Audience reviews
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D4SBOT
To put it simply, Kuzu no Honkai tries too hard to be deep, but ends up as a lackluster story that might appeal to some because of its unique premise, but also make some absolutely despise it. Unfortunately, I'm part of the latter.
One of the most common points that I see about this show is that it is mature and realistic. But, seriously? I know that they try to represent how lust can consume one's mind but it genuinely feels like half of the show's time was spent in a bedroom scenario. It felt like an H anime that just got censored. This makes the pacing feel off and also makes it incredibly boring to watch.
The characters are all unlikable and act stupid, genuinely no one acts like this. There's no way half of the characters could get away unnoticed after doing all that, not to mention…
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What is love? A question as old as humanity itself. Some will tell you it’s pure, selfless, eternal. But Kuzu no Honkai whispers something darker that love is rarely pure it’s hunger, ego, emptiness, and the desperate need to be seen.
Hanabi and Mugi aren’t searching for love; they’re clawing at the hollow space it leaves behind. They kiss not for passion, but for anesthesia. They hold each other not because they’ve found “the one,” but because being alone is worse. Every embrace is a lie they both agree to believe.
This isn’t your sugarcoated rom-com. It’s a mirror held up to the parts of us we’d rather deny the pettiness, the lust, the ego. It asks, “Do you love them? Or do you just love how they make you feel?”
By the end, there’s no happy closure, no grand redemption. Just two broke…
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Everyone in this show is a plain loser.
It took me 4 whole years to finish this anime.
I was in a desperate need of a romance anime when someone recommended Scum's Wish to me and I fully regret on watching this boring show, filled with unlikeable characters and straight up dumb decisions.
Just don't watch it. If you want good romance, ANYTHING else is probably better than this.
This review doesn't surpass the character minimum so I need to write a bit, I want to say again just how bad this is, that it took me 4 years to watch 12 episodes. Each episode more boring than the last one.
Cheers
Read at the sourceDrAkiMakura
This show is trash. Anyone thinking this was "mature", "biting", or "messed up", is actually a literal CHILD.
The girl MC is nothing.
After all of the self-talk about how messed up she is, she doesn't actually do much of anything.
Hell, by the end of the show, she's still a virgin!
All that, after going "omg I'm so bad tehee, im going to focus on my pleasure and being like that hoe-sensei I hate!", because the writer could not commit to sullying his qt3.14 waifu, the sheer thought of it... I shudder.
The guy MC is nothing. Girl MC's crush has a massive mommy complex. He's more than willing to get cucked because she has long hair, like his mommy because ???
Guy MC's crush is just a soulless hoe, and doesn't even seem to like people at all.
Girl MC's best friend pretty much SA's her, but…
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kuzu no honkai is one of the few anime that tells true stories, stories from real life. Its one hell of a realistic anime and it gets hate for showing people how real life really is putting beside the romantic fantasies. The story was great, the art was beautiful, the opening tells a lot about the show, like a mini review, it was easy to understand and most importantlly, it showed us love in all shapes. Many of the fans felt the emotions on a brand new level, they finally found themselves in the characters beacuse nobody is perfect and we all do mistakes.
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This is the most cringey, edgy, 'look how deep and conflicted I am', garbage I've ever set my eyes upon. Absolutely no decency, no self-respect, no genuinety, no common sense, no nothing.
It's just another reminder of a perpetually morally bankrupting society nowadays. Thanks!
Characters are terrible - contrived, unlikable, and honestly just plain disgusting. No, I would not passionately make out with a random stranger as a substitute for my unrequited love. I guess that's just me, though. Throw in bunch of forbidden unrequited love (student-teacher, incest, lesbianism) in and envelop it with 'passion', a.k.a. perversion and you got yourself Kuzu no Honkai. And what's with the completely out of place and unnecessary comedy? Is that an attempt to bring lightheartedness into this filth? Bec…
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Love and the sexual feelings we have, lust, are complicated and confusing. Much like my overall thoughts on this anime...
Scum's Wish was the break out hit this season with conflicting opinions all over the place from people praising the show as a masterpiece in which it conveys the themes of romance and love in a realistic manner and those who say that it is over glorified and unrealistic. If you were to ask me, I'd say this anime is pretty stupid, and for the longest time I couldn't decided what this anime was going for exactly nor of what to make of it! It honestly feels like, in a lot of places, it is the second coming of School Days!
