Man, Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again has some really bad animation and art direction choices that it's super distracting (I think even the sound design is fucked, but that might be how my laptop's speakers are positioned?), yet it's just such a sweet little idea. I dunno, I guess I just miss my grandparents a lot still while also hoping I'll be able to grow old with my husband, so it's bringing out a lot of conflicted feelings in me. I honestly have to take this anime at my own leisure, can't just binge it or the like. Happy to know it's self-contained, from the looks of it.
though i haven't watched it fully, i figured/wished it would have been much more focused on the gpa/ma and the angst/romance there than having the whole family focus. i like the idea, the bittersweet ending, the grandpa's deal leading to it etc, but there's SO many ways it could have gone overall. personally i have low standards for most shit too production wise, but main thing is i wish they looked more distinct and didn't both keep white hair. resembles yosuga no sora or something.
angst isn't really the full direction, but there's a lot of room for emotional shit, them being young but places they remember not, wanting to stay younger with them for longer, potentially self sacrifice attempts to keep the wife/husband alive and "no idiot i don't want to be here without you" DAWWWWW shit. i feel like a little busters era Key production of that idea would have been a fuckin emotional BANGER with their psychological knowledge.
>he ruined her wedding by stripping her half-naked in front of everyone and punching her in the face till her nose and teeth were broken
>and then magically crushed her uterus so she couldn't have kids and left her squirming in pain on the ground
>utterly humiliated her in front hundreds by having her be disowned by her father and lose everything she ever had, leaving her a crying wreck while everyone laughed at her
>and then he crucified her naked and left in the woods where she was magically kept alive in a state of hellish agony for a year as animals and maggots slowly ate away at her
>occasionally he would teleport her in to show off her convulsing, insect-covered, decomposing-but-still-technically-alive body to people
>magically restores her just so he can fuck with someone else
>"Hey, wanna marry me to piss off your dying dad?"
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>she's the author's self-insert
Do women
really...?
i partially agree with you. but let's be fair here, it's a unisex thing, though to varying degrees. i mean, look at stuff like fate. i can't even remember all the visual novels i played where a waifu would fuck you with a sword before anything else, and quite a few were fan favorites. roberta from black lagoon types, nearly the entire yandere fetish, a good deal of the dommy mommy/amazon fetish, etc.
and of course there's the basic unisex appeal thing of "i can fix them". if you have someone that seems very fucked in the head, subconsciously you may think "if i help them, then they're going to be super connected to me/basically owe me, be devoted to me" which is why a lot of stories play that off, and have like a complete psychopath yandere whore-bitch who winds up being a high tier partner to the protag/self insert.
again, fate's an easy mainstream example, and off the top of my head i believe all 3 main waifus have alt events where they kill the fuck out of shirou in very explicit, gory detail, and are mega fucking popular. type moon in general really, like tsukihime's even worse about that, they've got more "will literally fucking kill you" than "will fuck you". "werewolf tackles woman and brings her back to camp"/"amazon punches man in the gut and runs into the forest" is some popular shit, and some people want "werewolf goes a little ape shit"/"amazon is taking you back to camp whether you/your childhood friend fucking like it or not".