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I got hand it to this anime, it took the weird premise and just ran with it. He gets told he has to dress like a woman and bam thats it. He has no issue for the whole series.

Overall it felt like it was pulling itself in too many different directions. Romance? Echii? Harem? A trans story? Lesbianism? Sexism? Slice of life? Drama? Too many cooks in the kitchen maybe. But when it did commit to drama it excelled. Its a shame that maybe 3 episodes of the show actually have drama. Its was nice seeing the inner conflict of her gayness and confusion stemming ... from it (the young girl). But on the other hand the man has no issue at all being a woman and it irks me that it was never explored. There was also the unrequitted love angle which was a nice addition but fell flat because who the hell was that guyhe was just tsundere the whole time.

The taboo angle was either purposely left unexplored or ignored completely. Assuming he is 20 she was 14. Its wrong and could probably land him in prison realistically. But its odd this relationship wasn't fetishized, the only relationship in the show that wasnt. Real potential to explore forbidden feelings, much like koi kaze. But instead it just opts out of these issues and rushes the ending.

And yeh the ending was terrible. That type of scandal would national news. ZERO percent chance anyone in that room would forgive him. He probably would have gone to prison in real life. Still if youre looking for something a little weirder its worth a shot.

A dark, absurdist comedy that doesn't back down from crossing the line.

At its core "Thankyou" is about our role in society. How we interact with those expectations, what happens if we don't meet those expectations and how they can crush us. We have a father. He most provide, love, lead and protect his family. But he can't. Every character here fails in their prospective role. The fathers failures come out in the form of rage and over protectiveness. The youngest daughter fails at being feminine, cute and innocent. The eldest daughter fails to be a role model and pillar in the family. The mother fails ... to care and love for her children. Complete failure and dysfunction. These failures come from those expectactions. The father works himself, essentially to death to provide, leading to his breakdown. The mother cannot be a housewife, it drives her insane.

But what is interesting here, is that there is no "out". All these characters are flawed and sometimes toxic individuals. It is a real broken family. No one has a heart of gold. No-one to come in and say "All right, you to do X and Y and everything will ok". It is repeated failure over and over. i say this because we see broken families from the outside-in. We can say "oh stop drinking, just go to school etc etc". But here we have an inside out look. We can see these issues in all their complexities. We cant just say "the father should be less pushy! Or just go to school" because we know he witnessed a horror and the daughters experienced it. Characters even grow AND regress. They backtrack, mess it up. At no point is getting better a linear experience.

But what makes it worse are the cultural expectations. We hear so much "oh the japanese are so reserved and never ask for help" this isnt a japanese thing at all. Asking for help even from friends is crushing. And we see it in this manga. A friend of the family tries to help but only ends up making it worse. These issues are so complex and tangled together that it becomes impossible to say "I need help" because where the hell do you even begin. Much like the start, why call the cops? The situation is so out of control there is nothing they could even really do. It would take months to even straighten out the facts.

It also has one of the greatest twists I have ever seen. Instead of painfully trying to make peace with past and its trauma, they decide to split up. They are too toxic for each other. And again, much like a real broken family it works. Too often the notion of "family" is justified to do terrible things. We have to suffer together, we are family. instead it crosses a line. No family isn't everything. Sometimes your family are the people who hurt you the most. Its ok to go and make your own peace.

An incredible manga with very few flaws. The ending was a bit too melodramatic for my taste. And frankly there should of been more story, there was still so much to explore.

I will watch this author with interest. A solid first outing but very uneven.

The writing struggles to convey what the characters think vs what the author thinks. There is often very little differentiation between characters and the way the speak as they often go on huge motivational speeches often in public as the other character cheer for them. They also start and end conversation abruptly. The internal monologue is very good but the external is bland at best. I know next to nothing about the other characters.

So many subplots could have made the other character interesting but they are dropped. Camera boys family? Dropped. ... Jins dad? hardly expanded upon. Jins mother? Dropped. Other kids at the school being angry at the exceptions made for the main character? dropped. Potential love interest for jin dropped . Main characters family angry at him coming out? dropped. Main characters brother? Dropped. The list goes on. This manga could have been double or more in length.

Still, a solid read and a nice look in to the world of trans characters.

First half was honestly a decent recap. Thought it was gonna be a slidehow but instead had new commentary by Ataru's mum and ataru/lum. They only chose the "story" eps which was fine. Although I think they animated a new scene for it? I have no recollection of Ataru's mum saying she wishes she never had him. Granted I havent watched the OG for a while.

HOWEVER, the second episode. ONE OF THE BEST. I was shocked by how good it was. It reminded me of why I fell in love with this series especially after so many mediocre movies. The jokes per minute was insane. ... new memorable characters just popping out of everywhere. The characcters were also in their infancy here. The development they would later have is gone. Crazy seeing lum so crazy as she chills out later. Ataru is somehow more dumb. They become so refined later on.

