Special episode concluding the story of Wonder Egg Priority.
"Wonder egg priority" is an original anime which aired for 12 episodes in winter 2021. It was an unique show with unique animation which drew me in. I would say for an original anime it was pretty good, but it couldn't be said the same for how it concluded. --- It's about a bunch of 14 year olds who had lost someone important to them, and discover an "egg". And when the break the egg they go inside a parell world and save some (already dead)teenagers by clearing/ getting rid of their trauma. By doing this the person they had lost would come back to life. But however, after I finished the 12 episodes and the special, I feel empty and disappointed. Especially by the way they concluded the story in the special episode. ---- It was lacklustre. The characters were barely moving. Things happening made no sense, and it felt rushed. The script was written poorly. Many things weren't explained. Not to mention the first 20 minutes turned out to be an unneeded recap. The special episode was only 46 minutes overall and they wasted whole 20 minutes on recap. 1, How did Neiru disappear?? Unless Neiru and her sister were the same person she wouldn't disappear. They were just siblings so it made to sense for her to disappear, just because her sister is now alive. Not to mention it only happened to Neiru and not to the other girls. 2, __HOW THE HELL DID NEIRU'S SECRETARY HAVE THE VIDEO OF HER DREAM??__ Correct me if I am wrong, but aren't eggs and parell worlds supposed to happen in dreams? If so then there is no way the secretary could record her dream.. unless they live in the future, which I don't think they do. 3, How did Neiru meet frill and why were they standing in some water-like place? Was it the Parel world? But it didn't seem like the usual place... If it was the real world, wasn't Frill in the basement without anyway out of it? --- And even though we get to know how Koito died, it felt very flat. Who did she threaten? Who was she waiting for? What does Sawaki sensei have to do with her death? And most importantly, who is Sawaki sensei really and what does he want? He's perceived by the girls as a phedo , a genuine kind person and as an annoying teacher who wants ai to come to school. What is his true nature? I wish the mystery surrounding him would have been closed too. And this is completely my personal opinion but I wanted Ai to move on and start a new life. I didn't like that she was hung up in the past. ---- Overall- Even though lacklustre and rushed, I am glad they concluded the story because for the past 3 months I was loosing sleep over this Koito and Sawaki mystery. Thank goodness they ended it. Wonder egg priority special episode gets a : 55/100 It wasn't bad, just extremely mediocre
This review is literally stream of consciousness but if it makes more sense than whatever the hell this conclusion was supposed to be, I'll count it as a win. Also. __THIS IS NOT SPOILER FREE. __ I'm going to have to go into WEP as a whole to discuss the special, one because they're incredibly connected, and two, if I didn't there'd be nothing to talk about here as essentially nothing of plot or purpose happened in the special to begin with. Yeah. So. Wonder Egg Priority at its foundation was spectacular. Our MC has lost her best and only friend to suicide and is introduced to a fantastical world that boasts the impossible: fight here and you can bring your friend back. From a fantasy standpoint, you're already interested. It's the dark magical girl tale that people have been searching for since Madoka. The animation thrived, the fight scenes were amazing, the soundtrack BANGED, the characters were lovable, etc. Then there were the real life aspects that drew you in as well. Life as a teenaged girl is complicated. There are dangers at every turn and here we navigated multiple stories of the horrors young girls are often exposed to: sexual abuse, grooming from male teachers, victim-blaming, fanatical idol worship that manifests in deadly ways, trans identity, self-harm, etc. And almost every single one of these topics were treated with dignity in a way we don't often see in media. It wasn't shock value. It was actual exploration of trauma dealt with kindly and with the empathy it deserved. I absolutely loved seeing it. WEP combined fantasy and reality into an incredibly compelling plot and with just enough mystery to keep it going. What happened between Koito and Mr. Sawaki? Why did she kill herself? Was she groomed? Was it misplaced jealousy? What about these other girls? Who are they? What drew them here? What brought them all together? And what is this world? How is this possible? What does it mean? That's all we needed. That's all that was necessary. But instead, around the halfway point, they gave us........everything and nothing. They kept adding to the plot, questions weren't being answered in a satisfactory way, trauma was suddenly throw at us for the sake of trauma, and the origin story we were searching for only left us with more questions. At around episode 10 I realized that there was no way they were going to be able to wrap this up into something even remotely coherent. And I was right. Which leads us to the special. What we wanted them to do: - properly explain and integrate the backstory with the AI that was suddenly thrown at us last minute - help us understand those butterfly girls, detail the relationship with the AI, why they were so seemingly unbeatable and why the hell they ate the pets - tell us how this was possible as a whole and properly detail the sacrifice such a journey entailed instead of random bouts of unexplained violence thrown at the girls - explain wtf happened at the end - literally ANY interaction with the girls revived in a way that made ANY type of sense and any type of resolution to the original plot line What we got: - 20 minutes of gotdamned backstory for a show that ended 3 months ago and only had 12 episodes.Who the hell needed that???? - Neiru????? - The