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Jan 22, 2019
Oregairu is a pandering mess that disguises itself as a show with actually interesting things to say by having all the main characters DESTROY libtards with facts and logic exposing the facts and logic. I hate every single character except for pink haired girl because they're either self-righteous aholes (like the 2 mains), aholes for no reason (yellow haired thot and annoying perfect older sister), or completely irrelevant to every important story point (gray-haired trap and orange-hared klutz). The show just seems like it's jacking itself into a corner by taking a couple somewhat awful characters and having them point out that obviously awful characters
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are obviously awful and then using that as a justification for being kinda awful.
To be honest, the main characters reminded me of what I hate about myself from like two years ago. They're blunt, inconsiderate, self-righteous, and unnecessarily cynical, refusing to see the good in others. The show seems to address this for a moment and then decides that it'll just settle with "Haha be yourself you don't have to change" which I found lazy and unhelpful.
Also, the humor's the type of "hahaha I'm so self deprecating" humor that gets stale faster than bread in the desert.
All in all, half the time I found the series really boring and the other half of the time I wanted to stop watching cause I disliked the characters so much.
5/10
I did find the situations and solutions interesting, though. I have to concede that they were very interestingly constructed.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Jan 22, 2019
To be honest, I'm pretty disappointed. I was sure it was on track for a 10/10 until the final third of the series. Although it wasn't bad enough to really plummet my enjoyment of the show, it just didn't deliver.
Dystopian/utopian stories are a dime a dozen. I've read, watched, whatevered wayy too many of them, and too many of them involve a societal antagonist that is big and bad and evil (like 1984 and every teen romance dystopian novel ever). Shinsekai yori is a show that treads the fine line in moral ambiguity, one where the 'bad society' is a system that is completely justified
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and perhaps even the correct choice. It honestly reminded me of Brave New World (which is a great book that you should read).
The main conflict through the first two thirds of the show is the question of how a society with such powerful individuals should be safely regulated. The show attacks this problem from all sides, leading to situations that foundationally question what is correct and what isn't. The show does an amazing job of treading the fine line between different arguments, careful not to endorse an argument. I was thinking, "Wow, this has the potential to be a really profound show that makes me question my sanity for like a year like that time I read Brave New World".
The show transitions into it's third act, one that's about obvious, forceful, and hamfisted racism. It completely abandons the interesting, unresolved themes it's been building up on so far to follow this ratty arc. Even though it's not really a terrible arc, it just really disappointed me that the show decided to take this almost pandering, drab thematic turn. I mean, they probably lost everybody who was wanting that sorta black and white stupidity by this point anyway, right?
One other thing
I really liked the psychological horror aspects of the show. The show does really well to stylistically keep up that uncanny undercurrent throughout. The horror definitely isn't the prominent thing in this series, but it's there in it's dystopian, sanity-questioning glory a lot of times. One of my favorite things this show did in terms of its style was how it glazed over really important details. It was an interesting choice to be very down back (unupfront) about the story and I think it paid off because I was clutching my seat throughout almost the whole series thinking "something bad is gonna happen something bad is gonna happen"
Anyway
First third: 9
Second third: 9.5
Third third: 7
So overall, I've settled with a score of 8/10.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Jan 3, 2019
Bloom Into You is an excellent character study through the lens of romance.
The main character of the story is Yuu, a character, who, interestingly, does not seem to be able to fall in love like a 'typical' romance. Now, all the reviews you'll see will praise this approach of the show, but personally, I don't think it's particularly that phenomenal or novel of an approach.
Where the show truly shines is in the character of Touko.
Touko is your typical overachiever character at first, but it's slowly revealed that she's really putting up a tough front.
Okay, that's kinda interesting, but so what?
Well, the reason she does so
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is because she feels obligated to follow her dead sister's footsteps, which is interesting enough.
Throughout the series, she struggles through doubt and dissatisfaction from her inability to grow into this role she's set for herself. Through the romance she creates with Yuu and the influence and knowledge of the people around her, she discovers a new identity for herself and learns to accept herself.
I do think the show also does explore some interesting perspectives on what love is and almost deromanticizes romance in a way, though. It's not really what landed this show in my heart, but was definitely a plus.
9/10
If I'm going to be honest though, there are a couple too many lesbians. I wish the show would fulfill some straight couples already... guess we'll have to wait for season 2.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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