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I really don't know how to describe this without including the words "What the hell was that?"

(Spoilers in this review) Japan Sinks: 2020 had a standard premise, which if built upon right could make a solid story. Disaster hits, individuals deal with losing loved ones. And this is what happened, for maybe the first two or 3 episodes.

To begin, the story of this show was all over the place. It jumped from the city, to the countryside, to some sort of cult camp, to the coast, in the ocean for a while, and then they are saved. I can understand the choices of ... losing loved ones throughout their journey, but these deaths felt empty, and inconsequential. Some of the characters, (I'm looking at you, mother) had absolutely NO reaction to the death of her own husband for several episodes, for the reason that "you must repress your emotions." Yeah, uh no, that is not how emotions work. This, along with so many other reactions to similar deaths, made the characters feel hollow, but I'll touch upon that later. The story somehow manages to have an entire third of the show be filler, with our group living in some cult. (what else could it be?) They stay they for a stint of time, acting as if their lives are not in grave danger because the ground they literally stand on is at risk of collapsing at any time. After this the story takes a 180, with now the number one priority being to save the crippled doctor's research, which is apparently important? And somehow everything turns out okay, ignoring that 3 quarters of the cast died.

Discussing art, the quality of the character design and animation is barely watchable at best, and completely illegible at worst. This ONA has none of the charm of the artstyle of so many anime, replacing it with crude drawings with no real character. Sound in this is something that is very skipped upon, looking back. Sound, and in turn music, helps to set the scene for plot points, such as deaths or moments of joy. Japan Sinks fails to meet the mark for many of the deaths, with no buildup at all to them.

The characters in this are absolutely godawful. I don't have the next week of my life to go into depth on all of them but I will try to touch upon the most important points in my view. So many of the character deaths in this show are pointless. The mother, who they ALL know has a heart condition, volunteered to dive underwater to get their boat free? Dead. The guy with the hat and glasses, who was literally IMPALED with a piece of metal, who after it was wrapped up and specifically told NOT to mess with it, up and running and grabbing things fine, no problem. The daughter, who cut her leg on what I can guess is some metal, NEVER had the thought to, you know, CLEAN the wound maybe? Bandage it? The daughter here must be mentally disabled or something, specifically when her and her brother were in the lifeboat just floating in the ocean, they saw the man they were with literally eaten and taken away by a shark, and you know what she did literally days, if not hours later? Just stuck her head underwater to look under the lifeboat, not a care in the world. The only slightly redeeming character is the son, who is kind of a gigachad.

Overall, this show is something like a trainwreck in motion. It's terrible and you should look away, but you keep watching to see how bad it could possibly be. I would not recommend this to anyone to be honest, there are several other disaster anime that one could watch and get much more enjoyment out of.

I decided to write this review because I felt like I wanted to share my experience that I had watching this movie. I'll of course preface this entire reviewing with saying I am by no means a professional film critic, but then again, I imagine the majority of people reading this aren't either, so we probably could relate better.

"I Want to Eat your Pancreas" is a movie that highlights what it means to love and to lose, what it means to change someone and be changed yourself. Many of us who have watched this movie may have found something during it that they can personally ... relate to, which all the same makes it that much more realistic. I really enjoyed this movie, and feel that it is something that will change my way of thinking as a go ahead in life, even if it is just a little bit.

Anyone that wants to learn something from this movie in my opinion should take away what it means to form relationships, and how you can brighten someone's life just by being their friend, and how other people can do the same to you. Regardless of what you may think, you are likely able to be influenced much easier than you think, and the person that will do it may be much closer in your life than you may believe.

To everyone that enjoyed this movie, I say power to you. I for one despise film critics that grate on the details and plot mechanisms that an anime may or may not have executed well. I feel that people who do those things give the idea that they believe that people's positive opinion of an anime is invalid, and I will be the first to tell you that that isn't true. Don't let anyone tell you that your favorite anime is bad, because when we get to the root of it, there is no right or wrong way to rank anime, or any medium of storytelling for that matter. What matters is what you think, and you should never let anyone change that.

That aside, I hope that anyone reading this review before watching "I Want to Eat your Pancreas" will go ahead an watch the movie, as it is one that I personally enjoyed, and hope that many other will as well.

CLANNAD: After Story is one of the multiple anime that have completely changed my world view in some way. I first watched it some few years ago now, and it is actually difficult to rewatch, from how intense the story gets at the end.
To keep this review as spoilerless as possible, CLANNAD completely changed what having and making a family meant to me. It taught me the true meaning of what is means to love, and to lose, and how valuable what we have really is. I will admit that there are some slower parts in the beginning, but it more than makes up ... for it when you get to the really good episodes.
I cannot express enough how important it is for every anime fan to watch this anime at least once, to hopefully get the same impact on you what it did on me. After watching this anime, my way of thinking regarding topics like family bonds and love have completely changed, and I am thankful that a masterpiece like this was created, and that I have had the opportunity to experience.