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If I'd watched this when it was coming out instead of for the first time in 2020 maybe I'd be like nostalgic enough to enjoy it more in 2020.

I technically have not finished this series as my girlfriend insisted we not watch almost any of the filler, I think we watched like a couple filler episodes she felt were alright but otherwise we skipped filler. This rating would probably be lower if we had watched the filler from the sounds of it lmao but yeah I'm only technically "completed" this series in that I've seen the final episodes and all the non-filler episodes. We ... started Shippuden which seems better but honestly it's just not gripping me despite that? I think maybe Dragonball and One Piece have spoiled me for quality shonen anime, but I will at SOME point resume Shippuden and maybe revise that a bit.

Art was (6/10) weak to start and good at the end, nothing phenomenal but it was good for the time by the end. Sound was (6/10) also weak to start and good at the end overall, music was pretty solid even early though. Not PHENOMENAL, but solid. Story was (7/10) alright, characters (8/10) outshine the story itself a bit. 6/10 enjoyment but I'd just finished all of One Piece up to 928 (which was current at the time) when I started this so that might be colouring this, it's just not as enjoyable as even janky early One Piece. There were One Piece filler arcs (which I watched all of) that were en par with some of the weaker episodes in Naruto and One Piece filler isn't usually great. What I've seen of Naruto filler sucks worse than any filler in One Piece tho lmao

idk just comparing other wildly popular shonen anime to Naruto, Dragonball feels stronger as does One Piece
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I don't think I could do justice to this movie the way ridojiri's review did, so I'll keep it brief and impressionistic.

I totally fell in love with the simplicity of Taneyamagahara no Yoru, the genre "slice of life" barely has any meaning to me anymore in a monotonous deluge of school-themed SoL series, but this movie actually did seem like a true slice of life, a sliver from evening until dawn with a complete view of life including drifting in and out of lucidity, in and out of dream. It totally immersed me in that regional culture, and the choices in the art direction ... really made me hone in on the voice acting and the casual drawl of the regional dialect, which enhanced that aspect immeasurably for me. It seems not so much to straddle some dichotomy of rough-hewn practical engagement with reality and a drifting through dreams so much as it seems to present them as a cohesive and integrated whole. Anything more I might say ridojiri said better than I could.

I don't know why I felt compelled to write a review for this, I usually just rate things. It just...affected me more deeply than I thought it would? Like, I'm STILL smiling. It's a relaxing, engrossing work of art and I have no doubt that I'll be returning to this over the years when I want to unwind with something that's in no hurry to be itself as it unfolds. Truly amazing voice acting and soundtrack, great sound overall actually.