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Jun 11, 2021
Maesetsu! (Anime) add
Mixed Feelings
Are you unfamiliar with manzai? I wouldn't recommend this. Oh you are? Well, I'd still be ambivalent about recommending it.

Many have overstated Yoshimizu Kagami's role in this shows production and while he does offer some solid character designs I wouldn't consider it in the vein of Lucky Star.

I'm no manzai expert, as someone with a bit more familiarity with the medium than most in the West, perhaps such a perspective might be useful.

As an original co-production with Yoshimoto Kougyou, the largest comedy agency in Japan there's a novelty to this, and it's wholeheartedly committed to giving a broad look at the industry from an amateur ...
Apr 2, 2021
Tenki no Ko (Anime) add
Shinkai's best work yet, it marks the discovery of a unique and personal voice, one that is beginning to leave behind genre trappings and embrace his personal theses. Where Kimi no Na wa is a love story contextualised by nature and society's place in it, Tenki no Ko is as much a story about nature than it is love. For all his growth in visuals and storytelling, Shinkai shows his nascence in this work, but nascence implies future potential.

Addressing climate change, neoliberal aspiration and presenting an animist look at the urban metropolis, beneath what comes across as familiar romantic fair Shinkai offers something unique ...
Dec 28, 2020
This is a series that will be judged on its final act and I can't argue that there is any reason not to. I see harsh opinions and to that too, I have no rebuttal. But the first act left a strong impression on me, and it has carried me to the finale with a positive outlook upon it.

Pain and tragedy are familiar ground in all forms of artistic work, anime without exception and Jun Maeda's body of work is defined by the resolution of tragedy. Perhaps this thread is familiar in Day I Became a God in some regards. But the ground far ...


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