Episode 1: Magnetic Rose
The first of the three episodes which takes place in the year 2088 (if I remember correctly) and has to do with four members of a space waste disposal and salvage team. The team is initially getting ready to go back home after their missions are complete and suddenly receive an SOS. The team then tracks the SOS signal to a place similar to a space graveyard. They then proceed to go to the graveyard and attempt to help whoever this SOS signal belongs to, but when entering they find that the spacecraft they’re entering is richly decorated and very old. It’s also been abandoned it seems as it’s completely empty… and has a nasty memory leak, so to speak.
Of the three, this was by far the best episode with the most interesting plot, well paced story and a higher quality of artwork and style than the others.
Rating - 9/10
Episode 2: Stink Bomb
The episode starts out simple. There’s a nasty cold going around and you mainly follow a single character throughout the experience. He obtains a shot to help aid him in fighting his flu and he goes to work shortly after, which is a drug testing center. Since he’s sick and the company in question tests medical products before they go out to the public, one of his coworkers tells him to test a type of medicine that’s in the “chief’s” office that should help him out. Problem is that this guy is a complete idiot and takes the wrong medicine followed by a nap afterwards. He then wakes up and everyone in the building is dead. Turns out the company was working for the government to create a biological weapon and he takes the wrong pill. He then comes in contact with the big wigs and they tell him to bring the medicine and some paperwork pertaining to the weapon to their headquarters. Problem is that he’s now a walking biological weapon.
Now this sounds interesting and was interesting for a while, but mid way through became a snooze-fest. The story takes very obvious turns and shows a huge over exaggeration of what the state might do to stop it as well as, somehow, their utter failure.
Rating - 7/10
Episode 3: Cannon Fodder
Following the life of a small family living in a walled city under a Military Dictatorship with a steampunk setting. The lives of everyone in this city revolve around shooting these giant artillery guns at the enemy “mobile city” that’s never shown. You follow the families daily lives throughout the episode.
It’s as boring as it sounds. The art was unique but not to my taste and I thought poorly animated. The episode was also very slow paced and, I felt, boring. The point was obvious of what was trying to be represented from the moment it started.
Rating - 4/10
