Mar 27, 2023
(this is my first review, cheers to that)
I saw this when I was a child. I was between the ages of 7-9 when I watched this with my older brother and maybe my older sister. I thought the main character was horrible. Yuri, as a joke played on her, her classmates nominate and vote her democratically to defend her school from aliens over her best friend who actually could handle it. The 12 year olds who are elected for this task have to go on patrol for aliens bringing along symbiotic alien beings they wear on their head that are used like bioweapons/armor. They essentially
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become after school child soilders. Yuri is berated and shown scorn and disrespect by the serious Kumi, niether fitting in with her or her other partner bubbly Kasumi. They fight, capture and kill aliens and Yuri's sensitive nature and sad demeanor causes her to cry and weep constantly while trying to preform the tasks which she mainly lags behind and burdens her fellow "Alien Party". Her Borg and her friend seem to be her only allies. As the show goes on, the awful situations Yuri and the other face continue to escalate and the trauma, horrendous and tragedy in the show stings and perfumes any screen showing this anime.
This depressing, confusing four episodes make up an incredible artwork and a truly unforgettable experience. It captures, marries and inflicts the surreality of cruel fate and the drama of realism in this at simultaneously genre-frenetic yet focused, grounded marvel. When you finish watching this show, you aren't the same person anymore. As I've said, I thought Yuri was a horrible crybaby when I first watched this. It's amazing how growing up and living life so many years after this show, I've realized that Yuri isn't some mere fish out of water. You experience her pains and her reactions to that pain are with her jarring display of emotion, (in my opinion) more accurately providing that window and pontoon bridge into her psychology and despair, because the show doesn't try to let you relate to <i>her</i>. She is (metaphorically, psychologically) tortured and even though the show rings you through despair, you experience it differently from Yuri. It is only if or when your own life allows you to become more like her, will you better understand her character. And in that way, one can truly feel how alone and broken she really is. It is a brave to have a vision in a show so uncompromising and so crammed with emotional experience.
I will continue to go back to this show to be in awe of it's story. On occasion.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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