Director: Fumihiko Sori
Writers: Fumihiko Sori (adaptation), Yukinobu Hoshino (manga "2001 Ya Monotogari")
Stars: Jun Fukuyama and Aya Hirano
Languages: Available in Japanese or English
This movie (?) contains two unrelated short stories in what appears to be pilot episodes of an intended series. The animation team has poured its heart and soul into the production, making the scenes, the sequences, and the presentation quite eye catching. The first story has you guessing right up to the end about the relationship between the two lead characters. They've got some of the sci-fi details of the story quite right (in terms of the genre) and I can see how this can be expanded into several episodes. The second episode has even better animation and scenery than the first one. The story, too, is a bit more well-developed here and has the potential to be developed into a series. The people animation follows the anime style while the CGI background scenes are quite well fabricated. I'm not an anime/manga expert, but to my amateurish eyes these two episodes are fabulous in themselves. And, the stories contain more substance--thinking parts--than some of Hollywood's so-called action flicks. My Rating: 7.5
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