3/20/2021 0 Comments Aku No Hana Characters
To be specific, the light-hearted work thats over the top and goofy compared to the excessively grim and gritty work.Now, you can have a light-hearted work that has a realistic scenario and characters just like you can have a dark and edgy work thats very realistic.With villains who are one-dimensionally evil and a goofy super hero story with no sense of realism.
![]() A zany comedic work with only a tenuous relationship to reality. This silly, over the top aesthetic can work for comedies or for more light-hearted action works. Why Well, thats because the overly light and fluffy aesthetic has some genres where it works and the overly dark stuff really doesnt. The problem is that it doesnt work on either of those levels. In trying too hard to be dark and adult, it ends up going outside of any realm of believability for there to be a real drama or connection with the characters and no connection means no dramatic tension. Take Cheesesteak Suppository (Aku no Hana) or Midori Shoujo Tsubaki. Both works try to shock the viewer with how extremely dark they are, but neither one works because their characters read more as exaggerated parodies than as people. Berserk may have fantasy elements, but the characters are complex and the dark moments are balanced with normal, everyday scenes that show the characters acting as normal, everyday people. In contrast, the excessively grim and gritty stuff has to constantly emphasise that its characters are abnormal and dark to the point where their characteristics are so far to that extreme end that theres nothing about them thats relatable or realistic. For a goofy comedy, having completely absurd and exaggerated characters can work. In a serious work, it just ruins any potential for immersion and makes it seem like the writers trying too hard. These topics get thrown in not because the writer has a good story use for them, but because they think itll make their work seem more adult. The trouble is that it, like the rest of the dark content, gets handled in a very over the top and rather puerile way. Rather like a young teenager trying to sound adult when they clearly have no real conception as to what theyre talking about. Bringing these issues up in the way they do just illustrates how far removed these works are from reality and comes across as disrespectful to those serious topics. But, when discussing the extremes, I am personally a lot more okay with the overly light and goofy than I am with the overly grim and gritty. Both are completely outside of any realm of reality, but the goofy stuff can be entertaining in certain arenas the gritty stuff just comes across as unpleasant. Its a psychological drama, which is a genre I like when handled well. The only anime Ive seen that they were involved in have been Mushi-shi and My-Hime. Which is somewhat encouraging, but there were other studios responsible for the major aspects of those anime, Artland Sunrise.
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