The tl dr - this is a show that is honest about sex, romance, unrequited love, and more. I would encourage readers, alongside watching the show, to brush up on the general concept and background of the show by browsing the associated Wikipedia page. But this is not a review of the show itself. Recently, after (painstakingly) tracking down all the music for Scum’s Wish, I’ve had all the more reason to think on it. It’s been almost a year, and generally, a week doesn’t go by that I don’t have some memory of the anime or some other reason to recall it.
#KUZU NO HONKAI SOUNDTRACK TV#
While I will be referencing concepts from the TV show, before continuing on to the music reviews, I cannot state enough how much this anime impacted me. I would implore you to do so, perhaps before reading the following reviews. Amazon added the English-subtitled localization of the show to their premium channel “Anime Strike,” which is now-defunct, meaning anyone with an Amazon Prime account can now access the show without incurring any additional charge. Last year, Fuji TV aired the 12-episode anime adaptation of Mengo Yokoyari’s manga Kuzu no Honkai, which had the unfortunate translated title Scum’s Wish (note: this was not a decision on the part of localization the title existed from the start in the Japanese manga). I found something I didn’t even know I wanted in Scum’s Wish. Which is to say, I finally found a piece of Japanese pop culture that took on the topics of sex and romantic relationships with some nuance and maturity. While I very much doubt that this is the first TV anime to break the mold, it is the first one to which I’ve been exposed. This is not a judgment to any of you who are fans. (And I won’t even begin to get into concepts like “fan service” or bouncing breasts “chichi yuri.” It’s all quite childish to me. That not only made me uncomfortable, it left me with a moral dilemma time after time more often than not, I sided with team chaste over time libertine. They may have had better plots and production value than a cheesy American porno, but their express purpose was to titillate and turn on. For decades, those were the words that I associated with virtually all “hentai” Japanese animation and erotic games (eroge).
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