Youjo's Crits and Reviews

The new staff is basically trying to be super nuanced and metaphysical about a gag anime that started in 1966. The jokes are weak, and they're talking about heavier topics. I don't think they're trying to be a comedy animated, anymore. in episode 4 they tackled the issue of being a divorced single parent, but then follows up with a joke that kind of pissed me off. I liked everything about the bit, but tackling such a serious topic to have it end like that was in poor taste. but in episode 5 they had the boys do more contemplating about how their lives are going and what they want for their futures in terms of relationships. I think I was right about what I said about season 2, about how we see everything through such a heterosexual cisgender lens, but that's because we're only seeing the world through their lens. They have a strict social structure that they are only reflecting off of, and the reason why we only see heterosexuality and cisgenderism is because that...

I just found out that they rewrote season one in season 3 or 4. It's like they didn't give a shit about season 1.  The guy that triggered the events of season one came back to life later on. The two people that died in season 1 also came back to life. The big red demon that Meliodas initially killed that was gathered for the demon blood that they drank and season one was erased in season two or three. I t would have been too much to ask to not have everything linked together and just have serendipitous events. Emily always just has mood swings at this point. They kind of talk about how his mental health has been affected by watching his love die over and over again, but they don't really get into it. Reasonably speaking, shouldn't this kid be all the way fucked up? This show is so disregarding of its own war and it has the audacity to want a sequel.

For some of you, maybe for a lot of you, that's definitely Outlaw Star. For me, it's seven deadly sins. Allow me to convince you, here are the things that did not happen in outlaw Star: Budget changes affecting art and animation quality. If it did happen, it wasn't tragic. Characters being overwhelmingly unrelatable. Every single unrealistic body standard you can think of - I know it's a fighting anime, but stay with me. Everything being a deep-seated meaningful plot line. The writing didn't change to break consistency with the characters personalities. Everyone is overpowered at everything they do. Random occurrences were allowed to happen. The relationship Dynamics weren't perfect, but they weren't unrealistically, disproportionately toxic. Let me ask you some questions: Do you know anyone like Gene Starwind? of course not flying personal spaceships, but the goofy guy/ gal/ other who gets roped into stuff, ropes other people in the stuff, but has everyone...

 Some things that I need to clear up that I see a lot of people messing up. I'm going to be calling a lot of people out here. Yakuza is not the Japanese word for gang. The Yakuza are a specific game where a lot of the original members are dead. A lot of people calling themselves Yakuza today are posers. You can't have Japanese Mafia. First of all of this this thing called culture. Second of all there's this thing called geographic location in relation to culture. Mafia is Italian. Yakuza is Japanese. The "however many numbers families" e.i. "the four families" is also an Italian(-American) Mafia reference. They don't have that in Japan either. There's way more to gangs than what's going on in Italy and Japan. stop romanticizing gangs if you're not going to add in the crips and bloods, because a lot of people that I'm addressing that are having these issues are Americans. A lot of y'all are getting your information from...

Seven deadly sins checked off every damn trope box. Side characters getting pushed out of the story period unrequited love by a death that is tragic but people still get to say their last words. people having sex with each other and reproducing even though it doesn't make any since for them to be able to - HarleyQuinn and Diane. Ignoring the gratuitous sexual assault and how everything is just really creepy and grooming and going with the main characters anyway - Elizabeth and Meliodas. And also HarleyQuinn and Diane, technically. The androgynous character being single forever. The carefree sweethearts - Ban and Eliena. What's really weird is that the couple that ended up being the carefree sweethearts are the two that were the most serious and honest with each other about their feelings the whole time. I'm just sick of the "everyone lives cisgender and heterosexual and they all lived happily ever after (until the sequel sometimes)". Where the gays?! Why is no o...

That doesn't even sexting l've been hanging out on this old IRC chat room but I'm not going to name in full, because I don't want to give it in traffic but I will call it l-chat, and now I see what's wrong with it. A lot of people in there are nice, but it's mostly men asking women for nudes, sexting, BDSM, roleplay all that kind of stuff. But today I openly complained about how a lot of men want to ask women to do all of these things and they actually want it for free. when I said I want to get paid for my time, at least three people in the chat room (not a lot of people there) jumped on me like you can't ask for money here. and it's weird that it's okay to ask people for sex, but it's not okay to ask for money for the sex.  And then someone said that their internet connection was weak, and they said that I'm here because my internet connection is weak. It's a very bare-bones thing, very basic old internet IRC. It's the best place to...

Less than a month ago, Mr osomatsu season 3 was announced. It is set to be released in October of this year. osomatsu is problematic for a lot of reasons. The one that I most recently thought of this the lazy mixing of beans. They tried to be emotionally charged but gag at the same time, and they added in chronological time. this is one of those animes with heavy pros and cons, but one of its heavy cons is how problematic it is, to put it lightly. Osomatsu-san is definitely the hardcore reflection of how anti-lgbtq modern Japanese culture is. I went over a lot of that in the previous post. but something I just recently thought about is how anything and everything can happen because it's a gag, but if they made it a gag with an open universe, why do they have chronological time in progress? why did they go out of their way to be so emotionally wrenching and sometimes, and then commits major actions that should have major consequences and they don't in others? they made it pretty...