Jun 5, 2024
Wasure Hoshi no Volicia
(Anime)
add
Wasure Hoshi no Volicia (Volicia of Pluto) is an incredibly strange Anime, deliberately so. At every step, in every scene, it deliberately takes actions that make the plot harder to follow and the motivations of characters even less clear. It is not even as if the plot is strong enough, or meaningful enough, to warrant this - it is just, quite simply, a self-indulgent story. Watching this through and trying to understand the plot seems like a fruitless endeavour with massive events, and supposedly important characters just being thrown in haphazardly. It is genuinely only through the help of taking an extreme amount of notes
...
Apr 20, 2024
Kata no Ato
(Anime)
add
Kata no Ato, or the Mark of Emi, is one of the strangest, but equally amongst the most charming, anime dubbed 'girl's love'. It's not a particularly interesting work and, outside of its art, isn't particularly creative, but it doesn't need to be. It's a well-trodden story (if what there is can even be called a story), told as it needs to be told in a short 4-minute format that succeeds in what it sets out to do, establishing the main character's growing feelings for her friend Emi.
Where it shines, however, is in the art style, which is creative and expressive, feeling at ... |
