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Wonder Egg Priority garnered significant attention during its broadcast by leveraging three elements that always captivate audiences: Beautiful animation, mysterybait and queerbait.

These facets initially ensnared the interest of many, yet ultimately failed to retain the majority as the series unfolded.
- While visually stunning, the vibrant aesthetics were disconnected from the overarching narrative.
- The mysterybait left viewers with hollow inquiries, devoid of fulfilling resolutions.
- The queerbaiting ended up being mere tokenism, devoid of genuine substance.

The initial hook lay in the characters, each bearing the weight of past traumas that happened to them and their friends. This narrative thread invested audiences in their stories, only to betray this investment by failing to provide something meaningful. It meandered from one plot point to another without actually going anywhere. Although it touched upon various challenges faced by teenage girls, all they were shown doing about it was fighting monstrous representations of the people they feared the most in some dreamland, before jumping to something entirely different.

The dreamland was the most intriguing aspect of the show, since it had gorgeous looking fight scenes and a lot of flower symbolism. A lot of people have a boner for flower symbolist; did you know that? At the same time it was also the most bullshit aspect. Nothing was being explained as it aired, leaving audiences to speculate for the heck of it and without a reward for doing so at the end. The official explanations offered in the final episodes were completely lame. What initially seemed to be a supernatural curse or metaphysical dilemma was abruptly explained away as mere scientific experimentation, undercutting the depth and complexity promised by the premise. The entire journey was unsatisfactory when all the doctors had to do was pull the plug on some scientific experiment, but didn’t for the sake of having a show.

Even if you ignore the supernatural elements and you stick to the slice of life aspect, Wonder Egg Priority offered little beyond the trope of ‘cute girls doing cute things’. It was juxtaposed against a lot of touchy subjects, ranging from social anxiety, to bullying, suicide, sexual molestation, and being transgender. But even then all these issues came down to punching an imaginary bad monster really hard, and then forgetting all about it. There was no consequence in the actual world, since the girls were immortal, they couldn’t lose, the victims they were saving were never seen again, and on top of that the latter were not even real people. They were living versions of suicide victims, meaning they were just simulations of already dead girls. Basically, the main characters never helped themselves or saved someone’s life. They didn’t even bring back to life someone, which was supposed to be the objective. Their actions were inconsequential, devoid of any real-world impact or lasting effects.

So yeah, Wonder Egg Priority epitomizes the pitfalls of modern progressive storytelling. Shows that think they are smart because they stuff their plots with first world problems, and treat the whole thing very superficially by making it take place in some fairyland where nothing of substance comes out of it. They do nothing with the subject matter besides teasing the viewer to think about bland characters with zero development. There is no theme exploration, they don’t offer possible solutions to these problems, and the answers at the end are complete shit. Everything ultimately devolves into empty sensationalism masquerading as profound commentary.

Moreover, the queerbaiting present within the series serves as yet another superficial aspect, wherein romantic attractions are based on misunderstandings rather than genuine LGBTQ+ representation. There is no authentic inclusivity in this show. If anything, it’s the opposite since the queers end themselves under peer pressure. What kind of a message is that and how does it not alienate the target audience?

In conclusion, Wonder Egg Priority emerges as little more than vapid indulgence, even lower than bottom-tier fan fiction for fujoshis, delivering hollow narratives and superficial lesbian representations. Its allure lies solely in its visual splendor and forced theorycrafting, leaving normal people with nothing but bait to seek out doujins.