I just want to make it clear, this film is terrible. If you don’t take my word for it, watch it--with 2x speed it is only twenty plus minutes. I believe the films’ lack of quality will speak for itself, but if it doesn’t feel free to fight me on it (another_Fiend#2240). Here is my discord, if you’re brave enough, give me a call anytime <3. Since I know you won’t, I’ll instead talk about the value this show has and why I think people should take time out of their lives to watch this in 2019 (or any year plus).
There is this idea that goes around in many different art fandoms (anime, music, films, etc…) that asserts a time period or style is better than another without fully looking at the individual works. I distance this line of thinking because of how, by nature, the idea generalizes vague traits and similarity rather than looking at things more deeply. For example, if we were to talk about dad rock in a generally sense, it would assert that Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel are in the same category of music, despite their music being very different. Under the same logic, saying retro anime asserts that Akira is in the same category as Cosmo Police, despite the works being as different as night and day.
With that being said, I hate it when anime fans make opinions of retro anime as a whole without looking at the individual titles. I’m sure we’ve all heard someone Albert Einstein say “Retro is better than modern.” Retro anime might seem better than modern because when we think about old shows, we think of the classics: Eva, Akira, Legend, Gunbuster, Berserk, Angel’s Egg, FLCL, and the list goes on. But what we don’t remember is all the garbage that came out alongside them. Modern anime seems so bad now because we are seeing first hand all the trash that airs, whilst bad retro shows get forgotten.
Which brings me to Cosmo Police Justy. This is one of the terrible retro shows that time has forgotten. This is the show that the elites who think retro is better than modern has definitely never seen, and there are many more bad examples like this. This “cinematic masterpiece” is just another overpowered MC protecting his waifu and beating up some ugly bad guy. And since this show is retro, this all takes place in space and everyone has psychic powers. And by the way, his waifu is this b!tch who sounds just like the b!tch from eromanga, except she’s been saying “Uni-chan” like a mentally disturb loli 30 years before it became cool.
Overall, this film is not good. But I do think people should take twenty plus minutes out of their day to give it a watch just to see that loli’s yelling for their brothers is an ancient art that has its roots diving deeper than most normies could ever imagine. I ended up giving this a four instead of a two just because the main girl was really cute--what can I say, I want to protect that smile too :). But the jawn was still bad though.
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