Shelter

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English: Shelter

Japanese: シェルター

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Type: Music

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 18, 2016

Producers: Half H.P Studio

Licensors: Crunchyroll

Studios: A-1 Pictures

Source: Music

Genres: Sci-Fi, Music

Duration: 6 min.

Rating: G - All Ages

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Score: 8.37¹ (scored by 154,534 users)

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Ranked: #175²

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Popularity: #509

Members: 231,809

Favorites: 2,171

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Synopsis

Day 2539: Rin wakes up alone again with blurred memories and still no contact from any other human. She's not bored, however, because in her arms lies a tablet capable of creating any world her heart desires. Day after day, Rin crafts a wonderful reality—one utopia at a time—to shelter her from loneliness, hoping to one day reveal the truth behind her very existence.

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Rin

Main

Misawa, Sachika
Japanese

Shigeru

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Fukushima, Yuuichi

Producer

Akai, Toshifumi

Director, Storyboard

Fujita, Akiko

Sound Director

Robinson, Porter

Executive Producer, Music, Original Creator

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Oct 18, 2016

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 1

Zergneedsfood (All reviews)

2278 people found this review helpful

This might be one of the worst things I have ever watched.

Let's get two things out of the way. Undeniably, this video looks good. It's well drawn, well animated, and is certainly eye catching with its colorful visuals and impressively imaginative landscapes. As music, this is not something that's suited to me, but I can at least understand people who think that Porter's music is palatable to them.

My problem with this piece is not related to the audiovisuals but rather with the idea that this should be taken as a story or a music video that is trying to be something more than just Porter's music meshed with beautifully animated sequences. I understand that these criticisms are often held back by the difficulties of critiquing something that isn't overtly concerned with story, but in a piece so unabashedly attempting to draw sympathy, there's fair ground here to levy some serious concerns.

Shelter exemplifies everything that is wrong with storytelling in anime, namely that rather attempting to tell a real story developed with content and meaningful emotion, it takes the most abusive shortcut by designing a cute character, throwing her into a position of bittersweet melancholy, and using that as a means of manipulating our basest emotions into believing there is something meaningful and tragic to be said.

People are praising the emotional resonance in the story and its ability to bring out the loneliness lost in the profundity of memory. Yet, consider a world where the main character is not a beautiful teenage girl, lost and confused in a world completely foreign to her. When you remove that physical appearance that makes us so inexplicably attracted to her stake in the story, there is ultimately no reason for us to feel sympathy. It is completely superficial.

One might say that it's only a six minute short, but the fact that Shelter goes out of its way to show for a split second the main character's letter from her father, to invoke the community to spend time and read it on a second watch, tells me that there is a serious intent to manifest some semblance of a meaningful story. However, that is undermined precisely by the video's own neglect of that story. Much like many other anime designed purely for cheap tears and easy pity, we are given not substance, but rather a montage of a young innocent girl cherishing sweet memories with someone we barely meet.

Sure it can be cute, but that does not preclude it from being utterly trite. Shelter offends its audience by presenting us with its fascinating visuals, the ostensible undertones of a post-apocalyptic world, the perceived loneliness of being potentially the last human in the universe, but gives us nothing more than the lowest common denominator of a story, one that galvanizes its sympathies out of the most mundane and pathetic tricks in the book, and half-expects us to take it seriously. I cannot in good conscience, recommend this music video to anyone.

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Oct 18, 2016

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

IzaEpsil (All reviews)

906 people found this review helpful

A Shelter the Animation Review

TL;DR: A short that has an amazing story to it.

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"Everyone wants to live in their own world."

Story:
Due to the animation being about a 6 minute video, I had very low expectations as to how the story would go in this short. But, I was actually very wrong. It's not a very long story, but it's definitely something to make this animation worth looking into. A 17-year-old girl, Rin, is able to do anything in the world. But, there's a reason why she can do this. You find that out through the music video. The ending of the story isn't something you read more

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Oct 18, 2016

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

LoomyTheBrew (All reviews)

758 people found this review helpful

It's very rare when you get something that is so simple, but yet so powerful. Shelter really reminds me why I love anime. It gives us such unique and fantastic experiences that's hard to find anywhere else.

I'm a huge fan of EDM/dubstep and Porter Robinson is definitely one of my favorite artists in the genre. I've known for some time that he's an anime fan (for example, in his song Flicker you can hear Remon Yamano's infamous laugh), but I'm so glad that Crunchyroll and A-1 collaborated with him and made such an awesome project. We need more stuff like this.

Anyways, Porter and Madeon's read more

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Oct 18, 2016

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 7

Laethas (All reviews)

295 people found this review helpful

Shelter tells the story about a girl that comes to realize the situation that she is in, and how it affects her. The story details the ways in which her life played out before an "incident" and the aftermath of it. A really well produced and powerful piece of art that really tells a nice story. The only thing that hampers the work is its incredibly short length, although I also think that that is one of its strong suits. Very touching, and very well thought out. If this could be turned into a full project I would absolutely watch more. There is definitely potential read more

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