I picked up this show because of the amazing visuals but stayed for the story - truly engaging and heart-wrenching. It's full of symbolism, nothing is every fully revealed to the viewer and they're left having to figure things out, just like Violet herself. The show takes tragedy and turns it into something beautiful, its main focus being dealing with loss. Death is usually a heavy subject but here it's tackled very well.
Maybe I'm biased, since this kind of artstyle is right down my alley, but I have to admit how much I enjoyed all the sceneries, the animation, the designs - It was all
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Apr 2, 2020
Totsukuni no Shoujo
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I was mesmerized by the art the moment I picked this manga up. Very stylized and expressive; extremely inspirational to me as an artist. I kept stopping just to admire some panels.
That aside, Totsukuni no Shoujo twisted my heart in ways I didn't think were possible. You can clearly see the internal problems of each character and how they tackle them, how they deal with reality. It's very domestic, and yet it never lets you brush off the feeling of uneasiness - there is always trouble coming the characters' way. It may also be a bit slow-paced, but I think that just adds to the ... |
