Many people from discussions I’ve read dislike the characters due to none of them being a perfectly moral characters, which is one of the draws as they are not supposed to be. The characters and story fall into the type of manga that does not feel like a manga but real people, and the writing skills to create such a diverse and complex characters must be commended.
Each character is their own character full of wrongs and rights, motivations and goals, where none of them are right, and each either develop or do not. Possibly what makes the story so good, is not only the themes explored but the so very realistic and layered and complex characters that the story uses to explore these. For those looking for another thing to make their cry of feel things, this is perfect for you.
The art is all-round incredible, the characters are so real it feels like youĪre actually reading a book, rather than a manga, and the story progresses so realistically as it hits on every note it needs to. Warikitta Kankei Desukara is a extremely real, raw, and depression riddled story about the toxic, and twisted nature of people and their motivations told through the excessively immoral relationship (the 18+ parts not the yuri)of a female teacher and a underage female student exploring their feelings and things like depression, belonging, loss, and being outcasted through heartbreaking dialogue, and expressive S*x scenes that are not there for pleasure but to show the character progressions and their most inner feeling only revealed during these intimate moments.
Some scenes can be hard to watch, and I find both very relateable.Disclaimer: This series does contain sex scenes These are both very hard hitting, intense anime, which require a lot of focus and patience to watch. It has a lighter tone, but still covers some difficult topics, and has sometimes uncomfortable scenes. It also tackles amnesia and the difference between childhood love and real love. Golden Time tackles the more emotional aspects of young love, which mainly focuses around intense love and mental health (I consider Koko to have Borderline Personality Disorder), as well as insecurity, and pressures from society to have sex. This anime has a much more sombre feel to it, and can be very uncomfortable in some scenes. it shows the misery and desperation felt by young people when their love life is not going the way they want. Kuzu no Honkai veering more towards the difference between love and lust, sexual awakening, and the pressures put onto young people (by peers and society in general) to be sexually active. While different in many aspects, these animes both tackle the difficult and sometimes uncomfortable subject of adolescent and young adult romance. Nana slips into this more and more as the series progresses, while Kuzu No Honkai is very consistent with this style of analysis.īoth series also have amazing musical scores, though Nana's is Mid-2000's J-Rock and Punk while Kuzu no Honkai's is considerably less aggressive and leans more toward Mid-2010's J-Pop. And both end up going down self-destructive paths, even if the depth and style of these paths differ (due to one being a teenage drama while the other focuses on young adults).īoth series also have a character who has a sole, likewise self-destructive character who finds themselves attracted to the main character, and desperately wishing for a fulfillment of said desire.īoth series also have a character that would likely be seen as an 'antagonist' once they're introduced, but as the series spends more time with them we discover more and more that these 'vile' characters are vile for shockingly human reasons, even if they're not necessarily directly relatable reasons.īoth series are VERY introspective with their characters. The 'main' character in both series (Though it's debatable which Nana is the main lead in that series) flitter from one relationship to another, their hearts fragile and their minds dulled, even if the dulling has different styles in both series.
Many characters in both series cause their own issues, rather it be for good-intentions, bad intentions, or out of ignorance. Nana, on the other hand, has a wider scope of focus, looking more at the struggles of interpersonal relationships, rather they be as friends or lovers, and the trappings of newfound independence for a young adult.ĭespite this difference, both series are relatively similar. Kuzu No Honkai (Scum's Wish) aims to rip apart the hollow pursuit of a perfect teenage love, and thus the majority of the focus is on romantic relationships. Both series are deeply rooted in drama that's edging on the verge of melodrama.