While I hesitate to compare "Time of Eve" with any other giants of Anime, [for me if someone compares a book to Tolkein's or Frank Herbert's LoTR or Dune, that is a kiss of death for me, as that is like setting someone up for disappointment from the start], this will stand out as both an excellently written and entirely plausible sci-fi series, and an excellent future-psychological study of what ...
While I hesitate to compare "Time of Eve" with any other giants of Anime, [for me if someone compares a book to Tolkein's or Frank Herbert's LoTR or Dune, that is a kiss of death for me, as that is like setting someone up for disappointment from the start], this will stand out as both an excellently written and entirely plausible sci-fi series, and an excellent future-psychological study of what might happen to humanity when we have dehumanized ourselves by humanizing mechanical objects.
Presupposing the "Ghost in the machine" idea, aka that AI/robots/etc will become in some way self-aware, everything about this series could be a commentary on the daily contemporary life in a -possibly very- near future Japan by people of that day.
The emotional richness of the characters and the atmosphere of the whole series is astounding.
This is everything that makes Anime an art form, and form of entertainment with a depth derived from the freedom of animation from the confines of reality, even though this could be made into a live-action show without much change at all. The writing is superb, and the themes crisp and clear without bludgeoning you over the head. You empathize with the characters, an they all have a distinct uniqueness... even the robots who cannot express emotion with anything like the range of a human! So that is really high praise. And the animation itself is as good as you can get, this is big budget anime-movie quality.
This will, I believe, in time stand up to any of the biggest names in Anime, it needs to be redubbed in every language as soon as possible and as widely distributed as possible.
As much as I hate tripping over myself to give "Time of Eve" adulation, I cannot find a single thing wrong with the show. It hits all the high notes, and keeps an excellent pace, the music is subtle, but always finds a way to be "just right" for the situation. I like the ending music as well, very upbeat but "normal sitcom/show, nothing futuristic about this at all" while still making you think of a clean sci-fi future world.
You not only think you COULD live in a world like this, it makes you want to. Of course maybe because all the robots are good, and only people harm people, this is all robot-takeover propaganda, but if it is, I still love it
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