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Yoshitoki Oima received considerable credibility when Yamada and Kyoani sculpted an audio-visual miracle based on her mid work. Two months after the film's premiere, her new manga, about the journey and becoming an immortal being, is out. A promising idea, but we remember very well, Koe was scolded solely for the plot.

The first series throws in a huge chunk of exposition in a rather modest setting. White snow, questionable music, and a mountain of text to be disposed of. Somehow, a sizable majority thought it was "art," noted the finality, multiplied it by said credibility, and the ratings skyrocketed. Some personalities really surprised me at the time.

The series was interesting in places. The two key pillars, Takahiro Chiba and Ryu Tanaka, performed the animation with metamorphosis and transformation very well, the rare battle scenes dispersed the overall boredom

▶ Video ▶ Video Unfortunately, there are very, very few such scenes Those were nice moments, but I still have to go back to the first episode for an example. The director at the time was Koji Yabuno, the character designer. He was involved as director 4 times, and the focus on drawing and simple movements is evident everywhere. But the task of direction he (like fellow directors) shifted to the source material, not really changing anything (like the useless text). That's where the show went sour.

All of the problems can be driven to a common root - an inexperienced author goes into a fantasy genre that is foreign to her, with pretensions to philosophy, but out of habit writes a tearjerker, making the characters suffer and die. Surprise, it doesn't work. For example, petty thugs kidnap the main creature and sell him for gladiatorial fights. Negative or indifferent attitudes toward the kidnappers are assured, but the author seriously believes that a poorly pitched sad backstory with a fatal outcome will make you change your mind.

The arcs change, the characters change, but not the pattern--the inarticulate storyline, the sad story, and the death.

Incomprehensible storytelling because of the dead and empty world. A set of incoherent "here's cold, here's swamp, here's the Corrida Coliseum" locations.The mangaka doesn't even try to reason and reveal how the world can change in a huge amount of time beyond the length of human life. She needs to cut out the heroes en masse, because then the main being will want to save everyone, even if they are rapists and murderers, the highest point of character development from nothing.

Secondary characters exist solely to evoke pity. Come on, a boring little girl dies, and yet she had dreams.

Even the final episode builds on the return of the only sympathetic hero to the plot, and with a finished arc to do what with him? Not a difficult question.

▶ Video And when the deed is done, the philosopher-narrator God appears with the great quotes "he sacrificed himself for your salvation. It's like suicide."

It is safe to say that no one will leave indifferent after watching it: the inexperienced viewer will be pierced by a stream of raw drama; the experienced one will feel complete apathy towards everything that is going on.

Definitely, the Staff didn't take the risk of fixing such weak work. More questions for the manga author herself: if Yamada happened once in your life, maybe you should have at least tried? Not every director can repeat that feat.