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I'm thinking about watching The Secret World of Arietty.
I watched The Secret World of Arietty and really enjoyed it. Ponyfan
And now we're watching Your Lie in April, which is making me hideously angry. It's supposed to be feel-good, slice-of-life, but the premise behind the story, and the lack of understanding from the main character's friends, is making me rage. But I'll stick it out. Because my friend told me to.
Your Lie In April . . . so many feels. Do you mean the lack of understanding for Kaori and her situation? At times I was irritated to see how Kousei treated her (though she isn't always great towards him). I enjoyed watching the series, but it has so many emotional ups and downs I haven't rewatched it or I'd cry too much, lol. There are some great moments in it, though, and I would definitely recommend it like your friend did -- it explores love and loss and some deep stuff. And as a piano player, too, I find it interesting.
Ah. Actually. More the fact that Kousei's friends pushed him back into piano, while at least two of them knew of his history/the situation with his mother. I get that they were trying to help him, and that they're just teenagers, but it was extremely misguided in my opinion, and his "recovery" didn't seem particularly sincere or realistic to me. I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it, and I did finish it, but I feel like there were some seriously terrible things that people did to that kid. The final roof scene could have resolved a lot of those things for me, but obviously that didn't happen. I found the final concert and the letter to both be a cop-out by comparison. Honestly, the amount of trauma visited on Kousei, and the remark that his mother's friend made about his "moving on" made me feel pretty sick watching the show. I think I must not have been the target audience, because I didn't find it romantic at all. It felt very exploitative.We started March Comes in Like a Lion/Sangatsu no lion immediately after, and while it has some very similar themes (doing something you're good at because of familial pressure, or because you think you're obligated to because you're good at it; loss of family members and the grieving process that follows; problematic love stories and relationships that aren't 100% honest), it handles those themes with a lot more delicacy and skill. Edit: I just remembered we have spoiler tags. ;Spoilers of what I felt about Your Lie in April:SpoilerThe main thing I hated was that she decided to make her "legacy" a relationship with someone who didn't know she was dying. That, being the entire plot of the show, made me really angry. Among other things. It was a very clumsy telling, to me.The lie wasn't some small thing like was implied to me when my friend recommended it (seriously, she made it sound like a mistaken identity or something). Living to enjoy your last days to their fullest is fine, but knowing that you're dying, and intentionally seeking someone out to attach to so that they will feel the pain of your death and never forget it, is a terrible, horrible, selfish thing to do. Even more-so when it's clear that that person has some sort of trauma that they're still recovering from in their recent past. To make a small-scale comparison, it's like the idea of rubbing lemon juice into a paper-cut, knowing that the lemon is half-rotten and will likely cause sepsis.So I didn't find their relationship romantic as a result of that, but rather saw it as an emotionally abusive counter-point to the situation with Kousei's mum's physical and verbal abuse. I didn't find his reaction to her admission that she was ill unrealistic (his desire not to visit her, his feelings of awkwardness seeing her in hospital), but I did find his recovery and acceptance of her lie to be rather premature and unrealistic given how much she'd brow-beat him into joining her on the stage. I also hated that Tsubaki knew about the abuse, but still thought that pushing him at Kaori and the piano was a good idea. If she had confessed the whole situation to him on the roof before his final concert and her surgery, I might've been okay with the show in the end, because she at least owned up to what she had been doing all along, and decided to take responsibility for it. But she didn't, and continued to leave him with what she knew was false hope. As such, I found the vision he had of her during the concert to be in poor taste, and the letter that she gave him to be a cowardly thing to do. She didn't take responsibility for what happened between them. She didn't give him the closure he deserved, and never got from his mother's death and abuse. It was clumsy, as a story, and undignified.
I'm thinking about watching The Secret World of Arietty. Ponyfan
Thanks Leave a Whisper. I did enjoy it although the ending was a little sad.Ponyfan
I'm trying out Beezlebub. It's weird and kinda funny.