I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

I'll refrain from saying anything specific. But what I really liked about this series is how creative, "unformulatic" and surprising it is. Typicially watching series these days I easilly catch "filler" patterns that will go on for the full series except perhaps the first and last episode per season. Charlotte also plays with such patterns, but then abruptly without warning change things up to something highly new and surprising. Just when I thought I had this series all figured out and could predict how it would proceed for the rest of the season, my idea was shattered, and always kept me on the edge of my seat.All in all. Great series!

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.