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Pale Cocoon

Pale Cocoon

Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Aoi Tamago
Japanese: ペイル・コクーン

Information

Type: OVA
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Dec 10, 2005
Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi
Duration: 23 min. per episode
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
L represents licensing company

Statistics

Score: 7.931 (scored by 4890 users)
Ranked: #3872
Popularity: #559
Members: 7,727
Favorites: 63
1 indicates a weighted score
2 based on the top anime page.

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drama sci-fi

Synopsis

A future where the continuity of history has broken off, a world of enormous ruins that continues endlessly. Oceans and continents have vanished, existing only within the archives brought up from the remains. Ura works in the Archive Excavation Department, which restores and analyzes the data left behind. One day, he finds a disturbing visual record...

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Characters & Voice Actors

Ura
Ura
Main
Nakao, Michio
Japanese
Nakao, Michio
Riko
Riko
Main
Kawashima, Minako
Japanese
Kawashima, Minako
Yamaguchi, Yoko
Yamaguchi, Yoko
Main
Koyama, Yuka
Japanese
Koyama, Yuka

Staff

Yoshiura, Yasuhiro
Animation Director


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Nov 3, 2008
tehnominator
Mankind's future seems bleak, and this vividly seen in the pensive anime OAV Pale Cocoon.

The story is tremendously original. In this world, a young man is told to give up seeking the knowledge of things in the past. As history would teach any of us, to know where we're going, we need to know where we came from. He persists. We are given what appears to be a gigantic library. There is no sunlight, there barely seems to be any mark that people even really work there--everything is dank, metal and cold. And this young man works timelessly cataloguing and uncovering damaged records that have read more
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Nov 8, 2007
Red_Zealot
Pale Cocoon tells the story of a post-apocalyptic Earth as observed by two humans, a man and a woman. They are involved in the extraction and cleaning of digital archives left by humans many years before. They include all types of media, pictures of Earth, newspaper clippings, video... the works. They are to a certain extent futuristic archaeologists. The story follows them as they hope to unravel Earth's history. Although short, as one off OVA, it doesn't feel like it is short. If that makes any sense. The plot is nicely developed and reaches an interesting conclusion.

The animation and direction for Pale Cocoon is read more
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Recommendations

These animes are extremely well animated, they share the same awesome dark colours and their stories are both about the world being somehow polluted.

Made by the same studio, Has the same mysterious feeling of wanting to know what is happening.

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Ending Theme

"Aoi Tamago" by Little Moa

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