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[best-underrated-anime]

Best Underrated Anime Group B Round 4: From the New World vs Plastic Memories

#B1: From the New World (Shinsekai Yori)

Coming-of-age story set in a “utopia��

#B4: Plastic Memories

Human falls in love with an android

Details and poll under the cut!

#B1: From the New World (Shinsekai Yori)

Summary:

In the town of Kamisu 66, 12-year-old Saki Watanabe has just awakened to her psychic powers and is relieved to rejoin her friends—the mischievous Satoru Asahina, the shy Mamoru Itou, the cheerful Maria Akizuki, and Shun Aonuma, a mysterious boy whom Saki admires—at Sage Academy, a special school for psychics. However, unease looms as Saki begins to question the fate of those unable to awaken to their powers, and the children begin to get involved with secretive matters such as the rumored Tainted Cats said to abduct children. Shinsekai yori tells the unique coming-of-age story of Saki and her friends as they journey to grow into their roles in the supposed utopia. Accepting these roles, however, might not come easy when faced with the dark and shocking truths of society, and the impending havoc born from the new world.

Propaganda:

Shin Sekai Yori is a show about everything. While I cannot fully explain all the themes without spoilers, I will do my best to avoid them. This is difficult because the main twist of the show (which comes in the last episode) recontextualizes the entirety of the show and pulls together the rest of the themes so neatly that, to be frank, it eclipses any other writing decision made within the 21st century.

Shin Sekai Yori is an anime adopted from a novel which ran for 1,000 pages in its original Japanese. Shin Sekai Yori is about the following: gender, sexuality, coming-of-age, children’s rights, eugenics, the corruption and necessity of authority, parenthood, the loss of a child, the cycle of violence, Christianity, Shintoism, humanism and transhumanism, pacifism and at what point the measures taken to uphold it become violence, the dissolving bonds of childhood which come about due to both personal growth and change and outside pressures, nuclear fallout, environmentalism, and whether or not the assumed human authority in the world also covers human authority over other humans.

Principally, Shin Sekai Yori is about a war which doesn’t start until the end. It’s about the benefactors of colonialism and racism being forced to confront the things they have done to people that they never considered to be people. It is about seeing what the previous generation did wrong and wanting to do better, but not knowing how because you were never taught. It is about making that choice anyway. It is about seeing a dead child not as an “other,” but as a part of your community, even if that child did betray your community. While Shin Sekai Yori does conform to the “Fantastic Racism” trope to a degree, it is one of few shows which effectively subverts and inverts it. I will not go into further details on that due to spoilers.

Shin Sekai Yori is also occasionally advertised as “LGBT-Friendly” due to the rules of the society in which our protagonists live. However, this is merely another facet by which Yusuke Kishi examines the control exercised on the lives of children: both in a way of showing the “opposite” of the expected puberty (with opposite-sex couples being banned in sci-fi-hi-school), and in the way that these relationships are seen as mandatory, just as they are in our world. It is impossible to tell if there is real love in any of these relationships, but the ending of two of them results in some of the most miserable M/F sex put to page, so there was at least passion. I could speak further, but I received a warning about the length of my submission in what was once this paragraph. Thank you kindly for your time. [bows]

Trigger Warnings:

Warnings that involve the main characters:

Child Abuse, Emotional Abuse

Animal Cruelty or Death (two dogs die, one by exploding, and the main characters abuse a lot of naked mole rats)

Nudity/Pedophilia (the society in which the children live encourages prepubescent sexual contact and it is shown onscreen)

Kidnapping (of a protagonist’s child)

Graphic Depictions of Cruelty/Violence/Gore (there is a great deal of blood)

Then there’s genocide that happens partially in the background.

#B4: Plastic Memories

Summary:

Eighteen-year-old Tsukasa Mizugaki has failed his college entrance exams, but after pulling some strings, he manages to land a job at the Sion Artificial Intelligence Corporation. SAI Corp is responsible for the creation of “Giftias”—highly advanced androids which are almost indiscernible from normal humans. However, unlike humans, Giftias have a maximum lifespan of 81,920 hours, or around nine years and four months. Terminal Service One, the station Tsukasa was assigned to, is responsible for collecting Giftias that have met their expiration date, before they lose their memories and become hostile.

Promptly after joining Terminal Service One, Tsukasa is partnered with a beautiful Giftia named Isla. She is a Terminal Service veteran and considered the best in Giftia retrievals, contrary to her petite figure and placid nature. Time is fleeting though, and Tsukasa must come to terms with his feelings for Isla before her time is up. No matter how much someone desires it, nothing lasts forever.

Propaganda 1:

This anime is a heart-wrenching masterpiece. It is slow, tender, and incredibly cathartic. The art is beautiful, and the story is enchanting. Of all the random anime I watched in middle school, this one really stuck with me.

