Continuing on our tradition of providing a concise, no-frills, and no sugar-coating review, here's what we thought about this series.
An original idea. Surely that's what comes to our mind when we first watch this series. It explores about the possibility of "selling" your future for some amount of money now. Honestly, we rarely encounter such series tackling a rather off-the-beaten-path storyline, yet this particular series executes it rather well. However, due to this as well, we think that this kind of series are somehow underrepresented in effect, slightly underrated.
We start by analyzing the first episode of the series. From the beginning, we are presented with
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the main protagonist that is clearly an ordinary college student. However, our attention are rather quickly shifted when he was provided the ability to take his future as collateral for a certain sum of money. We can clearly see that the writer executes this crucial moment, the first half of the first episode, by providing the audiences with a very compelling and prospective storyline. On top of that, the executions was rather fine, although there could use some more storyline rephrasing to better accentuate the whole plot, therefore more likely to captivate audiences.
Next, from this point onward, we are presented by a storyline that revolves around the said protagonist, Kimimaro, and his Asset (the terminology used in the series) coming to the understanding of how the global financial world works, the massive secrets that it holds, and various individuals that are trying to force their ideals to the real world via this series particular mechanism. Truth be told, this is also rather a deviation from a commonly held traditions that this series does not emphasis a certain pattern, but instead letting the storyline flows as it should. This is a welcome change, a refreshing air of some of the audiences, although we also encounter quite a handful of audiences that cites the lack of backward flow in this series.
Nearing the end, we however, note a certain comeback to the time-proven method used by a lot of series, namely the action of the protagonist that eventually saves the entire country, if not the entire world. This may be a setback to what has been the status quo before, but we feel that it is rather necessary because it would be quite difficult to provide other ending that the protagonist failed to saves the country, due to the already established convention set by the preceding episodes of this series that Kimimaro works for the betterment of his country. In our global vantage point, the entire storyline provides a rather good dynamicity, attributed somehow to the aforementioned original idea. And with this, we finally conclude the review regarding the main storyline.
After that, we would like to go over the intra- and inter-characters developments, especially focusing on several implied details. Starting from the first episode, the conventions for the main protagonist, Kimimaro, was rather nicely set and overall giving us and the audiences the necessary material to hold on and develop to. Over time, however, we feel that this development is somehow slowed down rather significantly and instead focusing on other side characters which from the beginning were set as condiments to the main storyline. This particular judgement also applies to the main protagonist's Asset, Msyu. Nevertheless, when we consider the pairing between Kimimaro and Msyu, we clearly see a rather progressive joint characters development, which is a good thing to have.
Focusing a bit more on the side characters, we actually feel that all of these developments are actually rather necessary because the consensus of the game in this series is that when you lose, you lost your future, hence the necessity to actually proves to the audiences that the characters who lose do actually lost their future. We, however, stay on our previous judgement that these kind of developments ought to be rephrased so as to be able to develop itself alongside the main protagonist pairing, Kimimaro and Msyu, without interfering each other.
Finally, we arrive at our discussion regarding the ending. We clearly see that Kimimaro saves the day once again and the country in which he resides able to stand on its own after a very radical change to the economic system. Also, we would like to redirect the attention so as to read between the lines. From the moment we are introduced to the pairing, Kimimaro and Msyu, we can clearly sense and palpate that there was actually an atmosphere of intense like, probably also love, to each other from Kimimaro to Msyu and vice versa. On top of that, we can clearly feel the surmounting frustrations Msyu has due to the different realms that Kimimaro and she resides in, hence the inability of Kimimaro to stay forever with her. This is actually very welcome and significantly improves the entire mood of the series. Fortunately, we see that in the very end, no character is left behind and each one of them actually contributed to the progress of the story, one way or another.
All in all, C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control is a recommended series to watch for everyone without exception. It provides a long overdue original idea, although still somewhat needs more time to develop and mature more. The technicality, visual, and audio aspects are all very good and well composed. The soundtracks are a good listening material.
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Jul 4, 2015
Continuing on our tradition of providing a concise, no-frills, and no sugar-coating review, here's what we thought about this series.
An original idea. Surely that's what comes to our mind when we first watch this series. It explores about the possibility of "selling" your future for some amount of money now. Honestly, we rarely encounter such series tackling a rather off-the-beaten-path storyline, yet this particular series executes it rather well. However, due to this as well, we think that this kind of series are somehow underrepresented in effect, slightly underrated. We start by analyzing the first episode of the series. From the beginning, we are presented with ... 
Jul 3, 2015
Higashi no Eden
(Anime)
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This won't be a long review, just a concise and direct one.
Balance of power. A longstanding issue to humanity since the first civilization was born. In this story, the writer wants to express how humanity can actually very easily be persuaded to change their opinions regarding something just out of convenience and general conditions and situations. Plot wise, this kind of genre has not been a smooth road for much of series trying to tackle down the problem. However, when we visit Higashi no Eden, we can actually see how the balance of power works in this series. It opens up and introduces us to a rather ... |
