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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- ...? i don't quite understand... joshiraku in the future? but I found one thing that there is a stripe patsu scene. |
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| It's Mirai-hen (Future), so you need to check novel, manga (the stories before this) to get to know the full story. I thought the characters lives in future, but they time travelled from 600 years ago to get some messages to destroy the smartphone in order to save the future. + Awkward movie that they did younger. Thought so, I heard sister (Iguchi-san)'s voice from one of the four. I saw Kimura-san's name. Is that the long silver haired guy? I like the ED by Kawano-san. |
tsubasaloverNov 2, 2012 5:54 AM
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zimno said: DID YOU NOT PAY ATTENTION? They are to make things right and shit went bad enough that they are confused about it. With limited communications they are trying to come to a solution. ...? i don't quite understand... joshiraku in the future? but I found one thing that there is a stripe patsu scene. What's not to understand? They should have spent time more on explaining some side elements like the future itself. |
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HauntingShock said: Subs :( I'm sure someone will do it. Maybe me, if it's any good. |
Shoujo_Q said: HauntingShock said: Subs :( I'm sure someone will do it. Maybe me, if it's any good. I can't find any news on who's gonna handle it~ If it's been long and no one's still picking it up, sure, go ahead :D Edit: You're from Aidoru? Cool :D |
| Just as a note to whoever added this to the SUBS FUCKING WHERE? club, subs are being worked on. Translation and editing are done. |
Shoujo_Q said: Just as a note to whoever added this to the SUBS FUCKING WHERE? club, subs are being worked on. Translation and editing are done. Oh god good news~! |
HauntingShock said: It's cause the level is high school of this series but complex stuff is nice. There is a slight confusion in this episode due to other material not being translated or available in a visual manner just literary whom is a pain in the ass to learn. So that's the main problem but a adaptation of the literary material should be done IMO to compliment this episode.Shoujo_Q said: Just as a note to whoever added this to the SUBS FUCKING WHERE? club, subs are being worked on. Translation and editing are done. Oh god good news~! |
tsubasalover said: It's Mirai-hen (Future), so you need to check novel, manga (the stories before this) to get to know the full story. I thought the characters lives in future, but they time travelled from 600 years ago to get some messages to destroy the smartphone in order to save the future. + Awkward movie that they did younger. It is actually 6000 years not 600 years, although very strangely the decay from the Present time does not look like that much time had passed... Anyway, the premise is that in the Present time the world is going to oblivion -- people are disappearing and civilization is collapsing. Somehow in a community some time manipulation method was found so that everyone starts to live the same day over and over again. Since there is no future, the world's collapse is prevented. But what then? At the end, a way to send people to the past or the future is found. And people who passed certain test form an expedition team to the future, while those who passed some other test form a team to go back to the past. The anime is about those who came to the future (6000 years from Present) This movie requires at least the Present part(novel) to really understand it. I do not have access to the Past (manga) or Present part (novel) so as much as I tried to decode what happened there are things that I do not quite understand. The "awkward movie" seems to be one of those things: its significance may only be revealed if we have knowledge about what happened in other parts. The whole movie, in fact the whole world view, has a strong new wave feel. There is little attempt to explain the future or how the future world is like or how it functions. The characters are not in any sense of urgency and they chat along in a world-weary tone on some mundane subjects common seen in modern Japanese youngsters (albeit in an exaggerated way). Most of the dialogues are like that -- so atmosphere and mood plays much more important role and anybody hoping any clear explanation about the science and world building is in for big disappointment. I have since gone to the official website to get more information. There are introduction and even some sample pages from the Past and the Present to read. It clears up certain things. For example, while the heroine in Future is Yakusa, her boyfriend Kirishima is actually the hero in Past (which explains the awkwardness when they talked for the last time on phone), and the straw-hat wearing girl Arata is the heroine for the Present. The Past is even more new-wave than the anime apparently -- from the introduction it seems the team arrived at the inside of a cinema and could never get out until something drastic happens.... |
symbvNov 2, 2012 11:05 AM
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
Yumekichi11 said: HauntingShock said: It's cause the level is high school of this series but complex stuff is nice. There is a slight confusion in this episode due to other material not being translated or available in a visual manner just literary whom is a pain in the ass to learn. So that's the main problem but a adaptation of the literary material should be done IMO to compliment this episode.Shoujo_Q said: Just as a note to whoever added this to the SUBS FUCKING WHERE? club, subs are being worked on. Translation and editing are done. Oh god good news~! There were also references to the Robin Williams film Dead Poets Society in it... which were fun. |
