Five reasons to watch Beyond the Boundary
( Disclaimer: this is just my options and thoughts about BTB, of course someone else might think differently and that is fine, so long as they are not harrassing or hurting anyone. Minor spoilers but Iâm trying to be vauge as much as I can be to not spoil anything. Donât troll me later for this.)
One of the things I love about this anime is the women are really fleshed out. They are selfish and they are kind. They are mothers, sisters, and mother figures. They fight just as much as the boys and sometimes they get scarred to. Some are girly and some are seen as scary. The women are really well written. Compared most other shoujo/ shonen type animes. Especially Mirai, I wonât spoil much, but her arc was really unique and unlike anything Iâd seen in a female protagonistâs arc in an anime in a while.
(Thatâs not Mirai BTW I just love this gif of Shizuka)
2. Handling of dark topics and themes
I wonât suffer coat it. There are some really dark topics in this anime. One character is pretty much suicidal and only lives because they think of themselves as a weapon, a lot internalized self hate, ptsd, and one young girl is pretty much will to die if it means her sister will be avenged.
But as some one who has depression and lost someone close to them this was a nice change in narrative.
Mirai didnât automatically get better once a boy showed interest in her, Sakura wasnât seen as a pure evil villian after her introduction and we were left wanting her to get better, and once she did her past actions were still remembered, they didnât automatic forget what had happened. Some topics maybe couldâve been written better but personally it was refreshing to see some of these topics handled in this way, some things didnât get better, friendship was nice but it couldnât save them all the time, Sakuraâs redemtion was handle well, Mirai grow in way that didnât seemed to forced. At least to me
3. Soundtrack and sceneray
The soundtrack? Ugh itâs so good! The opening and ending are amazing, in fact the ending of this anime is what got me into it.
The opening is so cute and pretty! But the scores that play when they fight are so good! And they always match the fight! Seriously, some of the fight scenes were awesome and so breathtaking.
It was so well animated and framed that I forgot that this was an anime and not a movie, the screenery is on par with ghibli at times, there are some goofy frames but overall this anime has animation that is so crisp an clean and pretty.
4 . Great story/ Good Binge
Want to watch a good anime with story that isnât 4000 episodes long? Than this is for you! It only has thirteen episodes? I think? and has a story that is pretty satisfying.
Another cool thing? Only three filler episodes.
Yes they dress up as idols and go to festive but the idol episode was in between some really intense episodes and was a nice break and the festival episode was so nice and lore filed I couldnât even tell it was filler.
Also there is a movie where they wrap up a few plot holes and lose ends, but personally I haven seen it yet (Iâm trying to find it, no luck yet) and from what I heard of itâs pretty much what I assumed happens, but has a few extra twist and turns and surprises.
Iâm putting this at the bottom because this really depending on what you think counts as fan service.
There is some, but nothing cringey or exaggerated, like in Naruto. There is no bathhouse scenes, they did show the four taking a shower after they attack a monster, but there was no zoom in on any parts of thereâs body that felt awkward ( at least to me) and it was treated a comical, they were trying to draw attention to them taking yet another shower after yet another defeat( spoilers??)
Ai takes risquĂŠ photos for her motherâs side busuness, which is a photography company, nothing sleazy. But again Ai isnât human and I think they implied she changed her appearance for the photos ( not sure, donât get mad if they didnât),again we donât see them, Mirai makes a comment about what sheâs hiding and thatâs that.
Again this was treated like a joke and we donât see anything, that part was more focused on Mirai taking pictures ( in a maid costumes like May- ren from black butler) so that she can pay rent. A joke about her doing work she hates to play rent, I get that and it wasnât cringey to watch and it was a little funny.
Akihito has a glasses fetish and Hiroomi has a little sister compelx, Hiroomi I feel isnât attracted to mitsuki or Mirai like that, I kinda got the impression that he missed being seen as a cool big brother so instead of asking to be called big brother he just bugs her into doing it.
But when ever they start to act pervery Mitsuki puts them in there place or ignores them. There is some fan service, not going to lie, but nothing that made me feel like the FBI was going to charge in to my room for.
This is really good anime with a good story with the best Girls and Boys and You should most definitely watch it. Itâs on funnimation, crunchyroll, and VRV. It deserves a lot more attion and the fans Iâve meet online so far are pretty chill. Welp that was me trying to recommend anime, hope you enjoy!
Edited a bit cause for some reasons parts werenât showing
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