[FIRST IMPRESSION] Dimension W 1 - Totally Controllable
It's okay... this is not Green Latern Anime version........
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WOW, I never expected the first episode will be good since almost I deal with many dull first episodes in this winter anime. It really gives me a blast for their high concept and actually it might have a potential to be top-tier as BokuMachi & Showa Rakugou did. But yet because only just a little tropes who make this soooo anime that uh..flops down a bit. Even so, I gladly to point out many good things and why it will be enjoyable ride to start another dystopian-action sci-fi anime.
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So the story takes in a world about fifty years from now when expensive gasoline is being quickly phased out for clean and infinite energy from the titular Dimension W, Mabuchi Kyouma (CV: Ono Daisuke) kicks it old school: keeping his too-cool-for-school vintage Toyota 2000GT on the road by asking for half his pay in gas. That pay comes from a job that’s become necessary in this new energy economy: he’s a “collector” of illegal coils, from which energy is drawn from Dimension W, getting them out of the hands of unsavory characters in the more shadowy parts of town. But seems like Kyoma quite unpleased with how coil works, despite he seems did his job perfectly. So until he was about to penetrate the organization who had their coils, he seems accidentally to have met the robot (or android).
Mira (CV: Ueda Reina), is gathering coils from everywhere she can for her “father”, the reclusive and apparently dying former CEO of NT. But Mabuchi can’t know that, so he assumes she’s the puppet of a rival collector, tracks her down and captures her. As he’s doing this, Albert Schumann (CV: Ishida Akira) and his men have cornered Dr. Yurizaki (Mira's father), who activates some kind of elaborate coil “bomb” that blows out all the coils in the vicinity (including Mira’s). The blast also apparently kills Yurizaki in the process, apparently to prevent his knowledge from ever being attained by the company he believes killed his wife and daughter and stole his research. Schumann tries to blame the incompetence of the past executive regime, to no avail. With all the excitement of the night givign way to the morning, Mabuchi takes Mira to his boss Mary, whose tech determine’s she’s far, far more than some other collector’s toy: she’s the most advanced and lifelike android he’s ever seen; something that could only have been built by Yurizaki.
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GDI why all Ishida Akira Character in this season are so hot....
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I DEFINITELY DONT WANT TO COMPARE... but this series really gave me the same vibes when I watched series like say... Darker than Black? Can't help while in darker than black is contractor, Meanwhile mabuchi worked as coil collector which pretty much they are have a similar traits with good on fighting. Also I already like Mabuchi already, he's like a classic protagonist which reminds me from Cowboy Bebop (since he's sassy enough). Mira's character is a bit more of an open question, and probably the most frustrating thing about this episode was how the camera just could not stop leering at her throughout. She's likely supposed to be the emotional heart of the show, who draws Mabuchi into engagement with some grand conflict, but when all the camera cares about are her boobs and butt, it's hard to believe the show is taking her seriously as a person. In shows like this, it's much more enjoyable to see characters who actually own their sexuality, instead of being manipulated by a voyeuristic camera - but Mira falls into a general “innocent daughter” archetype, and so she's fetishized in spite of herself. But overall the episode 1 had shown the aesthetic and their identity of this anime which giving me a lot pleasure, and I hope this is going to be another winter anime that will worth my watchlist.
Looking foward: Mira worked together with Mabuchi, also was her father's death was kinda bit vague because mira didn't seems to be so over-panicking after what happens.
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Well at least Mira is cute.
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SCORE: B