Girls Band Cry ep2 has a helluva sequence about that "angry" type of social anxiety. Where you feel like you're not really part of a group, and where attempts to reach out to you just feel patronizing, and you can't help but bite the hand that reaches out to you
and how you KNOW you're fucking up by doing so, how you're pushing away people who are just trying to care for you, and now you can't help but get mad at yourself now for being so stupid!!!
but at the end of it all y'gotta let people in, y'gotta let people care about you, and you have to trust that they mean well when they reach out. and it's difficult!! but it's worth it
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Alright, finished the first episode of Girls Band Cry.
I suppose I should start with the important bit first: This show hasn't actually been picked up by any streaming sites in NA. So unfortunately, there's no official way to watch it subbed without taking to the seas and such. It's been a long time since I've seen a series just fall through the cracks tbh. And It doubly sucks for this series since I really enjoyed the first episode and thought it has some potential as a show.
While the models themselves could def be a bit higher quality, the actual animation of the characters themselves were fluid af. Easily up there with something from Studio Orange in terms of crisp CG movement and expressiveness.
Solid enough start as a series though I suspect I'll basically be the only person watching this due to it not having official licensing and the general aversion to CG anime weebs have... God, this is going to be another BBK/BRNK for me, isn't it?...
Also I suspect I'm going to be gaining a large collection of anime girls flipping the bird by the end of this anime...