Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso

[fireheart]

I guess all I can say is that the blood isn't really blood. It's just imagery used as a joke. It was like that since episode 1 where all the blood magically disappeared.

Yeah I know all this... I just wish the comedic scenes didn't ruin it as much as it does for me. Would have loved this show otherwise.

Come on, this almost makes it sound like this is the first anime (or even a cartoon) that you have ever watched. Blood is flowing all the time in anime, whereas in a similarly themed live action we would never see it. All manner of bruises and hitting as well. Don't ask me why it okay and why it works also for most people who don't really derive enjoyment from violence and gore, but it generally does, otherwise it wouldn't be there.

No but I don't remember watching an anime with this kind of setting and art that insert bloody beatings of the main character. This isn't a MC getting beat up for walking into the bath and accidentally peeking on girls, this isn't a tsundere beating her "dog". Put it into another way it's like Usagi Drop had someone in the story beat Daikichi bloody in every episode for comic relief, it ruins the setting and this show would have been awesome if it didn't do that for me.

Yeah, right. Kind of like at a car manufacturing plant the car won't be a car before the last man on the line attachs the windshield wipers. If he forgets a wiper, the thing that's not a car is sent straight to crushing and recycling, right? Because only the very last step ever matters. A war is win by the last soldier who pulls the trigger before the politicians sign the papers for a cease fire. All the other thousands of men dying before the last soldier don't matter at all and died for nothing. Quite a fine logic.

In this specific case Arima wouldn't even have been there at the concert hall without all the earlier, forceful steps. He wouldn't have studied the score, either, nor listened to the composition played until he couldn't have forgotten it anymore.

Do I detect some backhanded ad hominem there? And does it have to be logical? Because this is what the show is making me feel and I don't find every emotion to be logical, sure maybe if you go deep enough and dissect every possible reason for it. If you want to point to faults in why I don't like this show point to them instead of making examples and claiming that's my opinion.

I don't find any of your examples as accurate but in this very case with Arima I truly believe that if we reverse the order and Kaori did that honest pitch to him at the beginning he would have said yes. So do I find the way they treated him as necessary? No I don't.

Also I've already acknowledged that he learnt the score from it in case you missed it, so not sure where you want to go with that. But did any of it make him come out of his shell and start moving forward? No at least not imo.

I'll say it again being forceful might help but treating someone poorly is to me never the answer. If you think that treating someone poorly is ok then that's your opinion, I'm just venting my frustration over how it's making the show worse for me.


The show at the very least have me emotionally invested which is more that I can say about other show that I only watch for fun.