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Days: 70.3
Mean Score:
5.41
- Watching18
- Completed272
- On-Hold51
- Dropped44
- Plan to Watch243
- Total Entries628
- Rewatched11
- Episodes4,268
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Days: 22.3
Mean Score:
4.51
- Reading27
- Completed67
- On-Hold20
- Dropped40
- Plan to Read119
- Total Entries273
- Reread0
- Chapters3,498
- Volumes212
All Comments (350) Comments
Well, then I'll have to check it out.
I stumbled across your profile and i want to say i love your favourites.
The moment i saw Shiki i smiled imediately. I love everything about it, the music, the characters, the story. Its just *mua*
Your favourite games is just great, Pokemon Platinum and Soul Silver (tho i played HeartGold). is just a fun experiance.
Persona....im having so much fun with Persona, though im playing Persona 3. I do plan to play 4 once i finished it.
Oh, my name's Wys by the way. It's nice to meet you. :D
When did you first get into anime?
Where are you from?
How are you doing? :)
- 1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
There's various dystopians by Philip K. Dick that might be also be to your liking (I highly recommend Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, the novel that Ridley Scott's Blade Runner is based on). For some more recent picks, you have:
- Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K Le Guin
Most of these authors have also written plenty more stories so if you're taken at all by their writing style or prose, definitely check out their other work. There's also book series centered around dystopian settings. Some have already been adapted to films (Hunger Games, Divergent), while some are still publishing and development for an adaptation is still in the works (Red Rising by Pierce Brown, Annihilation by Jeff Vardermeer).
About what you said in the paragraph, I don't think being predictable is a show's weakness, but being predictable af while still moving on with the show and feigning intelligence is definitely a weakness. Almost all of the show's take on any topic is something that's painfully obvious about that topic.
Eve no jikan had an entirely different take both story wise and direction wise, from Kino's Journey. I think that one review on the top puts it perfectly when it starts with "This is Kino's Journey? I'd rather stay home", lol. This one line, for me, was more entertaining than the whole show.
If you want to see Kino's Journey done right, watch Mushishi.
No, wait, the 'first episode' I was talking about is an OVA. That was an ok episode. Kino had killed someone and she meets the murdered guy's mother. That is as close as the show has gotten to become interesting.
>> understand that the people in this show are supposed to be extremely simplified versions of actual human beings, but the show just took it way too far
The show literally feels like it was made for children as it has the perfect themes and situations to teach children some morals, but the show definitely inclines itself towards mature audience and fails miserably. The characters are just so fucking stupid that you can't even take them seriously.
Oh, boy don't even get me started about the dialogue. At the end of every episode there is some sort of eloquent music playing and it feels like something profound is going to be said, but all Kino and her bike do is re-iterate the events that transpired during the episode. Wakanda bullshit is that?
I watched the show after coming across Bob Samurai's review on it, in which he called it a deeply thought provoking piece of art, but the show's kinda retarded.
It's good you didn't continue as it gets even worse. In one episode, Kino, along with some other characters is in a battle royale of sorts in a colosseum. The premise, though I don't remember it, was a pretty good commentary on fate, causality and all, and the episode did a decent job of following through in its first half. In the second half though, everything goes to shit as now the fight actually turns into a battle royale and it turns shounen with people killing others by looking at their reflections in a puddle of water. The worst part is at the end of the episode, I really thought that the show would properly address the topics of fate and causality like it set out to do, but all Kino does is reiterate the premise of the episode, and I was literally thinking "uh... yeah, that's the goddamn premise". Imbecile writing.
The best way I could describe this show is that it's a combination of Psycho-Pass and Mushishi, if Psycho-Pass and Mushishi were written by absolute imbeciles.