I'm so conflicted about this one!
Season 3 continues to have great writing, touching on mature themes and elements of adult life in a way that effortlessly blends comedy and commentary. The move away from the office setting for most of this season isn't a negative in my eyes - it was about time Retsuko had a real stab at self actualisation, trying to find a more fulfilling life than her job allows, without it being more or less a single episode affair. Idol media is absolutely not for me but the usual bubblegum and innocence is replaced with a far more emotionally complex display of
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Apr 13, 2020
The Last: Naruto the Movie
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Naruto: The Last is a film that gets more frustrating the more you think about it.
I approached Naruto: The Last hoping it would give Naruto and Hinata's relationship some real time to develop, because it's more or less the same at the end of Shippuden that it was at the start of the original series. That doesn't happen! The two spend most of the film separated from each other. Hinata is demoted from an underpowered ninja to a literal damsel in distress, spending about two minutes of the entire movie doing something ninja-like. Naruto comes to fall in love with her, because... Well, I suppose he has ... 
Mar 4, 2019
Yakusoku no Neverland
(Manga)
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[Spoiler Warning]
The first arc of this story is one of the best self-contained stories I've ever read. You're always kept guessing, due to the unique setting and sheer drought of information that is present. The protagonists are fun and endearing, the antagonists are cool, sympathetic and very intimidating, all round great. However, that's only a quarter of the story so far. After its' conclusion, the story begins to degenerate into a post-apocalypse story with so many genre-trappings, tropes and predictable story beats that, as a fairly genre-savvy person for this kind of story, things have only gotten less and less interesting as the mediocre storytelling is ... |
