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PilotPayback
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might just be me geeking out (and i don't think a SINGLE person will get this) but it still kinda blows away by the fact that an artist who appeared on monstercat and ncs (aiobahn) made the op (i think) for this anime. i know that grant was listed (albeit uncredited) on a track for the f1 movie, but it still kinda amazes me.
i know it's under a different moniker (aiobahn +81), but still...it's really impressive. |
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WANNFH
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dm
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Episode 3 did some interesting things with framing — Ame’s memories seemed to be in an “old TV” frame ratio, with borders on each side of the screen (as well as graininess as from an old VHS tape or old film), then full-screen for other scenes that seemed to be Ame’s mental imagery (the piano).
Episode 3 was brutal, and almost hard to watch. This series feels a little like it’s set in the world of Shiboyugi. It’s not hard to imagine Ame deciding to play the death games at the center of that series. |
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TJ_Kat
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So, this is a sequel of sorts to the game? Should I put this on hold and play the game first for background and context, and/or so the show doesn't spoil the game? It's already in my Steam library, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.
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egozi14
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I will say that we're in an era that most probably still hasn't gotten the message, and sadly at times where creators have even a harder time passing these kinds of messages due to the seemingly easy trigger on censorship even in less extreme subjects in comparison to Overdoses. sadtimesgetsadder sadface~ |
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MiniGhost
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Honestly you should just watch the 2 Aiobahn music videos about this world with subs, INTERNET OVERDOSE and INTERNET YAMERO. I feel like the anime is more linked to those songs than to the game, and the songs are kind of linked to the game, but also kind of separate. And the game does not really have a plot that you can spoil. |
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IronWish
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Meh, having played the game would ground your experience with an anime little bit, especially in episode 1, but I don't feel like it's required. Especially with ep3 giving us arguably more context about Ame-chan then game ever did. As MiniGhost has correctly stated above, there is barely any conventional plot in the game, so don't worry about spoilers, anime and game feel more like companion pieces at this point. |
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Gem-Bug
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I'm not really looking for a synopsis, but this a review of the first 3 episodes and doesn't really say much about any of them? Just kind of reiterates the themes and how important they are.
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Chipp12
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https://hazedenki.net/api/Post/Details/needy-anime-and-humanity-the-staffs-resolve
Wish the reviewer actually did the research first before posting that warning. |
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dm
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Episode 4
Great review. The allusions are heavy, as usual. They spent some time with Lain, clearly, but, where Lain leaned into the internet of the future, this is full of allusions to the past — Windows 95 error pop-ups, modem noises, VCR artifacts…. Even all the talk of “rock and punk”. Are these sounds and images even familiar to people in their teens and twenties? Maybe they’ve also spent some time with Boogiepop Phantom. I couldn’t help but think of Utena’s shadow puppets when Kache and her co-worker talked about Kache’s new look (but also the ritualized greeting chanted by the staff when you enter some cafes is a form of turning the workers into puppets). Milk Bar scenes: Beethoven’s Ninth, then in the second (dumping the champagne) scene, The Thieving Magpie — both diegetic, both from Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange which the Milk Bar, as a setting, no doubt uses for its own “sound track”. Then: the opening chords of “London Calling” as Kache leaves. 12:51 — Is Purple Lolipop transforming into a Takashi Murakami jagged-tooth Mr Dob? (https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2152911_1_m.jpg) (probably just standard super-deformed). Who is drinking the soda and lining up the cans for Lolipop to shoot? |
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TJ_Kat
Posts: 870 Location: Saskatoon, Canada |
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What I found poignant was after kicking her boyfriend out, Kache acknowledges there were good times in the relationship too. No matter how badly a relationship ends there is a reason it began in the first place, and a reason it continued to the point it ended. That Kache can recognize that I think shows an incredible amount of maturity seldom seen, especially in fiction.
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Hyorp
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I tried watching episode 1 when the show first started, and didn't find it that watchable..
Just too many jumps that were hard to follow who was who, and the plot didn't make much sense. And this was having played the game and looking forward to this show since it was first announced. So my question.. Does it become more understandable going forward? I saw it got 5/5 for first three episodes, but was that as a culmination of the episodes together? Or did I miss something amazing in episode 1? |
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dm
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Yes, that first episode was a lot.
The next few episodes begin to put all the pieces into context. Maybe I should go back and watch the first episode again. The third episode goes deep into Ame’s background, with not a whole lot of the frantic jump-cuts and scene shifts, though is still pretty intense. |
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IronWish
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I think it deliberately goes for Shaft-esque sensory overload approach in its presentation, and these things either work for you, or don't. As for "more understandable", at least cast seems to be mostly fixed in size so far, once you've got used to these people it should become easier to keep track of what's happening if that's your main issue. |
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dm
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Episode 5 seems almost leisurely after the preceding episodes. It also feels a little like a transition episode, preparing for what comes next. Not a lot happens, except connections form among characters — some new, some from the past.
Some real improvements on what might be called “Shaft-isms” in the production — the use of Kache’s new plaid skirt in the intertitles, used as callbacks to her “glow-up”. |
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