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andramus
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I was disappointed this series didn't make it into the daily streaming reviews so I've been waiting for this full season review to drop.
I would have liked to discuss the series in spoilery detail here in the comments. However because the review held back on giving away too much I'll refrain from doing so for now. I've never actually used the spoiler tag feature and I feel like it would be difficult for me trying to decide what things to tag and what not to. I think they are a good feature to have but not always conducive to having an open discussion on a topic. |
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MemoBookworm
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Something that I really appreciated about the ending is that spoiler[Takopi couldn't fix anything about Shizuka's and Marina's families. I feel like a lot of other anime would have fallen into the trap of like having Marina's mother get better or something, and I'm glad this show avoided that and instead acknowledged the reality that things can't be fixed that easily, but at least now Shizuka and Marina have each other's support through it.]
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Glordit
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The ending is the best part. Despite Takopii being this fantastical being with some magical powers which even allow them to re-wind time, they simply could not fix everything and had try and create an opportunity for it for it to fix itself.
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JustMonika
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Anime of the Year for me
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Kicksville
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It's nice it got the 6 episodes needed to flesh out the 2 volumes of manga material rather than being truncated into a movie or something. A classic OVA length.
Once it became apparent the premise was basically "Doraemon but what if it was real and effed up", I was like..."What!? Another one!?!!"...but it is well made from the start. I was skeptical at times, but the writing always brought me around. The "punchline" of the ending is very, very strong, if you ask me. |
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zztop
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The bigger shame is that there isn't enough of the mangaka's work to adapt into anime.
Most of their work consists of a few oneshots, and their last full serialisation, Ichinose Family's Deadly Sins, got cancelled due to poor storytelling (too confusing and wandering). |
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Exodus007
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It was a darkly amazing anime. The ending was a bit surprising but made sense. Also I love the instaread audio book thing added to this. I have trouble with reading these long reviews at times for various reasons but I wish EVERY article (This week in Anime, episode and show reviews and other long stuff) gets this add-on.
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Gan_HOPE326
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Personally I appreciated the show, but only the first episode for me had that genuine uncomfortable gut punch quality that people praise. After that it felt more like a sort of thriller to me, with all the "crime and punishment" vibes and time travel shenanigans. It's very heavy handed with the drama - it's not just that everyone in it has some of the shittiest circumstances imaginable, it's that everything they do also keeps snowballing towards disaster at every single turn. It's so extreme and regular it circles back to being almost darkly funny.
The ending is... honestly quite a bit of a deus ex machina. There is absolutely zero build up for the time travel to work the way it does in that specific instance, there could have been but there isn't, it just does and it's paramount to solving the plot. However I am OK with the way the solution itself played out, not a complete magic fix for all of the characters' problems, but a band aid that still makes their lives significantly more bearable. |
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Hellsoldier
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One of the best anime of the year. And yes, the ending might be a bit of a stretch. But it's welcome. Honestly, spoiling myself with the end of the manga made the whole journey more bearable.
By the way, that's some sick collection of adults. |
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Eilavel
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I enjoyed the show overall, and thought the ending actually elevated the material in not offering simple answers.
What I enjoyed most of all was seeing something both self-contained and shorter form. The 12 episode seasonal format (often adapting the opening of something in another format that will never get further animation) isn't bad per se but its become such a fixture it does feel a limitation. |
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egozi14
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That's like what I'm saying for years, yet censorship and avoidance of stuff even in fictional works, ironically enough, which in terms of "safest" envo are the best you can ask for logically speaking, are still being avoided and censored left and right during our times more than ever xD |
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Gan_HOPE326
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It's a debate as old as literature itself, IIRC the ancient Greeks had the concept of "catharsis" to mean this idea that seeing bad stuff in a fictional setting would actually sort of "get it out of your system" and actually make you a better person, which was a basis to justify how sordid and gritty certain tragedies could get (plenty of murder, incest, betrayal and so on). But the idea that instead art works purely on a "monkey see, monkey do" basis and simply exposing people to violence will cause them to turn violent, etc is a very naive and straightforward line of thinking that keeps coming back again and again. |
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IronWish
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That's exactly my experience with it. Starting with episode 3 I watched this as a comedy and had a blast. Cause taken at the face value as a serious drama it's very "I'm 14 and this is deep" kind of show. Lots of shock value to impress immature audience, but severe lack of substance or anything meaningful to say below the surface. It's not that any individual element is particularly bad, it's just that all that misery is stacked upon itself in such a predictable and overbearing manner that I just couldn't take it seriously anymore. Comedically though, it was fantastic. (major plot spoiler)spoiler[When Takopi offed Marina with the camera] - funniest shit I've seen this season. Whole Shizuka's transformation into spoiler[unhinged manipulative seductress] - please, give me more, my spoiler[psychopath] daughter couldn't be this cute. I did like the twist in episode 5 though. Previous episodes winked at us enough to suggest that there is one more layer to the story, and it was executed nicely (and also very funny as far as dark comedy reading of the whole story goes). What I can't criticize at all is how gorgeous Takopi's Original Sin is. In a year blessed with obscenely good-looking anime it still managed to be one of the standouts. |
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MFrontier
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I'm probably never going to watch this show but I can't deny why it's hit as hard as it has and the stellar execution that went into adapting it.
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marijuanasama
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I'd rate it 0/10. I tried one episode, and got to maybe 8 minutes before I couldn't take it anymore. Whatever TF that pink blob was, it was [expletive] unbelievably-annoying. Every few seconds a Poring keeps shrieking "taco pee-pee" in the highest, shrillest, most annoying voice possible. No thank you.
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