Good show. Really good show. Been a while since I’ve seen a good yuri. Guess I wasn’t disappointed. This is a solid 6/10 in my books. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone but as a yuri fan, this gave me what i wanted.
The last time I took a long break from anime, it took me a little while to get back in. Mainly because my eyes weren’t used to the low frame rate. Seems like the transition is pretty much seamless this time. Maybe because the last time I stopped, it was to focus more on TV shows and movies while this time it was for games. Still, two months is a while in my memory scale. So I’m glad I’m assimilating back in without issue.
This show suffers from the age-old plague of yeeting out most of the character’s emotions. It doesn’t show enough. When there’s an emotional scene, there are certain ques you expect to see. A sombre look here, a voice crackling for a split second there, to even a little smile that only lasts for a frame or two that disappears in the next. People go through a wide variety of emotions in small spans of time, and showing them in anime is even harder. But there are shows out there that do achieve this. Like Frieren or Monster or even JJK to an extent. There’s a reason why they’re hailed as some of the best the medium has to offer. This, however, falls flat in this regard.
I suppose this is a matter of budget as well. If you’ve got a bunch of money, you can spend that on these very faint but intimate shots, that some people might very well not even notice. The anime that masters this in every sense is Liz and the Blue Bird. It’s a fucking masterclass in showing not telling emotion. Sometimes the showing is about worldbuilding or letting us get a glimpse into where the story is going, and then there’s this, where you get a close view of what the character is going through in real time. Not just their actions or the consequences of their actions, but their immediate reactions.
“This world really isn’t fair, is it?” As someone from a third-world country living in a first-world country, I feel you, girl, I feel you all too well. If you give up, there’s nowhere to go but down. And considering how fragile your situation is, letting go for even a flash, cascades into total collapse. It’s tough but you gotta keep the ball rolling. Now that’s a nice message. Good on you show.
Goddamn, this show is much better than I thought it was originally. I still would’ve preferred it touched on the subjects it wants to touch with a little more, rawness rather than with extra thick elbow-level industrial-grade gloves, but it’s doing something, which is much better than nothing at all.