Buki yo Saraba

Written and directed by Hajime Takoti (mecha designer on the Gundam series) and based off a manga by Katsuhiro Otomo, it's the tale of four men hunting down robots in an apocalyptic Tokyo. Farewell To Weapons is another heart-stopping addition to Short Peace. The moment when they spot a robot, the men quickly assume their positions and start off an epic battle of life or death with every shot building up to an impactful moment that hits you right in the face and boy, did I ever love the living crap out of this. I also enjoyed the comedy banter between the 4 men that ... had a real feel of comradery and all of them were likable people. It also ends on a more comedic tone but it didn't bother me that much cause I had so much fun with this short that I couldn't care less if it ended sad or comedic.

Buki yo Saraba was short, so I will keep my review short as well. Let me start with the positives :

+ Outstanding animation on the action scenes

+ great graphics, even in the desert setting

+very well done CGI which flow perfectly

+ original weapon design / mech design / suit design

... However I would have loved more background on the story, more on the tanks too. What led to the war, are there other survivors, who is fighting who?

The tanks reminded me of Ghost In The Shell Tachikomas, a bit. The suits were a bit of a hybrid between an astronaut suit and some power armor. Very surprized by the quality of the military scenes.

Overall 8/10

Short Peace is a multimedia project composed of four short anime films produced by Sunrise and Shochiku, and a video game developed by Crispy's Inc. and Grasshopper Manufacture. The four films were released in Japanese theaters on July 20, 2013 and were screened in North America during April 2014. Sentai Filmworks have licensed the films for North America. The video game was released in January 2014 in Japan, April 2014 in Europe, and September 2014 in North America.

A Farewell To Arms/Weapons
Alternative Title - Buki yo Saraba
Writing and Direction by Hajime Katoki |
A tour-de-force saga of men battling robotic tanks in apocalyptic Tokyo. The latter film ... is based off an Otomo manga of the same name.

Genre (s) – Comedy, Tragedy | - Same as that of Gambo - | Runtime – 24 minutes approximately (fractions excluded)

Given an 8 because it was great!

vocals were japanese
english subtitles

Last of the part package of anime Short Peace

By far the most assuming of them all! Sure, there was no witty song used unless you consider the radio in the intro. Which was odd seeing how it was an american (english) song.

You have your brotherhood of men fighting for a cause(stupid maybe but a cause). You have your exchange of blows. You have your surprises. There is some comedy some a bit 'dry'(inside joke).
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Although, nothing can top that ending. Not what i thought would happen at all. As it progressed i kept thinking there is only path it can take... wrong wrong wrong!

If you have some time to kill even if you are not a mech/scifi fan check this out.

In the time of post apocalypse in Tokyo an advance warfare is going on. It's between human and advanced automatic tank. It's so much advanced that, there is no trees to seen neither well structured buildings. All has been destroyed by the apocalypse created by the man. It is the fourth short from the animation movie short peace. It shows future earth, if humans don't try to end the present consequences.

Niki yo Saraba or A farewell to Arms starts with four characters Gimlet, Marl, Gin and Junki. These four are selected for the scouting operation. All the modern armored suits are prepared, still no match ... for the canon of advanced automatic tank. In the lead of Gimlet, they arrive in the city starts petroling the city. After finding the presence of tank, they drove themselves into a battle against the tanks. As the result Gimlet, Gin and Junki dies. Mark gets lucky escape as the tanks doesn't target human with no armory and any tracking device. That doesn't satisfy Marl; he tries to battle with the tank empty handed ends up making comedy of himself by getting his wearings burned.
Overall 7/10.

The story follows a small group of soldiers whose task is to disarm and take out the automatic sentry tanks left in the ruins of Tokyo.

I really liked the background for this one, and the cgi was pretty good at some parts, there were certain scenes that looked really cool. Even though we kinda don't really get a lot, the characters are pretty nice too, I like their designs.
Liked the fight scenes and the shots and angles they had for some scenes, was really nice.
The music was pretty good too, and the sounds. The music at the very end of the ... movie was nice, really liked it, had me watching the entire credits lmao

This was probably my favorite of all 4, by a tiny bit though.

Overall for all the movies together: I give it an 8, I wish it was a single entry on MAL like Memories or something, kinda cringe its seperated