Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei / Tatami Galaxy
Dec. 31st, 2020 01:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
satalasers Intriguing! Weird, but intriguing!
- I am honestly kind of confused how much sympathy we are supposed to have for the nameless main character? He kind of just. Chooses an option, and regrets it in the last third, and then time rewinds.
- Which makes for an interesting viewing, because the first ten episodes are pretty much just 'what if he joined a different club this time', and you see how things ripple and overlap over the choices that are made.
- Although, man, seeing episode ten really gives you a new perspective on the opening. In a very cool way!
- I feel silly, but I didn't realize for a long time that occasionally the shots would switch from something very prettily drawn to live action. It was a little disorientating, TBH!
- Ozu was weird, but I also liked him just because he was weird? And the narrator hates him? And thinks he's a demon, pretty much every episode, but also realizes that Ozu was the only one to stick with him. But that's what made the last episode so fun, because this time, the main character wants to stick with Ozu, but Ozu thinks that he's the weird one. Although it's nice to see that in the final episode, Ozu is drawn just like everyone else, instead of the bizarre person he was in the previous episodes.
- That was a really weird love triangle? Just. All around. And giving an episode dedicated to each contender was definitely an interesting choice.
- It's interesting to see that even if the timeline is different, some things remained the same. And how using that knowledge affects how you see the characters.
- It's weird because it's really not a time travel show, even if the show rewinds at the end of every episode, because really, it is just: alternate choices. If he choose softball instead of tennis, if he choose to act instead of cycling. And episode ten was pretty cool in that realization, because you see him viewing bits and bobs of them, and it's pretty clear that we've only seen a selection of 'what-ifs', and not the entirety of his options.
- The fortune teller upping her prices every single time made me laugh a lot. Even if the message was the same each time, knowing that the protagonist kind of squandered everything all the time kind of made him losing his money funny.
- Also, wow, what a chatty protagonist. His internal monologue never really ended, but that was it's own charm.
- I didn't really mind MC/Akashi, considering each episode he really does get given the chance to give the final trinket of her five keychain collection, and only decides to do something about it in the final episode, but it's hard to say that I was emotionally invested in them because kind of everyone was a horrible-ish person, even if Akashi probably was the nicest out of the bunch. We do learn a lot about her though.
8/10, because the last episode really pulls everything together in a very pleasing way.
- I am honestly kind of confused how much sympathy we are supposed to have for the nameless main character? He kind of just. Chooses an option, and regrets it in the last third, and then time rewinds.
- Which makes for an interesting viewing, because the first ten episodes are pretty much just 'what if he joined a different club this time', and you see how things ripple and overlap over the choices that are made.
- Although, man, seeing episode ten really gives you a new perspective on the opening. In a very cool way!
- I feel silly, but I didn't realize for a long time that occasionally the shots would switch from something very prettily drawn to live action. It was a little disorientating, TBH!
- Ozu was weird, but I also liked him just because he was weird? And the narrator hates him? And thinks he's a demon, pretty much every episode, but also realizes that Ozu was the only one to stick with him. But that's what made the last episode so fun, because this time, the main character wants to stick with Ozu, but Ozu thinks that he's the weird one. Although it's nice to see that in the final episode, Ozu is drawn just like everyone else, instead of the bizarre person he was in the previous episodes.
- That was a really weird love triangle? Just. All around. And giving an episode dedicated to each contender was definitely an interesting choice.
- It's interesting to see that even if the timeline is different, some things remained the same. And how using that knowledge affects how you see the characters.
- It's weird because it's really not a time travel show, even if the show rewinds at the end of every episode, because really, it is just: alternate choices. If he choose softball instead of tennis, if he choose to act instead of cycling. And episode ten was pretty cool in that realization, because you see him viewing bits and bobs of them, and it's pretty clear that we've only seen a selection of 'what-ifs', and not the entirety of his options.
- The fortune teller upping her prices every single time made me laugh a lot. Even if the message was the same each time, knowing that the protagonist kind of squandered everything all the time kind of made him losing his money funny.
- Also, wow, what a chatty protagonist. His internal monologue never really ended, but that was it's own charm.
- I didn't really mind MC/Akashi, considering each episode he really does get given the chance to give the final trinket of her five keychain collection, and only decides to do something about it in the final episode, but it's hard to say that I was emotionally invested in them because kind of everyone was a horrible-ish person, even if Akashi probably was the nicest out of the bunch. We do learn a lot about her though.
8/10, because the last episode really pulls everything together in a very pleasing way.
