This review contains spoilers for the whole thing its less than an hour long if you wanna watch it. Its also kind of sloppy as its partly me trying to comprehend the story at all and it was helpful for me to write this review as during it I was able to really understand my feelings about the anime. After School Tinker Bell is something that I thought was okay until I was midwriting the review and I really thought about one character. Ryoko Miyazaki. Unfortunately for you all to explain why she sucks so bad I have to explain basically the whole plot and two other characters. Kenichi Misako and Hiiro are students at a seemingly unnamed high school. Hiiro is in love with Ryoko a member of the broadcast club along with Sasamoto and a character Ill refer to as President because she doesnt have a character page and I dont remember her name. Other characters include Edogawa and Keiko hall monitors at the school and Okazaki. So about Okazaki. Okazaki is despite only being shown on screen through photographs one of the most important characters in the anime. Okazaki commits suicide before the show begins which we find out shortly after the main conflict of the anime starts Ryoko getting kidnapped. In Okazakis suicide note he mentions something about becoming Peter Pan This is important I promise. The broadcast committee receive a letter saying that Ryoko was kidnapped signed by Okazakis ghost. Ryoko stages this to get back at Keiko because Okazaki left Ryoko for Keiko. Unfortunately this backfires when Sasamoto attempts suicide over the incident. On the topic of Peter Pan I have to explain this whole can of worms before I can even begin to try to explain Sasamotos motivation for attempting suicide. So the kidnapping note mentions something about Peter Pan. Literally every supporting character knows that Okazakis suicide note mentions becoming Peter Pan but nobody thinks to mention it to Misako or Kenichi. Sasamoto Edogawa and President all fail to mention it when they had ample opportunity. Regardless because of this Misako reads the story of Peter Pan. Kenichi and Misako hypothesize that in this metaphorical Peter Pan story Edogawa Okazakis brother is Peter Pan Ryoko is Tinker Bell and Keiko is Wendy. Quick Detour to Edogawa because he makes no sense either. So basically Edogawa and Ryoko were both in on the disappearance and Ryoko was staying at Edogawas house the whole time. Edogawa is a cheater dating both of his dead brothers exes Ryoko and Keiko. Ryoko finds out and says absolutely nothing because shes actually just obsessed with Okazaki and the only reason shes dating Edogawa is because theyre bloodrelated. So after ALL THAT I guess we can talk about Sasamoto. Were thirty minutes into the movie out of like fourtyfive. At this point it feels like everyone was in on it because shortly after you find out Edogawa was in on it you find out not only is Sasamoto in on it hes going to kill himself so people dont find out about what happened between Edogawa Ryoko and Keiko which everyone already knows about and to make everyone think HE is Peter Pan which literally nobody knows about except the characters Ive mentioned in this review. But thats fine right? Reasons for suicide arent typically what I would classify as rational. Ryoko the girl who Sasamoto is helping would rather him die than let a secret everyone already knows get confirmed. This is not stated with words of course the anime wants her to seem like a good person but her actions tell everything. Shes sitting on her ass doing nothing shes now listened to the tape twice because she listened to it then called Misako then had them listen to it then explained more backstory about Edogawa and Okazaki that doesnt matter and ONLY THEN does she do something. No its giving her too much credit to say she does something. Kenichi and Misako do something she just follows them. This is someone that Sasamoto really cared about and it seemed like Ryoko cared about him too. I dont buy it. She cries during the scene where Sasamotos tape plays but contextually I dont believe those are tears of remorse theyre tears that say I regret calling Misako. Thankfully Sasamoto doesnt actually go through with it. Everyone else gets what they want too Ryokos secret technically isnt confirmed Edogawa gets... something I think. And Kenichi and Misakos lives go back to relative normality. The conclusion. Ryoko Miyazaki made problems for everyone involved in her life to hide something the whole school already knew about and almost let someone who considered her a close friend kill themselves. No she let it happen. She was totally willing if Misako and Kenichi hadnt stepped in while improbable considering what Sasamoto says in the scene where the trio finds him he could have seriously harmed himself. Ryoko is a character that makes me incredibly angry. Shes like Miki Kawaihttps://anilist.co/character/124033/MikiKawai from A Silent Voicehttps://anilist.co/anime/20954/ASilentVoice/s worst qualities times ten. I was able to sympathize with Miki but Ryoko is unsalvageable. This anime gets a 6/100. This show made me even more angry than Number24https://anilist.co/anime/108628/number24/ which I could not shut up about when I first saw it because of how unintentionally shitty a person the writers made the main character. P.S. Apologies again if this is like literally unreadable? Its probably super messy because I wrote this review in just a train of thought as if I was complaining about it to someone which I will probably do to my friends tomorrow when they wake up and then edited it slightly.
6 /100
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