![]() Opposites, yet perhaps not in the way they initially appear. One thing I think I can safely say is that this story is very concerned with poles, as I’ve noted before. There are things I feel confident I’ve pieced together from the manga that have never actually been confirmed, but it still feels like spoiling if I reveal them. We’re getting into the realm of potential spoilers here, and that’s always been a grey area with Tengoku. That’s certainly how it felt with the manga, anyway, ![]() This is a dark series to be sure, but none of the things he’s shown us so far have prepared us for what happened this week. Which is exactly what Ishiguro Masakazu intended, of course. Some of them have reacted with anger or a sense of betrayal, but mostly it’s been shock and horror. I knew it would hit those unprepared for it pretty hard, and it has. ![]() Not because it’s bad, but because it’s so painful. I knew it was coming, of course, but I was utterly dreading it. And The Dangers in My Heart and Heavenly Delusion are way better than just good.īut this episode of the latter… This was a tough one. All that matters in the end is whether it’s good or not. It can be Saturday morning kids fare, sports drama, romance, screwball comedy or horror. In Japan animation can be anything a writer and director want it to be. And this is not a subjective matter – Japan is right, and the U.S. As I’ve said for years, a fundamental difference between America and Japan (and parts of Europe, but especially France) is that in America anime is a genre, and in Japan it’s a medium. It’s no exaggeration to say that’s one of my favorite things about anime. This week certainly fits that bill, because we have the two series eliciting crazy powerful emotional responses, but doing so in ways that could hardly be more different. It’s the sort of pitched battle that’s among my favorite things in anime – like Dororo and Mob Psycho 100 put on a few years ago. Two great shows airing within 90 minutes of each other, both brilliant yet completely different. Tengoku Daimakyou and Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu have been a kind of perfect anime Yin-Yang all season long. This is an odd one for me to tackle, no question about it.
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