| looks like commie picked it up |
bnaks said: looks like commie picked it up Yup. Will watch tom :D |
| this just kinda went over my head as a anime viewer should had turned this into like a mini movie series or something was to short get anything out of it. |
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| Boring OVA IMHO... but pretty decent looking girls. =P |
| This ova made me Mind fucked. I barely knew what was going on, until I rewatched some parts. Someone tell me If I'm correct here Soo..They went from the Past > Future > Alternative past? someone tell me if I'm correct here. |
TyrelNov 7, 2012 1:44 AM
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| Interesting to see the future portrayed like that. |
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Tyrel said: Wonder if you read my earlier post in this thread...Soo..They went from the Past > Future > Alternative past? someone tell me if I'm correct here. Anyway, they sent one team to Future and another team to Past. At the end it seems they go to an alternative future which somehow links to the Past. |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
symbv said: Tyrel said: Wonder if you read my earlier post in this thread...Soo..They went from the Past > Future > Alternative past? someone tell me if I'm correct here. Anyway, they sent one team to Future and another team to Past. At the end it seems they go to an alternative future which somehow links to the Past. I didn't. I posted and then left the thread. |
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symbv said: Anyway, the premise is that in the Present time the world is going to oblivion -- people are disappearing and civilization is collapsing. Somehow in a community some time manipulation method was found so that everyone starts to live the same day over and over again. Since there is no future, the world's collapse is prevented. But what then? At the end, a way to send people to the past or the future is found. And people who passed certain test form an expedition team to the future, while those who passed some other test form a team to go back to the past. The anime is about those who came to the future (6000 years from Present) This movie requires at least the Present part(novel) to really understand it. I do not have access to the Past (manga) or Present part (novel) so as much as I tried to decode what happened there are things that I do not quite understand. The "awkward movie" seems to be one of those things: its significance may only be revealed if we have knowledge about what happened in other parts. The whole movie, in fact the whole world view, has a strong new wave feel. There is little attempt to explain the future or how the future world is like or how it functions. The characters are not in any sense of urgency and they chat along in a world-weary tone on some mundane subjects common seen in modern Japanese youngsters (albeit in an exaggerated way). Most of the dialogues are like that -- so atmosphere and mood plays much more important role and anybody hoping any clear explanation about the science and world building is in for big disappointment. I have since gone to the official website to get more information. There are introduction and even some sample pages from the Past and the Present to read. It clears up certain things. For example, while the heroine in Future is Yakusa, her boyfriend Kirishima is actually the hero in Past (which explains the awkwardness when they talked for the last time on phone), and the straw-hat wearing girl Arata is the heroine for the Present. The Past is even more new-wave than the anime apparently -- from the introduction it seems the team arrived at the inside of a cinema and could never get out until something drastic happens.... Thanks to you. I understand it all now. At first, "why did I ever watched this anime. I don't get it." But after reading this one, it makes me feel sad. Sad about Yakusa and his boyfriend. I hope they will meet again. But it's hard to think that, This is just a touching story. I like it. :) |
| Too deep for me or poor story storytelling? Fuck, I don't get it. Might rewatch it again sometime. |
| I have no clue what just happened they spent too much time on teenage girl talk and the ending just came outta nowhere with little explanation. Very disappointed they could of done much better with this premise. |
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KingofConquerors said: Without knowing what happens in the Past (which is a manga) and the Present (which is a novel) I thikn it would be hard to judge the anime on its own. Things would not make sense if you look at only the anime. and those guys came from the present, right? so, if they were still in the future at the end (a reformed one, or perhaps a future in another timeline [so, the time travel system works sorta similarly with Steins;Gate!?]how the hell did the grey hair guy show up in it?[if he was from the present]) i rated this a 7 since i'm a generous person when it comes to scoring and because of its outside-the-box idea...but overall this wasn't good enough... From what I could gather about what happened in the Past and the Present. It seems those guys were from the Past as well as Present. And somehow the guy from the Past (who was seen sitting at another corner of the cinema near the end), who is the boyfriend of the heroine, managed to change the future but it will only happen if the heroine made up the mind to destroy her mobile phone. But how exactly he managed to figure it out or what he did to correct the future I have little idea. As I said, the whole thing is very much like reading a new wave science fiction where there is no hard science and science/technology serves a very secondary and unexplained background for the atmosphere and mood set for the character interactions. I have a feeling that even if we read the manga and the novel, we may not get to know every details of what happened and all the causes and effects. |
