more work put into this than i would expect. might be good dumb fun if you consider that this had to have been made by people who saw the first season of the show (setting of this game is somewhere in the middle of that season) and then overheard someone else's vague and confused description of the second one. in fact, that this game misses the point of the series in a much less overwrought way than the movie, and in a more hilarious and not boringly oblivious way than the manga, makes me wonder if its better than both. it actually has nanami in it so that helps
just watch the anime if nothing else because its the best tv ive seen period. a show in which its flamboyant and facetious moments just belie what it is at its heart: a hard look into child abuse's role in the construction of gender and a plea to support those who need it most, to attack the institution at the root. also maybe the only piece of fiction ive found that discusses sibling incest, arguably even centering it, through that lens.
then play this game and date touga!! if you want!!
just watch the anime if nothing else because its the best tv ive seen period. a show in which its flamboyant and facetious moments just belie what it is at its heart: a hard look into child abuse's role in the construction of gender and a plea to support those who need it most, to attack the institution at the root. also maybe the only piece of fiction ive found that discusses sibling incest, arguably even centering it, through that lens.
then play this game and date touga!! if you want!!
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i feel like i put it on maybe a LITTLE too thick with that paragraph but i do feel that strongly abt the show!!
not thick enough, its legitimately that good
No idea if you still agree with this review, but can I ask how you think the movie missed the point of the show?
basically what it tries to build on from the series, if it tries. just glosses over the bite that the series has in its thesis wrt sibling incest, how its both an abuse specific to itself and also functions as sort of mythic culmination of different types of familial/peer/elder abuse, or at the very least tensions, the younger characters are subjected to. whatever connections to this that you'd find in the film are too dependent on context from the show, and its too muddied to make any serious contributions to those ideas on its own. nanami being removed only to apply some of her character traits to film utena (the character) not only does a disservice to how crucial she is in the series, but the attempt to rework the energy she has wrt her relationship to touga feels so awkwardly handled to me. i dont think the film is horrible, the car chase is fun and it has /some/ interesting things in it as a companion piece, but almost none of it relates to what i liked most in the series.
FrozenRoy
3 years ago