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Knocked out the first episode of Coppelion. It was.... a'aight. Visually, it almost feels like a mix of... Lain and Kino's Journey? But with none of the whimsy of the latter. Lots of musicless urban landscape overrun with green, sparse nature sounds and shaky, sometimes unfocused handheld camera angles. Lots of overhead camera shots from the perspective of transformers on electrical poles. Close up of a crow's face with a slight 3D filter. The city is extremely detailed, though.. I'll give it that.
As far as characters go, they all seem rather generic right now. Tough leader, quiet girl with glasses, super annoying loud extrovert, gruff mustached president with obvious hidden agenda. Named Mishima.
While I respect the fact that these are supposed to be (as always) junior high girls, it seemed rather dumb to me that they stopped and looked around like "Wow, there's still animals here!" One of the very first shots was of a frog swimming in a stream, and the leader briefly toyed with a small fish in the very same stream not 20 seconds later. Smarten up, girls.
One last thing of note.... I'm extremely surprised that this anime came out because of the parallels between the subject matter and Japan's current and ongoing Fukishima Reactor crisis. They do tend to cancel anime and the like because of such things.
Maybe I simply will never stop holding a grudge over not getting a definite ending to CLAMP's X story.
Anyway, maybe it's because I'm not in the best of moods, but I nowhere near enjoyed this as much as I wanted to. The scenery is nice, the characters are generic right now, the angles are cliched and the annoying loud "SQUEE" girl almost made it unwatchable.
eh.... You've been saved from being thrown in the bushes by the Three Episode Rule, Coppelion. See you next week.