Wednesday, September 21, 2011

[Ended] No.6: I've seen this somewhere...

The story of Shangri-La, no I mean, Fractale, no I mean, No.6 is a concept we've seen quite a few incarnations lately, each with a different theme. In the case of No.6, it's the theme of yoai.

Really, if you think about it, the three animes I listed above really have more or less the same story line of how someone is trying to tear down and rebuild a broken and corrupted post-apocalyptic society. The core of all these stories, always involves some sort of supernatural divine power that mankind tries to control and use for their own benefit. But eventually the greediness would backfire and disasters loom. But one that manages to convince or become of the divine power, saves the day (and sometime the divine power would return the favor by saving them as well).

But the heritage of this story doesn't stop there. If you trace it back far enough, you'd realized that all of them, and other similar works, are really more or less the modified version of their earliest ancestor, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, created by no other then the legendary director himself, Miyazaki Hayao.

While they all tried to make an modified version of the story, sadly, none of them (that includes No.6) had made enough change to make the concept refreshing again, nor have they done enough to make them not to be recognized as a direct ascendent Nausicaa's concept.

Final scoreboard:

Drama: 71 (Not significant)
Comedy: N/A
Action: N/A
Art/Animation: 71 (Nothing special)
Sound/Music: 75 (So so)
Character: 70 (One dimensional)
Plot: 70 (Over used concept with nothing new)
Ending: 61 (Saw that coming miles away)

Re-watch value: 0 (Absolutely none)

Overall: 68 - Nothing new

There's nothing special in the story, nor was there any exceptional character development. All there is just a plain flat story slowly (sloooooowly) inches forward until it hits the inevitable end which you can see miles ahead. In my opinion, there's nothing here worth wasting your time on.

1 comment:

yoekix said...

the ending was absolute horrible, i was expecting something better since i haven't seen the previous yoai 'reincarnations' or maybe i did and don't remember.

I went and deleted this from my hd.