![]() I can only do that when I watch less anime.ĭespite having to watch less anime, I still find that there are quite a few anime that I find it worth watching. Besides, I also want to catch up with all the books and manga that I’ve been piling up as well. With so many things I want to do, watching less anime seems like a feasible solution for my situation. I’m currently in the middle of playing Persona 5, so something has to give. And at the same time, I have to devote some of my time playing the game that I’ve been piling up by accident for the last few months. Not only that but I also no longer have the luxury to sit down and watch anime.Īs expected, my work requires me to cut my watching time shorter. Well, one of the reasons behind my short list is because there aren’t that many anime that I find interesting to watch. I thought that my fall anime list will be longer than the previous season’s list.īut it doesn’t seem to be the case for this season. The ED is love.Wow, my Fall 2018 Anime Must-Watch List is rather short. Major Utena vibes.Īnd the winner? Asobi Asobe - We all thought we were getting cutesy slice of life, but got girls being gross instead. Dropkick On My Devil - Humorous, but I'm confused on Jashin and Medusa's relationship? Yuri or not? Revue Starlight - Dropped, but will pick up again. Happy Sugar Life - the most disturbing anime of all time? I think it has the most fucked up characters than any other anime before it. ![]() The Master of His Smartphone and Blesser of Many Horny Girls - anime was a mistake, part 2. How Not to Summon a Demon Lord - anime was a mistake. Hasn't concluded yet (4 more episodes in OVA form). Isaac, kill me." Insufferable, annoying characters. Encouragement of Climb - I wish there would be more climbing and less drama, but a great continuation of the franchise. Chio's School Road - I thought this would be stupid, but it turned into a gem. Harukana Receive - sports anime in the opposite direction from Handbado. And then it morphs into a show about Ayano going apeshit over everyone and how much her mother is a piece of shit. Hanebado - way, way, way too serious for a show about badminton. My review of the Summer anime season shows that I watched. On the balance however, this is still a mostly a missed opportunity to me, one that plays with some interesting concepts but fails to make the most of them due to the script. If you choose to interpret the ending in a positive way that is. Where the movie does well is in its portrayal, through striking but simple art and sardonic humour, of very mournful, decayed society and in a more thematic way, of a lost generation that has almost no way out into greener pastures what with the ending being a severe downer, with but a glimmer of hope. Why does it dwell inside Birdboy ? No answer. Winky and her friends end their journey much as they began it and Birdboy himself is an frustrating, unexplained, cryptic enigma much like the mysteries and the questions the viewer asks himself during the viewing. Part of the problem I think is lack of any more pronounced character beats or arcs. This journey does serve as a nice excuse to portray the various parts of the island and their inhabitants but that's about it. The other part of the movie is Dinky, a mouse-like looking girlfriend of Birdboy and two of her pals getting into bigger and bigger, almost episodic, troubles while trying to run away from the island and their homes. Birdboy's is very cryptic (more on that later), consists mostly of him wandering about the island, a few flashbacks and him not actually interacting with anybody, as he's mute and all. This wouldn't be much of a problem were those storylines good on their own but I found neither particularly engaging to be honest. The movie is almost two separate stories in one, with the both of them only coalescing at the very end and to me, in a not very meaningful way. Since most of my gripes and frustrations are plot centric, I'll start with the isolated plotlines. It didn't quite manage to live up to my expectations but it's at the very least a bit of change of pace and broadening of my anime-centric horizons. It has actually been a long, long time since this project entered my sights, courtesy of either /XX/ or Jexhius (sorry but I can't quite recall, it was literally years ago) but a while ago I finally managed get managed my hands on it. (?) That's pretty much it for the gist of story other than Birdboy harboring a bloodthirsty demon inside him. Seeing a pronounced lack of perspectives and a certainty of misery, the aforementioned friends decide to escape the island and get to the mainland. Click to shrink.So, Birdboy tells the story of the titular character and a few of his other antrophomorphic friends, the inhabitants of an island that, after some sort of catastrophe, became a den of poverty, drugs, gangs and just general hopelessness.
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