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Edjwald
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Your Forma (TV) Source: Light Novel (ongoing @ 7 volumes, written by Mareho Kikuishi, illustrated by Tsubata Nozaki) Demographic: Seinen Animation Studio: Geno Studio Genres: drama, mystery, psychological, science fiction Themes: androids, artificial intelligence, detective, Europe, future, moral dilemma, police, robots, technology, virus Plot Summary: In an alternate near future, the Your Forma, a miraculous "smart thread" technology initially developed to treat a massive outbreak of viral encephalitis, has become an integral part of daily life. But these convenient devices also record every sight, sound, and emotion their users experience. For Electronic Investigator Echika Hieda, diving into peoples' memories via the Your Forma and hunting for evidence is all part of a day's work. The problem is, she's so adept at what she does that her assistants literally fry their brains trying to keep up with her. After putting one too many aides in the hospital, the top brass finally furnish Echika with a partner on her level, a brilliant yet cheeky android named Harold Lucraft. Air Date & Platform: April 02, 2025 (Wednesday) Available on: Amazon Prime, Samsung TV Plus, YouTube Episode Count / Runtime: 13 episodes [EDIT: Fancy opener stuff edited. -TK] Last edited by Edjwald on Tue Mar 25, 2025 4:09 am; edited 2 times in total |
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smurky turkey
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The first two volumes were so exciting to read that I lost sleep due to not being able to stop reading so count me in.
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Splinterspawn
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Would you please be so kind to tell your source for that claim? Can't find Your Forma in the lineup of Crunchyroll for the new spring-season. Thank you! |
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Edjwald
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No, thank you! I made a mistake. As to the source of that mistake, I'm honestly not sure. I made a lot of threads over the weekend and went back and forth between multiple sites, so it might just be Edjwald error or some site changing it's info after the fact the way I'm doing now, though that usually only happens with dates.
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Splinterspawn
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Thank your for that clarification!
The licence lies with REMOW (a company which does simulcasts on Youtube (among others)). They had "Tasokare Hotel" as simulcast on YT just till last week (when it's last episode aired). Source: https://www.remow.com/en/works/ So, hopefully they will do a simulcast for Your Forma as well! (They already released 2 trailers for Your Forma on their YT-Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ItsAnimeJP ) But to be honest: I hoped that CR would get Your Forma... |
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Edjwald
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Welp, we're starting to sound like those overly polite gophers from the old Looney Tune cartoons, but I'll apologize profusely for getting your hopes up anyhow. Thanks for not being a dillhole about it.
It does look like a great anime - the set-up kind of reminds me of an old show called Almost Human that I really liked and which deserved more than one season. |
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Splinterspawn
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It's not a big thing, I just thought I had overlooked something. This "Almost Human" series/movie looks quite interesting. Maybe I'll look into it. 
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Interrupting this overly polite gopher exchange to register my supreme disgust over Edjwald's truly unforgivable mistake. Dead to me. Hee-hee-hee, I kid, I kid. Tasokare Hotel was also run on Amazon Prime so perhaps this will show up there, too. Looks good, for sure.
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Splinterspawn
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I'm from Germany, unfortunately we can't watch Tasokare Hotel on Amazon Prime, since they didn't get the licence here. My only chance to see it was on YT. But maybe I'll try it with VPN next time.
For now, all I can hope for is that Your Forma will be on YT as well... 
At least I got me the Light Novels. 
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Tony K.
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Those are some bold words, there. The duo of Karl Urban and Michael Ealy in that show was on the cusp of becoming legendary. But Fox being Fox cancelled another great sci-fi show after giving it "The Firefly Treatment." Given the showrunner for AH was also one of the writers for Fringe, makes its cancellation even more aggravating. Oh, what could've been.. I wish that guy and the guy who cancelled Westworld burn in Hell. |
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Argh, the mention of Firefly is like a dagger to my heart. When you toss in the insane cancellations after a mere one season of Freaks & Geeks, Undeclared and My So-Called Life my rage starts to approach core of the Sun intensity.
