What Happened To Wonder Egg Priority?
Winter 2021 brought a lot of anime that are still talked about today, from the beloved romance Horimya, to the first cour of Attack on Titan: Final Season. However, one anime that season is often forgotten by anime fans; Wonder Egg Priority. Why was this anime forgotten, and did it truly deserve to be largely ignored by the anime community?
Wonder Egg Priority is an anime about Ai Ooto, a blue-haired girl who is grieving over the suicide of her best friend. Ai ends up finding a magical egg that transports her to another world, where she is roped into a magical girl-esque job where she fights other's people's traumatic pasts. This leads her to believe she can possibly save her best friend from her own trauma, and prevent the past. Although the anime ranks relatively low in popularity rankings across anime tracking sites the anime still has a good score, with a 7.70 on MyAnimeList and 79.65% Community Approval on Kitsu, as well as a 76% score on AniList. If the anime was generally well received, why was it forgotten?
Dark Slice Of Life Anime
Just as Treasure Planet was overshadowed by Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Wonder Egg Priority had many big anime to share airtime with. Just like we mentioned before, the Spring 2021 season was stacked, with Attack on Titan: Final Season, Horimiya, Jobless Reincarnation, Re:Zero Season 2, and That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime, just to time the most popular anime from that season.
Unfortunately for Wonder Egg Priority, an anime not attached to an already popular series or manga didn't stand a chance. This tends to be the case for original anime, although some more recent anime such as Lycoris Recoil seem to be breaking the original anime curse. Wonder Egg Priority wasn't as
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