The second movie and the very end of whole series about the NEETs, SELECAOs some guys with amnesia and a pure-hearted girls :D At last almost all questions finds their answers and we have a winners and we have a… winners :P Who was the real enemy of Akira? Who is Outsider guy? What will happen with Higashi no Eden? Why the paradise have been lost?
Don’t even try to call Juize… she won’t help you! :D
=Story=
The whole plot ends here! At last the storyline get it fast! But after slowpokes like TV series and, in some aspects, last movie it is going just… to fast! So we have a car (or should I say truck :D) pursuits, dynamic escaping scenes (of course with the looooong dialogs in middle of them) and many flashbacks that can give us some answers on what really happened and what can happen on account of that. As I mentioned in the last review we have new player- the Japanese government. Well… for me they gone a little too far with this but… I can forgive it if we will consider the very solution of the story.
Watch out, now time for some spoilers and general interpretation of what is shown on screen!!!
So out of nowhere we learn from the SELECAO no. 1 that… he really didn’t need that money to do what he wanted to do! He’s blaming the society for the country situation (wise guy! XD) and he just tried to put some pressure of it. To show people the common enemy, terrify them with it and at the end- gather under patriotic and separatists banner! Now I don’t want to spread conspiracy but look closely 9 years back in time on USA and draw some conclusions… But of course we have a all good guy like Akira, who will not allow this to happen. Yeah only he can win the game!
And hmmm… the government and the story of his mother… This motive just… suck! Again the authors of anime didn’t calculate the proper time to solve it properly. Result? Subplot becoming main plot and totally destroys all beautiful climate of Noblesse Obelige phones, the Oustsider guy and the deathly information-game.
Thanks to those very authors, the very end of anime was saved!
But after all Noblesse Oblige phone plus the protoplast of Higashi no Eden program are the main tools of Akira… The main tool of “making Japan better country”! His last speech is a quite too pompous, but through this words the great moral flows… Mr. Outsider was found by side character and… he was pleased. I would be pleased too if I would be him and if I would try to save my country, because… Today world really should be in youths hands. I live for example in country that had been experienced by two totalitarians systems. And when I hear another news in which another politics are blaming each other that they are other country agent, that they have “unclean” past… They can only blame others. And youths? All those people that are full of ideas, energy, motivation? They are just used. They cannot have a proper job after years of education, they cannot even have an influence on development in their own country! It is really time to put aside history and start to build future on the shoulders of new generations!
Akira gave everyone a chance by giving one virtual coin. It is really better to have one coin and multiply it by yourself, than having millions of yen and the secretary that can do everything. Why? Because YOU will earn this money with YOUR hard work and it will be good both for YOU and YOUR country! Country is for citizens not citizens for country!
And what Mr. Oustsider done? He done the best thing that he could do… he gave a gift for all the SELECAO… The gift that should be given to every human being. It is a chance. A chance to start everything from the beginning. So what is the ultimate prize for Noblesse Oblige game? Erasing of the memories! So… the Takizawa already won this game… twice! But now he won it for everyone.
You may ask what is good at loosing memories. But look. If we have amnesia we may not know our names, our addresses our account numbers and our work. But we don’t loose everything. We still have our personality, we have our specific behaviors, we still have our talents and skills! We have our knowledge and experience, even if we don’t really remember it… But what is most beautiful- we are really ourselves. No influence of other people, no influence of environment… we are just who we are! And what about others and their feelings? Look at Saki. He lost memories again. She kissed Akira. He promise he will go back. Why? Because the feelings that we once felt cannot be forgotten too. Saki is like an anchor for Takizawa, that keeps pushing him forward… to do something even more crazy and effective than he done before losing memories… Sky King + Mr. Outsider? = saved country ;)
So at the end I’m giving the 9 for storyline. I would give 8 but the message that flows through the end of anime is really, really meaning and became an saviour of Higashi no Eden :D
Score: 9 (Great)
=Art=
I thought than nothing can surprise me after watching the last movie if we are talking about the arts… But my breath was taken at the very beginning of the movie! Yeah now the 3D elements are pretty popular in anime but… there is a motive where we have a roulette circle with SELECAO numbers. And we have a little metal ball rolling through the moving circle of that game… and when I saw reflections of the surrounding of this moving ball… Oh, damn! And they done it “just” for opening! Great work! No, no… I should say… Outstanding work, producers! I believe that your graphics are NEETs ^^
Score: 10 (Outstanding)
=Sound=
Well I must confess that I done a terrible mistake in the last review! The last scene of Paradise Lost when the Saki and Akira are kissing opened my ears on the one of the nicest and cheerful (well it sounds like a Christmas carol somehow for me XD) music motive in whole series!
‘Reveal the world’ by Brenda Vaughn… Yes this one will be surely on my MP3 soon =)
So, the score is going one point up! Very good work!
Score: 8 (Very Good)
=Character=
What to say here… authors just done the very same thing that they were doing whole the series. So they provide another new characters into the story (PM wife, Juize “voices”, PM himself and mother of Akira) but here is just no time to fully expand them. What is more… the “Interest Hunter” story ends too quick (whew what a relief XD), other characters are just a pawns and the manipulation that consisted of putting together side character with the almighty Mr. Outside… well I guess it is not good resolution :/
So, the score stays as they were but for those who are the fans of the old characters and stasus quo- put one point higher!
Score: 7 (Good)
=Enjoyment=
Well enjoyment gone up for sure! The story is solved at last, more action is provided, I opened my ears for the great music and this outstanding graphics…
We can add to this the message from the authors and the pretty good ending of the storyline!
Well… generally I hate good endings but… let me make another exception, ok? ^^
Score: 8 (Very Good)
=Overall=
And the overall now. To tell the truth this is actually overall of whole series!
The story even with some dead ends, some unanswered questions and generally focused on the two main characters plus the countless numbers of the NEETs (:P) is very cheerful and charming one ^^ It is talking about very important things, things that we don’t want to move during everyday life, but… the way they are shown in Higashi no Eden is really eatable and digestible. The climate with the Noblesse Oblige phones at the lead is unique and so close to what we can see just behind the window, that it will really influence the watchers. But it will influence us good way…
Noblesse Oblige… no, no… let us all be a Sky Kings! Let’s grab the life and make it better for us and our children!
Score: 9 (Very Good)
