ATTENZIONE/WAARNING: The presented content may contain spoilers also if I tried to keep everything as clean as possible.
I'm pretty confident that some of you when saw that I was not posting anything thought that I was disppeared once again, sorry (I'm not sorry for real) to disappoint you but I'm still here, if the english speaking public of the blog saw yesterday's article (is this formula correct? I'm not sure at all but it sounds good to me at least) then should have gotten that.
Moreover while I was on my holiday these two weeks I was in a place where internet was considered a god because was rarer then rare candies in pokèmon universe even rarer than daedric weapons in Skyrim, but I was still able to watch an incredibly good anime, Children of the whales.
Now I'll explain why it was so cool.
Children of the whales is probably available for legal straming only on Netflix (I recommend it because is an incredibly versatile streaming provider, for 13 euros you'll get the full experience + UHD resolution, it has a really cool library of tv series and also a little library of anime, nonetheless are like top notch: trigun, gundam, FMA, Cowboy bebop, deadman in wonderland etc...).
Plot in five lines: The anime is about a boy named Chakuro that works as an archivist on the mud whale, a ship that wanders in a sea of sand, one day the mud whale will run into another island and on board of that Chakuro Chakuro will find a misterious girl without name that will mess up everybody's lives forever.
However, the anime is good, I mean, really good, drawing style is neat also if it is not at the level of Violet Evergarden (just picture in your mind that incredibly beautiful gem), there is great attention to details and colors are employed to support the philosophical structure that stands beneath the series; infact people are divided in two groups:
-Colored ones: that still posess all their emotions and live on the mud whale.
-Black ones: grey human beings with black thaimyas (probably misspelled, things that represent power of emotions) that have lost their humanity in order to create, probably, a better human, the one that doesn't suffer so that it (he in this case would be an error) can live freely.
Philosophically speaking the cornerstone of the whole anime is the
importance of feelings in a society, we see the devastating effects that
have on us a life lived without experiencing sentiments and we're
taken to accept the existence of grief (I'll stop here because I don't
want to spoil anything).
The plot is cool and well built, I particularly love the escamotage that was used to avoid inconsistent explanations about the sand sea and the mud whale, they used a narrator that was an insider, part of a society that actually ignored its past so that there was no need of any explanation because could not be given. Cool!
There are three protagonists:
-Chakuro: He is an archivist, his role is actually to write down everything that happens, he is loaded with all the philosophical sense of the plot and I particularly loved the fact that he is not the badass character; he is important because he also gives hope to whoever is around him.
-Lykos: She represents error, destruction of any prebuilt knowledge, since the moment of her birth she was told that the inhabitants of Falaina (That's a sort of a spoiler sorry) were criminals but, by living with them for some time, she understood that it was not right.
-Ouni: the badass protagonist, the one that kicks enemy's ass, the one that does the dirty work. His name comes from japanese word oni that means demon and he may be one, an angel that acts like fiend. He is also another character that like Lykos saw his certainty fade away like tears in the rain (poteic huh?) there is a world aside from the mud whale but people are not good and are not even interesting.
I really liked also this division of the typical protagonist characterization in three, so that we don't have a character that is loaded with too many meanings that may even become ridiculous as (in my opinion) Kirito from Sword art online. There are also some others that should be kept under control like the little Neri and the boss of the guards they were particularly interesting and got my eye, hopefully in the second season we will see them acting much more. The need of a second season implies almost automatically the fact that there is no actual ending, just a sort of end that does not work at all but I'm confident that, after seeing what they have done with this first season, the second one will be beautiful as well, hopefully better.
I'm pretty confident that some of you when saw that I was not posting anything thought that I was disppeared once again, sorry (I'm not sorry for real) to disappoint you but I'm still here, if the english speaking public of the blog saw yesterday's article (is this formula correct? I'm not sure at all but it sounds good to me at least) then should have gotten that.
Moreover while I was on my holiday these two weeks I was in a place where internet was considered a god because was rarer then rare candies in pokèmon universe even rarer than daedric weapons in Skyrim, but I was still able to watch an incredibly good anime, Children of the whales.
Now I'll explain why it was so cool.
Children of the whales is probably available for legal straming only on Netflix (I recommend it because is an incredibly versatile streaming provider, for 13 euros you'll get the full experience + UHD resolution, it has a really cool library of tv series and also a little library of anime, nonetheless are like top notch: trigun, gundam, FMA, Cowboy bebop, deadman in wonderland etc...).
Plot in five lines: The anime is about a boy named Chakuro that works as an archivist on the mud whale, a ship that wanders in a sea of sand, one day the mud whale will run into another island and on board of that Chakuro Chakuro will find a misterious girl without name that will mess up everybody's lives forever.
However, the anime is good, I mean, really good, drawing style is neat also if it is not at the level of Violet Evergarden (just picture in your mind that incredibly beautiful gem), there is great attention to details and colors are employed to support the philosophical structure that stands beneath the series; infact people are divided in two groups:
-Colored ones: that still posess all their emotions and live on the mud whale.
-Black ones: grey human beings with black thaimyas (probably misspelled, things that represent power of emotions) that have lost their humanity in order to create, probably, a better human, the one that doesn't suffer so that it (he in this case would be an error) can live freely.
The plot is cool and well built, I particularly love the escamotage that was used to avoid inconsistent explanations about the sand sea and the mud whale, they used a narrator that was an insider, part of a society that actually ignored its past so that there was no need of any explanation because could not be given. Cool!
There are three protagonists:
-Chakuro: He is an archivist, his role is actually to write down everything that happens, he is loaded with all the philosophical sense of the plot and I particularly loved the fact that he is not the badass character; he is important because he also gives hope to whoever is around him.
-Lykos: She represents error, destruction of any prebuilt knowledge, since the moment of her birth she was told that the inhabitants of Falaina (That's a sort of a spoiler sorry) were criminals but, by living with them for some time, she understood that it was not right.
-Ouni: the badass protagonist, the one that kicks enemy's ass, the one that does the dirty work. His name comes from japanese word oni that means demon and he may be one, an angel that acts like fiend. He is also another character that like Lykos saw his certainty fade away like tears in the rain (poteic huh?) there is a world aside from the mud whale but people are not good and are not even interesting.
I really liked also this division of the typical protagonist characterization in three, so that we don't have a character that is loaded with too many meanings that may even become ridiculous as (in my opinion) Kirito from Sword art online. There are also some others that should be kept under control like the little Neri and the boss of the guards they were particularly interesting and got my eye, hopefully in the second season we will see them acting much more. The need of a second season implies almost automatically the fact that there is no actual ending, just a sort of end that does not work at all but I'm confident that, after seeing what they have done with this first season, the second one will be beautiful as well, hopefully better.
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