DRAMAtical Murder Anime Review [Data_01_Login]

OK, I'm going to be honest with you guys.  This is the very first anime in almost all of existence up at this point which I actively wanted to watch in episodic order.  What I'm going to do is try and review each and every episode of DRAMAtical Murder and tell you all the little details that I pick up along the way.  I would call a SPOILER ALERT, but then again, the majority of you have played the game and hence this doesn't matter as much.  So if you want to watch the episode yourself, go right ahead.

• Introduction's kind of new.  I'm glad that they have the intro from the game, but Aoba's monologue surprised me just a bit.  Contemplating about what made good "good" and evil "evil" feels kinda random to me.
  
• Oh, hey kids.  I'm surprised Aoba left before Haga-san burned the kids to death.  I figured that he would still stay in there.  If you remember, Haga-san calms down after Aoba asks about the package.  Strange scene to change up.  Oh well, it's comedy about an old man mentally torturing little kids.  Ah, Japan~
  
• Allmates commercial instead of inner monologue.  All right, whatever.
  
• Wait, Koujaku's introduction doesn't get a harem on him?!  Awwwww maaaaaan...it would've been so funny just to see him punch a fat bloke (not sure why I consider him fat) because some woman decided to try and abuse her privilege.  His job as a hairstylist got thrown into one line, though...and those two girls getting a cameo.  THEY HAVE EYES.  HOLY SHIT.  KAMI-SAMA, PRAISED.
  
• CHIBI AOBA IN THE FIRST EPISODE.  CHIBI KOUJAKU IN THE FIRST EPISODE.  HOLY SHIT.  THEY JUST MERGED KOUJAKU'S ROUTE IN THE COMMON ROUTE.  CALLED THAT SHIT.
  
• Did they seriously just spend animation budget zoomed up on that one poster in Delivery Works that everyone else thought was a funny passing joke?  Okay, sure.  Least Clara got that "Yandere" look on her.
  
• Oh, hi Mizuki.  LOVE THE MUSIC HE'S INTRODUCED WITH, THOUGH.  HOLY CRAP.  And did he just punch people off screen?????  Come on, we like violence, animators!  SHOW THAT CRAP.
  
• Wow, Benishigure and Rhyme get thrown into monologues.  Then again, I just wanted the hairstyling store scene...
• Mink isn't on a bike.  Aoba isn't sideswiped.  I am sorely disappointed.  Kinda wish I could've heard the new seiyuu in the role, though.  Then again, he didn't speak during that part in the game, though...
  
• Oh hi, random cameo of Clear on the roof.
  
• We finally get Aoba's full name in the end of the episode?  THANKS A BUNCH.
  
• So wait, they're just unconscious in the real world while they're in Rhyme?  What, is this Sword Art Online or DRAMAtical Murder?  Or maybe I forgot this detail in the visual novel?
  
• Hi, trailer footage.  Nice of you to finally have talking on top of it.
  
• Ending song?  Better than the beginning.  Ending animation?  They have the Scrap fields of each character for some reason.  Except Ren.  Ren's with Aoba...OH.  And Aoba just ends up staring at me.  Yeah, I get it.

Now that I think of it:

• Doesn't the animation look more like a sloppier version of Persona 4?  It looks just as clean, though, so maybe it's just me.
  
• Usui kinda looks like Mint from Tales of Phantasia, doesn't he?
  
• Totally called the increased Mizuki cameos, BTW.  Sure, they were all voiceless scenes, but I totally called that.
  
• Aoba's nose looks bigger.  Maybe that's just me.
  
• Anime, this is probably just me, but I totally could wait one episode for Clear to show up.  You don't have to shoehorn all of them in the first episode just so that everyone knows that they're gonna be there. 

Overall:
I'm a little worried, to be honest.  The animation is clean enough, and each character seems to stay in character.  Nothing seems to be cut out as of yet, and it's not TnC levels of choppy as of yet.  Then again, they seem to be forcing through the common route as fast as they can, and some details seem to be thrown into conversations for the sake of moving faster toward the part we're all looking for.  Then again, they do seem to be mixing routes together, so we have that to look forward too.

At this rate, I want to cut down on my guess?  Seven episodes for the common route?  At this point, we might need just six, or even five.  Not enough to throw me out of the anime, though.  Will await the next episode.