Propaganda 2:

My brother and I watched it together. He ugly sobbed at it so hard, he had to go stand outside and weep down the phone to someone and my mom thought that he’d received news of someone’s actual death. He was okay, though, I promise

Trigger Warnings: [Not Stated]

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[seikaku-ga-warui-died-twice]

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[healing0924]

[kuzuyami]

[sightsandsalads]

Live look at me after finishing Plastic Memories.

[anime-fyi]

The beginning of 2018 has involved a lot of unplanned series binges. My latest one is Plastic Memories. Six episodes in I get the feeling I’m gonna cry when this ends.

[tears-radar]

[anime-wallpapers]

Isla by Zorafi on Pixiv ※Do not remove caption or source link.※

[warndererxx]

[nerice]

finished: plastic memories (not that interesting. what the hell were all those evangelion references tho it was weird)

up next: the entire ghost in the shell franchise

[best-underrated-anime]

Best Underrated Anime Group B Round 1: #B4 vs #B5

#B4: Human falls in love with an android

This anime is a 13-episode Sci-fi romance story about eighteen-year-old Tsukasa Mizugaki, who lands a job at Sion Artificial Intelligence Corporation ( SAI Corps). SAI corps has created Giftias, androids that are nearly identical to humans. Giftias have one major difference from humans in that they are only allowed to live for 9 years and 4 months before they start to break down.

Tsukasa is partnered with a Giftia named Isla. Slowly, they begin to fall in love.

#B5: (Mostly) unexperienced college track team aims for big race

It’s a sports anime which focuses on a college running team. Their goal? To run the Hakone Ekiden, a famous marathon relay race. The catch? With two notable exceptions of their captain and their latest recruit, this team is composed entirely of amateurs. Does this mess of a team stand any chance of even qualifying for the race?

Titles, propagandas, trailers, and poll under the cut!

#B4: Plastic Memories

Propaganda 1:

This anime is a heart-wrenching masterpiece. It is slow, tender, and incredibly cathartic. The art is beautiful, and the story is enchanting. Of all the random anime I watched in middle school, this one really stuck with me.

Propaganda 2:

My brother and I watched it together. He ugly sobbed at it so hard, he had to go stand outside and weep down the phone to someone and my mom thought that he’d received news of someone’s actual death. He was okay, though, I promise

Trigger Warnings: [Not Stated]

#B5: Run with the Wind (Kaze ga Tsuyoku Fuiteiru)

Propaganda 1:

Okay so finally a sports anime that isn't set in high school. (There aren't nearly enough set in college.) MC is basically Older Running Kageyama, in both looks and personality. He has to overcome his past issues with his old track team, and learn to open up. I love the relationships that form between the team members. There's one who is just Not Here for It and struggles A Lot, who just wants to go home and read manga. (Hey it me.) There's also a cute dog, and a lot of the bg music is by the same folks as Haikyuu.

Propaganda 2:

I genuinely think this might be the best sports anime out there. It’s an amazing anime in general, with good animation, a beautiful art show, and a great premise, though what really makes it stand out is the characters.

RWTW is a character-driven story at heart, with all the main characters given their time to shine. The main cast is very lovable, and their relationships with each other are depicted in a sweet but realistic way. The protagonist, Kakeru, goes through a great character development over the course of the show, from being a lonely outcast at the start to accepting the other team members into his heart as found family.

While I’m not a runner personally, I still found this interesting to watch, since along with the training there’s a lot of thoughtful discussion on the nature of running: what it means to run, to be a runner. There’s a very philosophical aspect to it, which makes sense considering that RWTW is actually adapted from a book. The last thing I’ll say is that as a college student myself, it’s really nice to watch an anime focused on people in college and not high school. Oh, and the soundtrack is incredible.

Trigger Warnings: Alcohol and Smoking

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[seikaku-ga-warui-died-twice]

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[hinatabocco]

BEATLESS 01 My big problem with this show is there’s no way the protagonist’s position of “robots are people too” wouldn’t be the most common view. Humans anthropomorphize everything, there’s no way we wouldn’t feel something for infinitely-close-to-human robots. People are calling this Plastic Memories with guns, but Plamemo actually got this point right. Owell at least they’re hot.

[kuzuyami]

[otakusmart]

Plastic memories review - otakusmart

Plastic memories is a 13 episode Sci-fi, romance anime which was aired in the year 2015. Plastic memories or plamemo is a emotional rollercoaster where android bodies or giftias exist alongside human beings. A giftia is a humanoid being with feelings, emotions and sympathy for other. A giftia lifespan is about 9 years and after that they loose their memories and their personalities. Plastic memories plot The MC Tsukasa is a 18 year old boy living a miserable life and living on his parents money. His father with some good connection holds a position for him in a technology based IT company. This is where the main story starts. After meeting Isla, a giftia. Tsukasa works with her at the office where the only job Isla had was serving tea. Formerly she was one of the inspector's but due to her inability to work in a team she was abandoned by her former partner. Later on Tsukasa patches up with Isla and both of them starts working together. Tsukasa works in the terminal office where the main objective of the team is to retrieve the giftias body. Isla and Tsukasa works up the ladder and becomes one of the most respected team in the office. Isla confidence comes back but one thing she still lacks is having any form of connection with anyone. She detest anyone who tries to comes close to her. Tsukasa eventually falls in love with and she falls too. Read the full article

[voxfhantasma]

first of all, what?

