Suzume is exactly what I expected it to be. Yet again another rendition of Your Name with ethereal visuals, but a lacking story.
Suzume Iwato looks exactly like the girls before her. Long, black hair, school uniform with a red ribbon around her neck, one around on her hair etc. In this film, she meets Souta Munakata, a college guy, on the street and by the end of the film her love for him is deeper than the ocean. Hah.
The film had 10/10 music, 8/10 animation and 6/10 story. It’s a shame, really, because the animation at least could’ve easily been fixed with a few changes
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Mar 28, 2023
Okaeri Alice
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I expected Okaeri Alice to be a deep dive into gender identities and prepubescent chaos, with a touch of sexual exploration. What the mangaka instead delivered was a perverted, superficial piece of media that makes you feel like you just ate a portion of mouldy, fuzzy yoghurt.
The mangaka is confused with his own sexuality, as he states in the bonus chapter 4.5, and that's exactly what you can expect from this manga. Just a confused man with very problematic and vivid sexual fantasies. He has not grasped the concept of transgender and non-binary people, so he's trying to cover it up with lots of masturbation ... 
Feb 27, 2023
Tomie: Nottori
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Having read Tomie just yesterday, I was delighted to see that Junji Ito had released some more chapters way later in his career.
So, how is it, you ask? It's bad. The art style feels like he simply drew over pre-positioned 3D models. Tomie doesn't feel like Tomie, and she barely gets mentioned, too. It's just this dude in her body being like, "Huh?" The background and characters are plain. The panel with Tomie sitting cut up on the ground looks like a joke. In fact, it had looked so bad that I just stared at it for a couple of minutes, being like: Which publisher ... |
