Robotic invaders wiped out all life, but Renge fights to survive using her powers. With no memories, she roams the city until she meets five other young women, each with unique abilities. Together, they make the most of their lives, cooking delicious meals between battles with mechanical monstrosities. As they uncover the secrets of their powers and pasts, they find strength in their friendship. (Source: Crunchyroll)
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Ever since Hand Shakers, the modest studio GoHands has had a reputation. Hand Shakers was awful because of its characters and story, over-rendered CGI notwithstanding… but every season this studio debuts a new show, the criticism has been a little too predictable. MAL featured an article about this show that caught my eye, and rather than do what everyone else says and moan “bwaaah Gohands!” …I decided to give it a try. It is a huge, huge improvement over Hand Shakers. A group of girls are hanging out in a very glossy, crisp and clean city- but there are no other people around. They meetsomeone new- a girl named Renge- who is bashful around them and has some adorable funny faces as she fusses about how to introduce herself. Each of the girls is very pretty, beautifully drawn, and with different color hair, stylish outfits, and their own pet phrases. But what you may notice first is- the camera angles. The camera swoops all around in I suppose GoHands signature style, birds-eye, worms-eye views and all kinds of other angles, but the girls themselves are possibly more animated than anything you’ve ever seen before. Their boobs bounce- up and down and left and right- they move their heads and shoulders around constantly, and EVERY STRAND OF HAIR is moving- and it’s not choppy- it moves like fluid. You can criticize the stylistic choices and the lackadaisical plot, but you can’t deny the characters are beautifully animated. As the show progresses, the laid back feeling finally shifts to some action and even a shocking character-death that was really very dramatic… the number of people watching the first episode had dropped to a dedicated few by the mid-way point, and all I could wonder was why? Yes it’s true, GoHands has an offbeat style… more like they lean way too heavily on 3D graphics programs, and someone at the studio can’t keep their hands off the ‘increase contrast’ knob; and for some reason they are obsessed with making cherry blossom trees glow brighter than the downtown of a medium sized city on a Friday night. And the monsters they fight, even the weapons they fight them with- have neon colored glowing liquid LIGHT spewing out of them… if you were vegging out on a typically boring, visually flat episode of Magic Maker and suddenly switched to the middle of one of these fight scenes, I’m pretty confident your eyeballs would catch fire. But maybe that’s why I love this show so much. Aren’t people tired of seeing the same crappy 2D drek with the same archetypal isekai protagonists, dull colors, wooden dialogue, and the same unimaginative magic crap in season after season of mass produced slop? What is the real reason you like anime as a medium? The stories? You can read a story in a book. Don’t you want to see ANIMATION??? That’s what this show was made for! I have a completely different view of it- and the studio GoHands- than I did at the beginning. The reason anime became so popular was that it did radical things western animation didn’t attempt, it had exciting camera movement, (and stories for grownups), action-packed fights, memorable characters and…. loads of cute girls. All of those things are packed into this anime, it is a dazzling overload for the eyes- maybe that’s what anime should be. I can’t understand the appeal of liking something because it’s flat and boring and safe. This show is bright, colorful, loud, obnoxious, confusing, and absolutely bonkers- and that is EXACTLY THE REASON you should watch it. Now- you CAN look for every flaw in the scenery or point out the direction of the shadows not matching up, or some other pedantic gripe about some background detail. You COULD also sit back and watch the world spin, see colorful girls twirl around and scream while riding guitars through the air attacking some hilariously stupid looking glowing monster.. When it’s put that way, that choice seems easy- I had a great time watching this show and I wish more anime were like it.
