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Yasuke (2021)
Disappointing
When I first heard they were making an anime about the legendary Yasuke, the first black samurai, I was really excited! I said "finally, we'll know more about his story!!". I was hoping for a gritty, realistic, historically accurate depiction of feudal Japan, following the hard road this man took from slavery to samurai and how he managed to get there.
Oh boy, let me tell you, I was VERY disappointed when it started.
Robots? Magic?? And of course gore, cheesy dialogue, scantily clad women, and for some reason, barely any focus on Yasuke himself.
I went from hyped to disappointed, and by the end I was actually confused. Just the first episode felt like some weird fever dream.
Also, why should we care that Flying Lotus made the soundtrack? That and MAPPA animating it was pushed everywhere, but like, I really did not care for that. I didn't even think the visual aspects looked that good.
They wanted to make an anime, and they failed. It was just weird, confusing, and all over the place. The dialogue was bad, the plot was stupid, and the voice acting felt really cheap (hey at least it truly felt like you were watching a dubbed anime).
They should have just stuck to making it feel more western, because you could tell that's what they're good at. (One could argue even Japanese people themselves aren't good at making anime nowadays but that's a discussion for another time lmao)
My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To (2020)
Confused
Watched some of it, pretty well-made, has a good feeling of just pure sadness and sorrow, but then, I had to stop in the middle, because I'm just wondering... Is there a reason why they can't go to the hospital? Why they can't just get blood WITHOUT killing anyone? I really just don't get it.
Maybe if he had to eat human flesh then I'd understand a bit better why they would need to kill (well even then, if it went the extra mile, they could harvest the meat, have someone in a room where they cut pieces after pieces for each meal). But just blood? Man, you don't need to kill anyone to get their blood. Just go to a blood bank, get some of that stuff.
Otherwise, the movie is very well-made. I'm just so confused about this part. Like at the very beginning when the guy says "I can't do this anymore" and his sister says "do you have a better idea" I couldn't understand why nobody was mentioning "go to the hospital"