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#1
Yeah looking back I might dislike Koe no Katachi as much as Maquia. In that movie's defense it was at least consistently sappy. The worst thing about it imo was the girl's voice. Had to choke back laughter every time she spoke. Should have just gotten Hatsune Miku to do the lines. The one-shot it was based on had heart to spare but the movie felt a bit cynical and underhanded.

If Okada was ever involved in something better than mediocre, I think it was in spite of her. The last few episodes of Anohana are a great example of bathos in my opinion. If drama in anime fails, it's usually because the writers or directors don't realize they're already working in the most emotive medium. All they have to do is deliver content. I think the ending of Anohana is so insulting and patronizing because it assumes the audience doesn't know how to cry unless given cues. It would be like at the end of Hotaru no Haka if all the characters gathered around Seita and started crying and apologizing for making his life miserable. It's just plain dishonest storytelling, and antithetical to the actual message. Menma didn't even need to be a ghost, the show was plenty compelling with her as a figment, because I think then it was at least exploring the decay of social cohesion after the loss of a precious person, much akin to how Twin Peaks went slightly to shit after the death of Laura Palmer.

Asobi Asobase is definitely embarrassing but all post-ironic humor is at least a little bit imo. I don't think it's especially more embarrassing than say Golden Boy or Seitokai Yakuindomo. You must admit there are at least more surprises in the first episode than the entirety of Beans in the Franxx.

Fireworks did pretty much everything wrong but still had its heart in the right place imo. I felt a feeling, which is more than I can say for either of the more widely lauded films we've been blasting ITT. Worth a torrent maybe.
#2
I feel you. Perhaps I was just looking for my low expectations to be unmet because I really don't like Mari Okada. Might've been a bit too lenient on Koe no Katatchi as well, but I didn't care much for that either (5/10 abouts imo, should probably rewatch both).

Quotealso asobi asobase is fetish fuel disguised as slice of life humor. i stopped watching it after that piss skit. do NOT sign me the fuck up 🙅‍♀️
Aww man. To risk "explaining the joke" like some kind of pedant, the running gag in that show is that everything is always worse than the characters expect, concurrent to the viewers expectation of "comfy" slice of life being subverted by hideously off-model renderings. I don't think the show is celebrating watersports or fat fetishism or what have you, just using them as ammo for schadenfreude. Would say give it another shot but you tapped out the exact moment my heart was won 🤷 (I don't even like pizz).

Did anyone see Uchiage Hanabi, Shita kara Miru ka? Yoko kara Miru ka? aka Fireworks?
#3
I know right? A Mari Okada production, bad?

So emotionally manipulative it felt like an entire abusive relationship condensed to 2 hours. Worse than Koe no Katachi in that respect (and all others).

As bad as Mary to Majo no Hana.

Don't pay your money to see this filth.

Stay home and watch Asobi Asobase instead.

This means you rtil because I know there's no one else here.
#4
T-Bones
#6
Still waiting on the commemorative coffee table book chronicling the history of this place.
#7
Entertainment / Devilman Crybaby
March 19, 2018 05:16 PM
Damn what a great OP.

Skip the show though.
#8
General / Re: Globglogabgalab
March 10, 2018 07:44 AM
Please. Please. Please do and notify me when it happens.
#9
General / Re: Globglogabgalab
March 8, 2018 07:45 PM
Every time I think about this it just gets funnier.
#11
The Backalleys / Re: New comics section
March 2, 2018 04:59 AM
Just got fired.
#13
General / Re: tba funny comics
February 11, 2018 07:44 PM
We're saved.
#15
You would like to see I, Tonya.
#16
Entertainment / Re: Mary Sue and the MacGuffin
January 26, 2018 05:32 PM
Oh yeah I just meant it was sad to see founding a new studio gave Yonebayashi less apparent freedom rather than more.

I'm glad it's making money at least. What did you think of the secondary and tertiary character designs? They stood out to me as uh rather bad.
#17
Lol that isn't that bad at imo.

The Chain is good especially hearing it in I, Tonya which is a very good movie, but the rest of Rumors barring Dreams is too twangy for my tastes. Dreams got dat low end and also uses the duet sparingly. Male/female duet is my favorite musical meme but only when it's used effectively (see: Vocalcity, VDC, Symmetry by Mew, etc.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzyXuGSCw90
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9_dk8yPX8w
^Leave it to Kenny to produce two of his best tracks and then make a bunch of filler for the rest of the album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESS2oExpNWI
^Rest of the album dances way too close to adult contemporary but this cut is a 10.
#18
Entertainment / Re: Mary Sue and the MacGuffin
January 26, 2018 06:49 AM
Great fuggin review, that. I think you nailed it.

The only thing I would add (rather cynically) is that it was quite upsetting to see such a talented director be given what from where I'm standing looks like carte blanche to do whatever the fuck he wanted but instead gave us what for all intents and purposes is the Toyland Video production to Ghibli's Pixar (this is hyperbole).

For that reason I give it a 3/10. Really hope Yaboinebayashi gets his shit together and comes up with his own brand but I guess it took Shinkai this long to step out from Miyazaki's shadow and most other feature directors like Hosoda are still suffocating under it. My prayers are with them.

Making a good animated feature seems really fuggin hard.
#20
Entertainment / Re: Mary Sue and the MacGuffin
January 20, 2018 10:04 PM
Wow bad story.
Wow bad designs.
Wow bad music.
One good character with hardly any screentime.
Main character design was okay.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Cm0YYNgNr7A

Catch it on torrent but do not pay to see this. Worst Ghibli-associated movie by a mile.