The show traps you inside Tomoharu's impossible choice: save the person you love or save the world from becoming what you're afraid you already are. Every episode narrows the space between those two options until they're the same thing. The mecha fights matter less than the weight of knowing that whatever he decides, someone he cares about gets erased. The pacing stumbles in the middle episodes, but by the end it doesn't matter because the emotional architecture was sound from the start. This is a show about the cost of keeping people alive when keeping them alive costs you your soul.

Tomoharu stands at a crossroads between friendship and survival. If he refuses to form a contract with an akuma, he may lose his dear friend Takatsuki, also called Kanade. Yet making that pact could cost him his ghost friend Misao and even his own existence, because it would turn the two of them into an Asura Cryin', which the student council presidents call the greatest danger mankind faces. The choice grows harder when Tomoharu and Misao regain pieces of their past, memories of an ominous First World they never knew existed. Mecha action and supernatural forces surround a story that asks whether saving a friend is worth becoming the very thing everyone fears.