I think it's fairly understandable to feel misled or confused by Planet With. It's Satoshi Mizukami's first venture into anime, and if you're familiar with his manga, its what you would expect him to do if he had only 1 cour to work with.
Planet With has fairly juvenile aesthetics sometimes, and other times has a flashy, brilliant style reminiscent of Star Driver, it honestly in many respects resembles that sort of general "no explicit deaths" thing Star Driver had going on. A lot of the time it is just a genuinely good comedy. But underneath that childish, absurd looking surface, Planet With is really, really,
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Jul 11, 2016
Shisha no Teikoku
(Anime)
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The idea that someone could speak ill of this is unfathomable. You will only fail to enjoy this movie if you come in with wildly inaccurate expectations.
This is perhaps not the MOST cerebral flick around, but it isn't like there is nothing to chew on from that angle. As a tale of one man's search for an almost philosophers stone-esque ideal, it's explores its chosen intellectual premises quite thoroughly. Don't waste your time watching this solo. Some of the historical references are just a touch on the obscure side, enough that having some extra manpower around to increase the chances someone knows what is going on ... |
