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It is unfortunate that you did not have a good experience. However what exactly are your expectations? One-Dimentional Chemistry? I mean its kind of a love story and they give it 40ish minutes of focus. Reze & Denji's relationship isn't complicated and thats kind of the point? Denji likes Reze because she's fun to be around its really that simple. The reality is that most puppy love, and honestly even adult romance is naturally like that, about someone you find attractive being fun to be around, and not every love story is trying to depict true love if anything this story showcases how fake and superficial it can be. Also you claimed it had surface level drama? I mean you can throw that allegation at even A Silent Voice and it could technically be true. Any plot that isn't overly complicated could be called surface level drama. While I could go on a whole discussion on how simple "surface level" drama is often more effective I think the even more egregious part of your take is that you think this was misery porn? Again what did you expect do you expect every story to have a purely positive ending or have all the characters happy singing kumbaya at the end? Furthermore at multiple times there was clearly comedy that brings enough levity to stop this from being pure suffering. If anything the first half is almost entirely focused to our main characters having fun in an innocent way which does not seem like traditional suffering porn. Furthermore no disrespect to Re:Zero but that series way more fits the description of "suffering porn" but you seemed to enjoy it.

Now, I can't make you like the characters and maybe something about them you disliked. However at the very least I would say the characters in this film felt more organic and natural than like 99% of anime. So if you don't personally like them as people you should investigate the reason why and if that was intentional or not. Furthermore you need to concider how they are implimented into the story and whether they fit their role properly for the kind of story this was trying to tell.

While I'm glad that there are other critically minded people in this space which I appreciate but, Your criticism is misguided and in bad faith I'm not sure what but some aspect of Chainsaw Man you couldn't accept and then subconciously rejected it as a whole from. Maybe you disliked an arc, maybe you felt something was overhyped? Maybe you felt something was too violent or that it wasn't funny? I cannot read your mind however my experience was nearly the opposite of yours. I'm a very critical person when it comes to anime I don't hand out high scores willy nilly to me a 10 isn't perfection but when something goes beyond the scaler of how good and enters into thr category of experience, something that evokes feelings you won't forget makes you think about it thoroughly afterwards because of how it connects to your own experiences while also having consistent quality which maintains Immersion to the extent to where you forget where you are at, and maybe even to breathe.