Hirune Hime, rêves éveillés

The intermingling of dreams and reality can be fascinating (such as in Sucker Punch), and it partially works in this show. As long as the fantasy part works as a parallel to reality and complements the actual narrative, everything flows interestingly enough. Finding out that the main female protagonist’s father told her as much without her knowing was also quite touching. However, then comes the second half (or maybe the last third, I was not watching the time) of the season, and that is when it stopped working for me. From a certain point when reality seamlessly transitioned into fantasy and everything kind of weirdly came together, I thought it lost its charm. The supposedly epic and visually exciting but somehow completely vacuous conclusion convinced me that I do not want to give more than an average rating. 5/10. (09/11/2017)