You must watch this. BUT only after you watched all 195 episodes not before. Thank me later.

This is currently rated higher than the original end of evangellion. If you ever wanted more proof the average MAL user has brain worms.

The rebuilds were built out of pure hatred Anno has for his audience. Imagine making an anime that is explicitly about how shit anime is. Every character in Eva is a direct refutation of all the shit tropes. Asuke is the red haired Tsundere. But in Eva it asks the question of how a person could become so unable to genuinley express themselves, it shows the pain and horror of being unable to show affection. Rei is the Kuudere and in ... the end she is just one of a trillion clones showing how shit the trope is. The point is Anno is showing the audience the horrible trappings of anime and aims to go beyond them, deconstruct them. And it was amazing. And then it ended in the greatest movie ever seen.

So then years past and noe Asuka and Rei are waifu icons with their faces plastered on fanta cans and pillows for weebs. All the depth is gone. His creation given to his fans and they wiped their asses with it. Seriously here is what he did.

First movie nothing changes, its literally just eva. An almost 1:1 remake. Yay fans got "more" eva but really we got nothing fans were left disspointed, seriosly go and check the review from 2007. Then the second one again gives the fans what they want Shinji mans up and changes the timeline he becomes a genrric shounen charcter. And it was grabage. Then in the third asuka isreduced to fanservice no trgaic backstory just here are some 14 uear old tits No complexity just a fuck you.

Then we have this movie which shits on the franchise even more. We literally have the iconic imagery shat upon with shitty CGI mecha fights. here you pigs eat your slop. You never got what I was saying so here are some robots hitting each other really hard oh and 20 shots of asuka with no top or pants. Every iconic moment is retread on to no effect just horrible CGI with nonsensical dialogue. Basically "here you are an idiot heres some bright coulours oh and buy some Mari merch while your at it".

I mean even "thrice upon a time" sounds like he is done. We have to end this shit 3 times PLUS one more time. Even Anno admits he wanted to do live action after eva but he got ropped in to this rebuild shit. Like why do you think it took almost Seven years for this to come out? Was he working on it the whole time? No. He literally made other movies the whole time. Only when Corona hit was he actually forced to sit down and finish it.

the shitty generic J-pop the never ending garbage dialogue "oh the l layer is negative 4 blah blah" they are not saying anything. He did what most fans wanted. He removed the meaning and instead we got robot fights pasted on top of the real scenes. The shounen fans can be happy. Shinji got a big titty GF. Everyone is happy.

Desperately tries to rid itself of the trappings of the Shounen genre but ultimately it cant.

The ideas on display here are brilliant and could have made a really fresh/exciting anime. Very rarely do we see shounen protagonists after their ultimate victory they often become essentially gods once its done. But here he falls back down to earth struggling with real issues like poverty, racism, drug addiction, even hate crimes are touched upon. But all of this is thrown away as the series progresses like an immense gravitational force is pulling it back to the its origins of shounen.

There's just so many dropped ideas. So spoilers. ... For example, the Nomad in the title doesnt make sense. 80% of the show isnt Joe travelling but instead going home, the absolute opposite of a Nomad. But its weird for the first 4 episodes it really embraces the Nomad side. A man travelling aimlessly with no home. Then its dropped. Same for the drug abuse, that is solved in one episode. The racism is again solved in an episode. The kid is commiting hate crimes then he smiles and everyone is chill again. And its even weirder but Joe isnt white but never experiences any racism, the show just ignores the non-white main character in a show with racism??? Or why does it have a south American style/vibe going for 4 episodes for it to be dropped out of nowhere. All the promotional images, trailers and a 1/3 of the show has it but then its gone.

Then the rest of the show just becomes season 1 again and ends with the fight of the century. Never mind Joe is 10 years older and his body should be fucked from years of heavy drug abuse. At the start Joe is a Nomad, no real identity since he has left boxing. The show sets up him trying to find an identity post boxing only for him to become the same man he was at the end of season 1. I guess it was nice seeing the kids all grown up.

Overall it was ok. Im going to continue to keep an eye on this director because I do think he has talent, he just needs more experience.

Yeh a 6/10 but hear me out.

This was pretty much a collection of yuru Yuri's "greatest hits" so to speak. So although it is new content its really the same stuff we have already seen. Just a lot of gags and such. Its clear the time constraints hurt it here, it goes a lightning speed pace from set up to joke. Which is unfortunate because for me yuru yuri is at its best when the characters just get to talk and chill together and there is a story or character specific arc being told.

As dumb as it sounds imagine a seinfeld episode with no storyline, ... no forgot my keys just the guys standing around repeating one liners from previous seasons. This is essentially what it is. And funnily enough i think it aimed to be that. it was a crowd funded OVA for the more hardcore fans, so in the end it did its job.

Hope we get another season soon!

