nepalac

the single most overrated thing i have ever seen, im not saying it is bad by any means but its nowhere near the standard its held at, every episode plays out exactly the same, there are tons of cliches which contribute to its predictability. it is extremely oversaturated with side characters and side plots that follow the same blueprint tenma arrives somewhere, meets troubled people, johan’s influence is revealed, tragedy happens, then the story moves on, it also go to the point where the main cast becomes a cameo in an episode and you just lose interest in them, furthermore you also lose interest in the side characters quickly after realising they all share the same fate of eventually dying or never making an appearance again. also the anime spends so much time building johan into this almost mythical figure with a genius plan that ended up being much smaller than it was advertised as. the amount of deus ex machinas is also insane, everyone is somehow connected to someone central to the plot, everyone is exactly where they need to be at the exact time by accident, the timing of everything is perfect etc. the anime also very clearly takes a political stance, even though it tries to hide it, criticizing the eastern bloc and its ideology whenever it gets the chance, completely ignoring actual history oh and the ending is absoulte bs

! Spolier ? The self-proclaimed 'scariest movie of the decade' is, to no one’s surprise, not scary at all, unsettling at most. It relies on cheap jumpscares for shock value, when it begins building tension, it abandons it and never delivers payoff. Any fear it might create dissipates when the main villain, the devil himself, a mass murderer starts singing in his car like a child. The story is also lackluster, it clearly tries very hard to be *Silence of the Lambs*, *Se7en* and *The Zodiac* at the same time but fails in being like any of them. It tries to follow too many narrative directions at once, and they do not complement each other. The investigative part also falls flat when the main detective is given psychic abilities, undermining any tension it might have brought. The final act is also rushed, the villain turns himself in without clear motivation. We see very little of his character before he kills himself, so he remain unexplored, he comes off as superficially evil, defined only by devil worship. In contrast, the film relies heavily on exposition, spoonfeeding us everything we need to know about the protagonist and her past like we are unable of making some conclusions ourselves. The cinematography is also weak. It over relies on prolonged wide shots regardless of scene context, with minimal shot variation. This lack of visual variation becomes repetitive and stale really quickly.