HOUKAGO NO TINKER BELL

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  guavagudetama

  6/100
  Ryoko Miyazaki, you suck.

  This review contains spoilers for the whole thing, it's less than an hour long if you wanna watch it. It's also kind of sloppy, as it's partly me trying to comprehend the story at all and it was helpful for me to write this review, as during it I was able to really understand my feelings about the anime.

  After School Tinker Bell is something that I thought was okay until I was mid-writing the review and I really thought about one character. Ryoko Miyazaki. Unfortunately for you all, to explain why she sucks so bad I have to explain basically the whole plot and two other characters.

  Kenichi, Misako, and Hiiro are students at a seemingly unnamed high school. Hiiro is in love with Ryoko, a member of the broadcast club, along with Sasamoto and a character I'll refer to as "President" because she doesn't have a character page and I don't remember her name. Other characters include Edogawa and Keiko, hall monitors at the school, and Okazaki.

  So, about Okazaki. Okazaki is, despite only being shown on screen through photographs, one of the most important characters in the anime. Okazaki commits suicide before the show begins, which we find out shortly after the main conflict of the anime starts; Ryoko getting kidnapped. In Okazaki's suicide note, he mentions something about becoming Peter Pan (This is important I promise). The broadcast committee receive a letter saying that Ryoko was kidnapped, signed by Okazaki's ghost. Ryoko stages this to get back at Keiko, because Okazaki left Ryoko for Keiko. Unfortunately, this backfires when Sasamoto attempts suicide over the incident.

  On the topic of Peter Pan, I have to explain this whole can of worms before I can even begin to try to explain Sasamoto's motivation for attempting suicide. So, the kidnapping note mentions something about Peter Pan. Literally every supporting character knows that Okazaki's suicide note mentions becoming Peter Pan, but nobody thinks to mention it to Misako or Kenichi. Sasamoto, Edogawa, and President all fail to mention it when they had ample opportunity. Regardless, because of this, Misako reads the story of Peter Pan. Kenichi and Misako hypothesize that, in this metaphorical Peter Pan story, Edogawa, Okazaki's brother, is Peter Pan, Ryoko is Tinker Bell and Keiko is Wendy.

  Quick Detour to Edogawa, because he makes no sense either. So basically, Edogawa and Ryoko were both in on the disappearance, and Ryoko was staying at Edogawa's house the whole time. Edogawa is a cheater, dating both of his dead brother's exes, Ryoko and Keiko. Ryoko finds out and says absolutely nothing because she's actually just obsessed with Okazaki and the only reason she's dating Edogawa is because they're blood-related.

  So after ALL THAT, I guess we can talk about Sasamoto. We're thirty minutes into the movie, out of like fourty-five. At this point, it feels like everyone was in on it because shortly after you find out Edogawa was in on it you find out not only is Sasamoto in on it, he's going to kill himself so people don't find out about what happened between Edogawa, Ryoko and Keiko (which everyone already knows about), and to make everyone think HE is Peter Pan (which literally nobody knows about except the characters I've mentioned in this review). But that's fine, right? Reasons for suicide aren't typically what I would classify as "rational."

  Ryoko, the girl who Sasamoto is helping, would rather him die than let a secret everyone already knows get confirmed. This is not stated with words, of course, the anime wants her to seem like a good person, but her actions tell everything. She's sitting on her ass, doing nothing, she's now listened to the tape twice because she listened to it, then called Misako, then had them listen to it, then explained more backstory about Edogawa and Okazaki that doesn't matter, and ONLY THEN does she do something. No, it's giving her too much credit to say she does something. Kenichi and Misako do something, she just follows them. This is someone that Sasamoto really cared about, and it seemed like Ryoko cared about him too. I don't buy it. She cries during the scene where Sasamoto's tape plays, but contextually I don't believe those are tears of remorse, they're tears that say "I regret calling Misako." Thankfully, Sasamoto doesn't actually go through with it. Everyone else gets what they want too, Ryoko's secret technically isn't confirmed, Edogawa gets... something I think. And Kenichi and Misako's lives go back to relative normality.

  The conclusion. Ryoko Miyazaki made problems for everyone involved in her life to hide something the whole school already knew about, and almost let someone who considered her a close friend kill themselves. No, she let it happen. She was totally willing, if Misako and Kenichi hadn't stepped in, while improbable considering what Sasamoto says in the scene where the trio finds him, he could have seriously harmed himself. Ryoko is a character that makes me incredibly angry. She's like Miki Kawai from A Silent Voice's worst qualities times ten. I was able to sympathize with Miki, but Ryoko is unsalvageable. This anime gets a 6/100. This show made me even more angry than Number24, which I could not shut up about when I first saw it because of how unintentionally shitty a person the writers made the main character.

  P.S. Apologies again if this is like, literally unreadable? It's probably super messy because I wrote this review in just a train of thought, as if I was complaining about it to someone (which I will probably do to my friends tomorrow when they wake up), and then edited it slightly.

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