![]() I’ve seen enough anime to not be bothered by designs with furry quirks, though at least in this case they basically made it clear that was them just using a fake digital form for their bodies. I liked the resulting dynamics, once again later on, even if the cast wasn’t all that new in concept. That’s at least uncommon enough to keep me awake, since the show definitely wasn’t saying he was right or flawless.Īs for the other characters…for me the traits were distinct enough, even if not original (then again, what kinds of fictional characters can attempt to be truly unique in the year 2019? Very few). Usually standard heroes aren’t quite so overly eager and careless in current media, let alone to the point of being portrayed as this being a big problem even in-universe. It is true that Daisuke is quite hard to like, as a person, but I think the simple generalization about his character type is obscuring that the series is trying to criticize the excesses of his hero complex. In my case, the second half was the most interesting one, so I would recommend sticking with it at least until then. I think a show like Revisions does have a lot of familiar elements in isolation, yet for me the series was interesting enough because this particular mix hasn’t been attempted as such. ![]() The action is actually pretty good – who doesn’t want to see giant cyborg-monsters fight mecha suits? The design of The Revisions and the mecha suits is again familiar but functional. The mecha suits and The Revisions are nicely created, just familiar enough to be recognizable but also different enough to seem fresh-ish. ![]() It’s almost as though the creators are just throwing as many concepts as possible at the wall to see what sticks, but perhaps less would have been more. Revisions does a good job of building a world, even if it is an overfilled and confusing place to be. I had more than a few eye-rolling moments during the course of the series but I still couldn’t help but be hooked into it. The story itself is twisty, turny, timey-wimey silliness about pandemics, time-jumping, corrupt self-serving governments, and ambiguous baddies. The rest of his friends just seem to be along for the ride, with no real discernible traits. Basically, he seems like something of a d******d. The extent of this preparation seems to be attacking random strangers who may have talked to or cycled too close to his friend Marin Temari (Manaka Iwami). Ever since his first meeting with Milo he’s become obsessed with preparing himself for his destiny, like a more surly Sarah Connor. He’s a mean and moody teenager who has some sort of messiah complex, he’s so desperate to be the champion chosen to protect humanity that he doesn’t care about anything else. The characters are hard work, particularly Daisuke, who is a carbon copy of so many anime ‘heroes’ before him. Despite all that, as the series progressed I couldn’t help but get drawn in. I watched Revisions with quite a cynical eye because the premise just seems to be so by-the-numbers, with pre-fabricated elements and characters just slotted into place. With the help of Milo, who now seemingly doesn’t remember them, Daisuke and his friends must defend the people from The Revisions with the use of mecha suits (obviously). Milo is a terrible influence on these poor children as she goes on to fill Daisuke’s head with stories of him being the chosen one, destined to save them all.įast forward to the present day and suddenly the Shibuya is transported forward in time and under attack from giant mechanized monsters known as The Revisions. Seven years ago Daisuke Dojima (K?ki Uchiyama) was kidnapped in mysterious circumstances because what other kind of circumstances are there? Four of Daisuke’s school friends get a cryptic message telling them where to find him and when they arrive they meet the enigmatic Milo (Mikako Komatsu). Oh and there’s a scantily clad woman with a tail and animal ears (rabbit I think), who may or may not be a furry. There’s a prophecy, moody teenagers, time-travel, big monsters, and mecha suits. Based on my previous experiences, it feels like the plot of Revisions could have been generated by a random anime algorithm. I’m not really an anime expert, more of an enthusiastic amateur, but I was keen to see what the Netflix Original series Revisions had to offer.
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