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Better Than Girls Band Cry – Jellyfish Can’t Swim At Night Reaction Ep. 1
Better Than Girls Band Cry – Jellyfish Can’t Swim At Night Reaction Ep. 1
With my ongoing rewatch of Girls Band Cry underway, I decided to also take a look at Jellyfish Can’t Swim at Night, another music-based anime that flew under my radar due to being released around the same time as Girls Band Cry, to see if it was just as good.
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Jellyfish (Yorukura) anime started strong but the story regrettably stalled by mid-season and completely fell apart at the end: last episode's attempted "resolution" simply lacked credibility and left a sour taste in most viewers. That's why Jelly has much lower MyAnimeList score than Girls Band Cry (Garukura) and why GBC fandom is still huge, magnitudes grater than Jelly's. Yorukura had potential but it ended up a failed venture.
Furthermore, Jelly and Garukura animes have totally opposite stories: the Jelly girls go in a virtual direction, due to various fears they gradually distance themselves from other people by retreating to online-only presence. Meanwhile, Garukura's Togenashi Togeari band members are initially fascinated by online popularity statistics (especially Nina and Tomo) but soon find out it's hollow / void and doesn't matter. They overcome their worries, shame, remorse and do live house concerts all the time, connecting with people in person. By the end of ep13, TogeToge even gives up label agency affiliation to revert to "indie" band life and tour in a minivan with their not so popular j-rock music, living a free life they like. That's why GBC is revolutionary in both story and characterization, not just the fluency of 3D-CGI animation tech.