Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [Week 16]

• glilimith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Episode 3 was great, but episodes 1 and 2 i found to be largely very slow and bogged down by dialogue. If it does more short story type episodes with the different stations I’ll be happy to see more, but I’m just not sure which parts we’ve seen are indicative of the overall quality, if that makes sense.

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  • zabadoh@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This type of show is like an anthology.

    Even though we have the same characters every episode, they’re thrown into new settings that are thinly disguised parables for something about the human condition that the writer is trying to say.

    Galaxy Express 999 and Le Petit Prince both lean into pathos, with GE999 laying it on especially thick with its soundtrack.

    The 3rd episode is also pathos, but it’s much more subtle.

    The mushroom people are just falling over and dying, but they just accept their fate, and in denial proudly saying that they’re living life to its fullest, although there’s little evidence of that.

    The only thing I can see is they just continue living on, knowing they’re doomed, not even pausing to pick the dead off the street.

    So you what does that correspond to in real life? Nothing too obvious. Maybe a type of person that the writer doesn’t like?

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