I think Kabaneri is the biggest wall of diatribes I've ever posted lol It's one of the most fun I had writing a review. I'm just glad it didn't become another overhyped monster and that people wised up before letting it go there.
You do know what it means to be overrated right? It's the fact that everyone else thinks it's 10/10 best anime of all timez for basically being an anthology of western pop culture. If that's all it takes to be the best, then almost every western movie if animated would be considered a classic. Equating familiarity with great content is fallacious. I don't think Bebop is bad, a 7 is a good score for a good anime. But the magnum opus to serve as an end all be all? Far from it. And a 7 for me is a high-value mark, as I actually subscribe to the proper way of rating things, using the 1-10 scale and not this school grade scale the rest of MAL adopted.
A masterpiece is subject to whatever you're considering it a "masterpiece" for. So The Room could be a "materpiece of bad movies" by context of schlock entertainment. So that's a hard thing to pin down either way.
So I guess Perfect Blue would be what I consider a masterpiece for being the best animated look into delirium and psychological breakdown since it places the viewer in the middle of someone's fever dream-like state as they slowly lose their mind. Monster could be seen as a masterpiece for being one of the best neo-noir mystery thrillers for creating a huge character study of all the players while being a hair-raising narrative. So for me a "masterpiece" is a lot more than just a simple summation of some kind of checklist quality.
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You do know what it means to be overrated right? It's the fact that everyone else thinks it's 10/10 best anime of all timez for basically being an anthology of western pop culture. If that's all it takes to be the best, then almost every western movie if animated would be considered a classic. Equating familiarity with great content is fallacious. I don't think Bebop is bad, a 7 is a good score for a good anime. But the magnum opus to serve as an end all be all? Far from it. And a 7 for me is a high-value mark, as I actually subscribe to the proper way of rating things, using the 1-10 scale and not this school grade scale the rest of MAL adopted.
A masterpiece is subject to whatever you're considering it a "masterpiece" for. So The Room could be a "materpiece of bad movies" by context of schlock entertainment. So that's a hard thing to pin down either way.
So I guess Perfect Blue would be what I consider a masterpiece for being the best animated look into delirium and psychological breakdown since it places the viewer in the middle of someone's fever dream-like state as they slowly lose their mind. Monster could be seen as a masterpiece for being one of the best neo-noir mystery thrillers for creating a huge character study of all the players while being a hair-raising narrative. So for me a "masterpiece" is a lot more than just a simple summation of some kind of checklist quality.