Joy to the world, the food has come!
Our homeless guy, Gin, is only here for the soup kitchen.
His companion, a homeless trans woman, says if god can make Mary pregnant with a miracle, why not her?
This may be a scam to get an extra serving of soup.
We open on a nativity play. A children's chorus sings Silent Night.
The pastor says Jesus was born to bring salvation to those with no place in the world. It's very hard to have no place in the world.
A homeless man sitting in the back of the church agrees.
Followup: the Rust core team has now spoken.
They confirm: there was some incident involving the core team. It was unclear how this ought to be handled. The core team and the mods tried to hash it out over _eight months_, but eventually all trust was lost.
If you're super jonesing for another Christmas special to watch, I guess you could throw it on the pile.
I can't really recommend it on its merits, but if you're watching weak shows because of a Christmas theme, it's at least different than the classics.
But for Christmas shows, we end up grading on a curve anyway. So how does it hold up there?
Well, it does manage to squeak a tiny bit of heartwarming out at the end of episode one.
It's a lot more standalone than watching the Christmas episode of any full series.
This is mediocre in every way. The animation isn't great. The writing is super basic.
Like most Christmas movies, it's churning out cheap work to make a buck on a guaranteed sale.
But Japan isn't a heavily Christian country, so I'm not sure how guaranteed the sale is.