I blame Reggie
autism
Who is Rem though?
Thursday, January 18, 2018
I did quite like the mmo junkie ed
Best on their list is Made in Abyss
I can
yeah, do remember, yuri on ice won ike 7 things last year
popularity is all that matters
Have you guys seen Yuri on Ice?
Was it THAT good
no, but it seems trash
Yuri on Ice was good
its like, the your name in last year Kappa
Not amazing, and shouldn't have swept the awards
Overhyped garbage
fafnir for best boy tbh Kappa
Also my brothers husband for best manga Kappa
slice of life is mmo junkie hands down for me
I only watched it and monster girls, and it was better
Monster girls was good
Tsukigakirei was amazing
+I liked it
WAIT fuck this list
Girls last tour is nota slice of life
Really?
Did they not watch it
Well, I can see why perhaps
look at the judges pannel
at least 3 people who are sjws
and a bunch of them are IGN editors
of course the lists are shit
Made in abyss
hands down
Fuck my mic man,
amazing ost
Girls last tour is post apocalyptic
Depressing as fuck
He's best dad
that shows good
This might be one of the worst things I have ever watched.
Let's get two things out of the way. Undeniably, this video looks good. It's well drawn, well animated, and is certainly eye catching with its colorful visuals and impressively imaginative landscapes. As music, this is not something that's suited to me, but I can at least understand people who think that Porter's music is palatable to them.
My problem with this piece is not related to the audiovisuals but rather with the idea that this should be taken as a story or a music video that is trying to be something more than just Porter's music meshed with beautifully animated sequences. I understand that these criticisms are often held back by the difficulties of critiquing something that isn't overtly concerned with story, but in a piece so unabashedly attempting to draw sympathy, there's fair ground here to levy some serious concerns.
Shelter exemplifies everything that is wrong with storytelling in anime, namely that rather attempting to tell a real story developed with content and meaningful emotion, it takes the most abusive shortcut by designing a cute character, throwing her into a position of bittersweet melancholy, and using that as a means of manipulating our basest emotions into believing there is something meaningful and tragic to be said.People are praising the emotional resonance in the story and its ability to bring out the loneliness lost in the profundity of memory. Yet, consider a world where the main character is not a beautiful teenage girl, lost and confused in a world completely foreign to her. When you remove that physical appearance that makes us so inexplicably attracted to her stake in the story, there is ultimately no reason for us to feel sympathy. It is completely superficial.
One might say that it's only a six minute short, but the fact that Shelter goes out of its way to show for a split second the main character's letter from her father, to invoke the community to spend time and read it on a second watch, tells me that there is a serious intent to manifest some semblance of a meaningful story. However, that is undermined precisely by the video's own neglect of that story. Much like many other anime designed purely for cheap tears and easy pity, we are given not substance, but rather a montage of a young innocent girl cherishing sweet memories with someone we barely meet.
Sure it can be cute, but that does not preclude it from being utterly trite. Shelter offends its audience by presenting us with its fascinating visuals, the ostensible undertones of a post-apocalyptic world, the perceived loneliness of being potentially the last human in the universe, but gives us nothing more than the lowest common denominator of a story, one that galvanizes its sympathies out of the most mundane and pathetic tricks in the book, and half-expects us to take it seriously. I cannot in good conscience, recommend this music video to anyone.