First anime I’ve watched after months. Very good, 8/10. What I liked the most is the exaggerated amount of dialogue and that theatrical atmosphere. Even though only one was truly philosophical and the rest political or social critique, each one has its own value and they’re all very entertaining to listen to. Regarding the message, it’s an exposition and critique of the American nuclear family inherited by Japan, unfolding in the psychological, philosophical, and political realms. To explain the causes of this phenomenon, it uses politics, narrating the cultural appropriation of American family models by Japan, which the Japanese government exploits to keep the State standingand the danger that its dissolution would entail. To explain the reactions of the members to the phenomenon, it uses psychology, arguing that as a result of the boredom and stress of the sad family life, its members will look for any excuse to find a greater purpose in their lives, even at the cost of dissolving themselves. Finally, to explain the irrationality of this reaction, it uses philosophy, through which it rejects any fanciful excuse to try to escape the monotony of life, proposing an empiricist and objectivist point of view.
This as an analysis of the message of the work. But for me, it shines more in its form than in its substance, and therefore, all of this can be interpreted in many ways and does not exhaust its value in what it has to say, but rather in how it says it. Good stories are those that exhaust all the resources that the medium through which they are transmitted can provide, and this one fulfills that characteristic abundantly.