February 22nd, 2018
Day 6: A flawed perfection
Anime Relations: Kuzu no Honkai
I'm supposed to write something meaningful here, something that is profound and beyond the comprehension of those unwilling to look beyond the written text. My fingers are too heavy and my brain too hazy. The words are slow and constantly fading while trying to come to terms with this anime.
I want to say this is the greatest anime I had ever watched, something worthy of the 10/10 on my list. I rewatched scenes, again and again, trying to find the hidden meaning in the words of the characters shown.
I hate it I want to so hard slam my head against a wall and forget I ever watched any of it. The characters feel one dimensional but that was the beauty of it. The plot felt so predictable but I fell in love with it. I want to scream and shout in hatred but I find myself crying in happiness.
I don't know what to say about this anime, nor do I understand the hidden meaning it is trying to tell, and that is what pisses me off the most. In a story filled with misery and unrequited love, there has got to be a second layer.
I've written story, I've read hundreds of books, I've watched hundreds of anime, but this single one has caused me so much confusion I don't know what to say. It's a punch to the gut. I feel like that everything is false I feel like this whole story was meant to make me feel like I'm nothing. The only characters to find thier loves are the two I hate the most. Thought when Akane was pushing a flower into Hana's face I started crying I felt maybe for a moment she had changed.
Maybe because I never wanted to be right, this story from start to finish was as I projected and I hated it for such. I hated that in the end the main two characters aren't together, even though that is the best choice. I hate it.
Even still I give it an 8/10 the worst 8/10 I have ever watched, the worst 8/10 I will ever see. If I hate it so much why do I give it such an amazing score?
I hate it because I love. This was a story I was meant to be crying and screaming and wanting to kill people while watching. I was supposed to feel hatred and anger at the cheating and substitution of lovers. I was supposed to believe there wouldn't be a happy end. I was led by a string through every episode and I just got led along.
Them both unhesitantly walking away from one another at the end of the show to me is the great symbolism every done. It was the happiest end possible which can be seen as a confusing truth when you just read the words.
It can be seen they gave up. Though I would argue the opposite, they turned away from each other because they were unwilling to give up on their idea of love. They didn't want to be replacements for anyone while at the same time making someone be a replacement for them.
Do I regret watching it? No.
Do I want to slam my head into a wall? Yes. 1000x yes.
I want to say this is the greatest anime I had ever watched, something worthy of the 10/10 on my list. I rewatched scenes, again and again, trying to find the hidden meaning in the words of the characters shown.
I hate it I want to so hard slam my head against a wall and forget I ever watched any of it. The characters feel one dimensional but that was the beauty of it. The plot felt so predictable but I fell in love with it. I want to scream and shout in hatred but I find myself crying in happiness.
I don't know what to say about this anime, nor do I understand the hidden meaning it is trying to tell, and that is what pisses me off the most. In a story filled with misery and unrequited love, there has got to be a second layer.
I've written story, I've read hundreds of books, I've watched hundreds of anime, but this single one has caused me so much confusion I don't know what to say. It's a punch to the gut. I feel like that everything is false I feel like this whole story was meant to make me feel like I'm nothing. The only characters to find thier loves are the two I hate the most. Thought when Akane was pushing a flower into Hana's face I started crying I felt maybe for a moment she had changed.
Maybe because I never wanted to be right, this story from start to finish was as I projected and I hated it for such. I hated that in the end the main two characters aren't together, even though that is the best choice. I hate it.
Even still I give it an 8/10 the worst 8/10 I have ever watched, the worst 8/10 I will ever see. If I hate it so much why do I give it such an amazing score?
I hate it because I love. This was a story I was meant to be crying and screaming and wanting to kill people while watching. I was supposed to feel hatred and anger at the cheating and substitution of lovers. I was supposed to believe there wouldn't be a happy end. I was led by a string through every episode and I just got led along.
Them both unhesitantly walking away from one another at the end of the show to me is the great symbolism every done. It was the happiest end possible which can be seen as a confusing truth when you just read the words.
It can be seen they gave up. Though I would argue the opposite, they turned away from each other because they were unwilling to give up on their idea of love. They didn't want to be replacements for anyone while at the same time making someone be a replacement for them.
Do I regret watching it? No.
Do I want to slam my head into a wall? Yes. 1000x yes.
