3-gatsu no Lion's second season manages to top its outstanding first season through convincing characters and a beautiful narrative combined with the stunning use of music and visuals.
The show decisively moves from the utter and unimpeded focus on Rei, our main character, and onto the supporting cast that helped lift Rei from his melancholy and self-destructive lifestyle.
Characters that could have been left as poorly developed tropes are instead given their own arcs, from Souya to Shimada and even Saku was fleshed out and made this show extremely realistic and enjoyable to watch. To put it simply, each character felt as if they could
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Dec 23, 2017
Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou
(Anime)
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Two chibi girls on a vintage Kettengrad motorbike explore the war-ravaged city that they once called home. This sentence without context sounds ridiculous, but Girls' Last Tour manages to pull it off by providing one of the best shows of the season with beautiful background imagery, variation between the two leads that mimic those of two sides of a brain, and a soothing yet melancholic soundtrack
The quality of the backgrounds can be mostly attributed to the widely used post-apocalyptic setting and the source material of the show. Tsukumizu's elaborate ruined cityscapes of rusted pipes and war-torn steel fully contrast with the two chibi, moe ... |