In Search of Number Nine — An anime blog
It’s another week, and Twitter has become atwitter with its latest controversy du jour.
This time they’re focused on a column by Kambole Campbell that is titled: Wonder Egg Priority is reimagining Magical Girl empowerment.
According to the Twitter users, the title was only the beginning of the problems with Campbell’s overly enthusiastic analysis of the show. Most people took offense to this portion in particular:
“From the beginning are intricate layers of visual language that recall the work of A Silent Voice director Naoko Yamada (particularly her use of flower language) and the subjective, magical realist portrayal of reality that made Satoshi Kon a name. There’s even some Persona 5 in the way the show’s teenagers deal with the moral failings of adults.”
People largely mocked this sentence largely because of its mention of Persona 5. The commenters felt it was…
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