RULES: ANSWER THE 20 QUESTIONS AND TAG 20 PEOPLE WHO YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW BETTER

Tagged by @tianyiii

this should be interesting xD

Name: I have many names lololol (actually just two: the english and the chinese one) //ididn’ttakeurjoketiff Nickname: Ange [its like how you say Ange for the name “Angelina”] / for some reason, my seventh grade drafting teacher called me “Angie”--I was triggered. / Ca [kah] *don’t ask* Zodiac sign: Aries Height: 155 cm Orientation: tbh I am quite confused about my sexuality rn soooo I can’t really say. Nationality: A Filipino citizen, with half-Chinese blood. Fav fruit: Tomatoes, Grapes, Apples (nO GRANNY SMITHS PLS), Blueberries, WATERMELONS--I LOVE WATERMELONS (get your head out of the damn gutter, perv.) Fav season: Rainy seasons, because I love the sound of raindrops falling down to our roof and gently sliding down to meet the earth (and the phils has only two seasons one is the dry season and the other being rainy season lololololol)*edit: and the sweet sound of no classes but also feeling bad bc there are people suffering bc of heavy rain okay im being eaten by guilt* Fav flower: Lilies, I like lilies--also peach blossoms, and bougainvilleas   Fav scent: Clothes fresh out of the laundry--who doesn’t love that smell (or alternatively, mint and lemon together, I think it’s perfect.) Fav colour: black, white, navy blue and some pastel pink or mint green. But I love gray the most *my bby* Fav animal: tbh idk but im really fond of cats/dogs or any other species under the canine or feline category :D Coffee, tea or hot cocoa?: Any of the three, as long as the coffee has a teaspoon of sugar, the tea isn’t too “tasteless” and the hot cocoa isn’t too sweet (e.g dark chocolate) Average hours of sleep: it goes around six-ten hours depends on the day. *funfact: least amount of sleep I had is at least three hours long*

okay this gets really long from here, under the cut nalang?

Fav fictional characters: *i’ll probs give a reason//sidecomments// why they are my fave charas sooo lets go*

Yosano Akiko (Bungou Stray Dogs): she’s cool I want her to be my doctor lol (joke lang ano ba kayo)

Jughead Jones III (Riverdale): hOW CAN I  NOT???? HE IS JUST SO--SO FINE?????

Veronica Lodge (Riverdale): she’s hot, okay?

Nicolas Brown (GANGSTA): I think he is the most precious thing in the fandom, maybe even more precious than Nina.

Nishimiya Shoko (Koe no Katachi): I really don’t understand my attachment to deaf characters.

Yukine (Noragami): I don’t know if you can tell by the username, but I like the kid, he’s kewl.

Mirai Kuriyama (Kyoukai no Kanata/ Beyond the Boundary): again, if you can’t tell by the username. I just really think her blood manipulation powers are LEGIT, and she’s adorable.

Audrey Field (Sad Girls by Lang Leav): my brand new obsession, Lang Leav. I love how Audrey and *bleep* just *bleeeeeep for people who haven’t read sad girls* *haven’t finished it but im half way through!*

Edogawa Ranpo (Bungou Stray Dogs): after Dazai, there was him. Despite his man-baby attitude and his fucking cuteness. He’s 27(or 26???) and he’s smart (putik bakit hindi globe *badjokeisbad*) and he is *buries face in hands* perfect with those green eyes of his ///

Lyra, Shon and Ian (Siren’s Lament): this is one cute triangle.

ALL THE BSD CHARACTERS: KASI ANG GANDA NILA AT ALL OF THEM ARE SO INTERESTING~~~~~~~~~

Ayano Tateyama (KagePro): too good for the world *drops mic*

Takane Enomoto “Ene” (KagePro): pls go to my phone im lonely 

Isla (PlaMemo): why????did???you???have????to???go???

Todoroki Shouto (Boku no Hero Academia): haven’t caught up with the manga soo lets see how is he now lolololol

*goes on with the rant of endless fave character*

Number of blankets you sleep with: 0 to 2 you’ll always need another one Dream trip: aaaaaaah i wanna go to japan or to the US aaaaaaah Blog created: April 2015

hey @meowkeys if you have time tho :D @alice-senpao and yOU @yukikazedoodle yOU TWO BETTER DO THIS no pressure tho *smiles* and anyone--ANYONE-- is free to do this soooooo