Are you enjoying the Time of Eve?
I got the internship! Feck, I'm excited. I don't officially start until next Monday, but they're sending me a manga to review tomorrow, so I'll be expecting that sometime this week. So I'm excited, but also really nervous that I might find a way to screw this up because that something I'd do. Especially because I'll be covering DC and Marvel comic updates as well, and I haven't followed a title for either label in years. Just have to wing it, I guess.
Watching Time of Eve on Crunchyroll. Users there describe it as a lot like I, Robot. It's about a future where most households have an android serving them and society's trying to maintain a strict divide between humans and androids, who are distinguished by the rings above their heads. The main character Rikuo starts noticing some strange behavior in his family's android Sammy and follows her activity log to the cafe Time of Eve. Its main rule? No discriminating between humans and androids.
There's something subtle about its execution that I like a lot. It's not trying too hard to somber or occasionally humorous. There's a natural feel to the story despite it taking place in a more technologically advanced setting. It also explores the theme of humanity and maybe self-actualization. The only time the androids can be themselves is at the cafe, where their rings are turned off so they blend in with humans. Then you have android-holic people who are said to be so out of touch with other people that they sympathize with the androids, who are pretty much their servants. It's no question if I were in that world, I'd be an android-holic considering how much I suck in social situations and stare at a computer screen all the time. It'd be easy to be around an android everyday. I guess I like the series so much because I see a pathetic part of myself in it.
Besides that though, it's unnerving to see how different the androids act in the cafe and the outside world. In the first episode, Rikuo and his friend Masaki are in the cafe talking to a lively, bubbly girl named Akiko, only to find out at the end she's actually an android. The androids are so lifeless, and it's sad how ungratefully their masters treat them. I guess any normal person wouldn't think twice about a robot's "feelings" because we don't think of machines as having emotion, but I still feel bad for them in the show, hahh.
I really recommend it. The premise is very sci-fi, but it's not so much that the theme is lost in technicalities. The animation is gorgeous, too. I like the muted color pallet and soft lines. And yeah. Time of Eve is good. Watch it.
Watching Time of Eve on Crunchyroll. Users there describe it as a lot like I, Robot. It's about a future where most households have an android serving them and society's trying to maintain a strict divide between humans and androids, who are distinguished by the rings above their heads. The main character Rikuo starts noticing some strange behavior in his family's android Sammy and follows her activity log to the cafe Time of Eve. Its main rule? No discriminating between humans and androids.
There's something subtle about its execution that I like a lot. It's not trying too hard to somber or occasionally humorous. There's a natural feel to the story despite it taking place in a more technologically advanced setting. It also explores the theme of humanity and maybe self-actualization. The only time the androids can be themselves is at the cafe, where their rings are turned off so they blend in with humans. Then you have android-holic people who are said to be so out of touch with other people that they sympathize with the androids, who are pretty much their servants. It's no question if I were in that world, I'd be an android-holic considering how much I suck in social situations and stare at a computer screen all the time. It'd be easy to be around an android everyday. I guess I like the series so much because I see a pathetic part of myself in it.
Besides that though, it's unnerving to see how different the androids act in the cafe and the outside world. In the first episode, Rikuo and his friend Masaki are in the cafe talking to a lively, bubbly girl named Akiko, only to find out at the end she's actually an android. The androids are so lifeless, and it's sad how ungratefully their masters treat them. I guess any normal person wouldn't think twice about a robot's "feelings" because we don't think of machines as having emotion, but I still feel bad for them in the show, hahh.
I really recommend it. The premise is very sci-fi, but it's not so much that the theme is lost in technicalities. The animation is gorgeous, too. I like the muted color pallet and soft lines. And yeah. Time of Eve is good. Watch it.