#2016 anime

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Obscure Anime of The Day:

Sangatsu no Lion

Aired: 2016-2017

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Psychological, Romance, School, Seinen, Slice of Life, Sport

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Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: December Sky (2016) dir. Ko Matsuo.

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Just binged Kuromukuro again. It’s been a minute but I still enjoy the show just as much as the first time I watched it.

Kuromukuro is technically my first anime, definitely not the best first anime but man does that ending (no spoilers) still haunt me. Every time I watch this show I get so much nostalgia. It’s the only mecha anime I have ever watched and I’m proud to say that. Also totally not surprising that Inuyasha quickly became one of my favorite anime after watching this back in the day.

I’m really sad that the U.S. doesn’t have access to the light novel adaption (please let me know if you have found a way to read it) but honestly the show is good just as it is. If you have not watched Kuromukuro it’s available on Netflix rn, it’s totally not good and I know I am completely blinded by nostalgia but the ending will get you emotional.

Oh and the sci-fi and lore are fantastic tho, like they juggle a lot of story beats and most of them land perfectly but the concept for the story you’d think execution would be terrible. It isn’t. Also can’t believe the epilogue for the show is already 3 years old.

7/10 Any other Kuromukuro fans out there?

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Nobunaga Concerto, Episode 1

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Shouwa Genroku Rakugo ShinJuu:Descending stories Series Lookover.

So I know I'm kind of super late to the party on this one here. But I've just recently watched this anime show not too long ago, which is now one of mine personal top favorites anime series of all times in terms of well-done mature layered compelling storytelling. But I just want to add in while also giving my own thoughts on this who's is Shinnosuke “Baby Daddy” thing along with my other thoughts regarding the ending.

Now, I can totally understand also get why that some people or better yet a good number of some fans being seriously gross out or just plain put off from that “part” of the ending regarding the subject of Kikuhiko / Yakumo being Shinnosuke possible biological father by Eisuke. Honestly when it was brought up in conversation within the scene I really wasn't too freaked out or all that bother by it, cause for one thing this is Eisuke were talking about here, I mean the man while he isn't a awful bad character by any means ... but he is highly, super, extremely creeper noisy as hell! Even Yakumo within the manga series mentioned that he can be rude also inappropriately insensitive at times, or that he's got a real bad habit with his search for “knowledge & truth" were he sticks his nose into other people personal matters and business were he most definitely shouldn’t be. 

Especially when comes to Yakumo past for that matter. So him coming up with the theory of Yakumo being the possibility of Shinnosuke being made wasn't something I was surprise at nor was I shock at the fact that Konatsu refuses to either deny it or clam it was true or not, which I think fits perfectly within the realistic themes and elements of the story itself. For one thing Yakumo himself has kept a decade long secret of hiding the truth of how Konatsu parents were actually killed and leading mainly him to carry that heavy burden, guilt, pain, grief, shame also blame for so many years all for her sake alone . Because he would rather her hate him for the rest of her life then had her suffer similar to what he's been going through with knowing that she was basically responsible for her own beloved father / parent's death. Konatsu keeping the secret of who is Shinnosuke actual real bio father is to me her basically doing the same thing of what Yakumo did in order to protect her family & keep the peace. I also didn't think it was that controversial or messed up that she mentioned she might had a strong crush on Yakumo during her younger teens years. Which considering her already highly complex, conflicted, damaged emotions regarding Yakumo and how she felt about him growing up & such wasn't something I was too shock at upon watching the anime for the first time ever and seeing their strained contempt-fueled parental / guardian / child relationship.               

I think both the anime also the manga makes good cases here and there on Kikuhiko / Yakumo sexuality in terms of him obviously but also subtly not fully being 100% Heterosexual; its shows his lack of sexual interest towards women or the fact that Yakumo is pretty detach from his own sexuality. Showing him refusing to do anything sexual with Miyokichi or not even allowing her to touch him even though he loved her, I think his lack of interest within women could be based on his early childhood growing up and most likely being born in a geisha House probably had to do with it, also within the manga 10th volume extra chapter with Konatsu as a high schooler its pretty much makes it very obvious as well as clear as day that Yakumo was actually truly in love with Sukeroku. Also if a sexual encounter did happen between the two when Konatsu was a young adult, since she did got pregnant with Shinnosuke when she was within her early 20s, don't you think that Sukeroku would've brought it up within the Afterlife? Cause I feel he would hardly not talk about it or not bring up the fact that his super close best friend who took in his daughter and had sex with her later on & not be pissed off about that, I feel that considering how Yakumo is within the series with him holding onto so much deep-ridden guilt & blame over what happen with being unable to save both Sukeroku and Miyokichi and how internally broken he is inside. Don't you think he would feel the same way of some kind of deep guilt or awful shame for having to had sex with Sukeroku daughter who he has raised and take care of for over 10 to 20 years just cause she wanted the Sukeroku bloodline to live on & not died out.         

The fact that Matsuda still wanted to keep the truth of how Konatsu parents actually were killed and that both Yota and Eisuke never told her about it even though she might have probably already figure it out, says and adds a lot to the theme of this story . That life can be highly complex, sad, messy, sometimes fucked up, but also that there are some things within Life that are better left unknown also as well as better left unanswered.    

Whoever Shinnosuke real biological Dad is, whether its possibly maybe Kikuhiko / Yakumo or probably most likely Oyabun or some other character. I personally feel that at the end of the day it doesn't really truly matter either way, I think that Shinnosuke is basically the symbolic metaphor of three bloodlines coming together as one at the ending. That he is a lovechild of Rakugo but also a lovechild of Kikuhiko, Sukeroku, Miyokichi fused together of what maybe could've been between either one of them if not for tragic events or bad choices or just unfortunate issues. I think that the plot twist in itself adds so much more to that sense of the weird but also sometimes screwed up aspects of actual real Life regarding family secrets and familial dark history and bloodlines.   Also I feel that  "part" within the final episode shouldn't deter those of a overall well-written, well-developed, mature good storytelling anime that I've seen in a while so far.

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So yeah I watched 91 days !

The anime is amazing I've loved it (apart from some details such as the lasagna) and the ambiguous ending was GREAT ✅✅✅ but I'm sad now and I need some fix - fic I guess. Also, being italian, some of the names really made me laugh because no one would call their child "Frate" (monk), "Corteo" (parade), "Cerotto" (band-aid) - just to mention some - but yeah fiction is still fiction right? Anyway I've got a lot of things to say about this anime but literally just one friend of mine has seen it and the content here on tumblr is scarce 😔 I have a lot of //OPINIONS// about this show ugh so yeah

Precious baby boy – a little psychotic tho – I love you, you little angel (di nome e di fatto) ily 💞💞💞💞💞💞💞