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 ====== Charlotte ======
-[{{ :lb:img:charlotte.png |This place has [[lb:Key]] coffee too!}}]
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-**Reshuffle Note**: I barely remember why I created this article in the first place. What's certain is that I'm unlikely to write about Charlotte until I rewatch it. Despite the incredible lack of anything here, I do have something to say about it, as it was the first disappointment I got from [[lb:Key]].
+{{tag>anime}}
+</div>
-Is an anime that [[lb:Key]] helped create, together with [[lb:P.A. Works]].\\
+{{ img:b:r:charlotte.png?460 }}
-This is a world where kids have super-powers, but they lose them when they become adults. Most super-powers are not all that useful either.\\
+**Charlotte** is an [[lb:anime]] that was created through a collaboration between [[lb:Key]] and [[lb:P.A. Works]],((:fn:>While I believe the term ‘collaboration’ is most appropriate to describe the presumed relationship, I don't know for sure whether it was an ‘official collaboration’. [[lb:Key]]’s logo does appear in the credits (and Key coffee does make an appearance in the anime as well), and many of their core staff worked on Charlotte. Key and P.A. Works have worked together a lot, and continue to, which is why I'm assuming it was a collaboration.)) the former providing staff for the writing; character design; and the like, and the latter doing much of the animation work.
-Our main character has the power to take control of someone else's body temporarily. He uses this to get the girl, get into a school of his choice (by cheating)... until a school filled with super-powered kids finds him. Then, together with the student council, he dedicates his time to finding other super-powered kids.\\
-The manga is supposedly better than the anime, I haven't bothered to read it yet though.\\
-{{ https://files.catbox.moe/jb55j0.png }}
+The world of Charlotte is one in which teenagers have random super-powers, although all of these super-powers come with a downside that usually renders it impractical to use.
 ===== Review =====
+<div rating>
+<div star>★</div>
+<div star>★</div>
+<div star disabled>★</div>
+<div star disabled>★</div>
+<div star disabled>★</div>
+</div>
+I don't remember many specifics outside of the series being quite short. The one specific issue I remember is that they undid a major plot-point, which had the effect of rendering a chunk of the show meaningless.
+Charlotte was the first major disappointment I've experienced from [[lb:Key]], and it currently remains the only one. This disappointment is largely the reason this article has remained empty for a while, and will likely remain empty for a while longer.
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+There isn't really anything wrong with the basic idea of the series, and the series has the same ‘feel’ that other Key properties have, just that there was a severe misstep at some point during development.((:fn:>And I'm fearing that missteps and production issues are something [[lb:Key]] is plagued by, having affected [[lb:Angel beats]] in particular.))
+I think the twist that <mark spoiler>the super-powers were actually a sickness</mark> could have worked, just that it was executed very poorly. If the <mark spoiler>super-powers</mark> were actually <mark spoiler>a sickness</mark> then there should have been more serious <mark spoiler>symptoms</mark> than <mark spoiler>‘If you use your super-powers the second you lose them, you might die or seriously hurt yourself’</mark>.
+The worldbuilding in general comes off as not very well thought-out, which is quite unusual when you consider that [[lb:key]]’s other properties have sensible worldbuilding.((:fn:>Albeit simple. But simple executed well is better than complex executed poorly.)) Comparatively, <mark spoiler>[[playground:Munou na Nana]] handles this far better</mark>.
+</div>
+There //is// a manga, but I haven't gotten to it just yet. I have heard that it's better than the anime, but you never know with the western anime community.
 ===== Trivilinks =====
-{{tag>anime construction}}
+  * [[https://charlotte-anime.jp|Official JP website]]
+  * [[https://www.charlotteanime.com|Official EN website]]
+  * [[anidb>10997|aniDB]]
+  * [[anila>20997|AniList]]
+  * I didn't originally realize that Charlotte was made by Key when I started watching it. It was only after the appearance of Key coffee, and then the Key logo in the credits, that I figured it out. This only had the effect of raising my expectations...which of course, came crashing down.
+  * Aiding the speculah that [[lb:Key]] is obsessed with Baseball is the fact this series has a baseball episode.