valhallaSerraionga wrote:
"𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚕𝚊𝚜 𝚜𝚊𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐?!" 𝚖𝚞𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚂𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚊 𝚝𝚘 é𝚕 𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚖𝚘, 𝚊𝚜 𝚑𝚎 𝚔𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚕𝚎𝚢𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚊𝚖𝚋𝚒𝚘 𝚘𝚏 𝚘𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝙿𝚊𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚊'𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍. 𝙷𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚕𝚞𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚍 𝚗𝚊𝚍𝚊 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚛 𝚜𝚘 𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚝𝚕𝚢 𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚎𝚖𝚊 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚘 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌 𝚊 𝚘𝚝𝚛𝚊 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚎, 𝚊𝚜 𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚖ú𝚗𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚒𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝙴𝚜𝚙𝚊ñ𝚒𝚝𝚊.
𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚣𝚊. 𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚣𝚊. 𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚣𝚊. 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊. 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊. 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊. 𝙴𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚘, 𝚏𝚞𝚌𝚔...
Girls und Panzer
watched both the anime and the follow up movie, it was mid.
Girls und Panzer is a slice of life that tries to bait war thunder players by having cool and manly and important shit like drive tanks instead of dumb activities for little girls such as camping or sailing small boats as turistic guides
slice of life (and more specificly CGDCT/Iyashikei) is a genre that thrives out of feelings, it's not what they do or what they see, but what you feel while watching it, the actual content doesn't matter as long as it accomplishes it's goal, which is often making you feel relaxed and happy, not only that, but a lot of these shows are also surprisingly educational
This also applies to other genres, I think the best example are sport animes, you don't need to play volleyball to enjoy haikyuu or ping pong to enjoy ping pong the animation, and in many ways you will learn about these sports by watching the anime
Girls und Panzer is the opposite of this, you need to enjoy tanks and the community online surrounding tanks to be able to really enjoy it. The anime assumes you already know quite a bit about tanks, and the focus is on the tanks, not the characters, which barely develops over the course of the anime
at the start of the anime, the protagonist hates tanks, almost has a moral conviction about tanks, she moves to a new school to avoid tanks, she's afraid that she wont be able to make friends but luckily she meets a few girls that become her friend really quickly, however, driving tanks get introduced to their school and her new friends wants to participate on it.
This is a REALLY GOOD dynamic, you could honestly do a full on drama anime with that premise, however instead of really pushing it forward, it basically gets dropped by chapter 3, where the main character has a change of mind and now thinks tanks are really cool, her character or relation to other characters doesn't change or evolve significantly over the course of the anime
this is specially bad with the movie, where it's straight up 2 hours of a single tank fight, and unless you care about tank fights, it just doesn't spark any emotion on you
they also really sacrifice a lot of the universe and the world in order to make the premise work, in no universe there are high school girls driving tanks, much less having straight up tank fights where they could easily die in the MIDDLE OF THE STREET WITH CIVILIANS PASSING BY, AND THE CIVILIANS LIKE IT. Driving tanks is also percieved as a feminine thing and even whern a character critics tanks, it's not because they are war machines, it's because she wanted her daughter to be more gentle
in a lot of slice of life anime part of the fan is observing the world, but if you just make the world completely nonsensical, it's not the most fun to really watch, because if they can just pull that shit out of their ass without any real story justification, they can pull anything off their ass (like what they did in the movie, where they kinda just made up a situation to keep the story going)
(note, if you were to make the world nonsensical but actually take advantage of that fact by making it a plot point like some other more psychological slice of lifes, that's fine, it's just kinda ruining your world-building and then letting that weight you down)
placed on D tier
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i'm on chapter 65 of the legend of the galactic heroes, so far pretty peak, the original ova is kinda different to the remake, it somehow is shittier but honestly that gives it a lot of charm
still playing half life
started book thief like 2 hours ago, so far so good, liking it more than blood meridian
you might enjoy it more, or maybe you won't vibe with it 
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