mythologicallyrated I Want To Eat Your Pancreas
Major spoiler for the ending below.
What happens when a tearjerker fails at being sad? Well, the end result is something like KimiSui.
Let's start with the more minor offense: the characters. There are only 2 characters here: the personification of Depression and the personification of the Popular Girl trope. The only relevant side character is Popular Girl's best friend. Her only purpose is to have extremely unrealistic reactions to anything that happens and to hate the main character. The other side character, Seemingly Perfect Class Rep That's Actually Not Very Nice (very novel and ingenious character), serves no purpose. No purpose whatsoever. Nothing would be lost if he was not present in the movie. Why is he here? The characters overall are uninteresting. It's really difficult for a tearjerker to work when the characters just do not seem like real life human beings whatsoever. The interaction between Depression and Popular Girl seem extremely uncomfortable and weird.
Let's just deconstruct the brilliant writing present here. The personification of Depression meets the personification of the Popular Girl trope because of a coincidence. After their random encounter, Popular Girl decides to confide all of her life problems (relating to a terminal illness) in Depression. They then proceed to spend about 45 minutes having conversations that I, the person reading this, or even some random middle schooler could write. I could have made a drinking game out of this movie. "Take a shot every time the most predictable line possible in a given situation is said", but if I did that, I'd get alcohol poisoning. The plot itself is just a stack of every imaginable cliche.
Now, for the crazy part of the plot that makes KimiSui stand out from every other movie with the exact same premise: the "major twist". You thought she'd die because of her disease? Well, nope, she died because some random dude stabbed her. Other than making KimiSui unique, what purpose does this twist serve? It doesn't work as shock value, as the viewer is informed that she died via a 30-second news broadcast. Then, it just gets brushed off and no one mentions it ever again. This whole movie almost felt like a work of satire criticizing the whole genre of the school setting drama romance tearjerker, since it's difficult to believe that someone could write this plot and expect it to be taken seriously.
Music: My favorite part of the movie. I've loved sumika ever since they did Wotaku's OP, and the OST was pretty good.
Art: Okay? This looks like something that would be considered top quality for a movie in about 2014, but for something released in 2018 I was expecting something more. It's not bad at all though; it's actually quite pleasing.
Overall: there's really no point in watching this. Unless, of course, you like to watch characters that in no way resemble humans act out a sequence of cliches.
What happens when a tearjerker fails at being sad? Well, the end result is something like KimiSui.
Let's start with the more minor offense: the characters. There are only 2 characters here: the personification of Depression and the personification of the Popular Girl trope. The only relevant side character is Popular Girl's best friend. Her only purpose is to have extremely unrealistic reactions to anything that happens and to hate the main character. The other side character, Seemingly Perfect Class Rep That's Actually Not Very Nice (very novel and ingenious character), serves no purpose. No purpose whatsoever. Nothing would be lost if he was not present in the movie. Why is he here? The characters overall are uninteresting. It's really difficult for a tearjerker to work when the characters just do not seem like real life human beings whatsoever. The interaction between Depression and Popular Girl seem extremely uncomfortable and weird.
Let's just deconstruct the brilliant writing present here. The personification of Depression meets the personification of the Popular Girl trope because of a coincidence. After their random encounter, Popular Girl decides to confide all of her life problems (relating to a terminal illness) in Depression. They then proceed to spend about 45 minutes having conversations that I, the person reading this, or even some random middle schooler could write. I could have made a drinking game out of this movie. "Take a shot every time the most predictable line possible in a given situation is said", but if I did that, I'd get alcohol poisoning. The plot itself is just a stack of every imaginable cliche.
Now, for the crazy part of the plot that makes KimiSui stand out from every other movie with the exact same premise: the "major twist". You thought she'd die because of her disease? Well, nope, she died because some random dude stabbed her. Other than making KimiSui unique, what purpose does this twist serve? It doesn't work as shock value, as the viewer is informed that she died via a 30-second news broadcast. Then, it just gets brushed off and no one mentions it ever again. This whole movie almost felt like a work of satire criticizing the whole genre of the school setting drama romance tearjerker, since it's difficult to believe that someone could write this plot and expect it to be taken seriously.
Music: My favorite part of the movie. I've loved sumika ever since they did Wotaku's OP, and the OST was pretty good.
Art: Okay? This looks like something that would be considered top quality for a movie in about 2014, but for something released in 2018 I was expecting something more. It's not bad at all though; it's actually quite pleasing.
Overall: there's really no point in watching this. Unless, of course, you like to watch characters that in no way resemble humans act out a sequence of cliches.
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