So I started watching some anime, which name I can't remember and, after seeing a few episodes of it, I'm not going to bother to remember. Basically, the premise is that a group of people all have their journals sort of enchanted to tell them the future. They are then tasked with killing each other, with the last one left alive becoming a God. The restriction being, though, that the journals are still limited to the kind of information that was originally put in them in the first place. For example, one girl is obsessed with the main character, so all her journal posts before were just talking about him, so after it gets enchanted it still only says things about him. The journals would update if they were deliberately changed; if one character found another journal holder, their journals would say whatever was going to happen.

It was an interesting dynamic. It had a very specific limit on what each character could see or do and why. It was pretty over the top (for example:  a teenage girl dresses like a maid, sets up proximity mines all over a school while no one is looking and uses them to hunt the main character) but it was all more or less grounded in reality.

Until the fourth episode where we find out that one of the characters can completely hypnotize anyone he wants to do anything he wants for no justified reason. Because then they get to have zombies.

Fuck. That.

The show was only interesting because of the limitations the premise set on it. Once we start saying, "Oh by the way, some of the people have magic powers unrelated to the premise," then what's the fucking point? It just becomes "magic people fighting other magic people." It's bullcrap. And it is so very much worse than something that is just shitty from the beginning. Having something that has real promise and having it ruin its own appeal less than 6 episodes in is downright embarrassing.

So yeah... I gave up on that show and I didn't bother to remember its name. Because it can go fuck itself.