Vie Durant

Vie Durant is not really an animation, but a slideshow for an audiobook. Since it has short episodes, it's an okay way to kill time while doing something else, if you can understand japanese (I couldn't find subtitled episodes online).

The story wasn't anything marvellous, but it wasn't bad either. The plot was quite predictable, and I think the series might have been less detached if there were less characters. The characters didn't have time to develop very far, and many of them were left shallow. The characters were stereotypical, too. If you want your characters to be more memorable, don't name them as letters from ... alphabet!

Art itself wasn't that bad, characters were decently well drawn. The character design was quite old fashioned, and the designer seemed to have a thing for j-rockers. The background art wasn't memorable, which is a shame. The art focused mostly on the characters, anyway. The only bits of animation that I remember, were ripples of water, and the butterfly blood scene.

The audio was pleasant to listen, and they had paid attention to the sfx, which was nice. The stereotypical character voice acting was sometimes distracting, though.

This wasn't bad, but the lack of animation and outstanding characters makes this forgettable.