most ridiculous ending to the Koito mystery. She lusted after her teachers so much she drove one to suicide, accused another of rape, and then fell off a damn building. After all that proper treatment of girls abused by society, THIS was how they treated Koito and her story. I’m disgusted, tbh. - MORE unanswerable questions. A clone? A Parallel universe, unexplored? That dead kotobuki girl or whatever tf her name was did what????? - Neiru????????????? - Nothing of the creatures - 2 seconds of grief - The dissolving of the friend group - Neiru?????????????????????? I could go on but I honestly don’t know what else to say other than that I’m so disappointed, my head is actually spinning. How could they do that to Koito after all of this? Why did Neiru’s story have to go this way? Why destroy the friend group after dumping even more tragedy on them? How on earth are we supposed to be satisfied with this? Was this purposefully left open-ended? Will there be more? It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a show’s potential collapse like this. The first half was a 10/10, whatever the hell happened next dropped this to a 2, maybe 4 for how strong it was before it all fell apart. The only thing consistent was the stunning animation and lovely ost. And like, upon looking around I’ve heard that the studio was completely overwhelmed, censorship kicked a bunch of the plot’s ass, people were hospitalized to keep up with production, etc, and……it seems that once again this sad and unfortunate product of a toxic workplace. Naturally, the animators/storyboarders have my sympathy, and will always have my sympathy. They absolutely do not deserve this. But I also feel consumers still have a right to express disappointment, so this is me judging what we were given, not the innocents involved. Who do we get to properly blame for this? Capitalism??? Anyway, when I think about what this could have been, all I am is sad. I’ll just end this here. I don’t know what else to say.
I'm doing this review just to let out my disappointment and anger, so this is gonna be messy (like this special episode) Also, sorry for the bad english but it’s not my native language. When it first came out, I fucking loved WEP, it blew me away. I loved the characters, I loved the story in all its aspects, and I was strongly convinced that it would have become one of my favourite animes. Then, episode 12 came out. I can't describe how bad it made me feel; everything made zero sense, literally Z E R O sense, and it felt way, way too rushed and abstract. I usually love abstract endings (Evangelion is my favourite anime...) but that episode was just bad. Really bad. After that incredible flop, my expectations for this special were super-high. I wanted it to be the great Finale that WEP needed and deserved. But we all know that it isn't. Not even a little bit. This special is even worse than episode 12, it's even more messy and disappointing. Nothing makes sense, the characters are just a blank shadow of what they were before, and NOTHING is concluded. They could have take their time to explain at least the essential things, but no, they used the first half of the special to do a completely useless recap of the show, and once again they decided (or were obliged to) rush everything. It's like they didn't even try to make a satisfying ending. It feels like a way for the studio to say: you have your finale, we concluded the story, now we can forget this show for good. There are some positives too, (...but I couldn't give less) The soundtrack is great as usual, same for the artstyle. It's unique and stunning. The backgrounds are also beautiful. Yes, this is it with the positives, back to the negatives! I hate the fact that we have had to wait so long for this. If it had come out one week after episode 12, or even 1 month, it would have been almost ok. But having to wait so long for this shit makes the pain even worse. Now, the most important thing: the emotions In this episode,there are none. Really. When I watched the series, I was always dragged by it. I was constantly feeling strong emotions, and I was insanely attached to the characters. Episode 13 erased all of this. Watching it made me feel… empty. I just didn’t care anymore. Am I exaggerating? Yes Am I supposed to be so angry about this? No But I am, and it was the last thing I could desire. I still hope for a second season to come out, to finally conclude this story in a better way, but considering how bad this special was received by the audience, and the low sales for the blu-ray and dvd copies of the anime, I think this is the end. I really, really wanted to love this special episode, but it’s probably the worst finale I’ve ever seen for an anime. img220(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/71/6d/be/716dbed514f3b31730b776e83cafe4ed.jpg)
__WONDER EGG PRIORITY: My Priority __ Ahhh i cant remember being so so so sad about some anime. After seeing Wonder Egg Priority season i was so happy and pumped. It felt like every single thing this anime did was unique and special. The conversations between characters, animation, music, storyline and so on. I felt for the first time watching anime everything differently. I was very used to a certain pattern of the animes but this was just on another planet. So i was very hyped and had i guess now judging after too big expectation for this movie. I would first like to take a look at what Wonder Egg Priority showed us, then compare it with the Wonder Egg Priority: My Priority movie and lastly close it out. __What did Wonder Egg Priority show us__ I believe one of the main things anime showed us in the season is how Ai Ohto is dealing with her life after losing her one and only friend Koito Nagase. She was putting this on herself, believing that if she was there and understood better.. she wouldnt have to live with this regret and maybe still having Koito around. This feeling of regret wasnt the only one in the place.. as she also was angry at Koito not talking to her since they