Eve no Jikan (Movie)

In the Japan of the future, employing androids for various purposes is nothing out of the ordinary. However, treating androids on the same level as humans is frowned upon, and there is constant paranoia surrounding the possibility of robots defying humans, their masters. Those who appear too trustworthy of their androids are chided and labeled "dori-kei," or "android-holics."

High school student Rikuo Sakisaka notices when his house droid, Sammy, starts behaving curiously—she has been leaving the house without his instruction. When he inspects the movement logs in her database, a cryptic line grabs his attention: "Are you enjoying the time of EVE?" Accompanied by his friend Masakazu Masaki, Rikuo tracks the whereabouts of his houseroid to a cafe called Time of Eve, where it is forbidden for customers to display prejudice against one another. The cafe, Rikuo realizes, is frequented by both man and machine, with no evidence to tell either apart.

Each customer—from the cheerful Akiko, to a robot dangerously close to breaking down—has their own story and challenges to overcome. While Rikuo tries to reveal Sammy's intentions, he begins to question the legitimacy of the fear that drives humans to regard androids as nothing more than mere tools.

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Sammy Main

Tanaka, Rie Japanese

Nagi Main

Satou, Rina Japanese

Masaki, Masakazu Main

Nojima, Kenji Japanese

Sakisaka, Rikuo Main

Fukuyama, Jun Japanese

Katoran Supporting

Ishizuka, Unshou Japanese

THX Supporting

Saiga, Mitsuki Japanese

Akiko Supporting

Yukana Japanese

Chie Supporting

Sawashiro, Miyuki Japanese

Rina Supporting

Itou, Miki Japanese

Shimei Supporting

Kiyokawa, Motomu Japanese

Yoshiura, Yasuhiro Director, Sound Director, Script, Storyboard, Editing, Director of Photography, Original Creator

Kajiura, Yuki Theme Song Composition

Kalafina Theme Song Performance

Sheh, Stephanie Casting Director

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Dec 6, 2022

ggultra2764

Recommended

Set in the near future, Time of Eve explores the interactions between humans and androids as the latter have come into common use for humanity’s conveniences. High school student Rikuo Sakisaka owns a home android named Sammy and realizes she has been behaving unusually independent as of late. Investigating Sammy’s activity, Rikuo and his close friend, Masakazu Masaki, encounter an unusual cafe called the Time of Eve where humans and androids are allowed to interact with one another normally without fear of prejudice.

Over a decade ago, my first exposure to Time of Eve was through its ONA adaptation released online. I will admit it was ... one of the very first titles of the ONA format that I developed a strong liking to between its visuals and the amount of storytelling and character exploration it was able to flesh out over its six episodes. This film version of the series includes a few new scenes that don’t necessarily add much new to Time of Eve. Still, this version retains every little scene from the ONA without anything cut from it, which is a plus over most compilation films I see based off any TV anime. I guess I can consider watching the movie as a refresher to explore what I think of Time of Eve after last seeing it over 12 years ago.

Time of Eve’s greatest strength comes from how much of its world it’s able to explore with human and android interactions in around 100 minutes of runtime for both its ONA and film formats. Rikuo and Masakazu’s time within the Time of Eve cafe makes both come to gradually realize how humans can take their androids for granted, as many people in their time tend to regard them no different from electrical appliances that serve a purpose until they break down, get replaced for the latest thing, and disposed of. Most episodes of the series explore Rikuo and Masakazu interacting with one of the frequent androids who visit the cafe and come to learn of their varying experiences interacting with humans. Each character focused on explores a different element of android and human interactions, and there is enough explored with them to build a connection to them in spite of Time of Eve’s tight runtime.

