This is why mal reviews are treated as jokes, its because of people like you who don't know what they're saying going around and making shitty reviews. I've seen many users that basically write hundreds of reviews and they shit on 90% of the anime that they reviewed no matter how good the anime is, and I can tell you that you are starting to turn into one of those assholes. You realize that mall doesn't have an "I don't find this review useful" button right, cause if they have one I assure you that all the shitty negative reviews will never end up as the top review on many great anime. People who hate the show for whatever stupid reason will always find these shitty negative reviews in the sea of positive more competent reviews of great anime and guess what, many of those reviews end up as the top reviews because there is no way to downvote stupid uneducated reviews. I suggest that you stop dicking around writing shitty negative review that is basically just hate and delete your existing reviews, then you will make this site a better place rid of shit reviews.
Dude, you literally posted a review on sangatsu no lion, that's how I found you. I've seen your reviews and almost all of them are negative reviews based on subjective preferences. You've only watched a total of 40 anime and you go around giving shit reviews on great shows, grow up man. Nobody wants to hear your reviews because they're wrong, you should be thankful that I am willing to spend my precious time telling you that your reviews are shit so that you can hopefully delete all your shitty reviews and stop making a fool out of yourself.
Your review is wrong, that's the point. Nobody is going around saying that Van Gogh's paintings are shit because those paintings are masterpieces. Same thing with sangatsu no lion, it has interesting story with great visual and characters, what more can you ask for.
Your ratings and reviews are trash man. How the fuck is sangatsu no lion a 4/10. I've seen your list and most of your ratings are 6/10 or under. Rating all the anime that you've watched poorly doesn't make your ratings look good or valid, in fact, it makes your ratings look stupid
This resource also talks about something I missed- how Kurama and Yase represent two opposite ends of the spectrum, one that is future focused and another that is focused on the past. Besides this, I've watched a few analysis videos, which, again, don't cover any more than we already discussed.
-As for the cause of self loathing, I don't think it's from others' expectations. I think it comes from a certain emptiness that one feels when they don't have purpose. You could be a God, with the power to do anything you want, but that doesn't fill the emptiness inside you.
At this point, we both agree that the messages and themes are there, so it comes down to personal feeling. The warmth and longing of family is not something that I feel very strongly about. In addition, I feel like the delivery of the message and themes was hurt by a lack of clarity with regards to both the plot and character motivations. For the latter, like you said, it's not good that we only learn about Inari's motivation around episode 9. Speaking of episode 9, it was a whole lot of exposition dumped at once and everything leading up to the conclusion was a series of conversations. Perhaps if I had different life experiences I might have connected with the show better, but as it is there's a certain lack of emotional punch.
That being said, I think there's enough prettiness and artistic flair for it to be a worthy show.
Hey there! I recently finished Kyousou Giga and was perusing the reviews trying to find out what it's trying to say, and/or whether or not its message is delivered well. I think your review raises several good points about how the delivery of its message is lacking--- I had to look up the Wiki summaries after each episode to understand what was going on. It can be argued that even if you have deep themes to talk about, the impact of those themes can be mitigated by a lack of clear presentation.
It's obvious the show is about how important the love between family members is even if they're very different, but since that's such a cliche thing to do in a drama I was wondering if it had anything else to say. It could be saying:
-You should snap out of the dream world of childhood and take on adult responsibilities.
-As a kid it's easy to be crushed by the expectations of your parents so it's important to find your own identity and purpose for doing things rather than doing them because of obligation.
-Three generations of men seem to love their families but have a self loathing that causes them to want to distance themselves from them and self destruct. Their self hatred comes in spite of their incredible powers/duties of creation, or perhaps it is because they are unable to find an identity outside of their work. As a result, they desire to die after passing on their duties and ensuring the survival of their family. Kyousou Giga may be emphasizing the need for self-love, and how having a family/loving others only reinforces the need to love oneself. Without self love, the patriarch acts selfishly.
-That it's ok to establish your own world AKA your own family no matter how quirky or weird it is, which is why the 13th realm is allowed to stay.
A lot of the reviews talk about Buddhist themes, Japanese myths, and symbolism, but it all went over my head. They don't actually explain what these elements are used to say, either, so I was just hoping to discuss with someone and find out, and I saw you had posted a recent review.
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I don't know much about Buddhism, but it seems to me that the extent of the Buddhist integration of themes is basically just what we already discussed--- attachment and detachment and the impermanence of things like childhood innocence: https://dancelikemonkees.wordpress.com/2015/12/04/kyousogiga-analysis-alice-buddhism-and-idealism/
This resource also talks about something I missed- how Kurama and Yase represent two opposite ends of the spectrum, one that is future focused and another that is focused on the past. Besides this, I've watched a few analysis videos, which, again, don't cover any more than we already discussed.
-As for the cause of self loathing, I don't think it's from others' expectations. I think it comes from a certain emptiness that one feels when they don't have purpose. You could be a God, with the power to do anything you want, but that doesn't fill the emptiness inside you.
At this point, we both agree that the messages and themes are there, so it comes down to personal feeling. The warmth and longing of family is not something that I feel very strongly about. In addition, I feel like the delivery of the message and themes was hurt by a lack of clarity with regards to both the plot and character motivations. For the latter, like you said, it's not good that we only learn about Inari's motivation around episode 9. Speaking of episode 9, it was a whole lot of exposition dumped at once and everything leading up to the conclusion was a series of conversations. Perhaps if I had different life experiences I might have connected with the show better, but as it is there's a certain lack of emotional punch.
That being said, I think there's enough prettiness and artistic flair for it to be a worthy show.
It's obvious the show is about how important the love between family members is even if they're very different, but since that's such a cliche thing to do in a drama I was wondering if it had anything else to say. It could be saying:
-You should snap out of the dream world of childhood and take on adult responsibilities.
-As a kid it's easy to be crushed by the expectations of your parents so it's important to find your own identity and purpose for doing things rather than doing them because of obligation.
-Three generations of men seem to love their families but have a self loathing that causes them to want to distance themselves from them and self destruct. Their self hatred comes in spite of their incredible powers/duties of creation, or perhaps it is because they are unable to find an identity outside of their work. As a result, they desire to die after passing on their duties and ensuring the survival of their family. Kyousou Giga may be emphasizing the need for self-love, and how having a family/loving others only reinforces the need to love oneself. Without self love, the patriarch acts selfishly.
-That it's ok to establish your own world AKA your own family no matter how quirky or weird it is, which is why the 13th realm is allowed to stay.
A lot of the reviews talk about Buddhist themes, Japanese myths, and symbolism, but it all went over my head. They don't actually explain what these elements are used to say, either, so I was just hoping to discuss with someone and find out, and I saw you had posted a recent review.