Josee, the Tiger and the Fish

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Story(9/10) and characters(8/10)
Josee, the tiger and the fish is a pretty cliche story as people have pointed out but romance movies be like that. I think the story was mostly good and satisfactory.

There were instances like when Josee got mad at mc at his workplace and Josee’s grandmother's death where the pace was pretty fast but it’s a one and a half hour movie so I guess it's to be expected. In a sense I'm glad since fast pacing does make cringy moments go faster too and prevents stuff where it takes a long time for the characters to in example make up after a fight. I hate when it sometimes takes like six episodes in some romance series. Not to say that there were a lot of such moments in Josee, quite the opposite actually.

The dynamic was rather interesting having Josee be impaired and all.

Even though the movie didn’t have any major tragedy vibes to it, I was still pretty scared when the mc got hit by a car. I'm glad it didn't go down that route though. No pancreas for me, thank you very much.

So in conclusion, 9/10 for me but I do see why others wouldn’t rate the story so highly.

Tsuneo
Mc was normal. The kind and proper type. Nothing wrong with it.

Josee
She couldn’t walk so then the mc became the one to support her and she became more independent too. If I remember correctly it was implied that she was 24 so the mc truly did have a great impact on her since she was just kind of at a standstill before. Pretty wholesome and enjoyable. Also I really liked her voice actress.

Grandma
She was kind of grumpy and I thought that she just didn’t know what was best for Josee but I guess she acted how she did because of past experiences with Josee probably getting in some dangerous situations. In the end she was happy with Josee having Tsuneo supporting her. Very nice and cool indeed.

2nd girl
I guess she did exist huh?

Audio(9/10)
The OST was pretty great and it fit well but it's not my favorite music genre or anything so I can't give it a 10/10. I was pretty surprised that there was an insert song and an ending song by Eve though, those were great! Glad to see that he is doing more songs for anime.

It's a movie so sound effects were top notch as expected.

I also especially liked Josee’s voice actress. She had a pretty deep and unique voice for an anime voice actress. She has had only one role before playing Josee which is pretty surprising. Definitely looking forward to her acting in the future.

Visuals(9/10)
Overall the animation is awesome and there were some cool rotating shots but there were some pretty rough frames in the mix too. They didn’t really bother me but still.

Backgrounds were outstandingly well done and I think that's why the roughly drawn frames really did stand out at times.

It had the movie treatment with blur effects and the red and blue effect kind of like a lense distortion, don't know what to call it but yeah good stuff.

Saying a bit about the character designs and such, they were normal. Honestly I’m not sure just how they could even deviate from the norm in a story that has a realistic setting. I Definitely prefer this over having all the colors of the rainbow presented in the main cast’s hair colors.

Enjoyment(9/10)
I knew what I was going to watch and what I wanted and so I sure got what I came for. In short, I really enjoyed Josee. Satisfying story, great music and good visuals, what is there not to like?

But I guess the watchers’ enjoyment will vary greatly depending on what expectations and wants they had, of course. I saw some discussion about the story being bad because it is cliche and honestly I think they just don’t like the romance genre since there really aren't that many ways for an hour and thirty minute romance movie to play out.

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