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With Ukyo having made it clear in the previous episode that he is a pretty nuts kind of guy with his split personality, he’s dealing with the situation in the way that one would expect here as he got our Heroine out to where he wanted her to kill her and set everything into motion. Yet just as he was closer to dealing things out, the glass shatters and he’s back to his normal and calm self, surprised to find himself where he was and that she’s there as well. But he also has a lot of clarity that he finally brings into things, revealing what happened to her really in the past where she died after being in a hospital for twenty-five days after a fire at the university cost her everything. That set Ukyo on a path to find a living version of her somewhere to bring back, but it also caused a problem in that each of those worlds didn’t have a version of Ukyo and that means it tries to kill him.
Hence his bringing her back here to try and have her in his world only to realize that his world is now trying to kill her like a foreign body in the system. What’s made things complicated more so for Ukyo is that the only way for him to survive is to kill her off, but each time he does so it ends up causing his “normal” self to become beyond despondent over it and the cycle starts anew in a different world as he goes there to find her. With a reveal from Ukyo, offhandedly about a man named Neil that gets Orion’s attention because of what he stands for, there’s some decent back and forth in the first half as Ukyo alternately tries to kill her and tries to save her before things simply go south for him in general. But our Heroine is who she is and she’s kind, gentle and considerate right up to the end of his existence.
When that happens, we get a bit more detail as Orion starts to do a bit of exposition about things and explains why events played out as they did, bringing Neil into focus a touch and what that side of the involvement meant for our Heroine as she was pretty much tossed from world to world where her amnesia would kick in because of the accident. Though we don’t see a literal Neil, Orion provides the context through him and is ready to set everything right after so long, but it’s something where you know that our Heroine is just simply uncertain about getting them back after all she’s seen and done. There’s a nice little montage as things settle out between the two and as she makes her choice about going back to who she was, and it’s kind of nice to cement the relationship between the two a bit, but it was just so threadbare overall during the series that it’s hard to really be moved by it.
In Summary:
Amnesia ends its run by attempting to make some amount of sense but instead feels like it’s just pulling so many thing out of thin air (hah!) in order to tie it all together and wrap it up in a neat little bow. The series is one that kept me interested just because of the animation and to see how many unlikable male characters they could introduce and pair up with a blank slate girl that had zero personality and no motivation. This final episode is pretty much a massive info dump and it is interesting to see how they’re trying to justify all of it. It doesn’t actually work, at least for me, and the whole thing makes me view the series as one big trolling experiment and little more than that. There’s some good things about the show overall but the execution was just plain awful for a number of reasons and the end is just laughable.
Grade: C
Streamed By: Crunchyroll
Review Equipment:
Sony KDS-R70XBR2 70″ LCoS 1080P HDTV, Dell 10.1 Netbook via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.
