Arve Rezzle: Kikaijikake no Yoseitachi
Garbage not worthy of Anime Mirai. The whole idea of Zexcs being given government funds to "train" young staff is absurd enough, but it's even worse that the end product was artistically and conceptually bankrupt given that total creative freedom comes with the grant. It was otakushit of the lowest order--sibling incest, titillation, and a convoluted soup of technobabble and bad anime cyberpunk tropes ranging from the SAO-esque mass coma/death of people using VR brain implants to Psycho-Pass's shitty cybernetic attack dogs. To make the badness complete, most of the short's animation consists of droning, lifeless talking heads and characters are run through a cheap-looking digital sketch mark filter. There's an obligatory action scene so terribly integrated into what was theretofore a story about two characters blahblahblahing their own pasts and expository infodump at each other that it's never explained why the characters' lives are suddenly being threatened. I mean, the antagonist literally bails out when asked what her motives are and that's that. Anyone else who planned to watch this because of LWA should save themselves twenty minutes because it's a disgrace to the project.
Two things to take away from this:
- Joakim Mogren is CG, and Kayaba Akihiko created him.
- The "young talent" who helmed this, Yoshihara Tatsuya, will be directing his first full-length anime series this season in Namiuchigawa no Muromi-san (that mermaid show). Adjust your expectations accordingly.
edit: fuck I hate that I wrote literally two words on LWA yet I was able to go on at length about this. I'll try to make a second, more substantial post on LWA tomorrow.
Garbage not worthy of Anime Mirai. The whole idea of Zexcs being given government funds to "train" young staff is absurd enough, but it's even worse that the end product was artistically and conceptually bankrupt given that total creative freedom comes with the grant. It was otakushit of the lowest order--sibling incest, titillation, and a convoluted soup of technobabble and bad anime cyberpunk tropes ranging from the SAO-esque mass coma/death of people using VR brain implants to Psycho-Pass's shitty cybernetic attack dogs. To make the badness complete, most of the short's animation consists of droning, lifeless talking heads and characters are run through a cheap-looking digital sketch mark filter. There's an obligatory action scene so terribly integrated into what was theretofore a story about two characters blahblahblahing their own pasts and expository infodump at each other that it's never explained why the characters' lives are suddenly being threatened. I mean, the antagonist literally bails out when asked what her motives are and that's that. Anyone else who planned to watch this because of LWA should save themselves twenty minutes because it's a disgrace to the project.
Two things to take away from this:
- Joakim Mogren is CG, and Kayaba Akihiko created him.
- The "young talent" who helmed this, Yoshihara Tatsuya, will be directing his first full-length anime series this season in Namiuchigawa no Muromi-san (that mermaid show). Adjust your expectations accordingly.
edit: fuck I hate that I wrote literally two words on LWA yet I was able to go on at length about this. I'll try to make a second, more substantial post on LWA tomorrow.