The biggest problem I had with this show was its lack of any interesting characters at all, but before I get into that, let's discuss the plot for this…
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*cracks knuckles*
Alright, time for my first review on here.
First off, i just wanna say, the reason i wanted to wait off on reviewing is simply pure laziness, but this one has motivated me.
Scum's wish lives up to it's name better than any anime I've seen yet. THEY'RE ALL SCUM AND I HATE EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER. Now someone might ask, "why would you watch it then?" Well, short answer: I don't really know. Have you ever watched something or heard something that brought up a really painful memory yet you just couldn't look away? Well this was that scenario for me.
(A tiny bit of background for my case: I was with a girl for about 3 months, and I was used by her through and through.)
Well good lord, the teacher might as well have been the spitting image of my ex. A straight up psychot…
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Hating a character is quite an easy feat, loving a character is the same thing because their relatable or awesome. However HATING a character because their relatable is something entirely different.
Due to how character-relational focused this kind of anime is, LA will be diving into the spiraling chaotic characters relationships and the characters themselves in much more detail. Let's start with one of our main protagonist, Hanabi Yasuraoka voiced by Chika Anzai, who has unrequited love towards Narumi Kanai voiced by Kenji Nojima, a childhood friend and teacher towards Hanabi, however because of that, she has a "fake" relationship with Mugi Awaya voiced by Nobunaga Shimazaki in order to fill her loneliness, also add in Sanae Ebato voiced by Haruka Tomatsu another friend of Hanabi who wan…
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Kuzu no Honkai and the praise it's receiving is an example of the weird idea that eroticism is only allowed as long as everyone is miserable. Read: 'realism.'
The main problem with the anime is that it's seemingly supposed to be a character driven story: we get quite a bit of internal monologue detailing the emotions, feeling and motives of the various characters. The problem is that the writing is suspect. Characters will often repeat the same thing over and over again in slightly different, or unnecessarily abstract ways. It's as if the writers have a large vocabulary but not enough, or any new, ideas to apply it to.
The characters themselves are pretty one-note. Hanabi is cute and all, but if you asked me what she was like I'd only to be able to repeat the synopsis of the anime back…
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Even after I've become more experienced with the medium, I do have naïve expectations at times. Kuzu no Honkai comes with a promise of adolescent sexuality and a messed up affair web to present and explore. Only to become more and more overbearing with it to the point where it's a schlocky softcore porn soap opera. And it is a soap opera by all means. If that is refreshing in anime form, go right ahead and enjoy the show. But to me, this is an example of why a lot of teen dramas flop hard.
One of the biggest praises Kuzu gets is how "realistic" it feels. When in terms of presentation it is absolutely groundless. There isn't much one can discern in terms of context and situations, only how it matter to the character's current emotional state. The series is actually very stream of consciou…
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Desire is the cause of misfortune in teenage relationships. After realizing that the love of her life has his eyes on another woman, Hanabi Yasuraoka resolves to fill the gaping hole in her heart. The desperate girl didn’t know what to do, but fate is kind enough to grant her a chance encounter with Mugi Awaya, a boy from her school facing a similar romantic dilemma. Finally acknowledging the futility of her original goal, Hanabi decides to form a deal with Mugi: the two would enter a fake relationship, granting them the peace of mind they longingly seek under the pretense of false love.
This is the story of Scum’s Wish, an emotional yet flawed romance drama that explores teenage carnal desires through multiple love triangles, artsy shots, and gratuitous amounts of erotic sequences.
It’s…
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“Why can’t it be me?”
Love and lust are two terms synonymous with the young and naive but understood by those who’ve experienced both. “Lovesick” teenagers are often impressionable and irrational, driven by an overwhelming cesspool of hormones and emotions. Love is ambiguous at a young age, and can often be a stifling enigma. Lust is an enveloping, instinctive thirst for a partner’s sexual freedom. Although these concepts can be weighty and complicated, experiencing them is part of what makes us human, and are as intense as any incident we’re likely to encounter in our lives. Scum’s Wish is a visceral, raw and uncomfortable approach to love and lust, and even deeper, what makes our minds tick from a relationship perspective. Does it succeed in translating the equivocal nature of human sex…
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When someone considers themselves or others to be connoisseurs of any storytelling media, there are specific prerequisites expected from that individual that's usually understood without the need to outright state it. These factors can include being well-versed with different genres within the medium in question, to more demanding things, like understanding the construct in which the medium expresses its ideas. But out of all these unspoken base requirements, I think the most important one is something that's usually acknowledged but often taken for granted. That something in question is a hands-on understanding of the subject matter itself.
