>>280142474
Yeah i kinda figured it would. I do like the art style so I give it points for that. But if you're gonna handle something with as much gravity as the subject matter displayed here I am going to be a lot more critical in my judgement. In my opinion it's handled really poorly. Almost caricature how cartoonishly villainous the antagonist behaves. Hard to imagine a fucking 4th grade girl acting like that shy of being an actual psychopath, which do exist but even for Japan I find it hard to believe such an intense degree of bullying would go unaddressed by adults outside of very extreme/abnormal circumstances. I sincerely think less is more with a topic like youth suicide. Pic related for example imo far far better handling. But it also mostly uses only implications and focuses more on the impact without having to ever go into any detail. Sort of like horror actually in that by letting the viewer fill in the gaps you can actually manage to give a far stronger impact without destroying the authenticity/plausibility of the plot.

I have the exact same gripe with One Piece with respect to how he handles topics such as fucking slavery and genocide. Just way too cartoonishly over the top with how evil the villans are. It's just pure shock value which detracts from what these topics are actually like in the real world. The difference is at least one piece obviously isn't trying to portray itself as grounded. But this Takopi anime is very much presenting as a sort of realistic setting, then brings up very realistic and serious topic as child suicide and bullying by using absolutely unrealistic characters. For this reason I do not care for it. A swing and a miss.