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her friends ask her about her 進路 and they translate it as ”Iroha, vilka college söker du till?”

what the fuck. using “college” here in Swedish is very bizarre unless they're talking about studying in the US or UK? this implies bad things about the translation process. bleak

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this anime is pretty, sure, but we're 21 minutes in and everything has been so incredibly fast-paced and dense that none of it… is able to reach through, really? there's no chance for it to soak in and get to you, it's ThingsAreConstantlyHappeningAndTheyKeepHappeningNoDowntime

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it's chasing the same hyperstimulating ideal the AI image generators are chasing and while this is clearly the work of human hands with some remaining amount of taste it is… it is just So Much man. this reminds me of Summer Wars and not in a good way

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actually I think I need a break already. I'm kind of longing to go for one of those long night walks in gentle solitude at this point, but I'm just sitting here eating an apple. I'll resume in a few minutes

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I watched one minute more of the movie and I got to the bit where Iroha plays something on her keyboard for Kaguya, and… well, I do want to see where that goes, so we'll give the movie a bit more of a chance, but… not today, for sure.

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okay we're now past the half-way point (1:11:01) and have seen the big video game fight sequence. I'm not finding it intolerable but it doesn't feel like it's getting through to me really

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everything about it felt so painfully 2020's and then right near the end it smacks us in the face by having a plot twist that's very late-1990's-to-late-2000's sci-fi, and makes me see it as more utopian than cynical

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