.anime phreak. – call me Ki様

I haven’t really written my thoughts on it when I saw the first episode, because… actually, no reason.

It doesn’t matter, does it? I’m writing about it now!

Each Mnemosyne episode is twice the length of the standard 24 minutes, but I’ll try to shorten the synopsis. (Probably because I dun wanna type a lot.)

Synopsis:

This episode divides into two routes in the beginning, one following Rin and the other following Maeno. Rin is tracking the elusive Sutherland stamp, the only (whole) one left in the world. While Maeno helps a girl look for an “angel”, although he believes she made it up to replace her lost brother. Time goes by and Rin deviate away from her search as her gut instinct leads her to a series of murders, which leads her to a fight with the mysterious agent sent by Apos once again. No one won because they both blew up, but then again, neither of them died. After that however, Maeno discovers to true nature of Rin… and apparently Mimi also. Maeno decides to stay with them (he’s no better, he’s a clone) and the investigations continues. The turning point of the investigation happens when Maeno finds a clue and finally calls in Rin and Mimi as they, coincidentally, find out the Sutherland stamp and the stamp assassin (say what?). The “angel” turns out to be real and it’s the opposites of the immortals, explanation is short and just plainly leads to, kill the angel. After an encounter with the stamp assassin does the angel shows up, so he decides to eat Rin, then he eats Rin. (Eating means screwing in Japanese, usually one sided.) They always find spots to stick in nudity in… Anyways, she saves herself by walking him into a particularly hard branch, in short, she boned him big time. Then we get to see Apos once again, this time with plenty of explanations and such, and that’s how it ends.

Thoughts:

Well, I wasn’t going to watch it the first place because the artwork I saw from the poster and screenshots wasn’t great at all. But I’m glad I did since the story (mostly because it’s still a mystery) and the directing is great. The music also fits greatly with the mood of the anime, although it’s not the genre I link. This, however, is a relief tothe bunch of failing sequels I have to put up with so far. (Hopefully Code Geass 2 won’t be like that.)  The setting of 1991 is odd since it limits the amount of possibilities to resolve mysteries since it leaves little room for both SciFi and supernatural explanations, but we’ll see how it goes, if they pull it off they would have my respect.