Re: Weebshit Thread
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:24 pm
My disappointment outlived my family thankfully. Now I’m alone with my 2D girls and hoagies.
Maboroshi
Some supernatural teen drama thing by Mari Okada, whose impressive filmography I managed to largely avoid besides The Anthem of the Heart and Iron-Blood Orphans (second-hand, at least. It had a campaign in a SD Gundam G Generation game I played). Yes, I somehow managed to avoid watching Toradora!. You can laugh later.
So the general premise - an entire Japanese town gets stuck in some kind of Groundhog Day - sounds almost like something Makoto Shinkai would do, but thankfully he has nothing to do with this movie, so you don't actually know how the movie will end, and the characters are actually allowed to be horny (at least as far as they are allowed to in a Christian anime).
The Good
I hope you like scenery porn of run-down Japanese towns and steel factories with a heavy 90's atmosphere, 'cause there's a lot of that.
The school uniforms for the girls are kinda hilarious because everyone is rocking long sukeban skirts
The best character - aside from the perverted classmate, of course - is the main villain (or at least the closest thing this has to a main "villain"). I fucking love this guy. He's dumb, has weird and sudden mood swings and easily the most expressively animated face. Kinda reminds me of the transvestite from Tokyo Godfathers, except less queer.
The Bad
Now what will definitely make or break this movie for you is that the movie never really specify the rules of this Groundhog Day situation. What we do get is more implied or alluded to, as everyone involved has already lived like this for at least 10 years. Though there is a narrator voice that could've explained this further.
I mean, you do find out that they're eternally stuck in winter, that nobody ages, and that the radio program is always the same. Especially the latter implies a Groundhog-Day-style temporal "reset", but the movie never adresses what else resets, and what carries over to the next "day" (aside from memories). I guess food and other supplies restock themselves, otherwise they'd be fucked.
But what about other stuff? Will a broken leg magically heal overnight? Do characters always wake up in their bed, even if they passed out drunk in some ditch?
Basically it doesn't really do a good job conveying the shit situation they're in.
It also does that NuAnimu thing where cars and other vehicles are CGI, though it's a bit less noticable here.
I overall like the character designs, but having all the teenagers - and especially the waifus - be in varying states of blushing 24/7 is really distracting. To make matters worse the blushing consists of both red ovals and lines, just to make it harder to ignore.
The Ugly
Your only real options for Best Girl are a bitchy tsundere and a wild child with arrested development who talks and acts like someone half her age. Welcome to Hell.
Where would you put the latter on the loli scale, anyways?