Pale Cocoon

[Anarky]

Some people might remember me talking about a manga called "BLAME!" in the past (here and here are the ones I found using the board search and my memory). So now this anime comes out, totally unrelated to BLAME! but they deal with a similar subject. Earth has become too small for humans, they need to emigrate and they build Megastructures (term borrowed from BLAME!) or Dyson Spheres... or just some bigass megadungeon around the earth. Where they get the material from, don't ask me, but apparently there's enough to make it really big.

Anyways, there's Ura, an archeologist. He's excavating data found from the pre-megastructure-world. Many of his fellow archeologists have quit, because they simply don't see what good it could do to see what earth was like before they f*cked it up. But Ura likes his work and he's very excited everytime he finds out something new. One day, Ura feels that it's not enough to simply excavate data and send it to some office, he wants to see it. And so he goes upwards...

So, there. Another silly review by yours truly which most likely won't interest anyone, but since when did I care? So, if you like Post-apocalyptic future-stuff, then "Pale Cocoon" is your thing. And if you're interested in anime outside of the main stream, then this short film (22 minutes) will definitely interest you.

And if you've seen it, then please tell us what you found out, what you think and how you liked the anime.