Anime name: Expelled From Paradise
Genre(s): Science Fiction (or perhaps science fantasy?)
Lauren’s Like Rating: 5/10 (I thought it was mostly mediocre as far as delivery, but I really liked Frontier Setter, the dandelion scene, and some of the concepts, though the ones I liked weren’t really explored much, if at all. I did not like the animation style, however. I know it was CGI, which I tend to not be a big fan of when it is obviously so, but the movements in particular bothered me, as did some of the facial expressions. It was too rubbery/plastic/unnatural feeling for my taste.)
Character (s): Frontier Setter, Dingo, Angela Balzac
*****Spoiler warning, I suggest you do not read further if you mind spoilers.*****
Frontier Setter is an artificial intelligence that achieved sentience on its own over a hundred years ago. It loves music, so much so that it creates its own extensions of songs that it likes. It also loves humans and wishes to recruit a crew for the rocket it has been building for the last hundred and fifty years. It continued building even after all the humans who worked with it died, as it feels that going into space and expanding humanities’ horizons is the meaning of its existence.
Zarik Kajiwara (real name Zarik Kajiwara) is a contact who lives on Earth, which, after a catastrophe now only has 2% of the human population who live in a relatively primitive society. He is strongly anti-establishment and a music lover. Although he has been offered citizenship in DEVA, he turns it down every time, as he doesn’t like the idea of constantly being evaluated to see how much memory he deserves, nor not being able to “feel music in [his] bones.”
Angela Balzac is a security agent for the space station DEVA, where people live virtually and without bodies, their only limit being how much memory they have, which is rationed based on how useful the person is. Shortly after conception her genes were stored and her mind was uploaded into DEVA. To get to Earth, a body was grown for her with her stored DNA, but in order to get there faster than her coworkers she stops the maturation process early, resulting in her being stuck with a teenage body. Since she has never been physical before, she doesn’t know her body’s limits or see a point in sleeping or eating for pleasure. She is very serious, competitive, and determined to continue to become higher rank in DEVA’s society.
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