[Anime] Zankyou no Terror

EDIT: That moment between Five and Lisa was fantastic

I've been wondering for awhile now if Five was yandere, and I guess she technically counts as one...barely.

That ending was absolutely not what I expected at all (to an extent), but I'll be damned if I wanted it any other way. All in all, I felt the characters were actually pretty believable, but still different enough to enjoy, and everything felt resolved nicely. Plot, presentation and production. Zankyou no Terror had all this in spades.

Except the bloody Americans, they can go fuck themselves.

Too convenient, shallow explanations(even for an anime that's trying for the "less is more approach").

How did Eleven and Nine get by after escaping the Rising Peace Academy? How did they survive, no thrive against FBI and SDF in their own backyard? Why the hell was the entirety of the beginning spent with the duo using bombs for the sake of the terrorist edge angle, when they should have focused more on their motivation as terrorists(which was a surprise that everyone should have seen coming frankly).

In fact the whole Sphinx deal mixed in with the FBI letting an absolute nutcase from a completely botched experiment handle their operation made me incredibly skeptical from the start. The riddles were complete cockadoodle for the sake of spice rather than intelligence(or actual police work).

Lisa is basically a glorified plot advancement device. Notably her mother disappeared overnight, along with half of the police agency who swore to help Shibazaki. In the ending, Shibazaki literally launched into narratives where he hand-fed the viewer what was going on-rather than making use of an anime's capability and creatively showing what was going on. Also I 100% guarantee that FBI would have gone OUT of their way to kill Shibazaki and Lisa to tie up loose ends, nobody would notice a dead runaway save for an insane mother and the chief of the police bureau who is whipped for all intents and purposes. Shibazaki's family? Tell them he died in the line of duty gunned down by the two, they'll shed a tear and move on. A lot of things in this anime reeked of convenience to me, parts of it felt unnaturally put together and I had trouble believing this is what real organization, terrorist or hell even an angsty teenager would act like.

The suspense was more or less dead to me,I knew Sphinx was never going to kill someone, the nuke was going to be an expensive firework and their past could have been torn out of any generic book concerning unethical human conditioning.