"Pathetic" sums it up.
It's a grade schooler's fantasy world. It's honestly really baffling how people can consider this manga "deep".
No character is believable, everyone acts as if in a 4th grader's tried desperately to write meaningful characters.
Art's terrible.
Only "good" thing it that's it's easily readable. No one thinks in here, everyone just acts in accordance to idiotic character archetypes that luckily aren't anywhere near believable nor hold any substance.
Ugh. And the forced nakedness and ecchi of underage girls here for the "enjoyment" of the dull but apparently super-attractive main character... the book's rather fascinating in its vulgar simplemindedness.
Mar 3, 2022
Urasekai Picnic
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Stalker meets anime gurls.
It's a good sign when the anime-herd who only watch mindnumbing shonen react this way to a beautifully done original work. They say "I don't get it", and don't even care to consider it's because of their lack of understanding and effort that they can't get into it. All in all the anime succeeds in what most fail nowadays - it plunges above boring mediocrity. It takes hints from Tarkovski's Stalker, applies those to a metaphorical canvas where a secluded high-school girl "is taken to a magical worlds", but rather than presenting tropes, it surprises with every choice. The anime offers a wildly inspired and ... 
Jan 10, 2021
Nihon Chinbotsu 2020
(Anime)
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A thoroughly original and tasteful work with a philosophical leaning towards showing The Absurd in ways similar to Camus et al.
Similar to other anime that are unique in its pacing and delivery and offer philosophical themes ingrained into the style and storytelling (e.g. Evangelion), there are many nay-sayers. People who enjoy mindless anime-s**t with moe or shonen fair that's done ad infinitum. People who don't like their comfort zone and status quo shaken and don't like coming out of their box. People who are so shackled to affection for likable characters they get mad if the very natural unexpected death of some to all ... |
