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[matt0044]

Japan Sinks 2020 was what I needed.

In many ways... it has felt like the world as a whole is sinking proverbially. Seeing Ayumu's friends and family fight tooth and nails to survive their homeland's destruction was gut-wrenching to watch.

It really is a story what Anyone Can Die. No warning. No death flags until even minutes before. Hell, most are killed unceramoniously even after all their screentime and narrative prescense. I thought that even Ayumu, our protagonist, and Goh, her little brother, could snuff it.

God, Episode Eight was something.

In the end, Japan sinks but it's people, the tried and tested survivors, live on. We see their culture immortalized and not allow the catastrophe define their future.

And I hope it's something we can do.

Climate Change is a disaster of our world leaders' own making and with the likes of Trump still refusing to keel over, it's only going to be a war until something like Japan sinking occurs. But I think seeing stories about survivors weathering the storm to end all storms helps me feel hope for the future.

That it really can get better after it gets worse.

Perhaps that's why disaster movies have endured. We wanna see people who can be tested by God himself and how we can win.