symbvNov 7, 2012 8:46 PM
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
VioLink said: The anime definitely does not aim for the science, but is a way to provide a setting to showcase the ennui of a bunch of teenagers but also point to how they (well at least the heroine) want to step out of it.I have no clue what just happened they spent too much time on teenage girl talk and the ending just came outta nowhere with little explanation. Very disappointed they could of done much better with this premise. I also wrote a bit more about the whole anime/manga/novel package of Arata naru Sekai. Perhaps it can be of help for understanding what this anime is about: http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=507345&show=0#msg18112631 |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
Zel_Ezl said: [ But it's hard to think that, |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
symbv said: VioLink said: The anime definitely does not aim for the science, but is a way to provide a setting to showcase the ennui of a bunch of teenagers but also point to how they (well at least the heroine) want to step out of it.I have no clue what just happened they spent too much time on teenage girl talk and the ending just came outta nowhere with little explanation. Very disappointed they could of done much better with this premise. I also wrote a bit more about the whole anime/manga/novel package of Arata naru Sekai. Perhaps it can be of help for understanding what this anime is about: http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=507345&show=0#msg18112631 So basically this anime is only for people who have read the previous parts. How did smashing a cellphone change everything? |
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| I get that you need to read the manga/novel to understand what's going on here... but where do I even read them? I can't find them anywhere, but maybe I'm just not looking hard enough. |
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KazukiJurai said: I could only find a dozen of sample pages of the manga and the novel at the official site, so I can't help here... I got a bit more information from reviews written on some Japanese blogs. Anyway, the anime is sold as part of a package (which is branded as a "media mix total-experience package") that has the manga and the novel, so for those who bought the stuff they would have access to everything right from the start.I get that you need to read the manga/novel to understand what's going on here... but where do I even read them? I can't find them anywhere, but maybe I'm just not looking hard enough. |
symbvNov 7, 2012 8:45 PM
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
 "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." Oh I heard that somewhere. Anyways, it's an interesting concept although I was a little confused of the concept. So, accordingly, it's about some girls who traveled some 6000+ years into the future to..evade human extinction? Hmm, I wonder what caused that in the first place. Guess, I should read the manga/novels to know more soon. There are strange birds in the sky from the beginning..and everything seems to be a bit random. Overall, I liked the characters' designs and the setting. It has a little of From the New World theme imo which is another series that I enjoy watching. That bird reminds me of some creature from the manga series, Cage of Eden. I think symbv's post summed it up pretty well so definitely going to give the manga a shot in the future. Not bad for this OVA although wasn't too special imo. For them though, there's definitely a future. |
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| Huh, seems my interpretation was way off. Thanks to symbv for clearing some things up, but sadly I will have to lower the rating because of this. Personally I thought that she had to destroy her cellphone to save humanity as well. But the phone would be symbolism for people having contact through media more than physicall contact(as in, meeting each other in person), which eventually resulted in humanity's decline. Destroying that phone, humanity would be forced to search physical contact again. This also fits in what's currently happening in our society, so I really loved it. But as I said before, symbv somewhat cleared up what this really was about, thus pretty much destroying my interpretation haha. |
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| The anime is very interesting,and i think might be explained if read the novel and manga,but i haven't found nothing,and someone know if will be only this 1 episode or will be released more episodes? |
| Wish I could've got the back story. Would've let me enjoy it more. But I did like it and got... perhaps a general grasp of what was happening. :< |
| I wish i could read the manga and novel... |
| «Brain Processing» «...» «Processing Failed.» But really, I understood it partly, around 75% of the story, but they should have atleast made it a series, movie, or even a set of OVAs -_- |
| I gave this a 5, for relying on outside material to tell its story. |
