Superpowers and time-travel and so on and so on, but good luck to catch-up with all of that with this limited time and incredibly terrible pacing where the critical plot points were rushed. But here, I’m just struggling with this mumbo-jumbo-dumbo mess that is the anime storyline. I’ve played Scarlet Nexus somewhere later this year and while I don’t exactly rate it very highly, I can at least respect it as a palatable jrpg-type story (albeit somewhat bummer ending). However, this should be the least of his worries-unbeknownst to him, a conspiracy is brewing, one with the capability to shake the entire country. As he meets his new comrades, he faces a big problem-the woman who saved him years ago closely resembles one of his teammates. To repay this debt, he joins the organization, eager to put his training to good use. Among these young elites is Yuito Sumeragi, the determined son of the nation's founder at the age of five, he was rescued by a woman in the OSF. One day, the nation prepares an induction ceremony for the exceptional recruits who completed the grueling training to become Scarlet Guardians. Commonly referred to as the Scarlet Guardians, young individuals with psionics undergo intensive training to join this group. Subsequently, the nation's founder establishes the Other Suppression Force (OSF) to combat these monsters and save humanity. At the same time, psionics, a hormone that gives certain people extrasensory abilities that are effective against the Others, is discovered in the human body.
In the year 2020, a nation faces the pervasive threat of the "Others"-mysterious monsters who fall from the sky and feed on human brains.