I've been binge watching like crazy a new anime this weekend. Just finished the first season and now I find it hard to decide what to rate it.
At half-way into it, I already decided it was worth a 9/10 if it had a good ending, but now it suddenly feels like 9 is not enough. I'm usually very strict when it comes to giving a perfect 10 score. Which is why I can't help but wonder if I'm letting my emotions influence me too much.
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It's been decided I guess. Chihayafuru is the third anime I ever give a perfect 10.
I've always loved stories that had even a modicum of sci-fi elements to them, but Hollywood has unfortunately made a bad habit of not paying close attention to the premises they bake into their stories and constantly violating them by getting small details wrong, usually for the sake of "driving the story forward". The reason I hate when Hollywood does this is because it forces me to shut down my brain and ignore the details just so I don't get completely pulled from the story.
Sakasama no Patema, on the other hand, is a gem of storytelling. Not only does it constantly pay attention to the details of the world it constructed, it also makes sure you notice the important things it got right just when you're unconsciously thinking one of those Hollywood plot hole moments is coming up. And it doesn't try to sweep the world building errors under the rug, like a regular American movie so often does. Instead it encourages you to notice the details of the world, to try to think and analyze them, to notice that there's some mystery and incomplete information, and at the end you're rewarded with a great payoff.
I can't go any further into it without spoiling the movie, but I personally think it's worth a watch. It gets a 9 out of 10 from me.
You don't have the guts to open this video.
なんで君はこれを読んでいるかよ
Just another random person passing by.
Oh hi.
The Alyx Vance must go this way anyway.
Gordon Freeman dies in All Dogs Go To Heaven 2.
I wasn't designed to be carried.
En Taro Igel!
Lift me up, let me go...