DENPA ONNA TO SEISHUN OTOKO

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OVA ComedyDenpa Onna to Seishun Otoko: Mayonaka no Taiyou
NOVEL ComedyDenpa Onna to Seishun Otoko
MANGA ComedyDenpa Onna to Seishun Otoko

REVIEWS

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  potsu

  100/100
  just because you don't believe in something, doesn't mean it does not exist

  Anyone who loves the Monogatari series would love this anime. I'm not skilled enough to write a review without spoilers but I will try to minimise the spoilers as much as possible

  The plot is about Makoto Niwa, a high schooler, due to his parents' circumstances he had to move to live with his aunt. There he discovers that his self proclaimed living alone aunt actually has a daughter, Erio Towa. Erio suffers from amnesia a few years ago, the reason is unknown, she claims that she was abducted by aliens but Makoto denies it. The plot can best be sumerised as "the boy who cried wolf's lie is the reason for the wolf's appearance"

  From the starting episodes, we are lead by Makoto that what he thinks and says is the absolute reality for the anime. "Show me proof, if you want me to believe you" can be used to describe how Makoto chooses to believe or not at something. And is by that mindset that he denies anything that can't be proven. By having a denial mindset at start when doing anything, he is usually quick to give up on most things. He believes he is right because "if you can't prove that something does exist, then it does not exist" even though that is not actually proving that that "something" doesn't exist. Later on, as the frames pass by and the viewer jumps from episode to episode, the viewer will start to doubt Makoto's logical thinking. As Makoto meets more people and is presented with the belief of aliens by them, he still denies those beliefs. However, he will later on realise that "the boy who cried wolf" is actually himself and that his black lie will shatter all his beliefs, pride and ideology

  Anyone who loves the Monogatari series will love this anime as well as it has Studio Shaft's unique presentation style when it comes to portraying characters' expressions, ideology, personality and beliefs. This is especially crucial for this anime as it relies on our main character to get us deceived

  Although in the end, as expected for a 13 episode anime with such a large plot, it did not explained every important detail to us but I still love it

  Read the below part if you've already watched the anime as it contains spoilers

  I want to ask, is Yashiro the same Yashiro from Adachi To Shimamura? Because Both Yashiros wear a spacesuit frequently, have slightly different hair, has same personalities, has a duty to protect the universe or something and has esper powers. I googled the author and they share the same author too, maybe both anime are in the same universe or something. In the end I still don't know anything about their universe but maybe I'll read the manga/LN. And if you have any recommendations that is similar to this anime, please do DM me

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  WEVODURO

  85/100
  A nice, interesting take on the denpa subgenre by Shaft

  I have always been a fan of the weird subgenre that denpa is for a really long time, ever since I started reading VNs, with one of my first ones being Chaos;Head, moving on afterwards to others with denpa elements (Higurashi, Saya no Uta, Lain) to more strictly denpa such as Totono, C;C and obviously SubaHibi. Afterwards I sort of lost interest and ran out of media related to the genre itself.

  Now, revisiting all of Shaft's anime just for the sake of it, I found this. A denpa anime? By Shaft? Sounds like the fucking perfect combination for the genre and the premise felt like something different from other denpa works I have read so I gave it a shot.

  Was immediately disappointed from the first episodes since it was extremely easy to notice it's source material was a LN. Lonely bland teenager protagonist who moves with her lonely horny hot aunt and her autistic daughter who happens to be constantly naked that constantly spilled delusional denpa related stuff. Trying to be positive, I went in with the mindset of "Oh well, their misadventures are probably gonna be fun at least, it's shaft after all".

  But then I was surprised, Erio's backstory and plotline's was shown and resolved rather quickly, and the series started moving in a direction I wasn't expecting at all, trying to cover a shit ton of really cool concepts; the complications of reintegrating into society, society pushing people into taking moral decisions they don't wish to take, compensating lack of personality, hiding trauma, nostalgia, nerves, happiness, depression, sadness, any emotion really through the belief of aliens and quirkiness. I was not expecting at all for this anime that started silly to delve into the depression of a woman entering late adulthood full of inner conflict: her failures as a mother, her selfishness in her past decisions, her lack of regret on those same decisions, the knowledge that the few family she has left is lethargic and soon to be gone, all of it hidden and presented fantastically with the recurring theme that this anime has of everyone coping with their issues through the recurring facade of happiness, quirkiness and aliens that the anime pulls constantly with (depending on the case) plenty of success.

  The characters themselves are all over the place, Niwa's as a character just felt okay, he did his job moving the plot forward as a way of moving along the story, Erio's story is great although it felt rushed in the anime, honestly many of the character's developments are just very rushed but the ideas and ways of doing them for each was good nonetheless. Meme's chapters were fantastic and the highlight of the anime, Ryuuko was good but annoying, Maekawa's felt lacking but I liked her too.
  The show's latest and the what felt like the curve ball of the show was Yashiro, which introduced the idea of magical realism into the story itself which honestly just fits fucking fantastically within Denpa, making the protagonist and yourself doubt almost anything that had happened before. Were all the facades actually real? Were all the decisions taken with the belief of aliens not being real correct? Do psychic powers really exist? I'm not a lit major and this is more of a ramble than a review really, but the wonder of magical realism from the little I have read is that juxtaposition of reality and magic. Was it really magic? Does it even matter? All that's left behind the introduction of the concept itself is the character's reaction and experiences after the events.

  Getting back on topic of it being an actual review: Story and writing were good, the characters were all very likable, I don't know whether the adaptation was loyal since I haven't read the LN (yet), the music fit very well, the OP is fantastic.
  It really shows that Shaft always had it in them to do this kind of stuff which would eventually be noticed in their future (current) shows.
  I'm sad that this didn't get a s2 and apparently the LN was cancelled, it wasn't perfect but it was a nice little surprise.

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