Outside of events playing out within its titular cafe, Time of Eve also offers some rather subtle details it explores regarding some major elements to its world. Limiting spoilers, the series is pretty subtle with dropping hints throughout its run that further flesh things out with a number of major elements involving the world and some major characters of the series that may require a few rewatches of the series if not spotted upon initial viewing. This adds a bit of rewatchability to Time of Eve for those interested in wanting to learn more about the series outside of its main focus on Rikuo, Masakazu, and the other cafe patrons.

Visually, Time of Eve is quite a great-looking production to see in action with believable looking character designs sporting a wide range of facial expressions, gorgeous and highly-detailed scenery shots, and a great deal of effort put into its animation with its believable character movements and depicting some unique robotic designs and actions animated at points throughout the film. The only low point I really have with the visuals is the camera’s occasional habit of focusing on up-close shots of characters during some tense moments in Time of Eve. It looked like this was an effort to try conveying the drama of some particular key moments in the film, though this use of the camera did look a bit awkward in execution.

Still for how large and complex its story is, Time of Eve is able to tell a tight and compelling story regarding human and android relationships within its limited runtime having complicated themes about these relations dabbled into and the characters being well fleshed out to explore how current societal views on human-robot relations affect them. If you’re looking for a sci-fi anime which does more to dabble into humanity’s treatment of robots besides using the latter as window dressing, Time of Eve is a title I’d highly recommend looking into.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Jun 30, 2024

C705L2

Mixed Feelings

This film is mainly about the relationships between robots and humans and their effects on society.

This film makes us wonder what will happen in the future with the so-called humanoid robots, the ethical laws that will be handled, and several other very interesting questions. This movie is very good and raises questions about our future and what it means to be human. How will living with humanoid robots affect our interpersonal relationships? What ethical limits should we impose on artificial intelligence programming?

Masaki's development in the film is very interesting, from his childhood, where he interacted with his robot as if it were another person, until ... a situation occurred that caused him to experience a change in his way of thinking. Now, seeing some humans treating robots as if they were humans made him uncomfortable, and in the end, an outpouring of feelings towards a certain character occurred, and his child self told him that he should change his current way of thinking and accept what his heart was really saying, not his head.

This is a very good movie.
Thank you.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Feb 4, 2023

Neolavender123

Not Recommended

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[Overall enjoyment: 4] I was expecting the story to be more complex but it wasn't, had a hard time relating to the characters, there are many unanswered questions in the end too

[Sound: 8] no problem with the voice acting, credit songs, nor the songs used in the show, but they weren't very memorable

[Characters: 4] I don't really like the MC because he seemed undependable, uninteresting, and self-centered. The love interest was also too meek... I also found it annoying and weird that even though many robots seemed to be called to the cafe, the story only revolves around the same casts over and over. The ... MC's friend was the only character I found interesting.

[Plot: 5] the idea of owning an android isn't something new but the idea of the cafe was pretty interesting. Even so, the whole movie was underwhelming because it's pretty much uneventful. The only two twists and unique stories told in the movie were of the MC's friend + his childhood robot and the revelation of the lovers that always frequented the cafe. The rest of the movie was pretty boring...

[Animation & art: 8] the animation was really fluid and the overal art was quite pretty

[Average: 6] rounded from 5.4

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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	Poll: Eve no Jikan (movie) Episode 1 Discussion ( 1 2 3 4 ) Jinjos - Sep 4, 2010	179 replies	by Rei_III »» Oct 23, 2:33 AM
	OVA VS movie (the movie does NOT have all the scenes from OVA) KaeDeeSss - May 11, 2015	10 replies	by waalex11 »» Jul 23, 2023 12:48 AM
	8 years, no sequel JuanBaldez - Jan 22, 2018	12 replies	by waalex11 »» Jul 22, 2023 9:26 PM
	is chie human? SwordWielder - Nov 28, 2010	8 replies	by scarvig »» Oct 21, 2022 7:42 PM
	Eve no Jikan (Time of Eve) KaeDeeSss - May 11, 2015	3 replies	by ibraheem234 »» Nov 19, 2015 3:04 AM

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