Jangsoodlor wrote:
watch all episodes of skibidi toilet
just kidding pls review kaguya sama, either the manga the anime is fine.
I watched the first 2 seasons of kaguya-sama when it was airing and then read the rest of the manga, and honestly, i'm conflicted about it (I watched this so long ago so my descriptions may not be the most accurate)
The premise of the anime is that there are these two smart students that love each other but don't want to confess, and they try to get the other person to confess. Most scenes are divided into hyper psychological battles that parodies other animes like death note were the protagonist just has an internal monologue that lasts the entire chapter
and well, the first 2 seasons are fine, they're funny at times even if they don't have that much depth (with the exception of ishigami which they do dirty later on the anime) but it doesn't need to have depth, since it's just a dumb funny comedy
what happens after is what really annoys me about the anime
so, there is a confession, and you thought the anime would end up there, since that was the entire point of the anime, however it continues for an entire school year. The entire psychological battle thing is dropped, and the comedy relies on the secondary characters like chika, which i'm sorry but were not as fun as the actual battles.
They also try to push the anime into a more romance/drama style and in my personal opinion, it just fails, all of the plots aren't really that interesting and it just feels worse than everything that came before it
however, I remember that in season 2, there was actually a really good plot surrounding ishigami, in the middle of this comedy anime, we see the entire backstory and character development of this random side character, and well, it's funny because it's unexpected, this is not how this genre of anime works, and it's so surprising it catches your attention, the story is also short, and when it ends, chika brushes it off and we continue with the anime, this was a good little arc, and again, the drama segment works because it's in the context of a comedy anime
so whenever you try to do that same arc, but longer, while also dropping the comedy. I'm sorry but the kaguya family drama didn't hit nearly as hard as the ishigami backstoryThis anime feels like it also uses hype as a weapon, (this is the same mangaka as oshi no ko), it's set in the modern era, like, literally the same year as it was being released. It takes advantage of a lot of current events and trends, there are vtubers and youtube in this anime, I think this has to be one of the first anime to even reference vtubers, not only that, but this anime is available everywhere in every single language. This anime was meant to be seen as it was being released and just be part of that cultural phenomenon.
Let's not forget about chika dance, a special ending that seems to basically be created to be a fun cutesy dance that would spread over the entire internet, and I have to say, it worked
as I said, the mangaka later made oshi no ko which was just this turned up to 11, the entire story is about a popular topic (vtubers) but it also has reincarnation, a catchy opening and the first episode is twice as long, also it's from this popular mangaka so be sure to watch it!!!, and well, it worked for chapter 1 and then just fell off lmao since there really wasn't any meat to it
I really don't know, placed in b tier since I liked it at the beginning but with the passage of time and the next parts being released it just fell off
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UzumakiI've heard a lot about junji ito, however, I had always brushed it off because it was not my genre, it's in fact my brother's favourite author so I kinda picked this up with curiosity, it gave me a good excuse to actually get out of my comfort zone and read it (which is the entire point of this thread btw!)
... I expected it to be different?
The entire manga is focused on showing you all of this horrors beyond human comprehension and cool art, and while I agree that in paper they're scary and the art is really good, I feel the manga really moves too fast to actually feel fear, I don't care about a character dying in a very awful way if I don't have an emotional connection to the characters
Not only that, but some parts are just accidently funny??????, like when the
hair starts forming spiral and then she finds the other girl who also has spirals in her hair and then just start fighting with their hairs like it's a shounenThe art is really good tho, and junji ito recognises this and just leans HARD into it. The entire plot of the manga is the spiral, the shape. And well, the art is completely fulled of spirals and this has consequences on the story, the art is also made to be more realistic, kinda reminds me to how someone like naoki would draw characters (which after finishing the manga I noticed that it was published in the same magazine as naoki), it's more cinematic so it's closer to how an horror movie or whatever would actually be.
Junji ito understands that if you're taking half of the runtime of your manga to include horrors beyond your comprehension, those horrors must directly advance the story. Everything is plot relevant and in really cryptic ways too. There is this ambiguity and mystery on the story because it's both scarier to not know what is going on exactly and because the horrors beyond human comprehension are cryptic by themselves, if you're trying to convey a story without using words in certain segments, that story can't be extremely specific or it will be really hard to actually understand.
but yeah, I just couldn't get into it lmao
c tier
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haven't started the anime or metal gear solid
nothing else to read
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