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When I see this movie recieving 10/10 scores and knew this was a romance I prepared myself to tear this anime apart. It's not like I dislike romance (there is my pnctuation on Toradora!) but it would not be the first or the last time te critic praise too much intrascendent works, so I was ready to punish this movie for any little mistake... and I can't believe the reslt yet.

The things clear is not the masterpiece someones are preaching, It has mistakes like the style series openning and the mounting that supposed to be funny just beacause the characters talk fast is ridicoulus, but ... these are just a little abrasion on what it is a Ferrari.

The best part of Kimi no na wa is how appeals to our felling of fantasy Cortázar tlaked about. It's this childish felling that makes us not to conform with the reality and pushes us to look for something else. Kimi no na wa is an example of the prodigious human imagination and that's something very hard to find today.

Now I'm supposed to talk about the plot but I'm not gonna do that because if you wanna watch Kimi no na wa don't get inform on Kimi no na wa and if don't wanna watch it... ha ha ha of course you wanna, DON'T GET INFORM ON KIMI NO NA WA! Because go to watch it with that ignorance is just let suprise yourself with this movie and make that felling of fantasy even stronger.

Others big achievments of this movie is the soundtrack and the animation. Let's start with the soundtrack. A good soundtrack it's not just big hits you put in your movie, must be songs that encapsulate every moment and Kimi no na wa's soundtrack flow for its veins. It is not a aparted element, the both are beatiful unite.

And the animation. Oh my God the animation! If this movie has not premiere in ypur city yet, wait for it, beacuse this is one of those works that not only worths it but must to be watch so qith the best posible picture and sound qualities.

There a pair of things about it I'm not pretty sure if I must point it as virtues. The first of them is the twists, there are just too much twists on this movie. But didn't make me feel confused thanks to its great managed rythm. Kimi no nawa knows very well when to be calm, when to be frenetic, when to rest and when to have to give that final sprint.

The other thing is the romance, again I like the romance but for this movie... I think they are just lookig for the big public with this beacuse the relationship is so personal and intimate that could something beyond the love, unique and platonic, but when thay say the word "love" I inmidately think in a couple. There are peaople over there complaining on the ambigous final but I think that's the grace about it and if they avoid the word "love" then would be open to a interpretation of something bigger, more magical, more mystical than love. But that's only fantasy, you get it?

Kimi no na wa is a little jewel I strongly recommend to watch, it's not perfect as I said has mistakes here and there, but it's simply a movie that stole a little part of my heart and may keep with you too.

The deconstruction is one of my favorite genres beacause thanks to it a genre that looks stuck can move and create the opportunity to biggest series. Madoka Magica opens the gates for Gakkougurashi attends with a creative way the moe, and Kill la kill the magic girl. Also a deconstruction work may be one great series by itself like Neon Genesis Evangelion. This sadly doesn't happen with Selector Infected WIXOSS.

Selector infected pretends to deconstuct series like Yu-gi-oh, Bakugan or Idon't know, No game no life but it stays in the half of it. It doesn't shake the bases so much, it's dark of course but ... that's not enough. A deconstruction ponders on what and why we create but it's not like that in Selector.

In selector there is a cards game but among the players there shall be some girls that are chosen to be Selectors, players with the opportunity to make truth any wish they have if they get an undefined number of wins but if they lose three games the wish turns against them. My questions are: why must to be only girls? And why their motivation should be a wish? This two things look like the series copy from Madoka Magica when it's supposed must be elements that takes from the series it supposes to deconstruct.

Yu-gi-oh, Bakugan, Bayblade and all that kind of series involve boys and girls some even adults and their motivation used to be the fight versus evil forces. Selector infected should attend these tropes but the series disregardes them or at least in the major part of it.

Results that every Selector has a card that is alive and comes from another world that hides dark secrets, that actually is a really good point for the series but doesn't talk about this untill the last third, there are a second season where I wanna believe they talk more about this but I haven't seen it yet so I hold where I'm not speculating.

Also the series that Selector deconstruts are just and excuse to sell toys and when I investigate I found that the game in the series actually exists that says a lot about Selector.

At the end of the day Selector is not a bad anime, I actually like it but it's a bad deconstruction because it's conformist and that's supposed aganist the deconstruction fights to. I don't recommend the series so much but if you like interest and dark stories this a good option for you.