Spring 2020 Anime Week 12 [Check-In]
Posted onFinally running out of gas, Yesterday wo Utatte’s clown car disguised as a grounded romance series comes to a screeching halt – ending on a note nowhere near where it began quality-wise.
Finally running out of gas, Yesterday wo Utatte’s clown car disguised as a grounded romance series comes to a screeching halt – ending on a note nowhere near where it began quality-wise.
Some announcements this time around
It’s one thing to be soundly written for the genres you want to reside in and the tonal levers you want to pull, it’s another thing to be that and have sharp, multifaceted portrayals of the material you’re working with.
In yet another transparently rushed effort, Kami no Tou marches forward, showing its seams and ever decaying decision making along the way.
This was very much an on-brand showing from Yesterday wo Utatte in that the moments it wants to illuminate and humanize are there on paper, but in practice pulling them off is an entirely different story.
The consistency that Kaguya-sama has in churning out polished, smartly imagined episodes is outright a highly reliable strength at this point.
When you have pacing this brisk, where sequences and fresh concepts hardly have time to breathe