Momentary Lily - GoHands, is this your Hand Shakers for the 2020s? It seems like it; it feels more like it. Look, I'm not saying that studios are allowed to have their own freestyle of production, but it feels as if, as time passes on, those distinctions become more of a blessing or a curse, depending on the intentions, of course. And for studio GoHands, for a time, they were just like any other studio out there pumping out stereotypical 2D animation adaptations of source materials like 2009's Princess Lover! and 2010's Seitokai Yakuindomo...that is until they found success with 2012's K Project, and the decisionto go full 3DCG is officially implemented, which has been the outcome of striking and bizarre controversy ever since 2017's Hand Shakers. And that philosophy still remains true in the regard of original anime from the studio till now, with the release of this season's Momentary Lily: a show about a post-apocalyptic science fantasy adventure of dealing with robotic invaders...as much as the aspect of cooking makes sense to fill stomachs first, then focus on the issue at hand. "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." - Hippocrates With Momentary Lily being the post-apocalyptic setting of survivability against all odds, I can see how such a story of people having weapons to fight against these monstrous robot-like beings destroying the face of the Earth proves detrimental to humanity's survival for the foreseeable future. In this case, the group of girls of Yuri Kawazu, Erika Kodaiji, Hinageshi Usuzumi, Sazanka Yoshino, and Ayame Sakuya, who were then joined by the unknown girl of Renge Kasumi, were just wandering around all alone with her newfound Andvari weapon, decimating the Wild Hunt robots who roam around the city they're in to kill anyone that's in their way, trying to figure out the secrets of their powers and pasts. In fact, this mirrors Hand Shakers in the way of people partnering together to create their Nimrod weapons to fight against the many groups targeting each other in the race to become God...which, for some reason, as the story (if you could call it that) progresses, I kind of find myself more wanting of Hand Shakers than this show, which, in its execution, was just as wishy-washy, but at least the former show had a somewhat streamlined story despite issues in its storytelling, rather than the latter, which feels like the plot premise kind of took a backseat to the entire CGDCT-esque parade due to uneven pacing. "We all eat, and it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly." - Anna Thomas And that problem is pretty much escalated when Renge joins the group of girls who also are in the same predicament, just that they have more control thanks to their Andvari weapons, which enable them to get OP and eliminate the Wild Hunt. As much personality as the 5 girls all have that we can all afford to single out which girl stands out the most, there's just too much detail going into them that it feels like there's no central character of note (well, if you remove Renge from the equation). Renge trying to rally the girls together is an effort that I will acknowledge trying to get some sort of consensus for a survival story of the 6 of them, even if it means having to get down to the heart of the matter: food, because this is what she's genuinely good at, even if it does and doesn't serve as a plot device to the entire story at hand. It's these CGDCT-esque things that show the amount of effort the writers have when exploring character depth but are by no means showing character development, which, sadly, there is little to none of this, bringing about the incongruencies of mediocre storytelling at its finest (which GoHands is always, without a shadow of a doubt, infamously known for). "Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate." - Alan D. Wolfelt With GoHands, it goes without saying that they love (and I mean ABSOLUTELY LOVE) quality over quantity, or rather, excessive things like their signature complex camerawork, particle effects, and aggressive postprocessing. This has been the bread-and-butter of the studio since Hand Shakers, and if you thought that you could survive Summer 2023's offerings of Suki na Ko ga Megane wo Wasureta a.k.a The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses (which exactly showcases the best of GoHands production) and the underrated Dekiru Neko wa Kyou mo Yuutsu a.k.a The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today, that's at least a stark contrast to what GoHands does for their original anime, which has the budget to go all-out in their own style. And Momentary Lily just feels like another Hand Shakers that's just made to impress just about the loyalists of overexcessive 3DCG. Even the music is somewhat overboard this time around, not the plain ones like GoHands's other projects in the past. I thought that Hanabie's metalcore punk-rock OP song was just the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard when it comes to Anisongs, but then again, when coupled with how GoHands loves to just infringe their signature style, it kind of ironically makes a perfect fit for an overhyped OP song. miwa's ED song is just forgettable, though. Look, you know fully well what to expect going into a GoHands show that is completely originally made from the ground up, only to come out being just as underwhelmed as do their original anime projects of the past (Hand Shakers included). And that's the result of Momentary Lily: a show so ridiculous and over-the-top that it makes you question why any production company (in this case, Shochiku) would have the finances to back an anime project, let alone a GoHands one. This practice will sadly never go away in years to come because GoHands found its formula to rake in any effort they can, even if it comes off as more of an annoyance than anything.
