[Spoilers] Dusk Beyond the End of the World - (final) Episode 12

That moment when you realize a creepy old man living in a capsule has been watching through your eyes the whole time, hoping to live his polygamy fantasy through you.
And they just had to emphasize that the 2 MCs where the "children" of Towasa and Akira. Usually, I wouldn't have thought much of it but after that incestuous mafia story...

At least, this episode had some cool action scenes and it's finally over.

Once again, the cartoonish antagonist got dealt with in the opening 5 minutes of the episode......
Long, dull arcs and dumb conflicts turned this into a chore to sit through at times, and I couldn’t bring myself to care about anyone here beyond Amoru, to some extent.

The potential was there early on in the prologue and first episode, and they still botched it hard. Bravo, P.A. Works.

The moment they hugged and the text "La Fino" popped up, I bursted out laughing because of how sudden that was.
After all that painful back and forth between them and Amoru about how they feel about their feelings, they just pull a "Oh well guess we do like her that way after all. Let's hug her after she wakes up. THE END"
Absolutely hilarious.

But in all seriousness, it was alright for someone that has little experience in sci-fi. Some plot aspects definitely felt insufficient explored while other stuff was handles very rushed.
I guess the creator either meant for it to feel like a travel ish series in which you don't spend too much time in one spot to deal with every problem that exists there and rather get a bit from everywhere....or the anime just didn't have enough screen time for more detailed stuff IF there was something in the manga or whatever source.

Still an overall interesting series in my opinion that funnily enough had so much yuri but much less of the rest of the spectrum for some reason lmao

I was so ready to see that "android incest" is fine but that polygamia thing is a no no

sometimes rejection is needed

Polygamy was created by the protagonist himself, which I didn't expect, but oh well. A love triangle ending... I would have liked a kiss with Amoru, but that was asking too much :/

To review this series with a TF2 quote I'd say:
"Fantastic, this was a huge waste of my time"

A series where a majority of the time nothing really happens, and when something does happen it's really cool but mostly driven by very dumb decisions and very selfish characters not punished for their selfishness (looking at you, Amoru).

Not to mention the forced drama these last two episodes with glasses guy suddenly being revealed as the villain, causing trouble that ended up having little to no consequence other than having to wait for Amoru to wake up, and dying minutes after.

Seriously, why even have that fight, telling us that Amoru was lost because of the merging minds, and Yuugure's sacrifice to save Akira if Yuugure and Amoru were going to be pretty much fine and Yoiyami was only going to lose her memories (which is not really interesting considering she wasn't fleshed out at all)?

And after all this mystery... Towasa was dead the entire time. The most obvious answer was the real one but they kept trying to convince us and Akira that she MIGHT be alive, for some reason.

Once again, Akira is handed everything without any sacrifice. It's his human self who both gives up his life support to save Yugure AND tells his android self it's okay to love both women and to challenge norms. Android Akira doesn't arrive at this conclusion through struggle or introspection, his creator gives him permission. Even his feelings need external validation from a more authoritative version of himself.

Unconscious during Yugure's sacrifice, Amoru is unconscious again while Akira and Yugure visit Towasa's grave, confess their love, kiss, and decide they want a three-way marriage. Amoru, who spent seven years caring for them, who was so desperate to belong that she let herself be manipulated into a body swap, who stabbed him... isn't even conscious for the conversation about her own romantic future. okay.

Yugure now wants a three-way marriage? Feels like the narrative needed a tidy ending and retrofitted Yugure's feelings to get there even though she was so insistent on Akira not openly acknowledging his love for Amoru.

And now, after everything... the years of care, the trauma, the betrayal, the body horror, the fight... Amoru's resolution is waking up to a hug and the implication that she's included now. No conversation. No reconciliation scene. No moment where she gets to decide if she even still wants this after everything.

The ending is a participation trophy for Akira. He showed up, other people died and sacrificed and fought for him, and he gets the happy polyamorous ending without ever having to earn it.

Well, it might not have made sense, but at least it was fun.

ayo thank fuck this dogshit is over. This was by far pa works' worst work. Please, for the love of fuck, let's go back to bangers like hanasaku iroha and shirobako.

so... win?

Episode 0 + episode 1 are just a bait. After that it drops in quality like no tomorrow. Writing gets terrible, story... is non-existent for the next 6+ episodes. Characters behave like idiots and generally your expected curious story about humanity, cyborgs, future world is a attempt at squeezing animatrix into 20 minutes of one episode. Avoid like plague.

I just think personally, everything was well done, but they could've left out the incest part

seeing the incestuous mafia couple have 2 kids was uhhh... very disconcerting to say the least... :Aware:

Lol the mafia incest pair actually had children. Still flabbergasted about that incest mafia arc, it was so bad. Overall good first episode but somehow went downhills after that.

I have finally figured this shit out. It took thirteen episodes of this hot garbage, but I got it right in the middle of the last episode. The writers had a good idea for a solid fantasy piece with interesting social commentary (rampant AI usage destroying the world, ehlsea being the solution for conservative single-sex marriage etc.) - but they for some reason decided it won't sell like that and wanted that Time of Eve romance action. Except they had twelve episodes and somehow had to made viewers care about both aspects at the same time and failed at it miserably.

I mean, if you look at it this way, it suddenly makes sense. OG Akira suddenly going from "I made ehlsea to solve gay marriage" to "also, wouldn't it be cool if you banged in a threesome"? Solved. Anime completely switching gears between episode 2 and 3, and then again after episode 8? Yep, it's writers not being able to take care of both fantasy and romance at the same time. Then, on top of that, they've put plenty of things that sell - lolibait, incest, yuri, even a bit of harem action.