Stark700 said: I would say it is more like exploration, as the girls said - it is kind of like a school excursion. And it is interesting how little prepared they were - you don't get to see any survival kit or equipment, and they made no attempt to test if the air, water or food (fish) are safe to consume. The NEW WAVE Science Fiction feel is strongly there right from the beginning. Anyways, it's an interesting concept although I was a little confused of the concept. So, accordingly, it's about some girls who traveled some 6000+ years into the future to..evade human extinction? Hmm, I wonder what caused that in the first place. Guess, I should read the manga/novels to know more soon. Stark700 said: The way I see it, the anime, as well as the manga and the novel, deals with the ennui and lack of passion for life among the teenagers. They were living the same day over and over in The Present; they got nothing to do in The Future (so just lazy chatting and playing little games like linking words or playing students in a classroom to kill time). But the heroine finally decided she could and should make a break (the phone may actually be a symbol of attachment to yourself, the past, or the virtual -- as in The Future the phone does not work anyway so it is more like a symbolic object) and things start to move. The emotion they felt watching a film made back in The Present, in a cinema that was the location in The Past, as well as the words spoken by the guy who greeted them on the street earlier, seems to indicate that there is indeed a way to move forward and to feel emotions if you are willing to take the step. For them though, there's definitely a future. Anyway, just my little interpretation. |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
| The concept is interesting but because it is indeed just one episode it was confusing at parts even with my mind going into it prepared for a confusing OVA. That said it would be much better as a set of OVAs, perhaps not a full series but maybe six episodes or something. Also is it safe to assume (i know his face wasn't shown) that the guy who sat up at the end was her boyfriend Kirishima and so they ended up in the same timeline again? If so at least its a happy ending in that aspect because the way they portrayed it from her viewpoint it would have been depressing if they never saw each other again. |
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| Interesting concept. I almost cried when they played that movie. |
| wtf did i just watch |
LordStraw said: Huh, seems my interpretation was way off. Thanks to symbv for clearing some things up, but sadly I will have to lower the rating because of this. Personally I thought that she had to destroy her cellphone to save humanity as well. But the phone would be symbolism for people having contact through media more than physicall contact(as in, meeting each other in person), which eventually resulted in humanity's decline. Destroying that phone, humanity would be forced to search physical contact again. This also fits in what's currently happening in our society, so I really loved it. But as I said before, symbv somewhat cleared up what this really was about, thus pretty much destroying my interpretation haha. That's an interesting theory from a thematic point of view, but it doesn't make a whole lot of sense in regards to the plot. How does destroying a phone in the future change the past? Guess I'll have to read the novel or whatever. I think I got most of the rest of it though. As others have said in the thread, humanity was dying so to prevent that, they set it so that one day kept repeating over and over (the present). They then sent kids into the past and the future, the future being the anime's story. What I found interesting was the future was quite literally just the very next day. That's why yer one's name was still on the board. The kids sent to the past find out how to fix the future, so they send a time capsule to the future telling yer one to destroy her phone. This is where I lose the thread a bit, because I guess what happens is the kid in the past sends a message to the grey haired kid in the present who then tells the girl to dig up a letter when she goes to the future...or something. I'm sure the other material explains it further. Not sure if I'm particularly bothered to check it out though. There's interesting ideas, but it's a bit too sentimental for my liking. |
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| I expected a bit more from this.. slightly disappointed, yes. |
| It was really good. I understood it and it was a well spent half hour. I just randomly decided to watch it as it got released in subs and i'm glad i did. |
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| I really loved the music when they were watching the movie. Somehow that got me right in the feels |
| Okay, so this really doesn't work as a standalone. it had an interesting atmosphere and made me curious about the worldview, but unless I get to read novel and manga I feel this was a bit of a waste of time. So please contact me if anyone sees them being translated! Still there were some issues, like the lack of decay, that could be explained in the other parts, but I just think they didn't care as much for realism as they did for atmosphere/story. |
| I probably regret this post by now. |
| Damn, we seriously need to read the manga and the novel to understand what the hell was going at the end which isn't that surprising considering that Arata naru sekai was announced as a multimedia project. |
| Kinda cool being multimedia project and all, but if they ever decided to release past, present and future in an anime, that'd be pretty cool too... |
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