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192. RErideD: Derrida, who leaps through time
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35835/RErideD__Tokigoe_no_Derrida
Fall 2018 (12 episodes)
My Score: 4/10, MAL Score: 5.69/10
Best Character: Yuri Dietrich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPycuwX39_Q

Premise: Derrida Yvain is the brilliant inventor of autonomous machines, but theres a flaw in their design. After getting cryogenically frozen for a decade, Derrida wakes in a dark future.

The Good: RErideD (which is just an awful title) isnt great, but it also isnt as bad as its score on MAL would indicate. It helps that a lot of things it did really appealed to me. I like time travel, and the idea of a guy getting frozen and waking up a decade later is interesting. The bad future allowed for fun action set-pieces where they fought robots. As for the characters, Yuri was the only one who was any good. Her story had a nice emotional crux that helped make up for everyone else being so bland or nonsensical.

The Bad: The bad future setting isnt always consistent. Depending on the needs of the scene, sometimes its an apocalyptic wasteland and sometimes everything is fine. The whole time travel plot also never really came together. There were times where I saw hints at what couldve been good ideas, but they were always drowned out by boatloads of nonsense. The production values for this are also insanely low, which I suspect is the biggest reason for its low score on MAL.

Overall: For me, a good time travel story is one that carefully reveals all the little pieces and its magical at the end when it all comes together. RErideD has some good ideas, but the story is mostly nonsense. It's missing that moment where it all comes together. I still enjoyed it for what it was, but I'm a sucker for time travel in all its forms.

COMING UP TOMORROW:
191: This anime got mugged by a goblin in London.
190: I had to aim slightly lower to shoot at this anime.
189: I blasted this anime with a supercharged coin.

(I've never seen either of those World End animes. I still appreciate the guesses though, even when they're wrong. It shows people are at least checking in on days like today where I might be the only one who has seen any of these.)