Name: 我對2018年完美電影的複雜感受 (My Complex Feelings on 2018's Perfect Film)
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Liz and the Blue Bird is a fantastic movie.

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On a purely technical level, it may be the most impressive work I've ever seen and

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it's certainly one of the most emotionally resonant ones I've witnessed.

Many people, my girlfriend included, have already declared it as the best anime ever

made and I truly understand how they can do so.

I love this film but I'm incapable of fully embracing it in quite the same way that others

Its connection to Hibike Euphonium, a series which I've come to view as one of the most

disappointing that I've ever seen, is something that poisons my enjoyment of Liz.

That I still believe it's a 10/10 movie is a testament to how good it is.

Yet, it could have been my favorite film of all time if it were a standalone work and

My history with Hibike Euphonium can't be called a fun one.

Like many, I began watching it in season 1, making it all the way to the famous mountaintop

It was a fantastic moment, a key point in the relationship between Kumiko and Reina

that had been built up and I could not have been more crushed when novel readers told

everyone that this wouldn't go anywhere, that Kumiko would eventually date Shuu.

The arc of the anime was so focused on Kumiko's budding queerness and Reina's mutual interest

that it didn't make sense for that to happen and I told myself that it wouldn't.

Surely, KyoAni was planning to change things.

After all, they're connected by the red string of fate in the ED, right?

Yet, I fell off the show, too frightened by the spoilers I had received.

Some may say that dropping a show just because your ship doesn't work out is silly, but

that's an unfair way of looking at things.

If you read the arc of a show as being about a character coming to understand their attraction

to another person, that being thrown away will inevitably put you off.

I did not simply “ship” Kumiko and Reina.

To me, their relationship was the series' core.

So when I returned to the show before season 2 aired, and the two of them showed no sign

of separating from one another, I was incredibly happy.

Perhaps KyoAni truly wouldn't go down the Shuu route.

I had and have a lot of faith in them as a studio, after all.

In season 2, you never see the two of them date, though there are a couple hints that

Kumiko is on the way to reciprocating his feelings, which is already unnecessary.

In spite of the first episode being the gayest thing of all time, an escalation of the tension

present in season 1, the rest of the narrative totally ignores Kumiko and Reina's relationship.

Because not only does their relationship get a backseat, but Kumiko basically allows Reina

to flounder in her weird Taki obsession for most the season, growing far more interested

Which would already be a disappointing turn, but there are people who see them as romantic

too, which could be a salve for the wound, except Asuka leaves at the end of the story,

Kumiko's queerness which, once again, was the central narrative element that stood out

to me, is totally thrown against the rocks.

The fact that Reina became, if not totally irrelevant, far less important, was just another

I have never been so disappointed watching an anime as it aired.

The series ended up echoing many of the tropes criticized in earlier Class S works in a period

where that's no longer necessary, less gay in actuality than fucking MariMite, and what

“Oh it was never gay in the first place, why did you get your hopes up?”

“Oh, well, sure, but look at how cute KumiRei is, don't let the actual writing of the

“Just stop getting so angry, it's just an anime.”

I was already pissed off by the series, disappointed more than I'd ever been, and then all the

discourse surrounding it just served to further upset me, belittling my feelings and acting

as if it was unreasonable for me to expect anything more from a piece of media I once

As a result, I've honestly come to hate Eupho, because thinking about it just makes

So, I was not expecting to come to love Liz.

I enjoyed Mizore and Nozomi's story in season 2, so that wasn't a problem; after all, it

came before I was disillusioned, and given that I could not have cared less about Asuka's

arc or Kumiko's sister — not only do these arcs bore me on their own, their aforementioned

treatment of Reina just added injury to insult — it was far and away the aspect of the

season that I enjoyed the most, other than the admittedly amazing performance episode.

However, it was still a part of Eupho, and at this point, I could not trust something

Much of this is because of the way it was advertised and discussed.

Most people that I talked to agreed that it's a yuri film, and yet all the discourse surrounding

it painted it in terms that conjured the ones that soured me from Eupho.

“Transience” and “parting” are topics that can certainly be handled well, Aria is

my favorite anime after all, but in yuri they often smack of “gay until graduation.”

Furthermore, much of my anger at the franchise came from the fact that in one way or another,

Kumiko ended up parting from her potential romantic partners.

If that were to happen to Mizore and Nozomi, I wouldn't be able to stand it.

So, when I sat down to watch the film at Anime Expo, with Eupho fans literally surrounding

me, my heart was beating faster than it ever has.

I knew that this was a pivotal moment, one I'd been afraid of and excited about for

I wanted to love the film, I wanted to prove to myself that my hatred of Eupho wouldn't

stop me, that Yamada could be trusted, that this weight which had been hanging over me

for almost two years could be lifted because I'm a strong person.

From that early moment where Mizore waits for Nozomi, only to sensually glue the camera's

gaze to her neck as soon as she arrives, I was enraptured.

Don't take this to mean that I calmed down, however.

The story-within-a-story of Liz and the Blue Bird is a tragic one, and given its clear

status as allegory for the relationship between Mizore and Nozomi, it left me more worried

than anything else, somehow beating my preconceptions at making me anxious.

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