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Edjwald
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At least Firefly got the Serenity movie, and Fringe completed its main storyline (and should have ended with it IMHO). Almost Human got screwed.
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Harleyquin
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Another highly anticipated entry for this season. Source material fans love this (and there's a warning about how difficult it is to follow for readers with their brains switched off) and the studio behind it has a pedigree for doing science fiction works to a high standard. First thing which springs to mind is how many similarities this has to the iconic Ghost in The Shell franchise. Both have a prodigy-level protagonist who can perform tasks that most baseline humans can only dream of, and the technology level of this universe is so high the usual investigative techniques police departments rely on in the real world don't apply at all. The bombardment of personal advertising customized to each individual's VR feed is more a reflection of our modern times than they were in Ghost in The Shell (when social media didn't exist). As for the story, criminal case investigations in the near/far future using mind dives as the primary means of gathering evidence. Unlike Kusanagi Motoko who hacks into electronic brains, our protagonist Chieka Hieda does so via a wire which is connected to a victim/suspect's interface. She'll then travel through the mind and memories of the subject. Her amicus (cyborg) assistant Harold serves as backup, since human partners cannot keep up with her mental activity and their brains are fried as a consequence (the depiction is similar to victims of defensive firewalls in the Ghost in the Shell franchise). Chieka Hieda however has a personal dislike for Amicus, and if not for how effective Harold is in his ability to keep up with her work she wouldn't want to have anything to do with him. Like most stories of this type, we casual viewers are plunged right into the middle of the tale with background information relevant to the current case only being mentioned in passing during the episode. The Amicus are bound by what appears to be Asimov's 3 laws of Robotics, but one specimen in particular has gone rogue and started killing humans. Since this is a huge scandal if it's reported, everyone's keen to get this case solved before it's leaked into public knowledge. In addition, there was some kind of mass murder case in St. Petersburg prior to this episode which Harold played a huge role in solving, and his "owner" is the widow of one of the victims. More information to be had from that hopefully as the series progresses. Few franchises have approached the iconic level of the Koukaku Kidoutai franchise, but this adaptation if executed well might have a good chance of being its equivalent this decade. It's off to a good start, now to see what more it has to offer. I get the feeling the dynamic between the human investigator and her amicus assistant is going to play a big part in determining the franchise reception with a broad spectrum of fans (Youtube videos of skits between the pair from Twin Engine are already out). |
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DuskyPredator
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I was thinking it a bit funny that the future with AI in these sorts of sci-fi stories are becoming more and more actually realistic. I was actually watching Neuro-sama just before the first episode.
The more I thought about it, the more I actually found it funny that the police officers happened to have a newspaper on hand and were using it as evidence of the android possibly being the culprit. Are newspaper articles admissible as evidence now? A general thought I had of the episode is that it is like the past, present and future at once. The past in that some elements feel like older anime like Ghost in the Shell. The future as it is feels futuristic. But also the present as some elements are surprisingly actually possible now days, with the glimpses of HUD stuff being what phones can do now. |
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smurky turkey
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Man, that episode sure has me feeling a bit mixed. Animation wise it is fine with some decent detail here and there but it is nothing that great. Story wise it is very interesting with a setting that shows a future with a lot of impressive tech but also quite a few things you might not want to experience. Getting ads thrown in your face is one of those (although one that is believable). As for Your Forma recording your every memory... I am still not sure whether that is a good or bad thing.
The case is gripping in that the consequences of it could be rather significant. Knowing that an android could disregard the 3 laws would make for quite a few people wanting to be rid off them after all. The mc duo make for a fun pair and seeing a futuristic London works for me somehow. All that said, the mixed part comes from this show starting with the second volume. I really wonder how they are going to go from here given that the first volume is very much an essential introductionary one to not feel completely lost in later ones (technology, history etc). It also establishes the two mc's plus their backgrounds. |
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