Wonder Egg Priority (First Thoughts)

Wonder What Priority?

While on a midnight stroll, a girl named Ai picks up an egg. A voice coaxes her: “If you want to change the future, you only need to choose now. Now, believe in yourself and break the egg.” What awaits Ai after the breaking of the egg?

Wonder Egg Priority has unexpectedly become one of my favourite shows in a long while… and it’s not even finished yet.

Nailing down what exactly Wonder Egg Priority is and why it’s so great, is a difficult task. Partly because of the mish-mash of genres it borrows from. It is part-horror, part-fantasy and part-drama but the show is much much greater than the sum of these three parts as it tackles heavy-handed topics. Anime is usually no stranger to this. Off the top of my head, we’ve seen the effects of abuse in ERASED; PTSD in Violet Evergarden; and an array of mental health issues dealt with in Bunny Girl Senpai.

Wonder Egg Priority is much more ambitious in the way that it tackles the issues and impacts of teenage suicide with a nuance that similar shows lack (see 13 Reasons Why). And it does this by following Ai’s persective as she learns to grieve the friends she’s lost and to fight for the ones who can still be saved.

Despite the difficult topics that it tackles, it is by no means a “depressing show”. Beautiful animation and set pieces, well-written, funny characters, and fluid fight scenes all contribute to balancing out the dark environment the show explores.

There’s so much more I want to say about this show but I think I’ll reserve it for a full review after the first season airs. For now, try out an episode and let me know what you think.