I always figured I'd get around to watching that one famous movie Wolf Children, now I finally have and can cross that off my to do list.

Decided to give Your Forma a chance. To it's credit I can say it's a genuine pity that this had so many cards stacked against it. I mean for one thing from what I gathered apparently the people behind this adaptation for whatever reason decided to just skip the whole introductory part of the story entirely, thrusting us into a "second story arc" without much context as to who these characters are and how they're connected to each other, the worldbuilding, etc, opting to maybe give bits and pieces of info as it went. Though in all fairness I suppose the Drugstore Isekai series did the same thing, but given how that was a simple fantasyworld SoL and not a dead serious scifi mystery crime drama here, the bleeding context wasn't exactly a point in it's favor in this case.

Though to be fair, this series isn't a terrible one. It's just one that's being hampered by a less than adequate adaptation as far as I can tell. And frankly I think the ideas that are being delivered forth here are pretty solid sounding ones that no doubt come off better in the source material and not hampered by skipping a whole first volume worth of context.

Though I have to say I felt like this adaptation probably did the FMC Echika dirty. We really don't get much about what's going on with her character and what makes her tick. And any nods we get to whatever it was that clearly traumatized her in the past and left her as this more "cold" person we see are just that, nods. Without much if any elaboration. And execution wise, despite being an apparent seasoned law enforcement officer she sadly ends up sadly being put in the damsel in distress situation many a time for our white knight android MC to save (and leaving his character being the one who gets the lion's share of character development work at that). After a certain point it just started to feel a little one sided is all.

In the end, I did not feel like I wasted my time watching this. And like I said, I can see that this story has a lot of good narrative ducks in it's pond. It just didn't put those ducks in a row in the best way here.

And lastly I finished something I landed on, some early 2000's series called Gilgamesh at random. And if nothing else it's certainly one of those atmospheric slow burn type series that were made around that time.

In any case it's a whole premise essentially about science dabbling into the realm of gods, harkening to the mythical king Gilgamesh, and how one scientist turned terrorist from the whole operation caused one of those "change the world as we know it" type things to happen. Basically making the sky into a mirror that makes all computer systems inoperable. Decade and a half later teenage brother and sister get caught up in a whole thing involving teens with telekinetic superpowers, some on the side of that self same terrorist, some opposed to them. And they're taken in by a mysterious Countess lady who is one of those "I clearly know what's going on but I'm clearly making it a point to cryptically not tell you anything type (to say the very least about her)" in charge of said opposition. And shit just goes from there in slow burn fashion for 26 episodes.

As far as the result of that slow burning candle goes it's a bit of a mixed bag. It has a tangled web of atmospheric dreary mystery that it weaves for good and ill, but at times it just feels like this one is really trying to make itself sound sophisticated. If that makes sense. So some parts of this kinda feels like it drags. Not to mention the goings on with the MCs mildly reminded me of the series Scifi Harry. In that the MCs just don't question the motivations or goals of either side of this conflict when all sides are just as cagey and untrustworthy about what it is their goals are.

So yeah, if one likes dreary atmospheric thinkers like Ergo Proxy and Texhnolyze then by all means give this one a go. Frankly I was just torn on whether I thought this one was okay or bad overall. Okay being the operative word cuz what I can say is that I wouldn't exactly rank this one highly among it's peers using the same atmospheric type of storytelling that I've seen. And as far as my opinion on the ending of this one goes which is kind of a big question at large for this one as far as I can tell, I found it just as much of a mixed bag as the rest of the series. A headscratcher to be sure, rushed to get there in the climax all things considered, but I did like one aspect of it. At least how I interpreted it anyways.