But above all else, the writing is just piss poor. The last episode brought almost nothing to the table. The final battle was completely pointless, Yoiyami's sacrifice was just needless and proves every single character of this show, including the main cast, are just plot devices made to further the story. That is not how you write a compelling story though. Not to mention the amount of lazy solutions they've kept coming up with throughout I wrote about.

I regret wasting my time on this, and I feel like even writing this post is just poor time management on my part, but I felt the need of getting it off my chest. 4/10. Never gonna rewatch it like I did with other crap shows 'cause of how unfunny this shitshow was.

Well, after following this from the begining I can say.... eh, the first episode was good? Really, though, this anime was such a waste of potential in so many aspects.

This EP actually got me emotional! I only cared about the romance so happy ending for me. Surprisingly well told story

Wasted potential like most sci-fi anime we've gotten this decade. I'm too tired of this show to give any actual thoughts about it other than it is the most disappointing anime I've seen in 2025.

Do better PA Works.

loved it !

This started interesting but got real sloppy but then it went peak but then it went sloppy again at the last episode... Idk why the author is so forceful on the harem part or whatever the f he's on (Hinted incest, must be authors fetish but that doesn't matter since both are robots). Just give them a normal relationship bro. It's not that hard to do a hetero relationship. Amoru really ruined the experience at the end especially on the kissing part... Really ruined her character because of whatever she did in the last episode... The author was so forceful of adding woke stuff and incest, it's crazy. Could've gotten a 7 or maybe 8 from me but nah...

As a Harem enjoyer I'm agains Ehlsea

I don't think I've ever seen an anime hate on one of its characters as much as this anime hated on amoru. This anime pisses me off, like I can't believe it made me defend polyamory. To keep it as little as a full-on rant as possible, this is the perfect example of solid idea, terrible execution. With society already in its AI era, having a show centering the dangers and consequences of evolving technology is a great topic to explore, there should be more shows exploring this. I can also see exploring the social commentary on the definition of love and marriages with the collaboration and mixing of different cultures, backgrounds to be a great show idea. But both topics were executed terribly with so much bullshit of the mc being so passive, and the mini arcs dealing with super touchy subjects that didn't stick the landing. The cheating one was fine; I think that does an pretty good social commentary on the mindsets of those who cheat/been cheated on. The hot spring arc was fine. The mafia arc should have not been added at all. And just how much Akira's half assed-ness pissed me off. Like this man's original person made the social construct of elshe, and told you to get with the times, but it took him so long to decide whether or not to accept Amoru's feelings. Also the fact that when he finally accepted that he was an android, he can accept that he wasn't in love with Towasa, but he still head firm on the construct of marriage from his experiences, which aren't even his cus he's a clone of the og Akira. This anime pisses me off. Is this the worst thing I've seen, sadly no, but it does frustrate me.

I will give it props for the beautiful animation and good fights, along with great world building with beautiful environments. And the clear south Asian inspiration for amoru and the village people is a neat touch of representation. Overall, this is a 6/10 anime for me.

Honestly its funny. I kept thinking to myself with how much this anime pissed me off, why didn't I give this a lower score, but thinking about it, the anime is a solid example of how when you are truly trying to analyze a media, you are more honest about the characteristics and elements that you both look for and dislike, So after giving a solid attempt at analyzing it, the final score you give it is a thorough resolution of the process you did. I was analyzing all the social commentary, the internal conflicts and core themes, even though there is so much I disagree with, because I went in full trying to analyze it, I don't disagree with the score cus it followed my process of analyzing.

Genuinely enjoyed this anime, 10/10 even if some of the episodes in the beginning were frustrating to watch, the end cleared it for me.

The promise of ep 0 absolutely squandered, even shat on, by the series proper. Only watch this if you hate yourself like I do. Insane how the best episode is a full episode lore dump.

Got catfished with the animation and artstile in the first 2 episodes, had my hopes really high for this one. I kept watching for more lore and story but ultimately it kept disappointing me. I was wondering how many times they will bring up the Amoru rant because I genuinely did not see it as a plot for the ending. The only slightly redeeming episode is the lore drop we got when Akira finds out he is a robot. Could have easily been an 8.

Finally finished this....it seemed like it was gonna be better once they revealed that he's an android, but then it got really weird and the excuse it "oh it's fine because they are robots" feels like they are ripping off Nier Automata so hard lol. Also oh my GOD I hated Amoru she was annoying every step of the way I wish they just got rid of her in the beginning. ?‍♂️

I find really bold from PA Works that they celebrate their 25th anniversary creating a project that screams they have no idea how to write a story.

This anime earns the trophy "Should be mandatory in writing degrees in order to teach HOW TO NOT write"

Surprise, you're an android!

I honestly have no idea what is going on in the story, character wise, so I'll just comment on the plot. This seems to be a "Transhumanism" gone wrong sci-fi story.

1) Nanomachine threat is unresolved. All humans on Earth have been tainted with "LC" femtomachines that are vulnerable to hacking. Thus, until this is resolved humanity will be forced to stay in an analogue era otherwise they will just go back to hacking each other in a new digital era.

Though I find the idea that all humans would use "LC" to be a bit far-fetched. There would have been plenty of holdouts. Though a story of "Alpha" AI siding with those humans and wiping out everyone else would not be as "clear cut" as "AI bad, humans good."

2) "OWEL" is still a terrible organisation even if the "one-dimensional" villians could be explained away as being hacked / hijack by an outside force.

3) I would have dumped Amoru at the very beginning. Nuff said.

At the end of the day it is a story on how even the most intelligent people can make mistakes (Unleashing a doomsday nanomachine threat and then a doomsday AI takes the first prize medal though).

The humanity in this sci-fi world are ultimately doomed for extinction because really, who is going to stop those asteroids from crashing into the Earth now.

"Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem." - Neil deGrasse Tyson