Sometimes a random trailer comes across my Youtube feed
I had no idea what this was but I found it was actually an announced sequel to
In a future where a massive disaster has devastated Earth, most of humanity has abandoned their physical bodies and relocated in digital form to DEVA, an advanced space station orbiting the ravaged planet. Free from the limitations of traditional existence, such as death and hunger, the...
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So I watched it because why the hell not, I never knew about it when it first came out in 2014
I enjoyed it. Imagine trying to fit every single possible anime trope of the last 40 years into a single 104 minutes film and this is what you get. Written by Gen Urobuchi, but the non butchery version. Thematically it felt a lot like Suisei no Gargantia (Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet) for anyone who remembers that one. Directed by Seiji Mizushima, best known as the director of Gundam 00. This movie has mechas. The amount of R-34 art of the female lead, voiced by Rie Kugimiya, is apparently off the charts and it's not hard to imagine why. I guess you can get away with constant butt shots when you're a feature film and not a TV show. The male lead looks like he fell straight out of Cowboy Bebop or any other late 90's era anime. There is a story about post-apocalyptic Earth, and some themes about transhumanism, and mechas have some fights, and honestly now after it's over all I remember is Angela's butt so I guess the movie accomplished what it set out to do
I can't wait for the sequel next year lmao