| Title: | Deep Insanity: The Lost Child
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2021, Action, Fantasy, Fighting, Sci-Fi, TV
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Animation - SILVER LINK
R1 License - FUNimation
SHIMONO Hiro
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A new disease, 'Randolph Syndrome', is slowly but surely eating away at humanity. Victims go mad and fall into an unending sleep. There seems to be some sort of link to the recent discovery of the 'Asylum' a massive underground world at the South Pole, which teems with bizarre and dangerous creatures unlike those seen anywhere else on earth. Most people have been kept in the dark about this fantastic revelation. But the Asylum is also rich with valuable natural resources, and 'Sleepers'--persons who investigate and recover them--are being eagerly recruited. Shigure Daniel Kai volunteers, for an unusual reason: he wants to be a hero.
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A new disease, 'Randolph Syndrome', is slowly but surely eating away at humanity. Victims go mad and fall into an unending sleep. There seems to be some sort of link to the recent discovery of the 'Asylum' a massive underground world at the South Pole, which teems with bizarre and dangerous creatures unlike those seen anywhere else on earth. Most people have been kept in the dark about this fantastic revelation. But the Asylum is also rich with valuable natural resources, and 'Sleepers'--persons who investigate and recover them--are being eagerly recruited. Shigure Daniel Kai volunteers, for an unusual reason: he wants to be a hero.
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Deep Insanity: The Lost Child
(One episode watched):
For all the implications of psychological danger and outright horror which characters might experience (i.e, the title), all the secrecy and the ominous foreboding, all the strange rules which a Sleeper must obey in order to survive, in the end I was underwhelmed by the actual threat Kai encounters. I was expecting something so mind-blowing that it might literally drive people insane, and a sophisticated plot dealing with just that. But what we got were pretty conventional opponents. The real threat isn't that you might be driven mad, it's that others who have been transformed into monsters might rip you to pieces with fangs and blades. Their former comrades in turn use a mix of machine guns and unexplained net shooting weapons (or something) against them. It could be argued that this is an isekai series, though it takes place here on earth. How this quite warm, even tropical, environment exists beneath the South Pole makes no sense but whatever. The idea of Asylum sort of reminds me of the Abyss in Made in Abyss and the concept of fighting bizarre monsters far, far from home (and major help) reminded me of Terraformars (TV). The fights weren't all that exciting and the characters weren't all that interesting for a show in which maintaining mental health ought to be an issue. Anyway, seeing what the actual scenario was was a letdown for me and I wound up feeling that I would not want to watch this show at all.
Last updated Wednesday, December 01 2021. Created Monday, October 18 2021.
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