Oh jeez what a mess. Momentary Lily has no clue what it wants to do and the result is a complete train wreck. Is this a generic monster of the week show? A generic CGDCT post apocalypse show? A generic sci fi show? A... cooking... show? Well it's technically all of these things at once but without any of the quality control required to make any of it work. First things first, the visuals. I actually don't mind them and am able to appreciate GoHand's maximalist style for the most part. Although this is almost entirely in regards to the action sequences which, while theydon't come anywhere close to the top brass, are interesting if anything else. In particular I enjoy the unique camera work and angling of shots, if it were paired with high quality art it would be quite satisfying. However, outside of the action the viewer is subjected to preset visuals which contrast against the character models to such a degree that it looks like they're navigating cheap green screen... despite being animation. Characters have to be in instant movement and so if t hey do much as breathe their entire body mass has to respond in kind. This is most blatant with Erika whose oversized boobs seem to be perpetually bouncing on a trampoline, for the less endowed this is shown through their hair which has the same level of jiggle physics. The plot is just an absolute mess. For the first quarter you'll expect this to be a generic monster of the week show, maybe even less than generic as the aliens they fight against all look exactly the same and lack any defining characteristics. They must've gotten bored of this though because they suddenly spend the next half of the show on extremely generic slice of life before leading into a not even half baked twist conclusion that doesn't lead anywhere. Every episode more or less plays out the exact same and they seem to be chronically afraid of development (of both plot and character) so when they do decide to let something happen it completely lacks any impact. Every episode also features this weird chibi cooking segment which seems to be included entirely to fill episode time and nothing else. The benefit of an anime original story is that you're allowed full reign of control over the events of the show, meaning that you aren't limited by deciding how much of the plot you're allowed to adapt in order to create a cohesive story. The downside to this is that if your writing team clearly isn't capable of creating a complete story you end up with something like this where every episode ends up being filler or stuck to stereotypes, half assing the entire thing and wasting everyone's time. A story needs a plan and they clearly ran out of ideas past the third episode. The lack of ideas is equally apparent in their characters as well. They can barely even be called characters as each of them are limited by one or two stock phrases based on their archetype. Renge technically has the most range of them all, she's shy, likes to cook and has amnesia. This at least frees her from not being limited to catchphrases every time she wants to communicate but she is also the one responsible for the episodic cooking segments so even she isn't free. For the rest of the cast it seems that they thought of a catchphrase for each of them and than designed the character after the fact. Yuri is a genki girl who says "don-don-don" all the time. Hina is a gamer who makes gamer references, mostly referring to energy drinks as "buffs." Sazanka honestly doesn't do anything but she makes proverbs every now and then. Erika starts every sentence with "onee-chan's pearl of wisdom" and has big boobs. Ayame is kind of a leader type and says "guilty" all the time as an attempt to be the world's most boring chuuni character. There's nothing else to any of these characters and they don't have any chemistry with each other either. The slice of life segments attempt to fix this by pairing them off and having heart to hearts with each other which reveal a shred of backstory but this doesn't add anything substantial to any of their relationships. It's impossible to care about any of them when every single one of their interactions plays out the same and the depth of their character is as deep as a drop of spit. It's hard to find qualities of Momentary Lily to praise. If it had simply stuck to one of the many tropes it wanted to play out and ran it through until the end then it could have just been another slightly below average anime with maximalist visuals. However by creating something without a fully formed idea of what to do in the first place naturally the result is going to be a dumpster fire. Even in an era where CGDCT reigns supreme and demonstrates that you can get away without a concrete plot so long as you go all in on character relations they still fumble that element by forgetting to flesh out their cast beyond catchphrases and the most basic of backstories. Momentary Lily can't even be given the benefit of the doubt by assuming they simply aimed too high and came up short because they tried to do too much, because they didn't try to do anything with this in the first place. Disgraceful.
