The very essence of cartoons is that they possess the ability to 'stretch reality'. In other words, to take an initial idea or assumption that we are all familiar with and then start pulling at it very hard. Taking that which is so clearly absurd and taking it to its logical conclusion.
This is why cartoons and satire make for excellent bedfellows. Since after all, the latter is doing exactly the same thing. From Hogarth to Watterson, with Tenniel, Shultz, Uderzo, and Groening somewhere inbetween. Yet rarely if ever has anyone dared to make a good space satire. Animated or otherwise.
Though it may seem at first
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Oct 2, 2015
Ima, Soko ni Iru Boku
(Anime)
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You might have noticed that I entered all but one of the standardised numbered rankings. That of enjoyment. You a series such at this, such a notion seems almost insulting. 'Now and Then, Here and There' is not watched to be enjoyed, it exists to be experienced.
This is arguably one of the most intense, harrowing, and grueling war dramas ever made, animated or otherwise. It is watched not so that you can extract pleasure, but so that you can witness just what we as a species are capable of. To see, with your own eyes, not just the cruelty, anger, and despair. But also ... |
