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Jul 28, 2024
Suzume is exactly what I expected it to be. Yet again another rendition of Your Name with ethereal visuals, but a lacking story.
Suzume Iwato looks exactly like the girls before her. Long, black hair, school uniform with a red ribbon around her neck, one around on her hair etc. In this film, she meets Souta Munakata, a college guy, on the street and by the end of the film her love for him is deeper than the ocean. Hah.
The film had 10/10 music, 8/10 animation and 6/10 story. It’s a shame, really, because the animation at least could’ve easily been fixed with a few changes
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her and there. Instead of making every frame of the background hyperrealistic, maybe let’s consistently give our main characters more than 6 strokes. Moreover, I’m pretty sure those “worms” could’ve looked a lot better than huge, glowing, red dildos menacingly wiggling in the air. The usage of CGI was just bad.
The story was…a ride. It could’ve been so much more concise and meaningful, had the story been planned out correctly. The side characters in this film are just mere pit stops, and hence a waste of time. Cutting every single one of them out of the film would not influence Suzume Iwato, the story, or the end of the film in the slightest. They contribute nothing to the film.
Suzume should’ve either been two films, or just a shorter one with a lesser amount of half-assed story points. The 2nd half of the film is so incredibly cramped, that by the end of it, you’re just left with a lot more questions than answers.
The last 20 minutes of it are just an incredibly weak try of resolving everything they touched on this far. And also, making the lead characters romantic soulmates after hanging out for like 3 days. Well, this completely ruined the whole film to me. The supposed “romance” between the two never existed, nor should it have. She’s newly got into high school, while the Souta Munakata, the college guy, was well on his way to becoming one of her teachers. The 2 ½ days that they spent together, the cute, black-haired, Howls Moving Castle-imitation-college guy, is a literal 3-legged, limping chair.
Despite its grandiose OST’s and great visuals, the plot is so weak that it sadly just drags the entire film down with it. I went in hoping for an improvement in the story writing for the third, and last time.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jul 28, 2024
This is a super-hidden gem, I'm afraid. I'm sure you will agree with me, once you start reading it.
“Hello, Innocent” is a manga of Mayu Sakai, a mangaka many of us Shoujo readers know. Since I'm not really a big fan of her older works, I wasn't really sure whether to start this one. In hindsight, I couldn't be more grateful that I did.
This isn't your typical “Omg, I love xyz, they're so handsome and cute!!” kind of manga. The characters feel like actual people. With mixed feelings, doubts, regrets and changes of heart. It was almost physically painful to see the character go through
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hardships at times, because you'll feel yourselves attached to them pretty quickly.
Give this manga a chance, I promise, you won't be disappointed!
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Jul 28, 2024
The reason people might not like this anime is that they get into it with the wrong expectations, I suppose. From someone who loves this show and has seen all films, let me tell you what to expect — short and sweet.
The overarching plot, meaning the Black organisation, is just a means to an end to tie everything together. Usually, we don't see or hear from them, apart the occasional mention. It's best described like a piece of candy given to us, whenever it does occur. Other than that, every episode and film bears pretty much the same structure. There's a case, meaning murder, to
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be solved and a murderer to find. Which sounds flat out boring like this, sure, but I just find the cases very fascinating and endearing to watch.
Detective Conan bears two main strengths to me. The insanely creative ways with which the cases are constructed, and the characters. You'll be bound to learn some applicable science along the way, which is pretty cool to me. (Also, the most roundabout way to harm someone… Seriously, how does the author even come up with all of these?!)
Second — the characters. Some like them, some dislike them. The strength of a 1130 episode show like this, with 27 films to date is, that you get to spend an awfully lotta time with them. In a variety of situations, too. Even after all this time, I'm still in awe to see the animation improve, see the new cases and to spent more time with the characters. After so many episodes, I've grown really quite fond of them, personally.
To me, Detective Conan is perfect to just watch and enjoy. All of the above sprinkled with just a bit of fantasy make it a fantastic watch. Do give it a try if any of this interests you!
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Jul 23, 2024
The Gender of Mona Lisa is a wonderful piece of media that I recommend to everyone who is even slightly interested in alternate gender identities and expressions. Or just teenagers working through their doubts and feelings, that is.
In the world of Hinase Arima everyone chooses their gender, once they get to a certain age. As time passes, everyone around them has already selected their preferred gender, leaving Hinase Arima behind as the only non-assigned person around.
Being informed that deciding on a gender might be vital for their future (quite literally), Hinase Arima goes on a journey to find their “right” gender.
Hinase Arima's best friends
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help them through this journey. At first, they are confused and don't quite grasp the concept of being non-binary. But as the story progresses, they eventually come to the conclusion that the things they previously defined as masculine or feminine, never had anything to do with their own gender identity after all. They established that such activities hence don't make you manlier or more feminine – that such things are simple embellishments of your own personality.
The story ends with two alternate volumes, with several ending for each biological gender. Those two volumes really are so wonderful!
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Mar 28, 2023
I expected Okaeri Alice to be a deep dive into gender identities and prepubescent chaos, with a touch of sexual exploration. What the mangaka instead delivered was a perverted, superficial piece of media that makes you feel like you just ate a portion of mouldy, fuzzy yoghurt.
The mangaka is confused with his own sexuality, as he states in the bonus chapter 4.5, and that's exactly what you can expect from this manga. Just a confused man with very problematic and vivid sexual fantasies.
He has not grasped the concept of transgender and non-binary people, so he's trying to cover it up with lots of masturbation
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scenes and other sexual fantasies. His characters are so painfully one-dimensional that it physically hurts while reading.
Everyone is horny and confused – that's it. That's literally all there is to it. There is no other dimension to these characters other than "I'm so horny!! Oh, who's this new guy?"
A lil boundary overstepping here, a lil sexual assault there – Okaeri Alice reads like a textbook on "How to sexually molest and assault for Dummies". What's worse is that he depicts all these things as just innocent explorations among young, troubled teens. In the real world, anyone with social intelligence would probably steer clear of things like randomly tongue kissing your friends.
Read this manga at your own cost. (The main form of payment is healthy, active brain cells.)
If you are looking for a tasteful manga about gender, teen troubles and romantic/sexual exploration, I recommend you the manga "The Gender of Mona Lisa".
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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Feb 27, 2023
Having read Tomie just yesterday, I was delighted to see that Junji Ito had released some more chapters way later in his career.
So, how is it, you ask? It's bad. The art style feels like he simply drew over pre-positioned 3D models. Tomie doesn't feel like Tomie, and she barely gets mentioned, too. It's just this dude in her body being like, "Huh?"
The background and characters are plain. The panel with Tomie sitting cut up on the ground looks like a joke. In fact, it had looked so bad that I just stared at it for a couple of minutes, being like: Which publisher
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nodded this off?
Her "pieces" look like cut up, deformed corn dogs on a stick. The room looks like he just gave it to a newly trained assistant and just told them, "Do whatever, lolz.".
The plot is non-existent. Nothing gets explained, these whole three chapters were like a vague idea of what could've been a very good manga spin-off. Skip this.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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