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diff --git a/src/anime/review/fractale/.gitignore b/src/anime/review/fractale/.gitignore new file mode 100644 index 0000000..08d33d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/anime/review/fractale/.gitignore @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +/document.en.du.xml +/document.it.du.xml diff --git a/src/anime/review/fractale/document.en.rest.txt b/src/anime/review/fractale/document.en.rest.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..185ecdf --- /dev/null +++ b/src/anime/review/fractale/document.en.rest.txt @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +========== + 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… diff --git a/src/anime/review/fractale/du2html.xsl b/src/anime/review/fractale/du2html.xsl new file mode 120000 index 0000000..371d03d --- /dev/null +++ b/src/anime/review/fractale/du2html.xsl @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +../../../../templates/du2html-review.xsl
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