70/ 100
Finished Airing
Movie R+ - Mild Nudity
Harmony
<harmony/> ハーモニー · 2015
A military investigator investigates waves of mass suicides in a totalitarian utopia.
StatusFinished Airing
SeasonFall 2015
StudioStudio 4°C
SourceNovel
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Following a catastrophic global nuclear conflict known as the Maelstrom, surviving nations establish a sterile totalitarian medical utopia governed by the World Health Organization. Through the WatchMe internal nanomachine monitoring network, human illness and pain are eradicated, turning citizens into compliant state property. Tuan Kirie, who survived an adolescent suicide rebellion organized by her nihilistic classmate Miach Mihie thirteen years earlier, now serves as an international military investigator. When thousands of citizens suddenly commit suicide simultaneously, Tuan is assigned to investigate the attacks, discovering that Miach's ghost has weaponized the medical network to extinguish human individuality forever.
⚠ Background — may contain spoilers
Studio 4°C produced this chilling 119-minute cyberpunk psychological feature film, released theatrically across Japan by TOHO in November 2015. Co-directed by Michael Arias, famous for *Tekkonkinkreet*, and Takashi Nakamura, the movie adapted the Seiun Award-winning science-fiction novel written by the late visionary author Project Itoh. Character designs were provided by redjuice, with a melancholic pop theme song performed by EGOIST. The production received the Special Distinction Prize at the 2016 Fantasia International Film Festival, earning praise from international sci-fi critics for its sleek pastel cinematography and chilling philosophical exploration of bodily autonomy.
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40/ 100
UK Anime Network
A. H.
Its core narrative just about holds up, but this overly long and overly verbose film flatters to deceive - it says so much, yet somehow ends up saying nothing.
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Nick Creamer
After the flawed but entertaining Empire of Corpses, the second film in the Project Itoh series is a pretty serious letdown. Nick Creamer does the postmortem.
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