
The dangers in my heart are without doubt a quality production anime, with the character's unique placement compared with other titles in the same genres. One thing it delivers quite well is the creepiness given by the character Ichikawa, and after two seasons one can't help but always feel cringe emotion which undoubtedly wasn't a sin, but not our noble goal either. Thus far, it started to become a habit of writers to 'curse' such personality flaw to every main cast of any story; just for the interest of making imperfect human-relatable characters. But don't we deep down feel that a Main Character is supposed to be the carrier of the story ? They are the only friends in this wild world of story that can guide us towards the conclusion. They promised us a gift that we will treasure for the rest of our lives if we stick around for a while, because it will be worth the while. Sadly I didn't found it.
This is meant to be a more 'mixed feelings' category, however I’m called to not resort to that and instead post this as not recommended to act as a shelter for those who had doubts why majority in favor or even whose hearts touched by this work. Generally I have a framework of thought when it comes to deciding if the work of art (in this case novel/comic/manga/anime) is worth the money & effort of the production, management and team of skilled artisans for the sake of the creator's vision. For Hayao Miyazaki, it would be a work that respects life itself and made with the artist's earnest effort and mastery. Then with Tolstoy, would be a universal art that is intelligible for simple folks and not the idle elite or few nobilities perverted taste. Then a great art would be the one among true arts that not only communicates feelings of the maker but the one who could introduce them to a sense of brotherhood between humans then enlighten their morals. Nevertheless who owned the basis of morality and standard of aesthetics itself ? certainly we couldn't bring up the concept of the divine, but to stay within the boundaries of human experiences. Hence the standard or axiomatic basis that I would like to establish here is the kind of work that those both particularly bright minds prefer to believe.
To my observation of Ichika as the MC, he definitely improved and has grown bolder at the point of confessing his love to Yamada which is not a small progress. But all time spent to hone his boldness in romantic journeys is not used effectively for other things that could improve him as a respectable student. What are good students? you all know those things. One would argue that it is the decision of the character themselves and respect that should we? Which is natural and acceptable, after all we want our Main character to have soul and grow naturally without trying to oversteer their life. But the price is we will never see him being a terrific man, there's a limit to episodes and papers, and therefore the goals to direct our audiences towards enlightenment through him will have to wait once again, or worse never came to be.
What about Yamada ? she is certainly not the main subject of the story, she is the goal that is promised given by our story carriers Ichika. Unfortunately nothing about their relationship is digging deep to what true love is (again this is subjective moral basis), you might see here and there sweet moment like how he cared for her careers and aspiration (admirable), and trying not to brought her to his social level which is his greatest inferiority came from. Yamada, on the other hand; could be said simply liked him because of his understanding and meekness, despite to me it looked more like a timid behavior. So I'm afraid when all romance is set aside, the only thing that made Yamada fall for Ichika is his 'emotional support' and cat-like behavior. So when we try to perceive it that way aren't we getting even farther from our goal and find it shallow ?
Enough of characters...
Animation what could be said, It is stellar production, fashionable if we could use that term. You will not find any deformation or boring cinematography while you enjoy the show. Soundtrack is not of a great focus, so you can say it's passable but Opening/Ending is quite good & popping. The team behind this must have been very talented and hard working to make each moment capture the attention of audiences in regards to technicality of the product.
So why is it a 7 and not 8/9 like most votes ? i would like to find middle score that will advertises the sentiment of "Regrettable", a show which direction could shoot up far to the moon but they didn't because they just didn't want to or can't; it's already popular, why bother trying harder to please strangers that eventually criticize. So I can't give it lower than 7 because it cannot simply be worse that the other worser thing i have seen. That said, it is also impolite gesture to masterpieces in this industry to give them score above 8 let alone 9. It's a special place where we should give our highest considerations of older titles that came before this, which many of them are worthy to be called Great Art (sorry to offend fine art enjoyer out there); forbid us to forget all titles those who came before this.
Finally I will place this as not recommended for people who agree with my humble review, not to discourage you guys from watching, by all means watch and prove that it is not the case with my view. To you who understands.
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