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+==========
+ Fractale
+==========
+
+Would you choose between peace and freedom? Would you choose for all of humanity?
+=================================================================================
+
+:CreationDate: 2014-03-19 12:03:19
+:Id: anime/review/fractale
+:tags: - anime
+       - review
+:rating: 4
+:original: http://www.easternkicks.com/reviews/fractale-complete-series-collection
+
+It's about a thousand years in our future. There is no poverty, no
+hunger. Everyone lives wherever they want, doing whatever they
+want. Most social interaction happen via stylised tele-presence
+holograms called "doppels". To be part of this idyllic world, you just
+have to sync, once or twice a day, the wireless terminal in your head
+with the planet-wide computer system called Fractale.
+
+This is the setting of this series, sketched in just a few scenes of
+Clain's daily life.
+
+Things start getting complicated for him when we sees a girl (Phryne)
+on a flying contraption, running away from some people with clearly
+bad intentions. He helps her hide and evade her pursuers, but she soon
+disappears leaving only a brooch. Clain, being a bit technologically
+inclined, manages to activate the self-aware doppel stored in the
+brooch, who calls herself Nessa. They then get captured by the same
+people who were trying to get Phryne. These are part of a group of
+rebels who call themselves "Lost Millennium", whose main objective is
+to disable Fractale and bring people back to the good old days when
+everyone's life was not micro-managed by a vast artificial
+intelligence.
+
+There follows escapes, reveals, double-crossing, friendship and love,
+and a mostly satisfying resolution to the whole plot.
+
+At first, Fractale felt to me to be simple and derivative: Dennou Coil
+had done the whole "augmented reality" setting four years before, and
+the echoes of Ghibli in the first few episodes are hard to ignore
+(Phryne dressed in blue flying atop a white wing; three flying "bad
+guys" who turn out to be not that bad at all). But what is really
+interesting, and what makes the series stand on its own, is how the
+authors avoided the cut-and-dried good-vs-bad characterisation, making
+sure that we see both sides: the creators of the Fractale system aimed
+for world peace and stability, Lost Millennium wants to scrap it all
+to take back self-determination. Both are well intentioned, but both
+have problems grasping all the consequences of their decisions and
+actions. I won't spoil the ending for you, but I think that, short of
+a "Deus ex machina", it's the only sensible solution to that world's
+problems.
+
+If you can stand some slightly abused tropes, and a bit of excessive
+cuteness, Fractale will make you think about profound questions, and
+how to save the world. Or you could always ignore half the plot and
+just enjoy the chases and the pretty girls…
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