Posted by Bronzeapollo708 | Feb 22, 2018 8:24 PM | 0 comments
February 17th, 2018
Day 5: The Perfect Anime
Anime Relations: Darling in the FranXX
I was looking through my anime list and I had taken note I had never rated anything a 10 let alone 9. I thought to myself what was missing from each of these stories that made me not view them as perfection.
What makes an anime perfect is up to your perception of perfection. If asked I believe Erased came the closest to becoming a 10/10 anime. Now, this can be seen as odd as I have Erased as a 1/10 anime. All I have to say about that is, "You're going to show a ship for the whole anime than in one episode when he sacrificed himself for her they don't end up together? Are you stupid?"
Now I'm back with another anime that I feel could be my personal favorite of all time. Does it have flaws? Yes. Is there melodrama? Yes. Is it unique? No.
So how with all those things is it to me a perfect anime? The main pair of characters in the environment they are in. The artwork is amazing, the symbolism is thought-provoking, and the story telling is unique enough.
Darling in the FranXX is the closest thing to a perfect anime since ERASED. I state this but feel it will suffer from the flaws I'm choosing to ignore. To me the greatest show of fate this story can end with is death. Short of such a fate, the show will only end with a 5/10 and if he ends up with Ichigo I sentence the anime to death with AoT.
When a story opens up with a symbol I have yet to hear it has already peaked my interest and when it follows that the symbol through the whole story I'm willing to overlook many flaws.
Only time will tell and we will know in at most 18 weeks.
What makes an anime perfect is up to your perception of perfection. If asked I believe Erased came the closest to becoming a 10/10 anime. Now, this can be seen as odd as I have Erased as a 1/10 anime. All I have to say about that is, "You're going to show a ship for the whole anime than in one episode when he sacrificed himself for her they don't end up together? Are you stupid?"
Now I'm back with another anime that I feel could be my personal favorite of all time. Does it have flaws? Yes. Is there melodrama? Yes. Is it unique? No.
So how with all those things is it to me a perfect anime? The main pair of characters in the environment they are in. The artwork is amazing, the symbolism is thought-provoking, and the story telling is unique enough.
Darling in the FranXX is the closest thing to a perfect anime since ERASED. I state this but feel it will suffer from the flaws I'm choosing to ignore. To me the greatest show of fate this story can end with is death. Short of such a fate, the show will only end with a 5/10 and if he ends up with Ichigo I sentence the anime to death with AoT.
When a story opens up with a symbol I have yet to hear it has already peaked my interest and when it follows that the symbol through the whole story I'm willing to overlook many flaws.
Only time will tell and we will know in at most 18 weeks.
Posted by Bronzeapollo708 | Feb 17, 2018 11:03 AM | 0 comments
February 3rd, 2018
Day 4: Characters one connects with
Anime Relations: Darling in the FranXX
A friend and I were arguing about how one chooses the perfect waifu.
I shrugged, "I guess it all comes down to opinion. If I was asked today who my waifu is I would answer Aine Chidorigafuchi As to why I would answer again it was a character I fell in love with in the first interaction. I answer this but alas I know it to be wrong.
The only way to find your true waifu is to first see if this is the character you love from episode 1 to the end. Following such you need to see if you fit the mold the character fell for in the story. Confusing but think the same way we look for characters to promote as our true loves, ones who we say we would spend the rest of our lives with. Why don't we see if they would love us the same?
Similar to real life, you can't get married when only one person says 'I do'."
"Dude no need to get so serious here."
"No serious would have been calling your waifu trash!"
(I make this post because I was watching Darling in the FranXX and felt a love towards the characters but as I turned to my friend beside me he complained about the characters being mundane. I was confused because what I felt was mundane was the plot not the characters in it, this being the MCs not the supporting cast they are shit. Self-sacrificing is a trait I love in anime and with this anime having that feeling through and through I connected to it. This causing the argument above.)
I shrugged, "I guess it all comes down to opinion. If I was asked today who my waifu is I would answer Aine Chidorigafuchi As to why I would answer again it was a character I fell in love with in the first interaction. I answer this but alas I know it to be wrong.
The only way to find your true waifu is to first see if this is the character you love from episode 1 to the end. Following such you need to see if you fit the mold the character fell for in the story. Confusing but think the same way we look for characters to promote as our true loves, ones who we say we would spend the rest of our lives with. Why don't we see if they would love us the same?
