QUEUEMILLER

6y

The month is ruined b

UIP

6y

Gurren Lagann f***ing slaps, i like this better than Neon Genesis already

Tranquility

6y

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Your Lie in April - 4/10

Ya know when I started typing about random s*** that stood out for me I didn't expect it to be this long.

Alright I'll address the elephant in the room for me when it comes to this one: why the f*** are their so many flashback sequences? I think Kousei's flashbacks of his mother abusing him appear in at least half the episodes and if you combined their runtime there would be enough footage to make an entire episode. Other scenes that are consistently shown are Kousei's view of Kaori performing during their joint performance and Kousei huddling in a corner as a child after breaking down. These scenes, in addition to other flashback scenes kill any and all form of pacing. If you removed every unnecessary flashback in this show I genuinely think you could knock at least 7 episodes off.

The use of comedy I didn't like that much either. One of the major themes in the show was Kousei's physical abuse and subsequent trauma but for some reason the main comedy used is slapstick and involves Kousei's friends beating the s*** out of him which completely clashed with that theme. The timing of the comedy was s*** also: so many serious moments in the show were completely undermined by a comedic outburst. The random comedy timing resulted in huge mood whiplash and it wasn't particularly funny either since its randomness meant it didn't even have a proper set up.

Something else that was hammered in throughout the show was that music can convey emotions and thoughts that words can't. That's why I have no f***ing idea why they felt characters should monologue over every single performance and drown out the music. The music performances were good, like in Kousei's first performance with Kaori his inability to hear the piano notes is visualized with him playing the piano underwater and the audio of his piano notes is drowned out. We already get the idea using our eyes and ears so I don't know why we need Kousei to monologue this information for us. That's just one example of this s***, it happens every single performance for some reason.

Every side character was useless: Aiza was the only character whose story aligns with the major themes of the show since his motivation for performing changes from surpassing Kousei, to moving forward as his own man and instilling his own personality and flair into his performance.

Kaori is barely a person. We barely get any insight into her thoughts about her situation. Even when she is dying in a hospital bed the show ignores her for basically the entire day. All we're left with is Kousei playing the piano while he sees Kaori's spirit lmao. She's just there to conveniently advance the plot.

Things I liked were that the show had beautiful colours and the animation was pretty good. The first OP is one of my all time favourites with so many of its scenes foreshadowing the story. The last performance where everyone finally shut the f*** up was good too and I don't know why they didn't do that for the entire series.

Tranquility

6y

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Your Lie in April - 4/10

Ya know when I started typing about random s*** that stood out for me I didn't expect it to be this long.

Alright I'll address the elephant in the room for me when it comes to this one: why the f*** are their so many flashback sequences? I think Kousei's flashbacks of his mother abusing him appear in at least half the episodes and if you combined their runtime there would be enough footage to make an entire episode. Other scenes that are consistently shown are Kousei's view of Kaori performing during their joint performance and Kousei huddling in a corner as a child after breaking down. These scenes, in addition to other flashback scenes kill any and all form of pacing. If you removed every unnecessary flashback in this show I genuinely think you could knock at least 7 episodes off.

The use of comedy I didn't like that much either. One of the major themes in the show was Kousei's physical abuse and subsequent trauma but for some reason the main comedy used is slapstick and involves Kousei's friends beating the s*** out of him which completely clashed with that theme. The timing of the comedy was s*** also: so many serious moments in the show were completely undermined by a comedic outburst. The random comedy timing resulted in huge mood whiplash and it wasn't particularly funny either since its randomness meant it didn't even have a proper set up.

Something else that was hammered in throughout the show was that music can convey emotions and thoughts that words can't. That's why I have no f***ing idea why they felt characters should monologue over every single performance and drown out the music. The music performances were good, like in Kousei's first performance with Kaori his inability to hear the piano notes is visualized with him playing the piano underwater and the audio of his piano notes is drowned out. We already get the idea using our eyes and ears so I don't know why we need Kousei to monologue this information for us. That's just one example of this s***, it happens every single performance for some reason.

Every side character was useless: Aiza was the only character whose story aligns with the major themes of the show since his motivation for performing changes from surpassing Kousei, to moving forward as his own man and instilling his own personality and flair into his performance.

Kaori is barely a person. We barely get any insight into her thoughts about her situation. Even when she is dying in a hospital bed the show ignores her for basically the entire day. All we're left with is Kousei playing the piano while he sees Kaori's spirit lmao. She's just there to conveniently advance the plot.

Things I liked were that the show had beautiful colours and the animation was pretty good. The first OP is one of my all time favourites with so many of its scenes foreshadowing the story. The last performance where everyone finally shut the f*** up was good too and I don't know why they didn't do that for the entire series.

UIP

6y

Gurren Lagann f***ing slaps, i like this better than Neon Genesis already

Abyss

6y

Good review. Deserved score

Luca

6y

FCK YOU

4/10?!?!?!?!?!?

That’s a top 10 anime ever to me

Tranquility

6y

And you're entitled to that opinion and I won't s*** on you for it: that's the best part about anime .

Luca

6y

Hater

Tranquility

6y

Your Lie in April - 4/10

Ya know when I started typing about random s*** that stood out for me I didn't expect it to be this long.

Alright I'll address the elephant in the room for me when it comes to this one: why the f*** are their so many flashback sequences? I think Kousei's flashbacks of his mother abusing him appear in at least half the episodes and if you combined their runtime there would be enough footage to make an entire episode. Other scenes that are consistently shown are Kousei's view of Kaori performing during their joint performance and Kousei huddling in a corner as a child after breaking down. These scenes, in addition to other flashback scenes kill any and all form of pacing. If you removed every unnecessary flashback in this show I genuinely think you could knock at least 7 episodes off.

The use of comedy I didn't like that much either. One of the major themes in the show was Kousei's physical abuse and subsequent trauma but for some reason the main comedy used is slapstick and involves Kousei's friends beating the s*** out of him which completely clashed with that theme. The timing of the comedy was s*** also: so many serious moments in the show were completely undermined by a comedic outburst. The random comedy timing resulted in huge mood whiplash and it wasn't particularly funny either since its randomness meant it didn't even have a proper set up.

Something else that was hammered in throughout the show was that music can convey emotions and thoughts that words can't. That's why I have no f***ing idea why they felt characters should monologue over every single performance and drown out the music. The music performances were good, like in Kousei's first performance with Kaori his inability to hear the piano notes is visualized with him playing the piano underwater and the audio of his piano notes is drowned out. We already get the idea using our eyes and ears so I don't know why we need Kousei to monologue this information for us. That's just one example of this s***, it happens every single performance for some reason.

Every side character was useless: Aiza was the only character whose story aligns with the major themes of the show since his motivation for performing changes from surpassing Kousei, to moving forward as his own man and instilling his own personality and flair into his performance.

Kaori is barely a person. We barely get any insight into her thoughts about her situation. Even when she is dying in a hospital bed the show ignores her for basically the entire day. All we're left with is Kousei playing the piano while he sees Kaori's spirit lmao. She's just there to conveniently advance the plot.

Things I liked were that the show had beautiful colours and the animation was pretty good. The first OP is one of my all time favourites with so many of its scenes foreshadowing the story. The last performance where everyone finally shut the f*** up was good too and I don't know why they didn't do that for the entire series.