Congratulations anime! You managed to catch up to early seventies Lois Lane women’s lib stories:
Sora to Umi no Aida is yet another anime based on a mobile game and all it had to do was to translate its gameplay of going fishing in outer space using mythological beings as bait into another cute girls doing cute things show, but instead it went for a sort of pseudo feminist angle. So now it’s 2018 and we have an anime that features a plot seventies DC Comics would’ve found a bit patronising. Women are just as good at fishing in space as men, so let’s make our show undercut its message at every turn by making the women into incompetent harpies. It is painful watching this, seeing time wasted on this asshat when we could’ve had some good yuri going on. I know Japan has a reputation for being ‘backward’ when it comes to feminism but this is absurd.
So the idea is that one day in the future all the fish suddenly disappeared from the oceans and now Japan needs to satisfy its craving for tasty, tasty sushi by fishing outer space fish. It’s a stupid, absurd premise and if this series had glorified more in its stupidity rather than go for some battle of the sexes subplot it might’ve been fun; instead it’s just boring.
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