Similar to real life, you can't get married when only one person says 'I do'."
"Dude no need to get so serious here."
"No serious would have been calling your waifu trash!"
(I make this post because I was watching Darling in the FranXX and felt a love towards the characters but as I turned to my friend beside me he complained about the characters being mundane. I was confused because what I felt was mundane was the plot not the characters in it, this being the MCs not the supporting cast they are shit. Self-sacrificing is a trait I love in anime and with this anime having that feeling through and through I connected to it. This causing the argument above.)
Posted by Bronzeapollo708 | Feb 3, 2018 6:32 PM | 0 comments
Day 4: Smartest person in the room
Anime Relations: Kakegurui, Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e
Well, I'm ready to say first and foremost animes like Kakegurui and Elite classroom are animes where the author thinks he is the smartest person in the room. They aren't and it makes it appalling to sit through.
Any decent gambler or logical thinker will notice patterns between how things add up. The flaw in both these animes are that only the MCs or the villains make these connections nor are they hard connections.
"You only play paper on large bets." Once is normal, twice maybe a coincidence but more than that is a pattern; any gambler knows this and for some reason only a transfer student notices.
"100,000 a month" Okay, you're at an elite school your first thought should be what's the catch? Nope, let's waste all our money without looking at repercussions. If that is the smart answer I want to be mentally challenged. Of course, in contrast, our MCs notices the problem and doesn't fall victim.
Maybe it is because I have a 120 IQ but I would dare say these animes are near Attack on Titan levels of bad.
If you create a school based on a single thing, then EVERYONE who goes there has to be smarter than me. If not the anime is a waste and to me, the author is an idiot.
Any decent gambler or logical thinker will notice patterns between how things add up. The flaw in both these animes are that only the MCs or the villains make these connections nor are they hard connections.
"You only play paper on large bets." Once is normal, twice maybe a coincidence but more than that is a pattern; any gambler knows this and for some reason only a transfer student notices.
"100,000 a month" Okay, you're at an elite school your first thought should be what's the catch? Nope, let's waste all our money without looking at repercussions. If that is the smart answer I want to be mentally challenged. Of course, in contrast, our MCs notices the problem and doesn't fall victim.
Maybe it is because I have a 120 IQ but I would dare say these animes are near Attack on Titan levels of bad.
If you create a school based on a single thing, then EVERYONE who goes there has to be smarter than me. If not the anime is a waste and to me, the author is an idiot.
Posted by Bronzeapollo708 | Feb 3, 2018 3:19 PM | 0 comments
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January 19th, 2018
Day 2: College
Anime Relations: Golden Time
We have all at least once watched romance animes. My personal favorite has to be Golden Time and as I start my second semester of college I find myself laughing at the old troupes I found myself always watching.
Anime is an amazing thing if used correctly, this idea of a perfect life where everything is happy ever after doesn't exist or well takes more work than anime shows.
This brings me to Golden Time, one of the most realistic animes I have seen in a long while.
It brings the flaws of humans to life, I have a game for anyone who watches anime after reading this. When you complain about what a character does pause the video and ask, "Is it human?"
If you were in the situation would you have reacted differently?
If you answer, Yes and No respectively then there was no point in your complaint and the author was actually doing well at creating real characters.
We are so drawn into fake, perfect idealistic characters that we forget humans are flawed. Golden time is a reminder that humans are flawed, and when we are looking for a partner we look for someone with flaws that we still love, not someone who is flawless.
Anime is an amazing thing if used correctly, this idea of a perfect life where everything is happy ever after doesn't exist or well takes more work than anime shows.
This brings me to Golden Time, one of the most realistic animes I have seen in a long while.
It brings the flaws of humans to life, I have a game for anyone who watches anime after reading this. When you complain about what a character does pause the video and ask, "Is it human?"
If you were in the situation would you have reacted differently?
If you answer, Yes and No respectively then there was no point in your complaint and the author was actually doing well at creating real characters.
We are so drawn into fake, perfect idealistic characters that we forget humans are flawed. Golden time is a reminder that humans are flawed, and when we are looking for a partner we look for someone with flaws that we still love, not someone who is flawless.
Posted by Bronzeapollo708 | Jan 19, 2018 7:29 PM | 0 comments