This show deserves more credit. Here's why I rate it 7.5/10 I love anime. As a medium anime is able to push the boundaries of imagination and creativity with unrealistic plots, characters and themes and bring it all together to create great entertainment. Some anime are animated very well. Some are overly colorful. Some use all sorts of stereo types and tropes which would be ethically wrong in any other genre. A variety of variable can make anime a great form of entertainment. That being said so many anime follow the same formula. Main characters that are either over powered or gradually gets stronger. Themain characters personality is confident or shy and hates themself. I'm quite tired of seeing the same thing being made with the exact same colors, same characters, following the exact same formula of overcoming weakness or battling through a heard of bosses one after another and everyone survives happily ever after. Momentary Lily is entertaining in different ways. First the animation of the characters is great. Not the same 2d animation you see on every anime. While I'm not a fan of CG the way the characters are animated is amazing. Each strand of hair blows different ways. Parts of their clothes flow fluidly. There boobs sway omni directional. I've seen worse boob sway in real porn with girls with bad boob jobs. This is accompanied by the bad camera angles the studio is known for however it works in this anime because the characters are animated so well that it ends up looking pretty cool when the camera is twirling around up, then down and you see hair and boobs flop in all different directions, accompanied with the over the top colors that blind you. All the bad things the studio is known for actually work because of the character animation. I'm pretty sure that's not what they were thinking but it turned out very cool. The story itself is not bad. I wouldn't say it's the most amazing story ever told but it's quite original. Without any spoilers it does come together at the end. To me it's all about the entertainment value. Watching a group of girls with cyberpunk weapons flying and flipping around. Each with different colors and different boob sway screaming all sorts of weird shit, battling robots that look like an electric frisby with legs, then using a pot to cook a meal after for no reason is weird, hilarious, and fun to watch. I can nitpick about the camera about plot holes, about shadows, but I don't care about those things. I don't watch an anime to complain about a camera angle or complain about how unrealistic it is that's what documentaries and movies are for. I recommend it as a watch as a form of entertainment, an unrealistic story, with unrealistic characters, using unrealistic weapons, battling the stupidest looking robots, with over the top action, great character animations, crazy camera angles, while screaming useless banter results in something you can't take your eyes way from.
Let’s get the obvious out of the way first: Momentary Lily is a complete and utter trainwreck. On an animation level, it’s Studio GoHands on its signature F Game. Obnoxious rainbow lens flare in almost every scene on top of garish color filters, absurd camera angles which serve absolutely no purpose, and overanimated character models which all compound into complete sensory overload. It’s a complete smorgasbord of visual ideas which don’t cohere in any meaningful way and leave only a nauseous mess in their wake. The same can be said for the writing, which is often even worse & less cohesive than the visuals. All of thecharacters are cardboard cutouts defined largely by their catchphrase/vocal quirk, such as the one that says BAM BAM, the one that says Kappou, the one that says Guilty, and the one that speaks Gamer, among others. This terrible cast is not helped by the script, which often swings wildly between serious action, slice-of-life comedy, half-assed emotional moments, and intrusive 3-minute chibi cooking tutorials every episode (yes, really) without any sense of tonal balance, and a mind-numbingly convoluted wider plot which also never comes together. It’s at this point in the review that you’re probably wondering why it’s marked “Mixed Feelings” rather than “Negative”. Well, the answer is rather simple: Momentary Lily is insanely fun to watch. Yup, it’s one of those classic “So Bad, It’s Good” type shows. It may not be traditionally good art, but one can’t help but be in awe of how hard Momentary Lily fails. Its awful production, while typical of Studio GoHands’ output, is nonetheless a standout next to more traditional failures, and seeing what new assaults on cinematic language the series will hammer out quickly goes from an annoying distraction to a major part of the fun. The writing, too, is almost endearing in how much it commits to its terrible approach. Whether it be getting blindsided by whatever new nonsensical plot turn the series will throw at you or just laughing along at how dumb its catchphrase-overloaded excuses for banter are, there is genuinely no end to the ironic fun one can have with this show. If you’re looking for a traditionally good, well-made show, you should probably avoid Momentary Lily like the plague. But if you’re just looking for something dumb to throw on at bad movie night and turn your brain off to, then this might just be the one for you.