were best friends. As the anime continued she was after all of this able to build a friendship with other characters like Rika, Momoe or Neiru. One thing all connecting them, that being the wonder eggs and wish to save those dear to them. At this part i really liked to watch the unique style of conversations, its hard to really tell what exactly is different compared to other animes, i think you have to see it yourself to understand :D. At the end i was ofcourse like lot of other people very interested and wanted to know what happens after, what changes or where the storyline goes after finishing the mission. __What did Wonder Egg Priority: My Priority show us__ So after some time waiting for the movie to hit. I didnt have any predictions, only expecting something amazing and unique again. I felt like the anime at this point was overflowing with potential (i was also bit suprised and sad that we only get movie and not whole season to be honest). I feel like since it was just a movie, the recap wasnt needed to be there, it for sure was nice but comeon.. we have 47 minutes and half of it is just recap? That was the first time i got scared. Well after that? I felt like the movie just showed us that all the characters were saved by our MCs and that they arent the same, which i personally liked to be honest.. a really cool idea with the paralel worlds. Then it went really downhill... Neiru dissapearing without any big information or reason given to us.. there was just the glimpse with Frill. But like otherwise i feel like we didnt get to see anything. Only one thing i felt like the anime showed which was developing in the prequel was the friendship between Ai, Rika and Momoe... looking at them in the movie it seemed for some time like they would be a really good friends... but then again it was instantly cutted of by Ai transferring school. __Sum up__ To be honest. If this wasnt meant to be the complete closer to the story... i wouldnt mind it as something between seasons. I would view it as something like "oh cool, before season 2 hits we get movie to keep us in the story and interested, there wont be any big void between the two seasons". But if we know that this is supposed to conclude the whole story.. i cant think of anything else than just this being such a big waste of potential. It really felt rushed.. i guess they themselves didnt expect it to hit this much :(. If i were to score movie itself then it would be 5/10 at best. I gave it 7/10 just because i kept in mind the previous whole season.
*spoilers for Wonder Egg Priority and this dumpster fire of a finale special* After its production troubles came to light around the time the show had to shove a recap episode into its 12 episode slot, fans privy to these troubles became concerned. As new pieces of information came to light, both within the show, and behind the scenes, everyone wondered just how the show could possibly wrap itself up. There were just too many loose-ends for one special to handle, but there wasn’t enough to truly justify a continuation. Alas, CloverWorks announced a special episode titled “My Priority”, which would seemingly conclude the series. 3 months went by and the most common reaction seems to be something along the lines of “what the hell is this?!” Contextually speaking, there is a mild sense of guilt in calling this finale vile, pathetic, and a complete invalidation of the series it was seemingly made to conclude. After all, such a statement ignores all of the passion and misery that went into the show’s notoriously troubled production and the months the staff at CloverWorks spent on this last episode following the TV run’s conclusion. However, it honestly must be said. This finale should have never come to pass. If this was what they originally planned before it got delayed, one really must ask “why”? Was this all some cruel joke? Were we meant to be taken along for a ride only to be met with the most mean-spirited, unsatisfying wet fart of a conclusion possible? Was this meant to challenge, even punish the audience in some way before the delay made the eventual tragedy all the more maddening and demoralizing? Why else would the writer, series director, and other staff members make some of the decisions they did? Why else would 25 out of the 46 minutes this finale special takes up, be nothing but recap after episode 8 was already turned into one? Why else would they have a ton of new, interesting music, including a nice insert song, and place almost all of it during the recap? Why else would they go so far to provide the most asinine, mean-spirited, series-invalidating reveals while largely sidestepping the main plot for the sake of a bait & switch plus an embarrassing sequel hook? It’s genuinely so difficult to comprehend why any of this was done in the 3 months since the TV broadcast concluded or how much of this was the plan all along because it’s so legitimately fucked that it’s easy to make up accusatory conspiracies on the matter. Speaking of so legitimately fucked, let's discuss the truth about Koito, Ai's friend who seemingly committed suicide. In the series, they did show snippets of the two in weird and uncomfortable situations regarding the enigmatic Koito getting bullied, as well as a moment where she’s crying in AI’s teacher's arms. At some point, Ai’s friends throw around the possibility that she wasn't a true friend. The series kinda sorta confirms this with Koito being weirded out that Ai would act so close when she doesn’t consider them friends, now that she’s been revived. There’s an explanation for this later that we will get to, but we have more pressing matters on our hands because after AI is distraught and she runs away, we learn what truly happened. Brace yourself because frankly, this is all kinds of revolting. It turns out that Koito was a serial suicide baiter that actually got a teacher, a father with kids, to kill himself. She attempted to do the same to Ai’s teacher, except it didn’t work and she lashed out upon a romance rejection