People are voting emotionally.

Let's be realistic.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

It could have been incredible but it ended up being one of the worst anime I ever watched. In fact, there are ~2 episodes that are cool, and the rest is just a waste of time.Obviously one or two of the directors had some really cool ideas, and the rest just ruined the show. I strongly suggest not wasting your time.

This is the same people who made "Angel Beats!". I heard good things about this since it aired but it was in my long list of shows that I plan to watch eventually, the reason I ended up watching it sooner than later was because my friend had just finished it & bugged me to watch it for days(lol). So my first impression after episode 1 was, "this looks like it could be interesting, i'm curious to see where it'll go". So I watched 1-5 & said to myself well this isn't bad its definitely interesting but its far from the scale of praise everyone gives it, seems pretty average/slightly above(in terms of story) to me. So I watched 1 more and everything from that point to the end just took a complete left turn in story(in a really good way) I didn't expect it at all. Went from a slightly above average > pretty awesome show. The story is about teenagers who develop supernatural abilities around puberty & a group of students from a school that houses these special teens go out & prevent others from abusing their powers & endangering the welfare of others with abilities with their poor actions. Its so much deeper than it sounds, don't let the "stupidly plain over done" theme discourage you! The animation & artwork is great, visually pleasing from start to finish. All the character designs are great, no one looks off or stupid. The music is fantastic! The op & ed are soooo good you can listen to them over & over without tire & everything in the show matches great. My only complaints with the show are it feels very rushed from 1-5ish, but then everything past that seems well paced and something that happens in the last episode irritates me I can't get into it without spoilers but it just leaves you with a how?..that doesn't even make sense due to what you see in the episode before it. Its got quite a bit of a darker theme then it lets on so if your tastes are instability, powers(with realism to them which is pretty cool from your typical power genre), action & or a fan of the previous work "Angel Beats!" you'll definitely enjoy this as long as you stick with it past the beginning.4.5/5 Why? It felt rushed for the first half, something happens in the end that irritates me because it doesn't line up with the previous episode. But the story is pretty solid & much deeper than you'd ever guess from the first half, the animation & artwork are awesome and the music is majestic af. If you like a darker theme show you have to check this out, especially for fans of "Angel Beats"

Jun Maeda is a talented writer. I like Air, I like Clannad, I like Kanon, I like Little Busters. Angel Beats? No masterpiece, but at least it's fun. So why then is Charlotte so awful?For starters, I don't think I've ever seen an anime where so much of it is made pointless. Look, after the promising first episode, it goes into episodic nonsense, which is fine, a lot of Key anime start out rather episodic. However, considering how rushed the last half is, while these episodes may not be terrible to watch when you first see them, looking back, did they really need all of them? No, they didn't. And then comes the big, dramatic, plot twist all Key anime have, the one there to make you cry and feel feelings. The annoying sister of the main character, Yuu, is killed off. It's done in a silly way, but it'll certainly lead to deep character development, right? Two episodes later, a whole episode is spent concentrating on the lead singer of a band the main girl character, Nao likes. This singer seems important, like she's part of the character's problem and may have gone through something similar to them, and you want to know about her. Well after her episode, they make it so that way the meeting with her never happened as they time travel back in time to save the sister. What was the point of meeting her? Who exactly was she? She's never mentioned again, just put her out of your mind, it doesn't matter.So we have 4 purely episodic episodes and 3 episodes that never actually happened due to time travel. That's arguably seven episodes wasted in a 13 episode anime. This leads to what you'll expect. A rushed final four episodes that make absolutely no sense, introducing new characters and having the characters make absolutely dumb decisions. The last episode, especially, is one of the worst anime episodes I've seen. I am not exaggerating when I say this last episode should've been its' own thirteen episode season. It may have been an awesome season, it may have made up for the terribleness of the rest of the anime. But nope. It's just a rushed piece of nonsense where our main characters travels to steal the powers of thousands, if not millions of people, in a span of about 23 minutes, while losing his sanity. It's sad, actually, really. This anime could've been so good, but the pacing is just god awful. Granted, Charlotte is more of an entertaining mess than unwatchable, but I still only recommend this to the masochists out there.

In the world of this series the comet Charlotte passes the Earth every seventy five years; as a result of its dust a small number of young children are affected by a condition that will give then super powers once they reach puberty. The protagonist of this story is Yuu Otosaka; a boy who gains the power to possess others for a few seconds; a skill he uses to cheat in exams and to start fights between people he doesn't know. His abilities are spotted by Nao Tomori, a girl who is collecting people with abilities and having them transfer to Hoshinoumi Academy where she tries to hide their abilities from the authorities who have been taking an interesting in these special children.The early episodes involve the finding of various power-users but after an awakening power leads to the death of Yuu's sister things turn dark. A previously suppressed memory about his brother surfaces and he learns that he has another far more powerful power; the ability to take other people's powers; if he is to save those he cares about he will have to use this skill to is full… if there are no people with the powers there will be nobody for the authorities to hunt.The idea of having people with varied superpowers is hardly new, indeed there have already been anime featuring such characters… this isn't a problem though and this is a welcome addition to the genre. Yuu is a good protagonist and the early episodes are genuinely funny. The various powers exhibited are entertaining. By the time the tone turns darker we are caring about the characters and what happens to them. When Yuu started gaining more and more powers I feared that his character would just become ridiculously powerful but we see that there are also some very negative consequences for him which saved the story from a disappointing ending. Talking of the ending; things are wrapped up nicely in one of the best episodes of the series. The characters are fairly distinctive and the animation is pretty good. Overall if you enjoy this genre I'd recommend checking this out.