Japan Sinks: 2020

The premise is simple but somehow realistically and follows a family after a catastrophic event and their journey for survival. Very emiotional and consequent story telling. It also provides beautiful animation and soundtrack and reminded me a little of "Your Name" in these aspects, but in comparison it lacks of interesting characterization (only good and evil) and storytelling (too many ex machina moments). It would have been better as a standalone movie with concentrating on the main characters, but Netflix probably don't likes solo anime movies .

The first episode was fantastic. It just worked. You could feel the environment, the stress and chaos. But the rest... The rest is meh. There are simply using Screenwriting 101 rules that make everything too predictable. Another thing that didn't really fit is all of the force fed diversity and inclusion. Like, look at those Japanese nationalists that don't like foreigners - let's us blow up their ship. Because they are bad. Just too cheesy.

First episode is good, after that is just a downward journey. Story telling is bad, animation is excruciatingly terrible. One character dies at every episode, just for the sake of it, and others just get saved by miracle means. Completely waste of time, save yourself from the disappointment.

At the beginning I was like, ok, this is interesting and has a lot of potential, by the middle I thought what the heck is this turning into and by the end I was crying like a baby.

So overall there were bad moments but also really emotional ones and that's the most important for me personally, in the end, it made me feel something.

Cool story and concept, but was hoping for more. The animation feels cheap at times. Character development is fairly weak and the emotions of the characters are completely unaligned with how you would imagine people would be if their country is sinking. "Hey, let's all take a selfie!" Or people giggling and chatting light-heartedly 5 minutes after a major earthquake levels entire cities. Even their decision to move to another location at the beginning doesn't make much sense from a survival standpoint. If there was massive flooding, they were already on the highest ground in their city at the Shinto shrine. Why leave in the first place? It leaves us with a rather unbelievable performance. As a side note, the English dubbing is pretty terrible too.