Wow. Seriously wow. I personally find it amusing how this show received a far more positive reception than that of Hand Shakers. As someone who enjoyed the aforementioned "slop pile" (as it has been so cruelly dubbed by 90% of people blessed to have seen such a masterpiece) I really, really expected to enjoy this. I really tried. I just couldn't. Story 5/10, This story is fairly "mysterious", at first all you really know if there are "Wild Hunts" which are machine-like monsters that have been going around erasing humans and causing the apocalypse. Now you know that, we have this group of 5 girls survivingin this derelict land who fight said monsters using "Andvari". What is an "Andvari" you ask? ...literally just a weapon. Weapons which remind one greatly of the very weapons wielded in the legendary Hand Shakers. Anyway, the group meet "Renge" an amnesiac who is also trying to survive in the wasteland and join forces. The story is a lot darker than you'd expect, but nothing that makes me say - oh, 100% worth a watch for being a tad bit surprising. Also, something that bugged me quite a bit, is the lack of male characters. This isn't bad necessarily... but of all the survivors they meet... none are male? I mean, I don't understand, surely some guy survived the erasure if all these other humans did? It just felt odd to be honest and it's a very minor complaint. NOW onto something far more important, the ending, this shows ending is such a bollocks arse-pull load of shit. If you've watched "Goodnight World", then yeah, you've seen the ending already. Characters 5/10, they're fine to be real, I don't have much to say. All of them fit a trope, "gamer" chick, "airhead" big sis chick, "edgy" chick, "extrovert" chick, "fa- cooking" chick, "100% a blonde, but not actually blonde" chick. Now what's definitely going to make you want to put a centipede inside your ear and make you start counting back from 1000 by jumps of 7 is... the goddamn "battle cries", it's impossible to take this show seriously, they run into battle yelling ***KAPPOU*** and ***DON DON DON***, WTF! To further this point, in any "heartfelt" scene or whatever, they completely ruin it within seconds with the characters moods being way too joyous for the situation. Music 5/10, it's fine, I really don't care for the music in this show this time around. W'z/ Hand Shakers had far better OSTs IMO. Animation: 6/10, this is the only thing I consider above average about this show. But, what brings it down - the jiggle physics, I don't care what you say, this is not an "ecchi" (I'm jk, I know it doesn't go nearly far enough, but if people get to complain about the chain physics in Hand Shakers, I'm not going to let ts slide) why does the generic idiot big sis girl have a large rack that bounces all the damn time? How the hell am I going to be serious in a fight when that's happening? Overall, 6/10, I'm being generous with the 6 - purely out of love for GoHands to be honest. This anime nearly put me to sleep several times and I had to work to finish it. If you want some generic action that'll put you to sleep, go for it, or... if you're just in need to see chicks fighting. Then it might be it for you.
Dear fellow reader, let me throw you into a wild hypothetical scenario. Picture this: you stumble upon the ultimate cure for cancer. Sounds epic, right? Now imagine pouring your heart into it, but no one gives you the time of day. The cure stays hidden, cancer keeps winning, and you’re just… stuck. How would that hit you? That’s my vibe with Momentary Lily. Hands down, it’s the most slept-on gem of the Winter 2025 season. This anime yeets you into a post-apocalyptic rollercoaster where humanity’s teetering on the edge (or maybe already toast) thanks to some freaky, unnegotiable creatures. Your mission as aviewer? Figure out what’s going down. Each episode levels up harder than the last. You’ll be cooking up a storm of theories to crack the mystery, only tenuor every mind-blowing ep to smash them to bits. The finale? Total brain-fry territory—leaving you with a gazillion questions but wrapping up with pure class. Momentary Lily is the undisputed GOAT of Winter 2025. Sadly, the woke hate train derailed it over some ecchi and fanservice spice, robbing too many fans of this banger. And here’s the kicker: who says ecchi can’t flex a killer story? Momentary Lily proves you can have steamy fanservice and a gripping plot that slaps. Too bad the woke mob caught on and tried to bury it so no one would clock its brilliance. Don’t let the haters gatekeep you—dive into this masterpiece and stan it hard!
