Chou Kaguya-hime! Episode 1 Discussion

Watching this because I've heard a lot about it on Twitter ànd it has a high rating so it must be peak.

Iroha, a regular girl who crossed paths with the lunar princess Kaguya, this is the beginning of her adventure as a single mother and then as a streamer and as a singer and her adulthood. I liked those scenes of she taking care of Kaguya, was pretty cute and she was projecting herself in her, interesting.

But is not what I was expecting, like not at all. I was expecting something about a space adventure, something supernatural with action and that stuff but that kind of stuff only took place in the meta verse and the whole movie was more about mundane things, I feel catfished by the title hahaha. That was what I was expecting but it was more of an analogy of growing up and that kind of stuff.

Not as touching or deep or interesting as I thought. The characters weren't so unique or interesting besides Kaguya who surely was special but it wasn't explored very much. That final revelation was probably the most interesting thing but the whole thing about Kaguya in the past for 8000 years was irrelevant. Also people say it's a romance story but I don't see it, Iroha's relationship with Kaguya is more like a mother-daughter thing rather than something romantic and that's the point since it's an analogy of her projecting or that's how I see it.

I give this a 7/10, the visuals were very good and the songs too I guess. Pretty disappointing tbh and I didn't know it was available on Netflix, since it wasn't on crunchy I thought it was only in cinemas in Japan or something like that so I watched it on a random website, I mention this because I could have watched it with the dub. Very forgettable.