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If you feel like gambling, take a chance. If you like pretty animation and awesome music, yeah. So now onto the bigger question: should YOU watch W’z? Well, I’m not sure. Because even if I shouldn’t have watched W’z, I did, and now I have faith in GoHands again. All things they’ve had problems with in the past. I just hope that they can correct past mistakes and keep the story of it actually cohesive, understandable, and satisfying. So GoHands is doing what GoHands does best with W’z. Homeboy Yukiya is even a dj in the anime and we get to hear some of his awesome EDM tracks (for the record, I think GoHands could literally just make a visually stunning anime about the person who makes the music for their productions and I’d watch it). The animation is stunning as always, the visual effects are on point and artistic, and the music is absolutely lit. Sure it was slow at parts, we didn’t really get into the Ziggurat battles until the end, and there’s a bound-to-be-love-interest childhood friend, but there’s also a lot of promising bits. Out of all the GoHands anime’s I’ve seen, this was one of them that actually had a really solid first episode. But again, it’s made to be a sequel so I can’t fault it, I just wish that there was a recap because this anime alone (and forgetting the monstrosity that came before it) could actually be watchable. This lands W’z in a very strange territory of being new content but also not new enough that someone who has never seen Handshakers could pick it up and totally understand what’s going on. Which presents a problem because it uses SO much jargon that we learn only in it’s prequel. To be honest, were it not explicitly stated in the description that it was a sequel, it could very well be seen as it’s own anime. See, it’s not a second season like -K- Return of Kings, and it doesn’t focus on the same characters as Handshakers. Plus, being a sequel to Handshakers actually brings up one of the biggest weaknesses in the show.Ī new viewer of this anime will be totally lost. It makes me really wish that this had been my first introduction into this world by GoHands instead of Handshakers, but sadly that’s not the truth. This main character’s plot is already bounds better than what we got in Handshakers and I find it genuinely interesting, especially since there’s even clearly some resentment on his part that he even is a handshaker himself (can’t wait for that backstory). Whereas it’s predecessor had it’s story rely on two main characters who couldn’t stop holding hands lest one die (no I’m not kidding), W’z presents home boy Yukiya, who has the irregular power of seeming to be able to take anyone he touches hands with into the Ziggurat (even accidentally), thus making him constantly worry that by doing so, he might accidentally make them handshakers like him. The concept this time uses the concept from Handshakers (being that certain people are ‘handshakers’, meaning they hold hands and get entered into the Ziggurat where they fight other handshakers as they fight to defeat god and obtain a wish ) in a much better way. The handshakers world was the best part of the show. I will say that the concept of W’z is more compelling to me than Handshakers ever was, but part of me also believes that part of the reason W’z exists is because GoHands really wanted to get back to the absolutely stunning world of the handshakers (which I will give them credit for.
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It’s not as bad as Handshakers, but not as good as K (yet). And after watching episode there’s really only one thing to say. So naturally, I told myself I wasn’t going to watch W’z…except I did. It’s made by GoHands, which is also responsible for an anime I rather like (but who also has its flaws), K, but who is known for it’s visually stunning anime and lackluster stories.
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It is made as a sequel to 2017’s godawful anime Handshakers (and when I say awful I mean deplorable. Now, you may ask yourself: “why exactly is Luna avoiding W’z?” (or you might be in the same boat as me). That’s right, we’re still not talking about Yakusoku Neverland, no today it’s all about the anime I was trying to avoid watching: W’z. Age unknown, but certainly young-and then we get a 10 years later text on the screen.