Obsolete

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Japanese: OBSOLETE

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Type: ONA

Episodes: 12

Status: Currently Airing

Aired: Dec 3, 2019 to 2020

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Studios: Buemon

Source: Original

Genres: Mecha

Duration: 13 min. per ep.

Rating: None

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Score: 5.68¹ (scored by 518 users)

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Ranked: #9454²

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Popularity: #7441

Members: 2,520

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In 2014, aliens revealed themselves to request trade with humanity. In exchange for limestone, they would provide a consciousness-controlled general-use robot known as an "Exoframe." Cheaper than an aircraft, tank, or firearm, and easy enough for anyone to operate, the "Exoframe" spreads change throughout the world in the blink of an eye...

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Zahir

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Ootomo, Ryuuzaburou
Japanese

Fernando

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Takagi, Wataru
Japanese

Loewner

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Yamanoi, Jin
Japanese

Miyajima

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Morikawa, Toshiyuki
Japanese

Bowman

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Tanaka, Masahiko
Japanese

Jamal

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Honjou, Yuutaro
Japanese

Kayira

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Sugimoto, Yuu
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Shirato, Seiichi

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Yamada, Hiroki

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Tsuruoka, Youta

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Technoboys Pulcraft Green-Fund

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"obsolete" Written and Produced by Skrillex and Nik Roos

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"ORB-SOLUTION" by TECHNOBOYS PULCRAFT GREEN-FUND

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Dec 6, 2019

6 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 4

Treizeci (All reviews)

10 people found this review helpful

How much did they beg Urobuchi to put his name on this? Did he even write for this? This was a 8/10 premise with a 4/10 execution.
He also wrote Rakuen Tsuihou which was ok even if it was 3DCG so how did this one end up like this?
Do not waste your time on this awful series.

His name is the only reason someone would ever turn their eyes to this mess that supposedly tries to capture the atmosphere and style in Gyakusatsu Kikan. A very flawed movie but with a very interesting setup that simply didn't get enough time to express itself.

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Dec 5, 2019

6 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

AstralBread (All reviews)

8 people found this review helpful

What a weird project.

First things first - it’s a full 3DCG series that half the time (the humans/downtime) has like 8 fps, I can tolerate it, but I won’t be surprised if some people would literally have their eyes bleed from this. However, the parts that matter (mecha fight scenes) run much smoother, have very impressive choreography and the level of detail that simply isn’t possible for the traditional animation (hundreds of accurately portrayed shell casings flying around with realistic physics).

With that out of the way, I imagine 9 out of 10 people would know this exists because of the Gen Urobuchi’s name in the read more

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Dec 5, 2019

6 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

MoeBlargus (All reviews)

6 people found this review helpful

CG in anime has always been a bit of a contentious issue, and even a meme, since there have been so many shows that have miss-handled it to the detriment of the story they're trying to tell. I personally have seen very few shows that were fully, or mostly CG that I thought were enhanced by the addition of CG, but fortunately that is beginning to change.

Obsolete is one of the first fully CG shows that I have not only enjoyed, but felt was enhanced by the use of CG. True, if the right style and quality of 2d animation were used, an read more

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Dec 5, 2019

6 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 5

nyugvo6 (All reviews)

6 people found this review helpful

Exo suits? check.
Urobuchi? check.
Let's go.

Obsolete is your standard war story full of sarcasm and indifference.
What's different here however is the format. 6x12 minutes.
It doesn't leave you with much space to tell a grand story or express ideologies.
Anyone who's hoping for character depth or such will be let down.
The staff did everything in their power to make this a coherent piece of work but they were heavily restricted by the episode count and it shows.
Limestone? Aliens? It doesn't matter to us humans according to Mr. Urobuchi, and there's really no time to explain them anyway.
The core of this product seems to be "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man how to fish and he'll wage war on his fellow men with fishing rods"
What we get here are pieces of war history. How it started and... that's it. There's no end, or climax.
The individual episodes all follow key events of this futuristic war, the background of the fractions and some people involved in the conflict.
In each episode you will get new characters who drive the story and drop a few lines of lore. The rest is mindless action with dubstep. Oh right. Skrillex did the music.
While the sound engineering and effects were great, the music was offputting as hell. Jungle dnb or tribal would've been more fitting considering where it takes place.
They went overboard with screen effects such as smoke, but the shading was really lacking. The action itself looks well done, but with not enough contrast it looks bland.
The art is... fitting I'd say. silky smooth 4fps cgi we all hate, with a realistic touch. It's sad that this level of mechanic detail needs cg because all the decent animators are busy with gundam.
It gives the whole show a very cheap feel. Pair that with how short it is, and the 4th wall breaking "Just like in my japanese animes" and you're left wondering why they're doing this exactly?
So is Obsolete supposed to be above anime, some higher form of entertainment? Is this how they meant it? because I'm sad to say it's subpar. Or the opposite?
We tried to make something akin to anime, and almost succeeded at times! yes, that seems more correct, sadly.
Honestly this show could've made it as a toy commercial. I'm not sure how many people will it reach if it's on a paid.youtube.service.
Don't you want the largest possible audience for your product placement, instead of those 10 people who paid for youtube premium or whatever it is?
The exosuits look cool. The story seems interesting, the execution is so-so, the runtime is the downfall of this show really.

Moral of the story? War bad. Humanity bad. 12 minute format bad.

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