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Mar 5, 2022
Leaning more on pure emotional value, I am giving it a 9.8 rating! I had a good cry with this show and I didn't have time to think which was absolutely freeing for me! The show itself made use of fiction and provided stories exploring different forms of "love" which you may or may have not experienced. But that's okay because it was well communicated in the show.
The voice acting, the music/bgm (this one made me crazy btw) the story in its simplest glory just gave emphasis to the dramatic value of the show. It will make you cry, feel giddy, scream, even punch the
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wall— it'll make you feel about something you haven't felt before. That alone can be one heck of dive away from suffocating suppressed emotions.
I would like to quote Erich Fromm, a social psychologist who wrote the book, "The Art of Loving," In his book, he stated, "Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together;" and that, "even whether there is harmony or conflict, joy or sadness, is secondary to the fundamental fact that people experience themselves from the essence of their existence,"
Now, imagine this, it's a tiring day, maybe even a tiring life. You are bombarded with almost anything that you don't know what to feel or worst, you feel empty. You may want to even vanish cause why not. You probably think that you don't know what's wrong and that you want to cry about everything and/or not cry at all.
The show will definitely tap on your emotions in their entirety, not missing one bit and it will make you realize that there's nothing wrong, but something that's lacking— love. The only question is what kind is it that you are missing ^_^
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Feb 19, 2022
If I am going to describe this show in a few words, I'd say "it holds a powerful sense of morals in the simplest form possible." And yet it also exhibits a bit more depth than the subpar type of show for the "young" ones that have been made available before it. This alone extends its audience reach.
The technicalities are all at a minimum. Leaning more to the viewers' easy understanding than a challenge and/or complex execution. Rather than a flaw, I think it's more intentional. I personally like its animation. Despite having gruesome parts, the simple animation and the color schemes compensate and make
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such scenes "tolerable", PG13 ig?
There's a good combination of dynamic, static, round, and stock characters. I also think they were flexibly utilized in the duration of the series, that even a tertiary type of characters such as Bebin, Mitsumata, Dorsche, Hokuro, and Mitsumata (to name a few) left a mark on me.
One of the interesting mechanisms of this show is the way they presented the villainous and redeeming side of each character no matter how they were initially presented within the show. It implicates the usual "Do not judge the book by its cover," trope which is hardly even a flaw considering that the show itself is made to be straightforward.
ALLOW ME TO APOLOGIZE AGAIN, HILING-SAMA.
If I am going to adjust my wavelength a few ages higher, there's an overused amount of the literary device, "deus ex machina" in the show. One of the slapping parts is on EP.13 that actually got me a bit. Miranjo, the villain, although presented as a dynamic character, has quite a bit of shortcoming to even be considered as an effective one. I still feel off when she said, "She wanted chaos," then proceeded on stating "She'll wait" at a crucial part during the confrontation with Hiling (again, EP.13)
It is a feel-good, good-cry type of show. If someone younger would ask for a starting point in an anime, I would definitely recommend this one.
On a more serious note, there's also a profound statement that this show is tackling, which is "disability". And since the setting is in medieval times, I'd like to see it more on the concept presented by the Social Model of Disability (UPIAS, 1976) which argues that and I will quote,
" The social model seeks to change society in order to accommodate people living with impairment; it does not seek to change persons with impairment to accommodate society."
As I saw pretty disgusting comments about how the way Bojji communicates irritates them while watching the show cause he was shouting and that his disability doesn't matter and he was unnecessarily presented as a "dimwit" in the show as he would react differently towards his people. It shows how the characters and even some of the viewers’ perceptions of him fail to accommodate such results of his impairment. Some even labeled Boji, as he was walking in the town without the clothes on as a "walk of shame," like bro! WHAT? I could talk on and on about this, but I hardly have enough sleep to continue.
I urge people who are hell-bent on giving reviews for this show to adjust their wavelength into what the show actually demands.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Feb 12, 2022
The commendable part of sangatsu no lion is the way it worked through the development— instead of the MC-meeting-others-and-learning-from-them or other-characters-meeting-the-MC-and-changes-from-them kind of focused lense, SNL works both ways. MC meets other characters and they exchange experiences to contribute to the development of one another. Add to this detail, the fact that the MC is a 19-year-old boy Kiriyama deep into the world of Shogi that's consisted of people in different age ranges— you get to see young ones learn (new gen) and an adult to change things (veterans).
It also makes the whole jam-packed of characters, which is a usual pitfall of animanga content, very
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effective. As I have read through revs about SNL, one interpretation fits this strong point, it goes like, " SNL is the difference between content with 'loads of characters,' and content with 'loads of lives,' "
This leads to another praise that this manga deserves, that it is "well-paced slow-paced," content. This may be taken differently esp if one doesn't appreciate the combination of poetic lines and images feel to a certain event and may somehow deem it to be a form of exaggeration or tedious element. For example, the manga will not show someone's emotional turmoil with an image of teardrops and a closed-up face, rather it will give you a blank space, sometimes black or white, sometimes crossroads, a page full of stairs— a person layin over water ripples
It steers away from directly stating the character's emotional state by showing the readers an expression that exhibits otherwise until the verge of breakage. It will challenge readers to re-identify their sense of sensitivity for these emotional responses, which again makes it a great piece to be discussing the ever so complicated concept of depression, anxiety, societal and peer pressure, etc. the whole thing will not give you straight to point depiction of these tendencies, rather it'll make you see the point itself. For example, there's this scene when they were just sitting and eating food at the table shown and Kiriyama was explaining how the food tasted— and I cried.
and as you build up your own interpretation of one characters' struggle, you will see as an audience how people in the manga perceive others' struggle vs. how the characters perceive their own struggle, combining it with yours, feeding you with all sorts of perspectives.
I could have given it a 9/10 personal rate, cause of the choice of the premise the mangaka used which is the world of Shogi that I have, deadass, 0 knowledge about— but yo! I got manipulated af cause apparently the author isn't that knowledgeable as well
and was just working with an advisor, which as a writer hobbyist — shows how flexible they are in writing, cause personally, I find it hard to write about something complicated without possibly ruining it at some point, To do cross-referencing with someone to make shit connect and work? and to be consistent about it? dude that's just some laborious struggle I could never— which reminds me that I do hope the mangaka got paid for this masterpiece cause they deserve it and all the more reason why I respect manga making as a profession
I seriously have nothing, but high praise for this manga and am already blinded by my own take of how good it is, but other opinions are welcomed if you have read it as well! (i am afraid I have dropped the anime at ep 5 so please don't go that way—)
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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