that led to this, saying several things, up to and including a false rape accusation. At some point, when no one was looking, she slipped and fell to her doom. Just like that, the entire series has been invalidated and it’s now important that you avoid Wonder Egg Priority at all costs! As if the 25 minutes of recap wasn’t bad enough, this one singular moment automatically dismantles any goodwill left towards this series. The ultimate mystery of WEP, why Koito killed herself, got the worst resolution possible that invalidates why we’re even following Ai to begin with. First off, why is Koito so hell-bent on making people kill themselves? No one knows, unless spurned teacher love is all it takes, which...what the fuck? How much does it sting knowing that the only reason AI didn’t kill herself was because the existence of a being as vile and insipid as this came into her life, and that she spent so long trying to see what her thought process behind committing self-death was? On a scale of 1 to 10, 13. Does the show do A SINGLE GODDAMN THING WITH THIS REVELATION?! NO! ARE YOU STUPID?! THIS IS WONDER EGG FUCKING PRIORITY! WE DON’T DO ANYTHING TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OR ADVANCE CONCEPTS AND THEMES HERE! Not once does Ai ruminate on this or have it affect her. Not once does the show moralize about how sometimes shitty people can end up saving you or whatever, because this isn’t even important to the episode moving forward. Keep in mind that at this point, neither parallel universe Ai’s suicide nor Koito’s were caused by the extreme bullying they received. Sure, this breaks the rules for how the suicide statue people work, but at this point, there’s no merit going over the plotholes and inconsistencies. We move on from this mean-spirited dumpster fire that feels like it’s gaslighting both the audience and Ai, before she learns that apparently Neiru doesn’t know her either, except that’s her revived sister who looks similar. The truth is, just because you save them doesn’t mean they’ll necessarily remember you, let alone what happened. Reality shifts for some reason, probably to avoid the revived people from having to come to terms with having died and coming back because fuck doing anything interesting. This is meant to be of some relief to Ai when Momoe and Rika tell her this, which she’s gonna need for when Neiru’s secretary --who is now good again and no longer evil like the end of episode 9 suggested-- reveals that Neiru managed to create something that records her dreams. The girls learn that in it, she revived her sister and was visited by one of the insect-head goons, and said lackey offers her a chance to join Frill, for Neiru, too, is an Ai. We did learn that Neiru was born through artificial insemination, but that’s not quite the same as this out of nowhere thing that doesn’t explain her direct and logic-based outlook anymore than what we already got in the show. We didn't need this. It’s just there to explain why she gave her pet to Ai to look after and why she was gonna disappear from the show afterwards outside of one phone call that Ai ignores and immediately regrets. There is one decent scene where Ai and Rika discuss the fear of death, but in the sea of nonsensical, mean-spirited horseshit, gaslighting, backpedaling, and stupid reveals that largely ignore the main plot, it means naught. The girls all drift apart, Ai goes to another school, then she comes back in the hopes of becoming a Warrior of Eros and getting the gang back together to defeat Frill, presumably in a season 2 that will largely never happen because this ending was a dumpster fire everyone waited 3 months for after the show ended on an already terrible note following a nightmarish production. What a dire, insipid wet fart of an ending, this was. Imagine waiting 3 months for this, thinking that the show might find a way to conclude in 46 minutes. Even the visuals are far less polished compared to the rest of the series. There’s little in the way of decent animation and there’s only one or two remotely noteworthy shots. The backgrounds and character models are less polished, and very little of the new music introduced gets put in the actual new scenes for this special. Barring the passable audiovisuals, this was a miserable, demoralizing finale. Foresight wasn’t even a factor regarding this anime, was it? It hurts to be this venomous towards a show knowing how much better it once was and how notoriously awful the production side of things became. One can only hope that Shin Wakabayashi and his team at CloverWorks are able to get some semblance of rest. Still, the worst thing an ending can do is be so vile and useless that it poisons the very essence of the series. It’s not fun feeling contempt and resentment towards a show you were enjoying in its early stages. Now, if this somehow gets that continuation it desperately craves, there won’t be that same goodwill that was had going into the show. If there was ever a reason to avoid Wonder Egg Priority, this finale special might be the most damning one of all. Part 1: https://anilist.co/review/12329
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It is tough to look this special in the eyes, as either a fan of the series or someone who thought ill of it. Why is that? The answer is plain and simple. The second you glance at "My Priority", or MP for short, you will be lost in the emptiness of its gaze.
After three months of eager anticipation, this episode finally appeared on our screens. As the show suffered severely on account of its production issues, many desired to see some sort of continuation that would shed light on the staggering amount of unanswered questions. The idea of a possible conclusion, an explanation or a mere expansion of the established world seemed very alluring at first. Yet, what we received instead is nothing more than a confusing and insulting entity whose purpose is unclear, and its attempts at bringing the entire series to a conclusion are nothing short of flimsy.
