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Glasletter

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Raregold Mar 11, 2018

Regarding your comment, first off I would not really assume anything about other people and make blanket statements, and you certainly do not need to finish something you don't like in order to review it. 

If i am to remember correctly, Orange is entirely generic, and has a very basic plotline and it really doesnt make use of the tools established for the plot well(aka the time travel thing). A lot of my points can simply be derived from the idea that Orange is very generic, looks terrible, etc, and did not mention anything really regarding depression in and of itself rather than the fact that kakeru is a very standard character trope(the suicidal friend).

I think you simply were mad that i did not like Orange and were a bit overfixated on your own emotional attachment to the anime when that is completely irrelevant to what I had to say about it. I can see your taste is very much the opposite of mine and is very emotionally driven, so i am not so surprised to see this.  I think if you want an actual good portrayal of depression in anime I would recommend March comes in like a lion because it lacks stuff like generic characters and has a lot of good metaphors and proper subtle emotional representation of people's struggles in a slice of life setting. Have a good one.

deideiblueeyez Nov 25, 2017

It isn't, though, it's simply treated as what it is. It seems like for people like you, any representation of anything bad at all is validating it when that ain't the case.

deideiblueeyez Nov 21, 2017

"only mentally disturbed or depraved people" LOL so by that logic only psychopaths would enjoy Silence of the Lambs because it involves serial killers and brutal murder, is that it?

ShoumaTaka Aug 8, 2017

Honestly I'll say this once but everyone has different opinions then you do. Not everyone shares the same opinion so before you derail yourself just remember that 

interregnum Aug 7, 2017

Heh, okay, I can see we're not going to find common ground on this one--which is totally fine. It didn't work for you, and I won't waste your time trying to explain further about why I love both shows with the same section of my heart. (Or about the cliffhanger bit, which the pedant in me really, really wants to do.)

But, if the personal side of things matters: I have, actually, lived through this horrid, negative stuff--and that is precisely why I loved Scum's Wish. (Well, that and the scandalousness. I know it's kinda base and soap opera-y, but I couldn't look away!)

Usually we get unrequited love portrayed as little more than longing, as a kind of heroic perseverance--which is wonderful, satisfying fun in a more typical romance where the couple is destined to be together. Here, though, they concentrated on the equally likely (and less often explored) tragedy of it all. And they didn't romanticize or glorify that tragedy.

Love doesn't always win out. Love isn't always clean. Love isn't even always love.

That worked for me.

But if you didn't like the show, you didn't like the show. And no one can fault you for that. 

That said, Hanabi is my anime girlfriend, so...I guess we're gonna have to duel to the death, now.

Or, wait--agree to disagree. Right, that. Sorry, I mix those two up, sometimes.