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Kotaro Lives Alone (2022)

Review by joshdawson-74520

Kotaro Lives Alone

10/10

A wonderfully heartfelt journey that will make you laugh and cry

Heartbreaking yet also heartwarming endearing and hopefull, with lots of morals and lessons along side some great wholesome, yet still freaking hilarious humor! 😆😭🙂

,(NOTE: This show is really good! I don't want to take anything away from any of the experience by explaining too many specific details of the show. So I'll do my best to explain why it's so good while not to giveing anything away.)

Lite hearted full rich engaging plot line with all kinds of twists and turns, full rich charictor and overall story details & story telling! Even if you don't like anime, you don't have to be an anime fan, or even a fan of animation in general to appreciate this show! There's no extreme crazy reactions and behavior like a lot of other anime. Other than the fact that it's a young 4 year old boy living on his own, it feels very lifelike and real. (It's not far off from reality in that sense either, being that children as young as 6 or 7 sometimes live on their own in Japan.) It emphasizes many of the troubles and tribulations children go through when dealing with life as well as the grown-ups that go through it with him and through their own tribulations. It Pertains to all types of children and people, but especially children that have gone or are going through extream hardships in life. (Kids that live on their own in particular.) The scenarios of each episode (as well as the overall story) are all very litteral & often times hard to face realities of oife, but still manages to get the most important points and overall moral accross in a way that highlights the often painfull reality of a situation, without making it too heavy to handle, distastefull, intricate to grasp or being harsh to the point of just being sad. Rather it focuses and offers examples of how the best way to help make yourself better others better and a situation better is often by staying true to yourself and others, driving to be the best genuinely good person you can be, staying strong when things get hard, and that trusting the ones you care for to help you when thing get hard doesn't mean that you're weak and that more often than not they will be happy to help you. There's many great examples in the show of how, even though life may be difficult and hard, it's still worth it to not be so disheartened and lose hope. It shows exactly why things can, no matter how unexpected or unpredictable, still, more often than not, turn out ok!

All the main charictors are really good, but the main charictor Kotaro, more than any others, is an amazing charictor with a big heart & lots of love to share! He's always showing how even when someone may not seem to have have much to offer, that sometimes it's the little gestures of kindness, always being kind, how to be kind even when it's hard, and merely having faith no matter how hard thing get that really matters and is the best way offer the most that can ever be given! He really is an inspireing little guy!

The show is definitely made for everyone of all ages, however, although it has amazing lessons that everyone can learn from, laugh at, cry about and relate to, I very adamantly feel as though the show was mean especially for the younger children who live on their own in Japan, to help everybody better understand their situation, and it does an amazing job doing so! As well as an amazing job relating to everyone as a whole! And is just an amazing show in general! It's an awesome show that demonstates how we can all benifit from striving to be better people, and I can't wait to see more! 😁👍

(NOTE: I don't often give anything a perfect score! But this show is a special exception! I think that if they had tried anything harder, complex, convoluted, overemphasized ect to the show that it actually would have taken away from it. It one of those cases where if you try to make it absolutely perfect you risk missing the whole thing up.)
  • joshdawson-74520
  • Apr 4, 2022

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