And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the cookie crumbles. ��
The show seemed promising enough, but once Five was introduced and the characters stopped being developed the series suffered from any kind of progression.
They spent too much trying to have that chess game with Five for there to be any time given to the stories of the children at the orphanage. The gravity of the situation wasn't as strong because all the back story was through Shibazaki's short investigation that took place in one or two episodes.
Overall, this was a mess.