An American Writer's Thoughts on Japanese Animation

At the Bottom of the Rabbit Hole – Qualidea Code Spoiler Review

What makes a show good? There are a lot of potential answers to that. Some shows are good because of their casts, groups of characters with loads of humanity who you love to watch. Others are good because of their plot, delivering an engaging narrative that you want to see through to its conclusion. Others can be good because of their visuals, especially action and choreography. Some even reach quality more for their worldbuilding than anything else.

But, one thing people attempting to make a good show sometimes miss is that while a show can be good for any of these reasons, it won’t be good if that one reason is the only thing it has going for it. The other important elements have to at least hit some level of basic competence or everything will break down.

Enter Qualidea Code, a show that tries pretty hard to build something good with its twists and scenario, but which does it on a foundation of sand thanks to utterly lacking many other points along the way.

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