Most of the film can easily be considered a masterpiece in all aspects, but the final act sours the experience. The ending is great though! And fits in with the message the authors are trying to tell.
The final act introduces the secret background of Kaguya rapidly, which feels like an exposition dump and sours the experience. If those elements had been introduced in small pieces throughout the story, the pacing would have been fine and the ending would have had a greater emotional impact on the viewer.
The hand-crafted animation is beautiful, one of the best in animated media overall, and definitely elevates the emotions one
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Apr 18, 2023
I found Beastars' setting very intriguing and that was why after watching the anime (at the time of writing the 2 available seasons), I immediately picked up the manga wanting more from Legoshi, Louis, Haru and the surrounding world.
The setting - modern times but filled with intelligent anthropomorphic animals - was explored deeply and presented the possible issues that could occur, mainly, the divide between carnivores and herbivores, racial and cultural stereotyping. Which I enjoyed. And up to the Interspecies Relations arc I was not able to find a thing I could dislike about story, pacing, characters. It all flowed well and the developing relationship between ... 
Apr 17, 2023
Houseki no Kuni
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Rarely do I find myself so deeply immersed in a manga, that I binge the entirety available as much as possible, sacrificing my sleep in the process :D. It was that good (although it's not finished, we are close to the end)!
The world shown to us in beautifully illustrated panels is quite unique and it's easy to understand the context - we are set in a world where the only intelligent lifeforms on Earth seem to be the Gems (or the Lustrous) and they must defend themselves against the enemy - the Lunarians who periodically arrive from the moon to capture the Gems. This big ... |
