Anno and co-directors Tsurumaki Kazuya, Maeda Mahiro, and Nakayama Katsuichi pull off the herculean feat of ending the same story for a third time while also ensuring that this ending finally feels definitive. They offer a meta-textual explanation for this finality, one which makes certain prior...
In both grand and subtle ways, the characters of "Castlevania" — including some of its more villainous cast members — end their journeys as better versions of themselves. Although this is a medieval hellscape where demons, monsters, vampires, and morally repugnant humans exist, there is still ...
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The chemistry between Hiro and Zero Two, the drama between the other characters, and the backstory of Zero Two MADE the show. It was amazing. This was the only show that made me cry. After episode 18, those aspect of the show were gone. The formula of the show was flipped on its he...
Another older example of an anime ending with the villains winning is 1997’sThe End of Evangelion. SEELE, the main villains ofNeon Genesis Evangelion, wanted to unite humanity into a single consciousness through the Third Impact, andinThe End of Evangelion, despite Shinji’s efforts to stop th...
(Like if someone had never been exposed to Western superheroes, and was dropped in toThe Marvelswith no explanation: who the heck is this Nick Fury guy and why does everyone automatically defer to him?) Sometimes entering a work of fiction feels like solving a mystery, and that’s a ...
of their respective groups of friends, Masana’s ex-boyfriend, and Kobuta’s boss, but only briefly. Kobuta’s boss is especially strange for his penchant for groping everyone’s hindquarters in a creepy, and yet somehow innocent way. A little bit of explanation for that would have been ...
History:The history of reality, beginning before the creation of Angels and ending with the current state of Man. Prophecy:The end of an age and the beginning of Utopia and the plan for our eternal destiny. Wisdom:The Seven Wisdoms, as taught to Chester by the Master. ...
Ahab's development moves forward in leaps and lurches, without explanation beyond the vague notion that Nobody Puts Ahab in a Corner. Well, we already knew that. What else've you got? Grown Ahab is too powerful, young Ahab too uncertain, to justify one another. And neither of them comes...
A pastoral fairy tale that slowly and assuredly morphs into a time-traveling adventure entirely of its own stripe, it offers no easy answers and zero in the way of narrative explanation. That only increases its charm. Like filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher’s other films (including the appropriately ...