#A Place Further Than the Universe

[mikaila-orchard]

If you haven't watched this show yet, you're doing yourself a disservice. Here's why.

[purpledemonlilyposting]

[Lily's Post]

Look I know alot of you think my criticisms of A Place Further Than the Universe are only cause Lorch likes it but there is absolutely zero focus on science in the show and that's part of my problem with it.

It really is just a slice of a life focused entirely on getting 4 high school girls on a big technical boat for purity moeblob gooners.

At one point the girls go outside on the ship, alone, at night, during a storm, getting soaked by freezing cold ocean water in their pajamas against a thin rail they could easily get swept away from and this is treated as cute rather than idiotically suicidal. They just giggle and talk about how salty the water is.

SCIENCE!

None of the 4 girls are interested in anything STEM related. They all just want to go to Antartica because that's the plot.

Kimari just wants to do "something with her youth" because that's how 50 year old Jukki Hanada thinks 15 year old girls talk, Hinata just overheard them talking about it in the convenience store she works at and thought it sounded neat, and Yuzuki is only going cause she's like a minor child star celebrity idol vlogger or some shit and her manager mom (who is NOT accompanying her) thought sending her on a Japanese civilian expedition to Antarctica would be... good PR? Yuzuki also the only way the other girls even conveniently get on the trip.

Shirase at least HAS a reason, even if its a desperate, stupid one based on grief. Her mom disappeared out there 3 years ago and she wants to "find" her (more she just wants closure and is clinging to a childish hope her mom is still alive.) But Shirase's mom ALSO was NOT a scientist and ALSO just went to Antarctica just because she thought it sounded neat. And died in a blizzard out there trying to retrieve a laptop so she could email her daughter a photo of the aurora australis.

The girls get like one night of tent training and thats it. They don't even have to be in peak physical condition for a trip to one of the most dangerous places on Earth. It is barely about this expedition, its just there as an excuse to put moe high school girls next to accurately rendered machinery.

Here's how I'd rewrite this show: if it HAS to be high school girls maybe have the four attend the same school and be into different aspects of research. Maybe Hinata wants to be an engineer, Shirase is following in her artic researcher mother's footsteps despite the danger, Yuzuki could still run a popular vlog but maybe its climate science and no one takes her seriously cause she's a young girl believing she's just the presenter being fed information by a team, and Kimari could just be getting introduced to these fields she never even thought about before. And they're all trying to earn a grant that will allow them to go on the expedition.

But I suppose "girls and women being scientists" is too much of a stretch of the imagination for an aging Japanese man.

[liquidstar]

this is not a comprehensive list

[anisongoftheday]

A Place Further Than The Universe Opening

The Girls Are Alright! by saya

[dailyfigures]

Kobuchizawa Shirase ; A Place Further Than The Universe ☆ Good Smile Company

[squirrelstothenuts]

[poire087]

[lillian-v-orchard]

Lily's New Video Leaked and she couldn't help but put her personal life in it.

Hey @anioop / @failsafe-blog did any of this happened with your friends? Do you think Lily reached out to any one of them?

[ova-kakyoin]

broadly speaking there are 3 types of original anime: competent, over-ambitious, and indulgent

competent stuff is the kind of shows that have people begging for more anime original stories, think odd taxi, vivy, a place further than the universe, basically every big anime movie

over-ambitious stuff starts out with people begging for more anime original storoes but it becomes clear that the creators were in over their heads to some degree. the most infamous examples of this are kado and wonder egg, but classroom crisis, akiba maid war, and angel beats to a much lesser degree are also probably closer to this category than the former

indulgent shows aren't over ambitious really, they usually do have a lot of ideas shoved into them and aren't super well realised, but you can tell that the creators weren't really trying to do much besides have fun, and this makes them loads of fun when you don't take them too seriously, think robihachi, bucchigiri, and samurai flamenco

[averinna]

Big list of anime to show you that the most popular ones don't mean that the medium is only made of shonen nekketsu, shonen romcom and isekai.

There's of course more example but I didn't watch all anime in existence, I think it's still a good start.

[iyashikei-tournament]

Welcome to round one of the Iyashikei Tournament! Matchups were chosen randomly, and are listed below! Best of luck to all of our contestants, the polls will be up within a day or two!

Tanaka-kun is Always Listless vs Tamako Market

Hakumei and Mikochi vs Barakamon

Gakuen Babysitters vs Sweetness and Lightning

Yama no Susume vs My Roommate is a Cat

Kino's Journey vs Yokohama Shopping Log

Flying Witch vs Natsume's Book of Friends

Nekogami Yaoyorozu vs Tiny Snow Fairy Sugar

Kobato vs Let's Make a Mug, too!

A Place Further than the Universe vs The Morose Mononokean

Mokke vs Shimanami Tasogare

Girls' Last Tour vs Poco's Udon World

Aria vs March Comes in like a Lion

Laid Back Camp vs Non non biyori

Play it Cool, Guys! vs Silver Spoon

Super Cub vs Bartender

Deaimon vs Mushishi

[whyareyoulikethislily]

lily being higher than thou with this as her fav anime lmao

Video; i have reposted this as a screenshot as lily has blocked this account (gee i wonder why)

[spiderandmosquito]

videos on A Place Further Than the Universe to watch instead of hers

[commanderkyubey]

3 AM aesthetic mood board

[that-one-kiddo-in-the-back]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Oh my God, she actually made a good video review she's learning. Let's give her around of applause👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Too bad that she's still a fucking hypocrite, with how much she complained about dungeon meshi for having a bath scene then she should have hated this anime with a burning passion.

If she likes something then there are a millon reasons of why this is a great thing and the people are great for being into the thing but if she hates the thing then everything and one is a fascist or "dead in the head" as she would put it.

Now, I have never seen a place further than the universe because I don't like moe anime. I think they are really creepy, and when it's subbed, I find the high-pitched VA to really hurt my ears but something about how the girls in this one always crying made me think that the creator has some kind of crying kink.

If she hadn't made a big ass stink about dungeon meshi having two adult women sharing a platonic bath with each other but fucking closes her eyes at high school girls being objectified by grown men, I wouldn't give a shit about her video.

But her comment about "Oh, you can skip that one scene." Is such bullshit because you have to skip a big chunk of the episode.

She was also so close to not trauma dump on her viewers but for fuck sakes she just can't help herself can she?

Now, if it wasn't for her hypocrisy and the fact she brought up her sister yet again, I really wouldn't care. I don't have that much to say about her video because, again, I haven't watched a place further than the universe, and at this point, I never will.

[dailyfigures]

Miyake Hinata ; A Place Further Than The Universe ☆ Good Smile Company