How not to draw emotion. Or faces.
Impressions:
We start with her turning in 100 yen to the police, the equivalent of finding a quarter and reporting it. Which they explain is ridiculously honest. So she explains that she’s ridiculous, but that’s okay, because that’s literally her first name. Which she then also starts explaining. It’s 45 seconds in, and the dialogue is already causing me intense physical pain. My name is Frank Mann, because I am a frank man. Are we serious here? She then takes the whole shebang to a lawyer, and it becomes monumentally stupid from there. Apparently you can write literally anything on a piece of paper, hand it to someone, and they are legally obligated to obey it if they read it. Suspension of disbelief can only be stretched so far, and by how wide these people’s jaws open to indicate their deranged laughter or shocked expressions, this is far beyond Squid Games and may as well be taking place in the MCU. And see how wide those mouths are? That’s because he’s taunting her for… you guessed it, how ridiculously honest she is. Full circle, baby!
Don’t worry, it’s not just horribly written, it’s also barely animated. It only has effort for over the top reactions, and only visual flair to show that someone is being super duper extra evil. Not like an actual person. No, that’d be far too subtle. Only cackling monstrous lunatics, literally slobbering at the chance to take advantage of a poor too honest girl who only wants to do what’s right for everybody and her sick, dying dad. Dial it back a hundred notches, guys. You can’t have human drama when the characters are not in any way, shape, or form humans. Especially not when they look like they’re about to swallow each other whole for every ‘intense’ moment.
