![]() Vol5? 5-7 the author probably hit his/her head or something, the fvck was this shit, the fmc became a side character and the Mc’s best friend girl, higashira became the lead one. It breaks my heart.Vol 1-4 was good, the interactions of the mc and fmc are quite cute, its a feeling when you are in a puppy love situation and also the side characters have their own depth, which is quite nice to see especially their own relation ship to each other. This is the shit that gets made because this is the shit that sells. ![]() In the zero sum game of corporations controlling art, the mere existence of decently made shows this reprehensible to the core can't be anything except disturbing. Every time a My Stepmom's Daughter Is My Ex gets produced, a different, almost certainly more deserving story gets snubbed. The very notion of this show being taken on by a studio with a decent reputation and being handled so competently is genuinely unsettling and deeply aggravating. Playing into an incest fetish more and more every episode is not good (wow so brave of me wow). It drives me crazy! How can a show that flirts so brazenly with incest from bottom to top be so competently crafted and just "fine"? How can a show so openly misogynistic be so "ok" in everything about its structure? The acting is fine, the art is fine, the characters are fine, the pacing is fine, the sound design is fine, the visual story telling is fine, the musical motifs are fine - nothing about the show's structure is anything but fine. What pushes this show over the edge and what ultimately pisses me off about it more than anything else is how "fine" it is. Nothing about it would have annoyed me so greatly as to write about it. See, if this show was just a trashy, taboo romance anime, I'd have given it a low score and moved on feeling nearly assuaged in my resentment toward myself for wasting my own time. It's also absolutely infuriating in its competency. Where can I even possibly begin with a show wearing its fetishistic influences so proudly on its sleeves? What is there even to say about a show whose Venn Diagram of influences are a near-even mix between step-sister porn, bad light novel romances, and quippy one liners à la super hero movies? My Stepmom's Daughter Is My Ex puts the trash into trashy and owns it. Shows like this make me feel like a desperate masochist at the best of times. My Stepmom's Daughter Is My Ex is not one of those shows. They push me to keep doing what I'm doing! year alone that really blew me away these positive experiences always end up leaving me encouraged to keep expanding my taste and trying new things. There are three or four shows like this that I've seen this ![]() I like to think that it's a good way to keep my finger on the pulse of artistic movements outside of my otherwise-narrow bubble and, in all honesty, I sometimes come away quite surprised. But the summer between undegrad and grad school, I watched what you might call a dumpster fire.Įvery few months, I get an urge to randomly select and then watch a show that I am squarely outside of the target audience for and that I don't particularly expect to enjoy. Looking back, I can only describe it as youthful indiscretion.
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