A.I.C.O. Incarnation

This anime explores some moral issues with the possibilities that the future brings us. Clever, creative, and beautiful!

A.I.C.O sets forth a fairly simple story of a girl essentially trying to return home after a catastrophic event called the burst consumes a portion of Japan. The burst is a huge growth of living cells that seems to be out of control and set on destroying everything in it's path.

This review contains NO spoilers and personally I'd recommend not reading too many reviews as it's better to watch and enjoy without too much prior knowledge of what is going to happen.

The story does run fairly slow but is designed to give you chance to understand all of the main characters. There is plenty of action the whole way through and small clues are left throughout as to how the story may or may not pan out.

The animation is fluid and great and the voice acting was well done and suited to all the characters. I noticed other reviews stating the voice acting was bad (referring mainly to the dub) as I watch all anime in it's original Japanese dialect I decided to go back and watch the last episode dubbed to see. I think it's important to note that when I have got into an anime in Japanese and then see a dubbed episode I don't normally like it as I've become accustomed to the voices. However in this case I was surprised that the dub voices were well matched for the main characters. I can only assume the voice acting issues were not from the actors themselves but perhaps from needing to fill or shorten sentences to match as closely as possible to the anime visual mouth movements. For example if a sentence is long in Japanese but in English only ends up translated to ,"I want to help", then the director will need to add in words to match the visual speech aspect. This can result in a less natural flowing attribute to the language used and ultimately the anime can suffer for this.

Overall I think A.I.C.O deserves 8 stars. I couldn't help but binge watch to satisfy my craving of what happens next. It kept me interested the whole way through with the first few and last few episodes being the most interesting.

If you're looking for the best version and have no problems with reading subtitles then watch the Japanese dub.

Plot wise its okay, something we couldve seen on several 2010s scifi movies or early 2000s movies. Characters design and voice castings were absolutely fine as well. Animation style was okay the best was the sound scores and the very 2010's shounen opening/ending song. Its like a whole scifi movie turn into a 12 episode limited series, which was good. The story gets a bit complicated as it reach towards the conclusion but the ending was really good and might be tear jerking for some. Packed with actions and lacking in adventure aspects as the series progresses very fast. A great time killer and definitely recommended for everyone.

Pros: Moves at a fast pace. Most things are explained.

Meh: Story is nothing special. Mildly thought provoking.

Cons: None, really.

This is a basic anime with a semi-clear goal early on, and a few twists along the way that aren't too crazy. There a couple thought provoking aspects to it but nothing major. The ending is a little perplexing,, as you wonder why they are doing that, and then they wrap it up nicely for you anyway.

Decent, fast moving anime to watch, nothing terribly special though.

The anime it's far from a very good one, but it has from the begging a good storyline and action so it is hard for to get bothered. The main carecter is Tachibana, you may get little bothered with her but it is normal. The good thing about the anime is the design of the animation I really appreciated at all!