Notwithstanding the fact that its run time is only 46 minutes long, MP dedicates over 26 of those minutes to the opening, the ending and the ghastly recap that exists solely to pad out space. Comprehending what transpired here is nigh impossible. The 8th episode was already a recap, yet here we are, three months later, seeing yet another one. Naturally, the production troubles had something to do with it, it is pretty obvious, yet I still could not believe my eyes. The recap takes up more space than new content. I wanted somebody to pinch me because I must have been dreaming. No, that was the reality. The grim, depressing reality. After witnessing it, I was prepared for the worst. To no one's surprise, that is what the remaining 20 minutes had in store for us.
The production values are a shadow of their former self. Lifeless and static—that is what they became. There are some decent shots here and there, but the overall decrease in quality is a saddening sight. The one thing WEP had going for it was now absent...
~~~img600(https://i.imgur.com/EacVUUr.png)~~~ ##~~~【 No... no... stop sequel baiting... please. 】~~~The actual episode starts with [Neiru](https://anilist.co/character/199893/Neiru-Aonuma) hopping onto a bus and driving away. Why? I do not know. The next day, [Ai](https://anilist.co/character/199892/Ai-Ooto) sees [Koito](https://anilist.co/character/204115/Koito-Nagase) at school. Why is no one surprised that a person who committed suicide is once again roaming the school corridors? I do not know. She is from a parallel world, right? Yeah. Does that mean in the said world Koito just magically disappeared? Who knows, I do not. Does every person taken from a parallel world feel obligated to act as mean as they can? It seems like it!
"She caused a problem with a male teacher at her last school. He committed suicide after that, although I was told he had a family. She shouted that I had raped her and anything else she could think of."
This is merely revolting. Is that who Koito is? A character we barely know turns out to be an inhumane individual who drives people to an early grave, and we are supposed to care about her? Was it ever foreshadowed? Hell no. Does it make sense? No. Does it come off as something painfully hamfisted, awkward and damaging to the narrative? Yes. Was it conceived on the spot as a way of salvaging the underdeveloped and underexplored character and her suicide? Yes. Does it exist solely to shock the viewer? __Yes__, and I do not comprehend it. It is, by far, the laziest way of crawling out of the pit the show threw itself into. There is no forethought here. Just... why? What purpose does her character serve? Why should I care? What should I feel? Confusion? Anger? Nothing? Just... why?!
That is not the only questionable reveal we get to experience in MP. Apparently, Neiru was never real. She is an AI created in the image of [her younger sister](https://anilist.co/character/260352/Airu-Aonuma). Yet again, was it foreshadowed? No. Does it add anything to the character? No. Does it exist merely as a shocking reveal that is supposed to "wow" the viewer? Yes. Does it overcomplicate the already confusing state of affairs? Yes, I think it is obvious. I am at a loss for words at this point.
Amidst all of this confusing, eyebrow-raising chaos that is MP, there is one scene that I kind of appreciate; Ai being comforted by her mother as she lays on her lap with tears in her eyes. Why is this significant? Because it goes against the notion of not trusting adults. It shows that the grown-ups in your life can be supportive and allow you to stand tall.
However, it is too late, the damage has been done and the show is still an unempathetic mess. For instance, earlier on, MP implies that these suicide victims should be grateful for being resurrected, which is... ignorant and narrow-minded to say the least...
I... I do not know. This episode feels like an enormous, vile spit in the fans' faces. It explains nothing. It adds nothing of value to the conversation. It shoves never-foreshadowed and empty reveals down your throat, and yet, it expects you to care. Is there any reason to care? No, and it was like that from the get-go. To top it all off, it has the audacity to hint at a sequel. Please, stop. Just... stop.
