Low Tier Character Tomozaki #01 — Play More Smash Bros!
January 8th, 2021
This show hasn't been keeping up to date on the professional Smash scene's woes, has it?
Impressions:
There is… a lot to take in with this show, and virtually all of it is a bit horrifying. Mostly, it's the long speech towards the end about how life and society are fair for everybody, and nobody is born with anything more than superficial advantages or disadvantages that can be overcome with a little effort. I don't even know where to begin with that one. Whether you want to take it on from a wealth angle, a racial angle, or any of a dozen others, it's… uh, certainly one hell of a central thesis to lay down. Which such impeccable timing to real world incidents too! It's pretty difficult to try to see it in the more charitable light of "we can all change and be better people for ourselves and others" when every single character is a massive jackass. This includes the manic pixie girl. She acted friendly in school, then upon running into him later, starts endlessly rattling off that she thinks he's actually a loser that she actually has nothing but disgust for and her previous friendliness was just an act.
And all of them have Marty McFly brain rot because everything hinges on being called a chicken. The lesson from learning that the person you were worshipping as a god thirty seconds ago is also secretly a massive jackass, but also well-liked, should probably not be "teach me to fake it like you." I mean, it certainly could be, if the show gave any indication that it understood these were all horrible people, but it most certainly does not. She's great and totally right in every way. We should all be more like her, looking down on those we think are dregs. They deserve their suffering for not trying hard enough. …Yeesh.
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It always made me chuckle when someone’s ranting angrily about Hinami, about her faking it, she’s a manic pixie dream girl (not true) and so on, but it’s exactly the point that the author made and probably you’d feel like a dumb person after the story getting to “that point” in the climax (of volume 3).
Anyway, I’m really looking forward to see haters/anime only watcher reaction to the climax, which is a turning point for the series. I expect they will adapt the first three books, which is a perfect place for the ending for the anime.