Eve no Jikan act01: AKIKO is the first in a six part series by Yasuhiro Yoshiura which seems to explore the implications of robots who look and behave exactly like humans - androids - becoming an integral part of society.
Very little can be said without spoiling too much, so I will limit myself to discussion on the execution here. The flow and pacing of the story was excellent. Every scene transitioned well and the characters themselves were full of life and expression. Yasuhiro Yoshiura truly loves his twists at the end, however this time it wasn’t too big a surprise but was exciting nonetheless (Rikuo’s expression was priceless).
Many thanks to pireze for ripping this show from Yahoo’s video stream service and subtitling it!
Major spoilers after the jump:
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In an artificial world colored in faded tones of grays and browns, the past has long been obscured - forgotten even.
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I didn’t catch this until I saw some screen captures, but the music piece in the background here is Beethoven’s Fur Elise.
Figure 1.0: Quite a bit of attention to detail.
I was surprised that they went through the trouble of putting in an actual score, although I guess with the shift to digital rendering of anime, this probably wasn’t too hard.
One thing I’d like to see in this anime is more piano pieces - since they seem to portray Haruka as more or less a virtuoso, I thought we’d get to hear more classical music.
Edit: The scene is from episode 3, around 27 seconds in.
Warning! This post is full of TL;DR fail.
A response and a discussion of value and preference of literature (and obviously other forms of media). (more…)
This time I vectored an image from some SnS product (think its a cushion or a mousepad?), so the source was an annoyingly sparse 500×500.
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Fumina Konoe Strikes Back was definitely one of (if not) the best Shana-tans I’ve seen.
Figure 1.0: Shana-tan mulls.
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>:3
In the eyes of the beholder - at first it simply looked like the response of a multi-coupled band-pass line filter…
Figure 1.0: Jesus Christ its a lion, get in the car!
hahaha.
For some reason I was quite surprised that they mentioned some actual literature in the anime.
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I am not certain as to the stimulus behind the comparisons between two distinct media, and while not even outright (literature spans the full spectrum of creative and uncreative output of humanity so I guess such complete inspection would be unnecessary and tiresome), it is quite true that fiscal impetus is a primary driving force on televised works. Thinking of literature meant primarily to be entertaining (and thus might cater to even the lowest common denominator - which isn’t always the case as my friend touched on in his Honey and Clover article Mike so graciously linked), many cases come up which are, in a way, just as intellectually uninspiring as anime: The Da Vinci Code, many science fiction works, I would like to mention more but it had been too long since I read a non-academic work. In contrast, writing and publishing a book with a very small intended audience is quite possible, however I do not believe that animated shows easily lend themselves to such solitary efforts, Makoto Shinkai being an anomaly - it simply costs too much and distribution used to be a problem. Although with increased computing power (efficiency) and with the internet, anime might see an increase in independent, thought-provoking works whose primary objective is to show something to the audience for the sake of making them think (see Yasuhiro Yoshiura). (more…)
J.C. Staff <3
I thought that the Shinra Banshou ought to be quite convenient, one possibility shown in Figure 1.0 (comic).
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