Before I start, I want to note that I will not be discussing the visuals of this special as a critique, as the production of this series was absolutely hellish and I will excuse what this episode looks like because I do not want to blame the overworked animation staff that had to scramble to finish this. Instead, I just want to discuss the horrid way in which the story attempts to end with this episode. This entire series, through all of the dark themes and twisted metaphors, is essentially about empowering abuse victims in order to punish their abusers, and yet the entire Koito plot line, Ai's guiding reason for her actions in this show, completely ruins that. Having Koito be essentially told that she wasn't abused and that she was lying and then Sasaki being left alone is just disgusting. Frill's plot line is decent in theory, but literally nothing set that up whatsoever. It also makes Frill, who got an intriguing backstory, essentially pointless as an individual character since it clashes with Neiru's character completely and entirely. Literally none of the other characters are written like themselves, instead being clunky and awkwardly written in a way that wasn't in the series beforehand. I know that people have said that the series went downhill after episode 7, and I do see that, but I still find everything through episode 11 or 12 worthwhile, as there is still intense intrigue and mystery. Yet with this special, we are essentially told that none of that intrigue or mystery even matters. And then it just...ends. Basically nothing that the series built up gets resolved even remotely well, and it feels almost as if this special was written specifically to destroy the entire series and everything that it meant. Rewatching the entire show (which I did before the special) was the most crushingly painful way to set up this special. It reminded me of all the good parts of this show that then got squandered in their entirety. I was very excited about the idea of an hour-long special episode, but then having the first half of it being recap immediately told me that this was going to be ugly. The second half of this special was so painful to watch that my eyes were just glued to the screen in fear, and it felt as if I was watching a train crash over 22 minutes. This special is an affront to everything that this series meant, everything it stood for, and it is a horrendous mess. Imagine being someone who was abused and found solace in what this series was setting up, and then having to wait three months to watch...that. I want this special to not exist, I would prefer for episode 12 to be the ending, but unfortunately I think that nothing short of amnesia or dementia is going to take away the mark that this special burned into my brain.
More than half of this hour long special was a recap while the rest felt like a subpar episode you'd find at the start of a season to push the plot forward. Almost nothing happened and I feel like my time was completely wasted. They did so much in this special while also doing absolutely nothing at all. It truly felt like a dream. Everything happened so fast, scenes just flew by, and you can barely find any tangible threads to hold the pieces together. Sadly, it was neither a good dream or a bad one. Just one of those ones you forget about thirty seconds after waking up in the morning. First we get the reveal that Neiru was an AI. Could'a been cool but too bad that was brought up in the final 5 minutes with no resolution. Then everyone just drifts away like nothing and it's only offhandedly mentioned despite the whole show being about the journey of them becoming friends. Then we get Ai literally throwing her phone away because she doesn't want to talk to Neiru who she was trying to talk to for the whole first half of the episode??? Characters kept switching personalities back and forth so quickly it was jarring. Rika literally yells at Momoe about how she's a coward and then within a scene change or two she's breaking down because she doesn't want to die. I get she's hot headed, but the dichotomy of those scenes being so close to one another with nothing happening in between to change her resolve is confusing. Even Momoe who was breaking down before the special and avoiding everyone comes back and hangs out like the good old days with no explanation. We finally get to see Koito again and it's just an unsatisfying "she's a parallel world Koito who is bit of a bully". Again, that could've been okay, this show is depressing, I get that. But it's handled with so little emotion that it's just a thing that happened. What happened to the heart in the writing??? This was supposed to be one of the emotional climaxes and it felt like nothing at all. Hell, we even get a horribly cheesy fourth wall break with Ai joyfully spinning around to face the camera and declaring that she's back, despite it being the damn finale. It felt like we were about to get a "Season 2 confirmed" message with how she played it, but nothing. There's just too much to critique here and this is kinda rambly. Overall, this special was a mess. I loved the series and the themes they brought to the table, and this special was supposed to be the saving grace to the terrible anime finale pacing. Instead, it simply left a stain on the anime as a whole and left me not even knowing if I want there to be more. Perhaps there is a parallel world somewhere out there that got a satisfying conclusion to Wonder Egg Priority. Sadly, that is not this world.
Don't want to be mean,but whoever wrote this special,and whoever agreed to this writing needs to be fired and banned from anime to be honest. I'm so sick of anime originals getting butt fucked by the last episode since no one knows how to write a good ending anymore.. Everything that I feared Wonder Egg would do at the end is basically what happens. One of the big problems I had with the TV show is that it didn't make sense and a lot wasn't explained by the end.It felt like the special was aware of that then it just says “Haha suck my wonder egg dick” and the special raises even more questions.No amount of explanation will ever make sense anymore. The only and I mean only things that get explained was the reason behind Koito’s death which was just the fucking worst examples of writing I have seen in 4ever.And the effect of the end of the tv series doesnt even matter.And that hurts because the end of the tv series was what the entire show from the beginning built up to.So basically the special makes the entire show not even matter. The characters change so quickly and scenes feel so disconnected to the point where I basically had no idea what was even happening. Ai yeets her phone off her balcony killing a random civilian. Neiru’s character explanation is basically so incomprehensible, i can't even describe it.Rika is a bitch as usual, then she just gets super depressed..because...teens be sad....And the only decent moment was when Momoe got off a train because she secretly knew that she didn't want to be apart of this goddamn trainwreck of an ending. And what really blindsided me was the fact that this special was supposed to be the “Special episode serving as the conclusion to the anime series.” THE.SPECIAL EPISODE. Serving as the .CONCLUSION……./kənˈklo͞oZHən/…..as in “the end or finish of an event or process.” to the anime series. Bitch. This isnt an ending. The end of the special felt like it was half an episode of content. And then Ai does her kawaii Nixon pose, and then BOOM, end credits.You should've seen my face when those credits came on. I looked like Surprised Patrick sitting on the edge of that cliff in the spongebob movie. To be honest, I have seen a fair share of awful anime endings,at the time I thought that Babylon had the worst ending to an anime. Yeeeeaaaaah I'm gonna have to give that title to this.Its just I have never seen a special make everything in the show preceding it a joke and a waste of time.I do have a review of the tv series on my review page as well, if you're interested,and if this is the first review you see from me.Just know, I am not usually this harsh on anime reviews,this is just the case of a special that is just inexcusably bad.
