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mike.motaku
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I don't know. I am actually enjoying this show. The read I'm getting from Hiyakawa towards Mikado is that he has noticed that Mikado is extremely susceptible to psychic powers, especially the darker ones, to Mikado's detriment, and part of his otherwise self-centered motivation seems, to me, to be wanting to protect him from that. Yes, he's a bit of a jerk with an extremely flexible sense of morality, but having recently watched Redo of Healer, which only worked for me as being a show about the birth of a psychopath, I'm cutting Hiyakawa a lot of slack.
Does the animation blow me away? Not really, But the story is keeping my interest and I want to find out what is going on. And, over the years, I've really enjoyed what I considered engaging stories that had shaky animation. Kaze no Yojimbo being a strong example. |
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chrisb
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It’s hard to find anime with a consistent unsettling mood these days. It’s no Serial Experiments Lain or Boogeypop, but this show does make me believe the world these characters live in is a dangerous and spooky one. I give it credit for having a solid atmosphere and likable side characters that call out the abusive partner’s nasty habits.
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25thchestnut
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As the ancient proverb goes, "The manga is better."
Mediocre production quality aside, most of the issues I have with this adaptation comes down to the fact that the current pacing is on track to adapt nearly 60 chapters in only 12-13 episodes. Even if the basic plot stays intact, there's inevitably a lot that's lost. |
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RubyRed
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Tbh, I find the unnatural and unnecessary BL subtext peppered throughout the series to be extremely distasteful, since they clearly have no intention of making the two male leads an actual couple.
It's both amusing and rather sad to see the majority of the fandom criticize Hiyakawa for being an "abusive lover" when... He and Mikado are not lovers. They've never even kissed, let alone had sex, and are unlikely to ever do either in-series. Meanwhile, the story both demonstrates and outright states that Mikado is only attracted to women, while Hiyakawa only cares about the "compatibility of souls" and has never once expressed an interest in Mikado's physical being. Something like this is not BL, people. Hiyakawa isn't the horrible rapist boyfriend that Mukae - or, god forbid, Hiura Erika - needs to save Mikado from. (Though he is out of line and would likely benefit from several years in therapy, I won't deny that!) It's my personal pet theory that Yamashita Tomoko badly wanted to write a story about two straight (or one straight and one of ambiguous sexuality) male leads running a ghost-busting service together, but couldn't get published anywhere other than Be x Boy, so she compromised by inserting bizarre innuendo into what would otherwise be a rather fascinating method of spirit vision and exorcism, and wrote the two leads in typical seme/uke dynamics... Without any sex or romance ever happening between them to explain why they'd behave in such a fashion in the first place. Tl;dr - I like Sankaku Mado no Sotogawa wa Yoru. Quite a bit, actually. But the fake BL is not only affecting my enjoyment of the story, but also causing my favourite character, Hiyakawa, to receive constant flack for something he isn't even doing, when he should really be critiqued re: his actual issues. Said issues being not that he's a sadistic rapist (he is neither), but that he's a guy who quite literally exists only to exorcise ghosts, and will use anyone and anything (including his own body and the body of the only person who's ever formed an emotional connection with him) to that end with no heed to the consequences. It pains me to see such an interesting character (with what is quite possibly a very unusual and twisted past) be dismissed without even the slightest attempt at critical evaluation, just because the story is falsely marketed as shounen-ai. |
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daisicles
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I think she wanted to play around with tropes myself. Her other bl work largely doesn't have those kinds of dynamics portrayed in quite that kind of way and there's a lot of humor derived from the contrast between the usual tropes and what's actually happening for the first little bit (which is another area where the anime is sadly lacking). Plus Libre certainly is happy to sell the series under its shoujo and josei line, no matter where it was originally serialized, and Yamashita has repeatedly said in interviews that she wrote it as a bl, so how much compromise necessarily needed to happen? The biggest issue with reactions, imo, is people seeing the bl label being applied to the anime and assuming that it must mean particular things about the relationships on screen even when the relationships obviously aren't those kinds of relationships. |
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wolf10
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I've been watching it through the lens of my own experiences as a gay man, and it doesn't even go near the level of disrespectful I was prepared for. That said, everyone's experiences are just a little different, but I've been enjoying it rather a lot. |
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