| exist’s future world makes me happy , a man named James “Gee A young man from the Mu’ Mirror goes to work on an icy world known as the Coldfoot Planet. He worked there as a part-time security guard despite his true love for the arts. Along with his grandfather Ed and friends like Marnie, he struggles to maintain a normal life between shifts. Prisoners serve their sentences in this icy world by mining precious materials. But when prison staff go missing, Jim and a team of guards go looking for them, only to find that nothing is like it on this planet. Pursued by alien monsters, Jim must try to escape the planet before the strange creatures kill him and his loved ones. |
>Make My Day
Directed by Makoto Honda Script by Yumiko Yoshizawa Based on an original concept by Ohtagaki Yasuo Ohtagaki and animated by 5 Inc. As of this writing, it’s streaming on Netflix.
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‘s future world Make My Day
, a young man named James “Jim” Mirror goes to work on a icy world called Planet Coldfoot. Although he really Loved the arts, but he still works there as a part-time security guard. Along with his grandfather Ed and friends like Marnie, he struggles to maintain a normal life between shifts. Prisoners serve their sentences in this icy world by mining precious materials. But when prison staff go missing, Jim and a team of guards go looking for them, only to find that nothing is like it on this planet. Pursued by alien monsters, Jim must try to escape the planet before the strange creatures kill him and his loved ones. |
>Make My Day
Directed by Makoto Honda Script by Yumiko Yoshizawa Based on an original concept by Ohtagaki Yasuo Ohtagaki and animated by 5 Inc. As of this writing, it’s streaming on Netflix.
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Simply put, it’s easy to forget. The basics are there, but there isn’t enough creativity or spark to get much ahead before the credits roll. |
The most obvious criticism that jumps out almost immediately is the “been there, done that” feeling. The setting is a sci-fi action-horror/survival horror premise. There’s a greedy corporation looting resources from a desolate planet, underpaid and overconfident paramilitary security forces, and strange creatures that erupt and wreak all kinds of bloody havoc. The technical details have never been studied in depth with great scientific rigor. Still, the overall aesthetic is hard sci-fi, with plausible vacuum suits and solid equipment, trying to pass functionality and practicality. The aliens are weird and resistant to the actors’ standard military techniques, and any scene involving them is usually about running to the nearest exit as fast as you can if you don’t want to turn into a mess on the floor.
If you have seen
alien or
>Avatar
Movies (well, basically anything 300James Cameron The atmosphere is right away. There are some slight
The last is also a good measure. If you are familiar with something like Alien
Works movie, you can compare almost instantly, that’s the biggest problem One of the series is just outside the gate. Due to its obvious visual and tonal similarities, it’s hard not to compare it to those movies, and (absolutely not shocking) when you compare cheap TV productions to some of the greatest movies ever made Last century, the Budget looked wacky and silly. Even details like the aliens with their dangerous/volatile guts have been given a slightly different coat of paint to make it impossible to ignore.
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is still challenging. At this point, there are a large number of media whose origin is “I saw aliens
and want to do this.” Therefore , you may have experienced half a dozen spinoffs purely by chance. “That’s a alien reference?” probably sci-fi horror “that’s Jojo’s reference?” here.
That’s not to say it’s completely devoid of original ideas. Jim is a likable enough protagonist, and his artwork and the order in which people observe are great character details. Between Ed, Marnie, and Walter, there’s an important supporting cast and a lot of interesting storylines between them. The problem is that the size of the balloon is very fast, the audience is processing multiple plot threads, and the show takes more runtime to process. When the credits roll and the survivors all line up to talk about their future plans, you realize just how many people there are in a series that only has eight episodes. It’s a challenge to remember all their names, let alone invest in the arcs they go through in (what amounts to) a slightly longer-than-average movie.
If you’re hoping for an interesting thread or social commentary of any kind, don’t hold your breath. Initially there was a vaguely anti-corporate, anti-security state vibe. But by the end of the show, every villain is redeemed, and their evil is freed from its shackles in the most banal of ways possible. Without spoiling it, a character actually tied Jim up, beat him to a pulp, pissed in his face, and left him to die. But in the finale, it was all just “no hard feelings, buddy!” Well… look, I can’t speak for anyone but myself, but if someone pees in my face, I need more than Hours to get over that’s all I’m saying.
Whether intentional or not, viewers feel forgiven for the various brutal entities involved in this fiasco, or their Evil is cast off. Despite the environmental, social or ecological impact of doing so, there is no reflection on how cruel it is to force prisoners to work in dangerous conditions to generate profits for corporate interests – let alone continue this work while detonating alien goo monsters to carnage indiscriminately Humanity. Are we going to reflect on the part where they take creatures out of the world for study, or — no, no, I guess Jim wants to be an artist now. OK
So aside from any meaningful information or compelling characters, all we’re left with are visuals and action sequences. Guys…you take one look at the key art and you know what you’re getting here. It’s the kind of bland CG work that makes people turn it off in the first episode. There was no life or excitement in anything that happened. Instead, doll-like characters run from one prosaic place to another, chased by a never-ending swarm of identical-looking creatures rattling away at five frames per second. Sometimes it makes me miss watching
| Roughnecks: Chronicles |
Back when I was a kid thinking about CG animations and bug fights. Sadly, do you think these CG shows haven’t improved that much in the intervening decades. |
Speaking of which, aliens are as normal as they come. In appearance, they are huge orange tardigrades (you might also know them as water bears). While they have an interesting tentacle-tongue attack, they’re visually just… glowing tardigrades. But what started out as an unknowable single entity quickly became a copy-and-paste job of comical proportions, with hundreds of orange blobs filling the screen before being jettisoned. Whatever attempts to paint a sympathetic picture of these creatures whose habitats have been destroyed and their main food source mined are shot by laser beams and missiles in clumsily paced action scenes. This is the Earth Defense Force |
but not interactive, and infinitely less fun. |
Also, there’s a subplot with a robot named Casper… I guess it’s something , but it’s not entirely clear what. Casper’s design is a cross between an ostrich and
Titanfall
mecha, his character is “beep beep, we are friends.” Dramatic The finale fight is supposed to be about programming beyond friendship, which can be painfully predictable but at the same time completely out of left field. The goal is for audiences to see the budget AT-ST as a lovable mascot character, and it’s hard to fail.
| is a derivative work that lacks an identity of its own. Its visuals are hard to watch at best. Whatever potential its cast has, is wasted trying to do too much with too little while saying nothing in the process. Skip it and save time.
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