Where should I start? 😃

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I couldn’t stop! 😅

Reporting back SOBBING btw

The villains very nearly steal the show entirely, their cabal of codependent backstabbing and conscience squashing is a real treat to watch. I think the android Grey’s the highlight of the whole thing, but those last few episodes bring the best out of everyone and everything. Truly fantastic ending.

Sōmai’s picture-perfect senses shoot the hell out of the steadily angular 90s, the rain soaked streets and smoky festivals tangible with comedy, melancholy, sharp bouts of breath-catching trauma. The final hour slowly lulls you into a pure dreamcraft disassociation. All-timer stuff, open to close.

Coming of age at its most bleak, cyclical, antithetical to the notion of itself. Still-point catharses in abandoned gymnasiums and dances, naked, in the typhoon rain side-by-side with horrific sequences of young sociopathy. A dangled lie of gorgeous countryside and nighttime school shelter.

Societal apathy and cultural malaise so baked into an unspoken youthscape of school, home, school, home, school, home. Suicide without the name for it, the understanding of it. A performative happy ending that truly cannot be anything other than a “Fuck You.”

AS ALWAYS! THE KIDS AIN’T ALRIGHT!

A shockingly mean movie (if not necessarily a cruel one). Shinji turns an idyllic fishing village and its romanticized labor into a breeding ground for toxic masculinity and cycles of abuse at its most tangibly normalized. So easy to see where so much of Japan’s cinematic modernity comes from?