Japan Sinks: 2020

"A very sad story, very touching, I really enjoyed it, short but always makes the audience curious, great start and great ending, and I hope this story never happened"

At the beginning I was like, ok, this is interesting and has a lot of potential, by the middle I thought what the heck is this turning into and by the end I was crying like a baby.

So overall there were bad moments but also really emotional ones and that's the most important for me personally, in the end, it made me feel something.

The way this series handles the human reaction to natural catastrophes is quite unrealistic. Most of the action happens in the first episode and the way the characters deal with the situation from that moment is just disappointing. The animation style is nothing special, the characters seem promising at first but they don't develop at all throughout the story. The little brother is utterly ridiculous and annoying. The series is tiring to watch. This could have been a great anime and we were looking forward to it, the trailers were promising. Instead, we got a good start and an ok ending with a pile of junk in between. We expected a thrilling story about loss, survival and hope and were awarded with an entirely random plot, flat characters, plot holes and a jolly family taking souvenir pictures as there wasn't an apocalypse going on.

The first episode was fantastic. It just worked. You could feel the environment, the stress and chaos. But the rest... The rest is meh. There are simply using Screenwriting 101 rules that make everything too predictable. Another thing that didn't really fit is all of the force fed diversity and inclusion. Like, look at those Japanese nationalists that don't like foreigners - let's us blow up their ship. Because they are bad. Just too cheesy.

If you are expecting a realistic drama about surviving an earthquake apocalypse this show is not for you.

Logic and common sense started to go away during episode two. I realized that to enjoy the show I'll have to stop analyzing and questioning the actions and situations the characters go through.

The story is unpredictable and entertaining so I did not have a problem watching the show.