Asano Inio is a bad writer. But he's the best writer for the MAL. I don't mean this to be a condescending review but the fact is he writes for 15 year olds. You know the 15 year olds who just recently learnt what "nihilism" meant or that the structure of society isn't perfect? This is his core philosophy and audience. And teens love it. When I was a teen I loved it!

The issue with this style of writing its that it is shallow, so incredibly shallow. I'll get in to spoilers here. There are five characters who suicide in this work. Suicide is thrown ... around like a plot device. It's so unbearably childish. It's just a thing people do, they say "oh screw it I'm done" it's done with literally no subtetly. I think David foster wallace put suicidal ideation best "“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant". And this view on depression and suicide marks the difference between a poor writer and a writer who has the ability to look at something and truly see it and bring new and thought provoking conclusions.

The writing also falls in the same trap I think we all had as 15 year olds, dark = mature. If I saw a movie with gore then it was for adults and super mature. But that's not really true. In fact it is more often than not the opposite. It continually aims to introduce these large concepts and winks at the audience saying "deep and and dark right?". Some people say this is due to the fact it's a short story style of story telling that it doesn't expand on these concepts more but a good writer can explore concepts with depth regardless of length as I already showed with DFW.

Overall a very weak work that is kind of insulting.

Time for a bonus round for the cringiest moments.
-tone of suicide for the edgelords
-absurd bullying scenarios. Kids can be mean but they're not insane
-drug addicts who think they've workd everything out
- the same mentality rick and morty fans have is all over this work "its so tough being smart am i right fellas :)
-weird borderline pedo relationships
-bad imagery and symbbolism "a raaaiiiinnnnnnboooowwww"
-everyone's parents are dead like everyone's
-high school students who have the vaguest understanding of existentialism
-teens looking at the sky philosophizing and saying things teens would never say

Potential. A word that best describes this anime. A stronger writer could have seen this anime become something more than just a footnote on the mid 2000's anime scene.

A strong creative voice can make or break an anime. For example, Anno, Yuuasa or Miyazaki. This anime had no such voice. it becomes stuck in its own mould and never breaks free of it. Yet when looking at who directed it Kamiyama, Kenji a man behind GiTS you become dumbfounded. How can a man of such talents produce something so below its potential? I think it's a case of the source material. The source ... material controlled him; he didn't control the source material. seirei no moribito is a highly praised and respected work. I believe this constricted his ability to work. Give a faithful adaption or change the material a bit and make your own? I think he chose the former.

Seirei no Moribito takes a slower pace than most anime. It chooses to focus on a small number of characters and tries to build a story alongside them. The only problem with this is that the characters are flat. They struggle to grow and change. It was like watching a chicken try hatch out of its shell but it’s too weak to do so. The centre of the series is Balsa a female bodyguard. She makes an oath to save eight lives this is her "raison d'etre". This never changes.

This is where Chagum comes in, a boy who should he die, will avoid a drought killing millions. Now we have internal conflict! Balsa wants to save one boy to kill millions or does she save millions and kill a boy? Well ignore that because that's wrong and no such conflict exists. Any interesting conversation about ethics is gone. Instead they must save the boy to stop the drought. But he must die for the egg to be released! We have conflict again. But again no. Somehow out of nowhere one of the characters has a magic spell that can fix the egg no issue. Is the spell important? How did he find it? Who cares says the series. And again, any interesting conflict or ethical arguments are again avoided.

Chagum as a character is a waste. As said any moral issue are avoided. So, then we have a boy who is spoilt like no other become an ordinary boy. He does develop as a character but into nothing interesting. he becomes a prince at the end which could've been interesting. What kind a of leader would he be after his experiences? Doesn't matter says the series. His foster father and Balsa's love interest is a man who has no personality but making medicine and maybe having a crush. That's it. 26 episodes he doesn't change or learn he is the same man he started as.

The series does put some effort in to developing its world but again to little effect. One of the biggest revelations of the series is the government is built upon a false premise, a once incredible history was nothing more than a power grab. the government is fully corrupt, false rulers. And nothing is done with this, nothing at all. the series ignores this, they discover this fact and then its ignored. The extreme wealth disparity with slums and poverty while the government lives in extreme wealth is ignored. In fact, after chagum views this gross injustice fully aware of the false history joins the government. His development into a more compassionate boy is for nothing.

The animation of the series is solid. Early on there are a few amazing animation sequences but those disappear as the series progresses. The action as sparse as it is good. But the people struggle to express themselves. The mouths move but the eyes, head, wrinkles, arms all remain still. they were like puppets not fully animated characters. The backgrounds were well done with a fantastic colour pallet. The use of CGI was noticeable as well, but most series have this issue so no harm no foul.

Seiro no moribito is defined by what it could have been instead of what it was.

(I know there's more novels but im reviewing the anime and only the anime)