Kyoukai Senki

Title:Kyoukai Senki
AMAIM Warrior at the Borderline
境界戦機
Overall:Unevaluated
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Notables: Animation - Sunrise Beyond
FUJIWARA Natsumi
R1 License - FUNimation
SATO Gen
In the year 2061 Japan has been reduced to little more than four colonies of foreign powers as a result of the 'Boundary War'. Foreign mercenaries exercise martial law over the oppressed Japanese people. Amou Shiiba avoids complete despondency by pursuing his unusual hobby of attempting to restore an abandoned mecha, an AMAIM, to working order. He gets some unexpected help when he finds--or is found by--an artificially intelligent control unit that goes by the name of Gai.

13 episodes
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Unevaluated Stretch [series:4387#628]
(Most of one episode watched):

I guess one of the requirements of suspending disbelief is that you have to believe that whoever is telling you a story is making an honest effort to convince you that it just might be true. If you get the impression that what you are being fed is a half-assed, insincere, imitative product, then you cannot take it seriously. That was the problem I had with this show. Right from the start, the scenario seemed suspiciously simplistic and convenient for a unoriginal tale. The good Japanese people are oppressed by bad foreigners--nevermind that the cities don't seem to be in ruins, there are apparently no curfews, Shiiba possesses some high tech toothbrush cleaning device, and his friends have access to a car. These naughty mercenaries are pitched at us and we are supposed to buy the notion that they are evil without asking questions, since they threaten and beat someone after all. Most preposterous of all was the claim that amid all this injustice Shiiba has somehow gotten access to a forgotten mecha maintenance facility, with working lights, tools and testing equipment, and has managed to reassemble an AMAIM of his own(!). All this accomplished by a boy who supposedly wonders if there's any point in living at all. Let me guess: some act of brutality will provoke Shiiba into fighting back against the foreigners, and he'll find that he actually is a pretty damn good mecha pilot--and, most important of all, it will all be dull and unoriginal. But I did not wait and see if I was right. When you are confident that you already know what's going to happen there's no need to waste your time watching it actually play out. My subconscious mind was telling me that the makers of this show clearly weren't even trying to deliver a quality product, and that being the case I was under no obligation to continue watching. If I were to summarize this show in one word that word would be 'unconvincing'.

Last updated Wednesday, October 13 2021. Created Wednesday, October 13 2021.

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