12 days of Animushmas, day four
Grit. those. teeeeth!
Part four. as always, this mess is CCY’s fault.
No, I’m not actually talking about one of the numerous manly face punches present in anime. It is, however, something that did (more or less) show up in a Coburn post. Sometime near smack in the middle of true tears, Hiromi encounters Noe. And she recognizes Noe as an interloper in her long-standing plans to win the useless Shinichiro. Having been raised to think she was his illegitimate half-sister, Hiromi is used to swallowing her feelings. But put a magnifying glass on her, and you’ll find outward signs of her finally beginning to crack, as when she grits her teeth.
For me, this moment was magic. It solidified true tears‘ ability to (a) survive purely on execution, and (b) succeed in portraying subtlety where most other dramatic anime gets really ham-fisted. The series’ story is not a new story, it’s not even a particularly good story, but true tears stroked my balls repeatedly with its subtle, tasteful ways of doing things.
Besides: Tragedy and pain don’t happen all at once as a result of setting of the wrong flag — they happen in small doses of inevitability that stack on top of each other until you’re left with a broken heart. That kind of subtlety also becomes a great showcase for complexity in true tears‘ characters in moments like this one. I feel as if I should use the word “subtle” one more time.
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I forget, were they siblings in the end?
Crazy ass show was crazy.
@lk: I don’t think so.
And I really don’t have much to say here, other than I should have remembered
loveTrue Tears more. ‘Twas a good show but I couldn’t find a spot for it in my rankings. The fate of the above-average show …(ok now I’m just being pretentious, but yay, True Tears!)
Shinichirou’s mom lied. ‘Cuz she was a bitch.
I still weep over Noe.