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Dec 17, 2024
I have read the manga of this anime. I was thrilled that they are adapting it into anime because the manga had a decent plot. However, I was disappointed to find out that this is a film. Things would have been much better if this was a series. They squeezed 12 volumes of manga into a less-than-2-hour film. It was mindboggling how the director decided in this direction because many things were missed and taken out. I guess with the rating it has on MAL some would read the manga after so on that part it should be a good PR. Nevertheless, as a stand-alone
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media, it doesn't work.
The plot is too fast-paced. If I hadn't finished reading the manga, I wouldn't have understood what was going on in some parts of the film. At the same time, if I hadn't read the manga, I would rate it better but I wouldn't read the manga after for there is needless complexity in the plot that a less-than-2-hour film can't handle. The manga certainly isn't one of the greatest shoujo out there but it is 10x better than this junk. I don't understand why make a half-arsed project. We end up consuming a waste of time and energy. This should've been a series rather than a film.
I guess, I should give credit to where it's due; the animation and the background music were brilliant. They did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig although fundamentally the film is still one of the worst. No one would miss anything in their lives if they didn't watch this dumpster fire.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Aug 19, 2024
As a story, this has a fascinating concept. It was impressive how the most common omitted subjects/themes discussed in historical anime are daringly used in the series. And, it is quite dark and political. Those who are interested enough to watch this should tread carefully.
It's an alternate history of Japan which instead of leading a patriarchal society becomes quite matriarchal, reversing circumstances from what happened. For the pandemic, it should be logical to have doctors, researchers, and medical personnel working on it to prevent more infections and isolate the infected. They should at least have an idea of how such a disease spread so fast
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and wide over 80 years, yet we don't even see a doctor or an apothecary to help care for the sick in the castle. How are samurai to know how to treat the sick when all they know is swinging a sword? Medicine should be administered by medical practitioners but what we see is a samurai and the head of state convincing the sick to take it instead. They neglected people dying as if there was nothing else to be done than watch and despair. Even the Black Death during its time only lasted half a decade in Europe where it never discriminated against age and gender killing up to around 200 million people compared to this. The timeline of this series even happened a few centuries after the Black Death. News of such widespread disease should have reached eastern nations and influenced their medicinal technology and knowledge which could be used as a reference to this pandemic. What kind of shogun do you let your people die while you sit and wait for your country's demise?
I was hoping they'd come up with some sort of treatment or miraculously a cure for the disease but they certainly did nothing all those years.
Worldbuilding is necessary in every story and it is difficult to create a perfect one. Every worldbuilding, even if it is based on Earth and our universe, should at least be feasible and realistic enough to effectively create a suspension of disbelief from the audience's perspective. Illogical concepts present in a story could serve only as plot holes reflecting poor writing.
Nevertheless, it is interesting which is why I gave such a rating.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jan 9, 2024
Ichinose-ke no Taizai tells the story of a dysfunctional family. The manga's premise was interesting, making me excited for the next chapter. The characters were unique but I suppose I wanted more depth in their characterisation for something was lacking during each character's story, especially the grandparents, the father, and the sister. Even with the confusion of the plot, it still maintained my curiosity. It had a remarkable start. The first half kept me on my toes even when the author decided to throw one plot twist after another from the beginning. However, things started to get less interesting. The author kept the plot twists
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even until the end. I'm good with plot twists, like "Give me more of those", but the plot twists were all the same. They had the same flavour and weight.
The fast-paced narration added another element to the confusion which should be fine in its way. But, there was too much confusion that sometimes it was hard to keep up with the story so I decided to go along with the waves. Then, it all boiled down to those unending and similar plot twists.
The ending was decent. I have no objections about it for in the entire manga it was demonstrated how many times they tried to work it out but everything of it failed because they tried to fake things out and manipulate the household. In the end, the best way to resolve this was to stay true to themselves and stick together as a family.
The title was certainly intriguing. It makes you wonder how heavy the "sins" of the family members are. However, it was also misleading. The author never revealed what led to the sister's actions sucking up to an old man. The grandma simply loved her husband more than the rest of her family. Sota's fake family members, except Tsubasa, were sort of nonsense. Kenta ran away from home after his mother was hospitalised while the girl was just spending an extended summer vacation alone and her parents never contacted her even once.
Anyway, the reason why the rating I gave came up as much as that is because it was good halfway, half of the characters were interesting, and there's a lot to learn and to realise in the story that we could use in our lives.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Jan 28, 2023
I give 1 point for the effort of all staffs to make this series and for the trying effort in promoting the game. I give 2 decent points for the wonderful animation by MAPPA and Madhouse, the only saving grace of this series. I'll start with my conclusion of this series for the entire part of this review is just about me saying how bad it is: Takt op. Destiny was as bad as Shion's cooking before she gained the master chef skill. It was inedible.
Of course, having MAPPA and Madhouse for the animation was incredible and the only good thing, unfortunately, of this series.
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Everything else was half-baked. I had quite an expectation upon deciding to watch this anime but I was foolish to expect anything from it. It felt like I just stepped on a dog's dung after the last episode expecting that it was clean concrete. It wasn't a story instead it was a plot trying so hard to be good but every concept and idea poured into it were burnt eggs on a dry and black pan. It was inedible and destined to be thrown into the trash bin. I sometimes think that maybe not all anime (no matter the time, money, and effort given to it) are worth the time and effort to be watched at all which leads them to be useless hard work and money. What a waste of energy and space in the World Wide Web. Why do humans spend so much on such commodity that chooses to be rubbish through and through?
If it was meant to be a promotion for the game, why don't they act like it is? Or maybe just like the series it is rubbish? That is so far what I can see from this.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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