100 meters is pretty average

I've never seen it. But, if you're watching anime for realistic dialogue, you're doing it wrong.

Mfs would read Shakespear and say: "Noone talks like that." Anime dialogue is not meant to be realistic, it's dramatic, there is value in that.

It's like one of those Mom Facebook posts:

"Everyone dies one day. Everyone. Even wolves. But not books. Not words. Words don't die"

\-my son 3, who is a lot smarter than I am

Saying "ugly character designs" and then closing it off with "Ping Pong >>>" is fucking hilarious. Ping Pong is strong in a lot of aspects, but the character designs are fucking atrocious.

>shoehorned trauma dump

We don't even know if there's "trauma" there. Could just have been your run of the mill mental health issues. Actually would make it way more realistic if there wasn't some deep dark trauma at home and Komiya was just fucking depressed cause life generaly fucking sucks sometimes.

>No kid talks like that to someone they just met

Debateable, kids are fucking weird.

>ugly character design

Bait

>Themes only seem deep

I don't even think it's trying to be "deep". What is the theme that you think "seems deep" here?

General feeling of emptyness/pointlesness? Struggling to find meaning and enjoyment in shit that used to mean everything to you? Struggling to find something worth dedicating your life towards? Just anxiety in general?

These seem like very basic aspects of the human condition that the author chose to explore trough the lens of 100 meter dash, which i would argue makes these topics less deep than just talking about them directly.

Now I like *Ping Pong*, but I find it funny that you'll use that as the better counterpoint when it also has dialogue that no high schooler would say and designs that are contentious to say the least.

I mean, I don't see that as an issue for what *Ping Pong* wants to be, nor do I find it to be an issue for what *100 Meters* wants to be.

There's some things that I found really cute in that movie:

1). The bearded character having the same VA as Nowak (from the mangaka's other manga, "Orb: On the movements of the Earth"). Poor VA is typecasted into badasss bearded dudes.

2). The protagonist breaking character design and transforming into rotoscoped live action Japanese guy when he breaks into tears.

I liked the movie, but I think your opinion is awesome too. I did take a break because the movie was longer than I expected.

This is some low tier rage bait, try better next time

100 meters still a good movie, but not as good as ping pong.

I would say 100 meters has good plot yet the pacing and animation quality is not that good. In some scenes i even think the pace and quality are awful. About art style i dont like both 100 meters and ping pong, but it does not interfere that they are good anime.

Highly competitive people talks like that. Even at a young age they develop that sort of obsession. That's why they are competing at the top percentile of 8 billion people. Their minds are wired differently and I think it's intentional that the author used those words.

I completely agree, could not care less about any of the characters and Uoto loves to just throw philosophical quotes into absolutely random dialogue. Personally I wouldn’t have that much of an issue with him taking this approach but he does almost NOTHING to make the reader feel engage in thought about that topic. Ping pong is literally better in every aspect. I saw some guy complaining about ping pongs character design and he along with the others have lost their mind. Sure pingpong characters look “Ugly” but the unique aspects they all have really makes them stand out. While in this movie every character just look odd and out of place or boring. Also don’t get me started on animation, sure the running looks good (they really capture the fluidity) but they try to incorporate their fluid movement into random scenes. Which IMO just looks really strange.