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Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night was so good
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No flaws. 9/10
Maybe a little too subtle on the lgbt themes but I also kinda enjoy it in a "I can understand what that means!" kind of way that makes you feel clever. Could have developed more characters with 2 cours instead of 1.
Should be compared to A Place Further than the Universe. I'd say Jellee's characters are slightly more mature and feel more real though.
Loved it.
It was great, right up until the last episode which fell so flat it retroactively ruined the rest. Like the climax of the series is what? One main character getting to play second fiddle to the worst people in the show, the other main characters getting to go "oh that was cool huh" and that was it, time for a timeskip montage that gives each of them some little extremely individual moment of further character growth. Kano and Mahiru's arc just sort of fizzled out without any sort of acknowledgement, and then it was over.
Damn, I really hate when my cynicism get vindicated. I feel like that's even worse than the disappointment with how badly it ended, just knowing that I shouldn't have been right to be cynical, but I was.
Yeah the show clearly could have benefitted from a second cour to expand further. It does feel more like a mid-show peak rather than a finale.
Maybe. I don't know if they just kind of planned poorly and struggled to advance the plot to hit the major events they wanted or if there was executive meddling or the like taking an axe to the story towards the end. Because like I said in another comment, it almost feels like a completely different story after episode 7, like someone came in and said "nope, too gay, cut it all out" and got rid of even any more yuri bait apart from a few fragments like just what Kano was focusing on while breaking down after her fight with Mahiru.
I don't mean to sound too bitter about it, I'm just disappointed with where it went, especially after all the glowing praise I had for it early on. It's sad, and I do wish there were more episodes left to maybe fix this, but at the same time I know that either the writers or studio intentionally made it the way it was and I don't believe the reason was they didn't have the time to develop Kano and Mahiru more given they both were basically just treading water starting around the 8th episode.