'Momentary Lily' is the first GoHands anime I've watched, and it's that one anime that made me a GOATHands Crusader. Narratively, it's simple. It's just a bunch of girls in an apocalyptic world where giants called 'Wild Hunts' are erasing people. It's how the girls discover who they actually are. It's easy to dismiss this story as nonsense. To their credit, viewers who don't know the ending yet, the very people who watch this anime original weekly from the original airdate, can come up with different predictions and plausible theories, but this anime refuses to get tied down and shatters the theory builders. In a way,it's unpredictable. The opening song is itself fire, even if the animation is not something everyone would love. The ending song is emotional and beautiful, but it's underrated. The character designs are more than okay but they could have been better. You will know why some feel this way if you see the final episode. The animation style of GOATHands is polarising. Either you like it or you don't. I like it! Some people may dislike it because its composition is ugly and can't really screenshot a particular scene and make it a wallpaper of their desktop or cellphone screen. In other words, it goes against the phrase 'every frame a painting.' I agree up to a certain point, but its emphasis is not on composition but on movement and heightened sensation because of all the visual stimuli. I don't know if anyone is familiar with this idea, but one of the purposes of art is to take us away from the mundane and resensitise our view of the world. In a sense, Momentary Lily meets this criterion to the detriment of other stuff people usually like. Some people experience headaches watching a GOATHands anime but you get used to it and look back at some of the mediocre animation in your average isekai/romcom slop, and you appreciate what GOATHands is trying to accomplish despite mixed results. Finally, this anime has one of the best fanservice out there. The unique angles are something only GOATHands can give you. Move over Himemiya Karen of 'Too Many Losing Heroines.' The best jiggle physics I've seen so far is in this anime, Koudaiji Erika. In closing, give this anime a try if you like CGDCT, especially if you haven't experienced an anime from GOATHands. It has a nice mix of action and slice-of-life. Ultimately, it's an anime about friendship.
Let me tell you a story, I never intended on watching this show. I was cooped up in an AirBNB on New Years with some friends and the TV was on and this ended up playing. We were shocked at its quality: Everything was off, from the animation, to the offputting designs, but most of all, the tone of the entire thing. My friends were of course put off entirely by this, but somehow, there was something in Momentary Lily that drew me in. GoHands had became infamous in the post-SYD days where they've seemingly eschewed conventional design wisdom to make... whatever the hell itis they make nowadays. Seizure-inducing fights with strange camera angles, disorienting cinematography, and "cinematic" compositions for the sake of having cinematic compositions, it's like if Battlefield Earth was an animation studio. In a way, for how esoteric and strange Momentary Lily is, it just works and serves to highlight the unreality of it all. Gohands, for all their questionable animation is worth, doesn't half-ass things. They go full ass (and tits) in their questionable direction and by God, will they see their vision through. The tone of the show is what stood out to me. Especially in the first episode, you have several scenes clashing in tone as to what the show actually is and wants to convey. Is it an action show? Fanservice slop? Edgy drama? A fucking cooking show? Magical girls? What the fuck? And the schizophrenic tone doesn't end there. A fanservice pool episode can end with the discovery of a mass grave, or a funny cooking episode can have a scary scene where they stumble upon corpses. It's weird, but it keeps you guessing, and by the end of the show you start to understand the show a lot more and anticipate how the show will move on and build itself from there. Despite sharing no similar staff, the one thing this show reminded me of most is Blue Reflection. You have post apocalyptic magical girls, questionable animation, a boppin' soundtrack, weird eldritch abomination alien things, cooking, fanservice ,all the hallmarks are there. I enjoyed Blue Reflection, but Momentary Lily sure doesn't have nearly as good a story. In terms of feel and tone? Yeah, it's pretty much there give or take. Momentary Lily's story ultimately ended up being very standard and predictable once the novelty has set in, but by then you'd probably have been suckered into watching the entire show. That said, Momentary Lily isn't great, nor is it for everyone, but I do recommend people with even a slight curiosity to the show give at least the first episode a go. Who knows, you may be surprised. Unconventional shows like this are rare, especially given how risk-averse most companies are, so I'm generally more open to watching shows like these and get a feel for how my tastes can be challenged. 7/10
This anime is the perfect example of unplugging and just enjoying it, which is why I enjoyed it overall despite its obvious flaws. Story: 7.5/10 The beginning is so strange that it feels rushed, but as the episodes go by, we're introduced to small details that build a plot that starts to become evident around episode 7. While not excellent, it's pretty decent by Gohands standards. However, it ended inconclusively, which is disappointing. At least they tried to give it an interesting plot with the Wild Hunts, the disappearance of the human race, and the clones of our protagonists. Characters: 8/10 We have a variety of different characters withdistinct personalities, albeit very clichéd and shallow, but at least they wanted to give half of the main cast a modicum of development, which I appreciate. Animation and Soundtrack: 7.5/10 In these aspects, the series is very decent, but there are some frames where its animation is used well. As for the soundtrack, this aspect is also generally good, nothing outstanding. I could say that Momentary Lily is my guilty pleasure, so my rating would be 7/10.