Wonder Egg Priority is a show which focused on mental health issues, particularly of teenage girls. The show had an interesting start, and the characters were fleshed out really well. There was some interesting plot points and many mysteries to unravel. But what happens if you don't tie up these loose ends? The Wonder Egg Priority Special is a great example of that. Non-Spoiler Version: The entire special is about 47 minutes long. This in itself is too short of a duration to end the plot. This is due to the addition of our "main villain" (who first appeared in ep 11 (anime is 12 eps long)). Despite the short duration, half of this special was a recap. So, with (approximately) 25 minutes of the episode left, we would expect them to quickly tie up the plot-points. No. Instead, what this anime does is create MORE plot. We get new mysteries in 20 minutes! Fun fact, our main villain only got like 2 minutes of screentime! Yipee! What about the characters? In episode 11, we had a fight between our (very depressed) girls. In this special, they are all having fun at karaoke! After this, one of the girls talks about how she wants to die--contradicting the themes of this anime. Pros: Music, animation, voice-acting. That's about it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Spoiler Version: Skipping the recap, we get to see Koito come back. Big revelation is that Koito is a bitch and that she tried to falsely accuse Sawaki of rape, then she tripped and fell off the roof. A wonderful way to die, I suppose. Sawaki was pretty damn suspicious, but I guess he's nice now. I already felt pretty bored watching this at this point. Rika, Momoe and Ai somehow made up and went to karaoke. They all talked about how the person they saved forgot all the stuff. Rika gets sad and wants to die. Rika and Ai cry together. I guess this part was mostly fanservice for the teenage girl audience. Instead of doing this they could've had Ai and Frill meet? Neiru apparently saved her sister, Airu. Airu and Neiru were having a dispute, then Frill randomly showed up?? Frill and Neiru become friends. Ai throws her phone off the balcony and cries in Mama Ohto's lap. She transfers and has no contact with anyone. Then she comes back and is like "Neiru wants to see me. I will see Neiru because I am Alpha Chad Ainator 3.0." And that's the ending. Questions: -What is Thanatos? Does Frill have a connection with it? -Who are the Warriors of Eros? Is this egg stuff just a tryout for it? -How does Frill have so much dominion over this egg world? Didn't Ura and Acca make it? -Why did alternate realities have so much plot relevance in this show, so late? -Why did Neiru go with Frill, despite wanting to see Ai? There's plenty more questions, however I cannot think of them. There are so many plots to unravel. __________________________________________________________________________________ Final: Overall, big waste of potential and time. Just watch Evangelion, or some other shit, if you want psychological stuff about teenagers.
So you watched Wonder Egg Priority and thought the ending was incomplete and confusing. Now you’re expecting this special episode to make sense of it all, right? Or you’re like me and you thought the ending was awful and knew there was nothing that could fix it. The first 23 minutes of this recap the entire show, then the final 23 minutes add absolutely nothing but more confusion and explains nothing. Both the art and music are a downgrade here, with the latter barely fitting the tone at all. The main characters spent the whole show trying to resurrect dead girls, requiring them to fight metaphorical monsters in their dreams. After they accomplished the final boss, the dead girls never came back to life. In this special, they were resurrected in an alternate universe—none of that was explained, we have to assume that’s what happened. The dead girls who were resurrected lost all of their memories and the timeline reformed around the heroines never meeting them. Does this imply all of the main characters cause the deaths of the resurrected girls? Who knows. Ai Oto was in love with her teacher Mr. Sawaki, who is as close as the series has to antagonist. He was implied to be a pedophile, and in the final episode, he apparently caused Ai to commit suicide in an alternate reality. How did this happen? Is Ai in love with Mr. Sawaki as was hinted at in the original show? Is he still evil in the Special ending timeline, the results are unclear. The special doesn’t explore their relationship at all or condemn the pedophilia aspect. Why did Ai’s friend commit suicide in the original timeline? This was Ai’s driving motivation, to begin with, yet it was never addressed. What does the show say about suicidal teenagers? ‘Well, teenage girls just get depressed sometimes.’ Just don’t watch it if you want a believable and delicate portrayal of mental illness. The supporting characters are barely addressed in the new content. Neiru turns out to be a robot, Momoe sings a little, Rika is still depressed, and Ai chooses to abandon her friends (by symbolically throwing away her phone). Are the creators of Wonder Egg Priority satisfied with this clusterfuck of an ending? I know I’m not. I don’t think there is a single fan of the show who will benefit from this. In the end, Ai returns with an asspull twist all for the sake of a sequel teaser (even though there will never be a second season). This tacked on open ended finale somehow made the show even worse. Due to the series writer Shinji Nojima leaving the project, there will never be answers for everything left unexplained. DO NOT WATCH THIS SPECIAL. Just let the original ending be one of life's little mysteries!
