This anime series is incredibly remarkable for simultaneously being some of the most impressive animation and dumbest fucking writing I've ever seen in my life.
I'm just not big on constantly sexualizing women. LIke I'm the first one to watch fucked up horny Pinku movies and trauma porn and all that problematic jazz, but it's just weird when it kinda tries to sell you on the wholesomeness of it. It's hard to explain as I'm a very big fan of…
Some of the most impressive animations and directing I've ever seen in my anime-watching life, but fundamentally meandering and also occasionally pedophiliac and rapey. Such a disappointment, what with these great characters. And that's coming from me who loves problematic depictions of taboo topics, be it pinku eiga or, for lack of a better genre word, trauma porn.
But you can't just have a randomly sexual assaulting protagonist and be like "aw man, but you gotta love him anyway" and…
This was surprisingly poetic, and even more surprisingly STUNNING in its audiovisual quality. The beautiful atmosphere of dystopian shitholes has been captured quite often in anime, and beautifully too; Ghost in the Shell, Jin-Roh, Ergo Proxy,... but Wonderful Days is still very unique in its own way, even compared to modern stories such as Psycho-Pass or Patema Inverted, and not only because of its Korean roots.
This is because of a phenomenal use of CGI. The entire film is 3D,…
nothing is comparable to this feeling of overwhelming loneliness and strange sense of comfort that always comes with watching the most obscure shit in like 240p at 2am
This is cute, abstract and nostalgic as fuck. Sadly, a bit too happy-abstract for me to really get into it. But it's not like anyone but fellow fans of old short anime OVAs will watch this, and, y'all, you already know what's up.
