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Mayoiga (Anime) add (All reviews)
Nov 27, 2023
I initially decided to watch it after reading both positive, mixed and negative reviews making my mind to watch it and find out for myself if it's really as bad as the majority says it is and it being only 12 episodes made it quite easy.

After watching several episodes, I can understand some of the complaints of the negative reviews that they expected more, because it can feel lacking at times. But in defense of the anime, I will say that those who were expecting more, most likely are used to everything they watch to be of epic proportions and their senses are so dulled from "epicness" that they can't appreciate smaller and humbler things. What comes to mind is Mushishi - largely regarded as a very good Iyashikei about feeling good, healing, etc. I liked Mushihi, but can I explain why it was received better than Mayoiga? I can't. To me they both feel more or less the same thing, just depicted differently.

At times, I also had doubts if the story was good and interesting and while I got bored here and there, I had an urge to see what happens regardless and conclude it. Which I think it makes the anime a good one - if you are motivated to see it through to the end. If you can't, then it's clear sign of a bad anime.

I think the anime is a decent depiction of people dealing with the scars of their soul or others who want to avoid dealing with them. I've read multiple reviews and comments and and the ones that are negative or complaining come off as if their authors are cringy edgelord kids or cringy emotionally stunted adults displaying the characteristics of cringy edgelord kids who expect everything to be some fantastic experience of epic proportions that made them feel like, for example, the first time they watched One Piece or Naruto or something else that left a great impact on them and they've been chasing the dragon since then. In other words, I think the people who rated in negatively can't relate to the message, because it's foreign to them.

I read complaints like "I was not made to care about the characters" or "why didn't everyone choose to get saved?" or "the characters aren't acting realistically". I think that's pretty realistic - we don't care about everyone around us and not everyone around us cares about us, we don't like or care about all of our coworkers or classmates or all of the people on social gatherings we attend. Not everyone chose to get saved, because this is a common happening in life - not everyone can or is willing to face their problems and solve them, some will choose to run away from them until the end and you can't help them or convince them otherwise. Characters were acting unrealistically, because that's how some people act in real life, you can call them awkward little siblings or the weird kid with the 8th Grader Syndrome or just some adult who's just weird or not 100% sane, there are people like this all around us.




IN CONCLUSION: I think the anime is serviceable enough, complaints can be found about the depictions of things, the pacing of the story, the personal traumas of the different characters, because after all we can't put ourselves in everyone's shoes and that's OK, but it's a good allegory about facing up your problems, accepting them and learning to go on with them while trying to not them hold you back anymore. Don't expect some masterpiece, it's a simple message conveyed into figurative signs. It's very similar to the anime Sonny Boy.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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