Without that attribute, an exhausted catalog of literary knowledge and understanding of narrative tools is rendered almost pointless. Being book sma…
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Have you gotten sick of "romance" anime consisting of nothing but innocent teenagers blushing like tomatoes at the mere thought of holding hands yet? Are you sick of seeing "relationships" implying that there may or may not be a confession in the last minute of the final episode and nothing beyond that? Well then Kuzu no Honkai might be for you, because this anime has more romantic progression in its first five minutes than most romance anime do in their entire runtime, and it manages to break one, two, maybe even three taboos in the process as well.
Kuzu no Honkai at heart represents the ugliness of human emotions and carnal base desires. It looks into the darker side of romance and tackles matters which romance anime basically never does. This is not a story about how to woo your would-…
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There aren't many anime as uncomfortable as Kuzu no Honkai. It introduces itself as a melancholic tale of unrequited love, and quickly transforms into something far more ugly. The characters are relentlessly trampled upon, until, indeed, as the title might suggest, they are reduced to human trash.
It isn't necessary for a story to make you feel happy. There exist a wealth of fiction that, while depressing, and perhaps never even enjoyable, are still valuable for the message they are trying to make.
Kuzu no Honkai doesn't have that message. It is misery for misery's sake, existing almost exclusively to make you feel like crap. If you found anime such as Aku no Hana and School Days difficult to watch, you might have yourself something of a challenge here, too.
There is seldom a charact…
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Love is perhaps one of the most complicated feelings in the world. We may all have experienced sometimes in our lives. Whether it’s platonic, romantic, or parental, it’s something that humans feel because that’s who we are. As part of growing up, people learn to understand these feelings. Yet, there are also people who make stories out of their lives from such feelings, in ways that become so twisted and disjointed that they become scum. Welcome to Kuzu no Honkai, a show that gives the characters a chance to grow up.
As a manga reader, I was already prepared although it’s easy to judge by the premise that the story itself will be saturated with drama. Ever heard of ‘friends with benefits’? That’s pretty much how the premise sounds like. In the beginning of the story, we learn quickly that…
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Unrequited love presents a tiny window of hope on the verge of being shattered by crippling depression and anxiety. To not be able to share yourself with the person who brings color to your world, even worse watch them fall for someone perceived as better than you, is a feeling will that leave your emotions on the brink of suicide as your scum filled obsessions grow too loud to silence anymore.
Kuzu No Honkai is a study on the psychology of unrequited love, how adolescents will make the mistake of equating self worth with sexual desirability and how that can inspire one to make terrible choices out of desperation. This is not an anime about frivolous sex from horny kids. Kuzu No Honkai offers a nuanced take on the pursuit of love as a group of teenagers attempt to solve a common question…
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"A brilliant story-telling adaptation that brought the manga to life, exquisite work of art and mesmerising soundtracks that slowly pulls you in as you immerse yourself in the twisted yet captivating world of Kuzu no Honkai" ~ Nazz
Story: 10
Art: 10
Sound: 10
Characters: 9
Enjoyment: 10
Overall: 10
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As the manga reader, Kuzu No Honkai adaptation is one of the shows of Winter 16/17 I was looking forward to.
Even before I decided to write this review, I already envisioned this show as a perfect 10 and it did not disappoint; not only the anime was able to flesh out and portray the messages effectively as it were in the manga - It goes beyond that- it invokes a strong feeling and emotion that can't be portrayed through a static pict…
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You can easily say that Kuzu no Honkai (Scum´s wish) without a doubt has been one of the big talks of the winter 2017 season. Either people praise this new angle on a romance story in anime, or are disturbed by the emo depressed characters that does one scummy thing after another.
Well, Scum´s wish for shore manages to separate itself from its siblings in the genres, much do to with that it is including sex as one of the big factors. Because let´s be honest, most high school kids are exploring their sexuality and are not going out for months before they have their first glowing wonderful kiss (which often is the case in many anime´s). It’s often much less romantic than that. That at least Scum´s wish manage to portray very well – often you don´t need to have romantic feelings or care for…
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