Songland + Lost Small World
I watched two things I found disappointing and wonderful in weirdly equal measures.
I finally watched Lost Small World and loved what we got, BUT. There were huge parts of the story left out. Yata's storyline was already short shrifted in the manga and it basically got entirely cut in the anime, with even his lines about his motivations frequently omitted in the scenes that were animated.
And the way it ended!? It was like halfway through the story, okay two thirds, and it just stopped. It was extremely unsatisfying.
That said, baby Fushimi and Yata are precious and I'm soooooo happy I got to see them young and adorable in their origin story and I'm reminded anew of how much I love Aya as part of their dynamic and would happily read a lot more fic that actually took their complicated interrelations into account and didn't just stick with her being wholly kicked out of the world of the Clans because she failed to get Fushimi recruited into Jungle.
Then Songland. I was excited when I saw the trailer for this several months back, and I LOVED it. Right up until they took my favorite song of the first episode about getting through and making it and made it a generic romance song with nothing special about it. They ruined it. There aren't that many songs that hit my emotional center of needing to push through like that one did that actually make you "believe" it and that feel more relieving and refreshing than adrenaline pumping. Ah well. The song that won was incredible and so much better when they got through with it. So all a mixed bag.
I'll watch ep. 2.
Also been binging BNHA and haven't watched the latest BSD. Soon.
This post was originally posted at scribblemyname's DW. Feel free to comment here or there.
I finally watched Lost Small World and loved what we got, BUT. There were huge parts of the story left out. Yata's storyline was already short shrifted in the manga and it basically got entirely cut in the anime, with even his lines about his motivations frequently omitted in the scenes that were animated.
And the way it ended!? It was like halfway through the story, okay two thirds, and it just stopped. It was extremely unsatisfying.
That said, baby Fushimi and Yata are precious and I'm soooooo happy I got to see them young and adorable in their origin story and I'm reminded anew of how much I love Aya as part of their dynamic and would happily read a lot more fic that actually took their complicated interrelations into account and didn't just stick with her being wholly kicked out of the world of the Clans because she failed to get Fushimi recruited into Jungle.
Then Songland. I was excited when I saw the trailer for this several months back, and I LOVED it. Right up until they took my favorite song of the first episode about getting through and making it and made it a generic romance song with nothing special about it. They ruined it. There aren't that many songs that hit my emotional center of needing to push through like that one did that actually make you "believe" it and that feel more relieving and refreshing than adrenaline pumping. Ah well. The song that won was incredible and so much better when they got through with it. So all a mixed bag.
I'll watch ep. 2.
Also been binging BNHA and haven't watched the latest BSD. Soon.
This post was originally posted at scribblemyname's DW. Feel free to comment here or there.