Yeah, I've heard that it loses a lot of what makes season 1 so good, but I've not seen it for myself. I very often disagree with the common opinions of anime fans, so I'm still going to give it a try. Just need to watch something a bit more lighthearted first to mix things up.

there is a season 2? im going to download darker than black season 1 now

this is very true

Tbf the Wikipedia's reception part was full of 4.5/5 reviews in purple prose so apparently there are gung-ho Shinkai stans out in the world.

they definitely keep a lot of things kind of ambiguous, but to a degree I really enjoy!

yeah but it's friday at least

there is no new jojo today tho :(

Yea, Makoto Shinkai movies are corny and shallow, and I don't think that's a controversial opinion lol. One of the things I respect about him is that he doesn't seem to disagree, like most of what he talks about in interviews is craft and he's not interested in awards or anything like that. Like he once told people to stop going to see Your Name which is very funny to me.

More than anything else he really just wants to make movies, and while I wish they were more interesting I can't like, dislike him lol

when i watched it i always felt i was an episode behind ):

The way I heard it explained was that EP was cribbed out of back cover blurbs of books on existentialism, then some edge was added to the mix. Tatami Galaxy was plenty existential to me so it's not something I actively seek out.

I do recommend seeing it for the visuals alone, it's 45 minutes and gorgeous. I didn't like the film much otherwise, though.

Ok I must confess that I wasn't a fan of it, save for visuals which were great. I'm not trying to write a review that can be understood without seeing the film, the film is about 45 minutes and available everywhere online, go see it if you're curious! Everything's spoilers but not really.

I thought that the action was quite unmotivated. Takao's actions were somewhat motivated, but something that's been done over and over - follow your dreams narrative, love lifts souls up and helps angels fly. It took almost the whole film to learn what miss Yukino was about. My favorite moment of her was actually when she grabbed tons of chocolate bars out of her handbag as if she was a gross slobby chocolate gremlin, especially as the film was so nonjudgmental about it. It's a thing you rarely see in film.

I got the metaphor that Takao is helping miss Yukino to learn to walk and water washes away old dirt that's making them lonely, just didn't find it cashed out satisfactorily.

(I'm willing to accept that the tanka poetry part might have been foreshadowing that was completely obvious from the start if I were clued in enough into Japanese culture.)

Wasn't a big fan of the soundtrack, it seemed a bit trite to me, trying to hit the emotional notes that weren't present in the story to begin with.

My very simple fix for the movie: tell the story out of order, start with miss Yukino's past troubles (tell more about them), jump into the her getting fired, then introduce Takao to the audience and let it know more about her than him. Then let Takao figure out what the audience already knows. BAM four Oscars, folks!

BTW it totally seems like I'm in a minority of people for not liking the film much. According to one DailyMotion commenter I'm dead inside.

yea that's what I've heard about Ergo Proxy too lol

6'

how tall are u devtes

it was also really confusing?? like a lot of stuff just kinda happened without explanation and normally i think animes overexplain everything but this one was too far in the opposite direction for me

I enjoyed some stuff about the setting (being able to turn your robot companion's personality on and off at will is a nice touch) but it just wasn't enough!

aah this is one I always see gifs from and it looks so GORGEOUS

Yurucamp is the shit. Rin is like, really relatable, and it's nice to have a quiet loner character that isn't treated as a total oddity. She likes camping alone and her friends like her so they camp separately and share experiences. Nearly freakin' cried at the end of the latest episode. God bless this shit.

not the Joestars

You are tall! It's just the scale is way different for me lol

this is kurobasu erasure

(i'm 5'6" and i feel tall in china, let me live)

i would still be shorter than them ;_;

unrelated but in high school i went on a month-long school trip to japan and my friend who was also on the trip was VERY tall (6ft something) and just towered over everyone and I still remember the one time we were walkin and randomly met a japanese dude who was the same height and they both freaked out over it. it was a wonderful experience that surpassed all language barriers

is there a comprehensive height chart

i gotta fire that up

nice