I have experienced quite a lot of art over the course of my time in this world, most of which I have enjoyed - and even those works I haven't enjoyed, I have still felt glad that I experienced them nonetheless. Wonder Egg Priority is not one such work of art. In fact, I could even argue I *regret* having experienced it - maybe even that I feel *ashamed* to have experienced it, feel *angry* to have experienced it. I did not always feel this was about the show, and I really, *really* wish I didn't - and, until I had the displeasure of sitting through every agonising minute of this episode, I actually didn't. Wonder Egg Priority was a gorgeous and unique show which I enjoyed for - most of - it's 12 episode run: It looked fantastic, it sounded fantastic, it had compelling characters, it had interesting mysteries, and it had Ai - so really, apart from a fucked up production which messed it's release up, it was quite a decent show. Though, notably, it lacked a proper conclusion - so, fans such as myself were left waiting for a conclusion to it's story; a conclusion that was announced to be granted with the release of an extra long special episode on June 30th 2021. And so, I waited. And it released. And I watched. And I watched. And I watched. And Wonder Egg Priority: My Priority was an *insult*. An insult to my patience, my intelligence, and my dignity, and the patience, intelligence and dignity of all others who watched it. With its very existence, this 46 minute slog renders its parent show pointless. Nothing you watched mattered, nothing you watched was worth your time - it was not worth caring about Ai and her journey, it was not worth caring about Rika and her struggles, it was not worth caring about Momoe and her accepting her identity, and it was not worth caring about Neiru and her path to understanding human connections. Nothing was worth it, because this *god damned* episode will not give you even the smallest satisfaction you could possibly ask for. Were you interested in the weird, freaky, interesting new foes introduced a few episodes ago? Fuck you, they don't appear, nor are they even mentioned. Were you interested in Frill as a character, maybe hoping she would be fleshed out like our other main heroines in some way or at least be given a motivation? Fuck you, she doesn't even appear besides one brief flash. Were you interested in Acca and Ura-Acca as characters, or in the "Warriors of Eros" they mentioned? Fuck you, they don't matter. Were you interested in Rika or Momoe as characters? Fuck you, they barely appear here. How about Ai, were you interested in our lovable main character? Maybe what's going to happen now that she's got her best friend back? Double fuck you, Koito was apparently just some bitch who wanted to fuck with a teacher and died accidentally like a dumbass. Were you interested in *Neiru*? Oh man, I feel really, really sorry for you. I really do. This show, however, does not: In fact, it has two words to give you: *FUCK YOU*. You see Neiru was an AI all along, and was a fake robot sister to Airu, the sister who stabbed her, who did so because she was a freaky AI thing - which, honestly, fair. Now, she is going to abandon everything established in the past 12 episodes of television and go off with Frill to do... Something? I guess you'll find out in the sequel this episode really, really wants to happen! Alright. Were you at least interested in getting one last 46 minute send-off to a show you enjoyed, even if it was bad? I mean, that's all *I* was really looking for - some sort of closure, or maybe a sequel tease like we got. An episode that would use its runtime to make some sort of effort to conclude Wonder Egg Priority. And yet, this episode does not do that. Wonder Egg Priority: My Priority is a 46 minute special episode that insults you at every possible moment for caring about it, and it began doing so from the very moment it was announced: That is because Wonder Egg Priority: My Priority is not a 46 minute special episode. It is a 23 minute recap, stitched onto a 23 minute insult. You will sit watching it for at least 5, maybe 10, or maybe the whole 23 minutes before you realise what is actually happening, what you sat down to watch. Wonder Egg Priority: My Priority was exhausting to watch and exhausting to remember and exhausting to write about. It is an insult, plain and simple. It would not surprise me if an announcement was made tomorrow that it was intended as one, that it was the creators' middle finger to the producers who fucked them over - and honestly, that would make me less mad. Because at least then, this episode would have a meaning. My time spent watching it would have meaning. And yet, it does not. I sat in front of my screen and my eyes took in a 46 minute animated video production that meant nothing, that said nothing, that was worth nothing. I sat, and I watched, and I came out of it upset, frustrated, angry, and, oxymoronically, empty. I beg anyone who reads this who hasn't already made that mistake to stay far, far away.