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Yeah, totally agree with you on Space Dandy. Never really understood why it's so well liked. The alt dimension stuff makes it whacky and inventive, but it starts to feel like random, disconnected nonsense, and I wonder why I'm watching at all. :\

Ngl, this seems wildly reductive of the semi-autobiographical nature of the film (and Ghibli in general) with its use of subtle allegories and allusions to key parts of his life. I'd argue the 'random' elements contribute to the film's thematic study of -- to bring to light the title -- "How Do You Live?" in which it actively questions how one can survive in a world filled with chaos and suffering as well as dealing with grief and loss.

If you don't like the man or found the film boring, though, that's fine; I respect him more than actively 'like' him. But I never really got the whole "muh random Ghibli fantasy" schtick people in these circles like to throw around. But hey, that's just me.

What happened here?

I’m glad we both hate her ass. Miki was a bit of a bitch too for sure.

Ueno much worse than Miki

> I'd still say Doc's arc was among the better (and more understandable) ones. On the other hand, I just didn't get Kano. I also didn't get the significance of Ran besides supporting Ichise.

I agree. I'd say that Doc, Onishi, and Toyama are my favourite characters in Texh. I still have problems with their arcs though. I especially have problems with the notion that their arcs are valid cautionary tales for people.

I haven't got around to Kano on my rewatch yet. I remember him saying that he and Lux are one and the same. I think it was either Lux's dissenting citizens, or just the citizenry in general, but I remember him comparing them to malfunctioning cells that need killing or curing. It's very strange reasoning -- outrageous, even amongst the Class -- that's often called solipsistic. Even if I'm only left to guess why Kano thinks that this approach is reasonable, I can sort of grapple with it on paper, but yeah, I'll have to see when I get there.

> Pretty much every single character has some strong (and understandable) justification for their actions, and yet each one of them gets a fate worse than death.

Thoroughly-explored, passionately held, sophisticated approaches to life undermined with convincing reasons -- that sounds like an immersive, valuable learning experience, even if uncomfortable (especially the fate worse than death part, damn). Fire Punch will be read.

GLT is truly life-changing stuff

> Firstly everything looks so dull. You take the anime adaptation of Girls' Last Tour as an example. Similar setting, yet looks so much better.

Yeah, though I genuinely respect Texh's commitment to its tone, it can be quite dull to watch. And I'd agree, GLT channels Blame! so it has more intrigue. It feels more alien. Texh, given its top-down focus on a bunch of factions, cycles through a selection of locations. GLT is structured around Chito and Yuuri's journey, so it consistently changes and you're always getting some new point of interest. I'd need to rewatch some scenes of GLT to be sure as to whether I prefer the tone there, but I definitely remembering it having more slack to veer lighter rather than just discomfort and horror.

Idk if you relate to any of that. What do you prefer about GLT's visuals?

> Secondly there are some characters that I either don't quite relate to or outright don't understand. Yoshii, for instance. I get his philosophy, but at the same time, it's very abstract and I don't expect an average modern day person to think like that.

A lot of the decisions these characters make leave me confused and apathetic because they seem to be happening out of the blue. Of course they're often not, but that's because it's one step above that. There'll be some abstract explanation behind it often amounting to "their ideology". Doc doesn't reconsider her approach to technological advancement when facing down the (apparent) logical endpoint of its application, she decides to kill herself. We don't even see her grapple with that decision, it just happens. Ichise, despite having (vaguely) developed a connection with her, turns away apathetically to go back to Lux to save Ran. Yoshii fits in nicely with this writing tendency.

It'd be a lot easier to let slide if it wasn't celebrated as "realistic".

I might read Fire Punch soon then. It'd be interesting seeing these kinds of characters sold with more convincing behaviour (etc.). His character work in Chainsaw Man is SUPER impressive.

> Underdeveloped and under-explained. It's essentially Fire Punch, just without my kind of presentation.

What happened?

Also, interesting Fire Punch comparison. Is this something I should be reading?

Interesting, I am perhaps a weird case because sometimes I hate characters, and when I do, I hate every second they're on the screen, and that character to me was Yoko. Not sure why I hate her, I just did. And then the inspiring message is stuff that would have been a cool addition to my overall enjoyment, but I disliked everything about it to even care about the message, didn't like the comedy, didn't care for anyone in the cast except for Kamina and Simon, and why I didn't care for them is not something I can just pinpoint and say that's why, but they just didn't catch me, you know? Otherwise, I wanted to enjoy it and really tried to, but I can't control what I like, really.

Yo nice taste in anime but I didn't get Gurren Lagan what did u like so much about it?

Oh ok.

Yeah the paedophilia is pretty much all I know about Mushoku, apart from the self-improvement journey or something. It makes sense that there's a lot of subtext since it comes from a novel.

I can see why you'd say you have bad taste XD. "Levitating" is pretty catchy from what I remember. Honestly I've been the same recently. JUst been listening to anime songs like that one SubaHibi song I sent. KnK soundtrack carried the whole series for me. Ethereal music + beautiful art. I really think that if they got someone other than Yuki Kajiura to do the OST it just wouldn't have worked. Is the Made in Abyss soundtrack like the KnK soundtrack?

Do you do it to "spice things up"? Give some life to a review page with the same opinions again and again? IF so that's sick, and I would like you to keep doing what you're doing.

Actually surprised that you would like Mushoku Tensei. Though I haven't watched it myself so am just judging superficially XD. No worries about that song btw. And, on the topic of music, what are your favorite songs?

I just realized that all your reviews are negative and have a decent number of reactions... Negative, controversial opinions seem to get the most attention lol. Says something about humanity.

On a completely unrelated note, do you know any songs that have this sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQzxNLfAW8o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STnbRZYX26E

is kiit good college.