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Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 47] (ani.social)

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[–] ReluctantZen@feddit.nl 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Haven't really had the brain space to pick up anything from this season yet, but I did watch two anime films yesterday in the theater: Chainsaw Man: Reze's Arc and The Colors Within.

CSM: I didn't like S1 much. I thought it was okay at best. But this film was incredible. Denji is much more human here and Reze is just incredible. She really stole the show. The pool scene everyone raves about deserves all the praise it gets. Visually it's a big upgrade too imo. More vibrant and better movement. And man, that soundtrack was so good. Kensuke Ushio doesn't fail to deliver. If this is how the rest of CSM is going to be adapted, I'm all for it.

The Colors Within: the theater I went to ocassionally has anime film showings outside of the release schedule, and they showed this one this time. Great movie as expected of Naoko Yamada, also with a great soundtrack by Kensuke Ushio. Bit of a tonal whiplash to see it right after CSM though haha.

[–] HetareKing@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think there's a 50% chance we went to the same theater, because I also went to see The Colors Within yesterday. I agree, great film. It's interesting to me how Japanese entertainment tends to do a better job at telling a story where Christianity plays a role without being utterly obnoxious about it. Or maybe I'm just less suspicious about a Japanese creator's intentions when it comes to this. Anyway, I did notice a slight plot hole, maybe?

spoiler

Early in the film, Totsuko suggested she would get in trouble with the school if they found out she was fraternising with a boy, but at the end Rui participated in the performance at the school festival without any problems.

But well, it's not that big of an issue.

I already went to see Chainsaw Man a couple of weeks ago, which was great fun. I did like the first season quite a lot, but I enjoyed this different approach as well. Still a weird experience to go to the mainstream cinema and see an anime film in a packed house, though. That would have been unthinkable a few years ago.

[–] ReluctantZen@feddit.nl 1 points 2 days ago

I think there's a 50% chance we went to the same theater, because I also went to see The Colors Within yesterday

Haha, yeah, quite likely.

slight plot hole

Hm, maybe, but they were quite lenient with other things in the ends so...

Still a weird experience to go to the mainstream cinema and see an anime film in a packed house, though. That would have been unthinkable a few years ago.

Hmm, I don't know. It wasnt in any cinemas near me, so it depends on where you are I guess. Bigger cities generally have a wider variety of audiences.