Super Official Anime Discussion Thread

[pokoko]

vivster said:

pokoko said:
Hinamatsuri is easily AOTS for me. It's not one dimensional, it doesn't pick and stick to one narrow genre like most manga/anime, which is great. I love watching something unpredictable and dynamic. The world and characters grow and change. The best analogy for me is the masterwork novel "Catch-22", which worked with both laugher and sadness on the palette board. The ability to be seamlessly multidimensional is too often lacking in the anime medium.

We might have watched a different anime. There was nothing seamless about the character development. Rather it hit you over the head with melodrama so hard that you forget how the character was before. It feels extremely deliberate and heavy handed in its development and presentation.

I think we did because I have no trouble remembering how the character was before.  In fact, I don't even know what that's supposed to mean.  They're still the same character.

Deliberate in development and presentation?  Well, yeah, probably.  Of course, that goes for pretty much every anime out there, so ... yeah.