S4TW/YKTWR?
A note about ratings: Unfortunately, when i started watching anime, i started rating 7 as "average." This severely limits flexibility in upper ranges and makes below-5 scores feel very exaggerated. As such, it's rare for me to score things below 5, but you can assume that 5 and 6 are both abysmal, failing grades. Similarly, 7 is my default score for feelings of indifference. 8 applies to majority of series I enjoy, while 9 can be considered favourites. I try to almost never score 10s. To be honest, I'd like to change this system and grade using the full scale more accurately, but i can't remark everything precisely, so i decided to keep it this way.
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Now let's talk about the art. My point is that I believe having the same average-quality art for a feature anime film of which the parent series has garnered success is not commendable. You can take that however you want, there's nothing deeper than that. I said it was dull, lifeless and a bore to look at, and it definitely could've improved, considering what should be expected from the context I've mentioned. This isn't 'emotions over arguments', this is an opinion about how the art being average in this context isn't a great sign. And I said subsequently that I didn't really care much, and let it pass. So to say I'm being emotional is very inaccurate, I was if anything being totally indifferent.
And yes, I have a problem with how the movie handles characters' reactions over grief. I'm not saying it's irrational, as I have stated it's what people would be inclined to do. But the way their actions are portrayed is manipulative. Tell me, for a large margin of the runtime, what do these characters do? Yeah, they cry and tell other characters how sad they are. Is it implausible? No. Is it subtle? No. Is it executed well? No. Not being subtle is ok, I like raw films. But it's one thing to be raw and to be emotionally manipulative. Melodrama and emotional manipulation heavily rely on 'reactions', not 'cause'. Of course I'm not saying the film didn't state the cause. But for one, it wasn't executed to make it seem powerful, and instead the majority of the runtime is focused much more on how they mourn over tragedies. Just to be clear, I'm not implying that it would make things objectively awful. You can like melodrama, even if a bit emotionally manipulative. After all, it comes down to personal preference. And personally, I hate it.
And thank you for concerning for me. But I'm fine with it. I can handle some hate no prob, and I can guarantee you, as long as the hate is only as toxic as it has always been on MAL, I'll be good.