Awesome anime!! It's funny, it's heartbreaking, it's surprising, it's a lot of things. I'm not saying it's perfect. It was too short for one thing. I want more. A lot more. Preferably with Sion and Rat and more kissing and wait wth since when do I want that kind of thing in anything. But this isn't anything. It actually was nice. Wow, I think I should shut up now. That's how good this show is. It makes you want to see more of the normally annoying uninteresting things. Okay, on to the review.
The two main characters are Rat and Sion.
Sion lives in the place called #6. After much of the land was destroyed by wars, what was still considered habitable was seperated into at least 6 sections. They don't tell you a lot about these places but they are large cities. #6 was designed to be a sort of utopia. The government keeps track of all the citizens though identification bracelets. These bracelets also produce holographic screens which tell news, make calls, etc. Basically it's a utopia as long as you follow the rules, love and take pride in the city and don't be an inconvenience. Aka, not really utopia.
Rat is from outside the city. When he was just a child, #6 set fire to a group of people in the woods known as the forest people and Rat was the only one to survive. He meets Sion one stormy night after escaping the government and wandering into Sion's room through an open window.
At first he attacks Sion and looks as though he plans to use force, but Sion sees his wound and offers to fix him up. So then we have some kid sewing up another kids arm. Uh.....yeah. Anyway, Rat and Sion talk and Sion gives Rat food and clothing. Shortly after, Rat leaves.
For harboring a known fugitive, Sion is stripped of his apparently high standing position and him and his mother are forced to move to another district in the city. He is also unable to enter the gifted program at school. He ends up working in a park using robots to patrol the park and pick up trash.
That's when they find the dead guy.
Afterwards, he and his coworker find out the death was never released to the public and Sion mentions being suspicious of the government hiding things. Then suddenly his coworker begins to age rapidly and within seconds is dead. As Sion stares, he watched a bee come out of his coworkers dead body. I'm guessing he faints because the next thing is he is arrested for being a malcontent.
Luckily, the boy Rat that he met four years ago comes to the rescue and frees him and then helps him escape to outside the city.
Anyway, I won't spoil the rest of the story, just giving you the beginning.
The series is only 11 episodes long, but it still does a great job with character development. It's not overly violent or sexual or anything explicit. The two main characters kiss, but it's just a small light kiss. It's not exactly pg but it's not bad.
Normally I'm not into the whole kissing scenes or romance crap but in this case, it was kinda cute. It's two guys, but still. You have the badass, serious, mysterious Rat and the innocent, caring, intelligent but sometimes ignorant Sion. The two are kinda sweet. Especially how Rat protects Sion.
WARNING :SOME MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD.
Rat doesn't want Sion to change. He doesn't want Sion to have to get blood on his hands or to have to see terrible things. Even when the two are in an awful situation in an awful place, Rat wants Sion to stay innocent and tries to do all the fighting.
Unfortunately, Rat ends up in trouble and to save him, Sion kills another man. It makes Rat cry, which is a rather odd sight to see. The guy that doesn't show much emotion and fights so well and is so calm, is crying..because Sion shot a gun. I mean Rat does tend to be more emotional when Sion is involved but the crying was just odd to watch as if I shouldn't be watching Rat cry. And then how Rat sorta knocks Sion out when Sion starts talking about all he said was just a dream and that he wanted to destroy #6. Rat didn't want Sion to say those things because he didn't want him to change. Talking like that wasn't the innocent idealistic Sion he knew. But it was just so touching how much Rat wanted to protect Sion and keep him kind and innocent.
Anyway, I'll do a better review later, but I highly recommend this anime. I give it a 9.5 out of 10, mainly because I pretty much never give a ten and because the series is too short. I want more because it's awesome. Also, I didn't really get the point of Safu's character and some of that stuff at the end. So it's a 9.5.
GO WATCH IT!!!!
The two main characters are Rat and Sion.
Sion lives in the place called #6. After much of the land was destroyed by wars, what was still considered habitable was seperated into at least 6 sections. They don't tell you a lot about these places but they are large cities. #6 was designed to be a sort of utopia. The government keeps track of all the citizens though identification bracelets. These bracelets also produce holographic screens which tell news, make calls, etc. Basically it's a utopia as long as you follow the rules, love and take pride in the city and don't be an inconvenience. Aka, not really utopia.
For harboring a known fugitive, Sion is stripped of his apparently high standing position and him and his mother are forced to move to another district in the city. He is also unable to enter the gifted program at school. He ends up working in a park using robots to patrol the park and pick up trash.
Anyway, I won't spoil the rest of the story, just giving you the beginning.
The series is only 11 episodes long, but it still does a great job with character development. It's not overly violent or sexual or anything explicit. The two main characters kiss, but it's just a small light kiss. It's not exactly pg but it's not bad.
WARNING :SOME MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD.
Anyway, I'll do a better review later, but I highly recommend this anime. I give it a 9.5 out of 10, mainly because I pretty much never give a ten and because the series is too short. I want more because it's awesome. Also, I didn't really get the point of Safu's character and some of that stuff at the end. So it's a 9.5.
GO WATCH IT!!!!
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