On the surface this looks like everything you’d expect a film by Yoshiaki Kawajiri to be, male lead has to be muscular and well-built and the women while they are attractive are always the type casted character to be lined up for sexual abuse in some form or another by the antagonist of the movie. While that is the case Wicked City has some level of enjoyment to it, production wise and design wise this movie is highly creative this is one of Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s well known early works that established him as a big name in the 80’s & 90’s of anime. |
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However, contentment brings with it complacency, and over time humanity became so dependent on Fractale that social and technological development all but ceased. One thousand years later, Fractale begins to corrode and systematically shut down. Before it is gone completely, it's keepers, the enigmatic people of The Temple, initiate a plan to reboot Fractale and restore paradise. But a rogue element, a cult of anti-system insurgents that call themselves the Lost Millennium, seize this opportunity to attempt to shut down the system for good, recognising all the hundreds of years of growth and development wasted due to mankind's en masse addiction to Fractale. nter our protagonist, a fifteen year old boy called Clain. Clain has been raised as part of the system, but has never really taken to it as much as everyone around him. He has never even bothered creating a Doppel for himself, preferring to do everything personally. One day while returning home from an errand he meets and rescues a girl called Phryne from some LM pursuers. After hiding out with Clain for a night, she vanishes by morning, leaving in his care a brooch which (after cursory examining) releases the seemingly ownerless humanoid Doppel Nessa, a perpectually upbeat ten year old girl around whom the series will primarily revolve, as both The Temple and the Lost Millennium attempt to retrieve both her and Phryne as part of their plans to restore or destroy respectively the Fractale system.
light he had never considered. And while the Temple themselves are portrayed in very traditionally villainous ways, their goals are entirely altruistic. Yet the ML are displayed in a very light-hearted, almost familial way, but have no qualms about using terrorism in the name of their cause. In both cases we are shown how their ends, from their personal perspectives, entirely justify the means. When considering what each side fights for, both are offered sympathetically. And by the end of the series' scant 11-episode duration, the question is never definitively answered. The viewer is left to think for themselves: "What was achieved? Is the world now a better place than it would have been given the opposite goal? Was mankind's dependence on Fractale really such a bad thing, just because it seems so alien to our current point of view?"
It may not be greatest series of all time, but if you like your anime to present to you ideas and leave you thinking, it's fully worth the watch. Plus the English dub stars Brina Palencia in full-on convincing young boy mode, and the always amazing Luci Christian as Nessa. And Luci is *always* worth the admission price. Battle Angel Alita Ova (1993) *Minor Spoiler Review*
A Wind Named Amnesia (1990) *Non-Spoiler Review* Now this movie has been on my radar for some time, having seen clips of this but not the full movie I’ve had a chance to see it from beginning to end…it’s something that has one or maybe two problems but that’s nothing that stops this from being what it is, a good (but confusing) movie that manages to somehow bring something good into what it was trying to do.
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