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| I thought this would have been something like Komugi, FLCL, Dokuro-chan or any of the other experimental, otaku bait 2000s stuff. It felt like it was trying to do that in the earlier episodes, but lost its steam very quickly. It wasn't fun or actually seem to represent otaku culture like those other shows, and it flopped because of that. It had a lot of potential as shown from the premise and the OP/ED, but it fell short (especially with the ending lol) |
EggyyJul 18, 2024 7:47 PM
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| The term "hollow passion project" seems like an oxymoron, but in a way it seems fitting here. Not 100% as a complaint, though: Inagawa Jun is an artist first and foremost, so he actually did his all, he did the aesthetics and designs, and this is the strong point of the show, the problem is that the aesthetics are "an end in themselves" rather than means for something deeper. Something that can't be complained about, though, is the "realness" of it all: Inagawa Jun was actually someone who partook in urban sub-cultures (Namely skateboarding), the conjunction of otaku imagery with revolutionary/counter-cultural aesthetic is less something "commodified" and more something he actively did IRL (He partnered a streetwear label for a "THIS MAGICAL GIRL KILLS FASCISTS" hoodie). The anime, however, mirrors a characteristic of him (Excerpt from a 2020 interview): ――It’s rare to see someone making connections in the skate scene while making waves in the fashion scene by pushing Akihabara’s otaku culture into the foreground. What does otaku mean to you? JUN: For me, otaku isn’t a label, but a lifestyle. If you have something you can obsess over, then I think that makes you an otaku. For a while, I used to post illustrations that were a mix of anime, hip hop, and streetwear aesthetics. In other words, it was a fusion of moe (often used in otaku circles, this term expresses affection towards something cute) and streetwear aesthetics, but people often misunderstand where I’m coming from. What I’m doing is drawing the things I genuinely like; the mix of different subcultures is unintentional. It just so happens that it ends up looking like I purposefully combined anime, hip hop, and streetwear aesthetics. People traditionally ascribe the Moe Moe or Akihabara category to Japanese otakus, but I feel like my perception of anime and manga differ from them. In the end, many things aren't there for any reason, they're just there because he naturally is that way. That way, much feels like repetition of some point it was made elsewhere: Otaku Hero dresses like he does because the creator loves AKIRA, but doesn't make anything with that factor. "The gentrification of Akiba" is there because he loves STEINS;GATE, however, less is done with it here than when the theme was explored in 16bit Sensation Another Layer Likewise, his idea of "the humanization and dark side to the mahou shoujo" ( ), but in his own words... there's no message to it, no it's no more special than when Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku or Mahou Shoujo Tokushusen Asuka did it. It's quite dire when I have a lot more about to say about the OP (Which is the embodiment of this video), or the ED (That mirrors the relationship between Otaku Hero and the Mahou Shoujo as the relationship otaku have with the medium: A friend that is always there to give you support and comfort, the divine beauty of the moe, of the bishoujo, you friend, your mommy-wife... it gave a layer of depth to the characters (That hits extra-hard on the episode that shows the one years that is just them goofing around with all the Otaku): Otaku Hero feels isolated without them, but is also them that allow him to connect with everyone else. You can complain all you want that the vast majority of the anime was "and then that happens" in therms of plot, but at least that part of it was real and genuine. |
Eggyy said: I thought this would have been something like Komugi, FLCL, Dokuro-chan or any of the other experimental, otaku bait 2000s stuff. Because it was actively inspired by them: https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/interviews/2023/6/23/interview-magical-destroyers-creator-jun-inagawa https://tokion.jp/en/2020/12/25/defining-otaku-with-jun-inagawa/ anikevin said: it's like a 12 year old with chunibyo syndrome wrote the plot to this show what an absolute waste of potential I mean, the anime serves as a prequel of an (Unpublished) manga the author wrote during highschool, and he was 20 years old when he began producing the anime. I guess a motif from everything related to this work is similar to what I wrote in my other post: It doesn't "look", it "IS". |
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