Coppelion – Anime Review
Shadows
Classification:
Recommendation: 67
in 100
Directed by – Shingo
Suzuki
Studio – GoHands
Year – 2013
Season 1 / 13
episodes
Warning this review could contain spoilers!
If the reader wasn't watched this anime,
this could reduce the enjoyment!
For instance Sasuke will kill Naruto in
season finale!
See the danger of a Spoiler? Now this was a
lie, only to show the power of a spoiler!
The reader was been warned!
“Rescuing Tokyo and loose the focus”
Loose notes – Fukushima
postponed Coppelion!!
Sincerely, I don’t
understand this administrative decision, this is the second anime that I
watched, that don’t aired when it was supposed, due to an actual event.
Yes, this anime is
about a nuclear meltdown, but it is fiction, it don’t have fault of Fukushima disaster,
this anime story could work as a warning to more disasters and futuristic
projections of what life could be and where human’s greed leading us.
The other
postponed anime was Beelzebu, because reasons, I don’t know (don’t remember)!
It’s a decision that I don’t understand. What is the fear of an anime airing
with a current (polemical) theme?
I tried to
investigate (without any success) if the story was only delayed or it was
changed. After seeing the full season I think it was changed! The story focus changed
dramatically after episode 3, changing the course of the anime from a destroyed
Tokyo to other theme!
The Opening
The opening
reflected pretty well Coppelion, a great start followed by a great loss of
focus.
(Coppelion -
opening)
I always say the opening has to work as a
trailer to the anime, and this opening did its part. I think that the opening
reveled much of the anime moments, no space for any surprise and in a 13
episodes season, the story was damaged!
The Animation
I confess that I couldn't understand
animation's style of Coppelion (and I didn’t like it either). The outlines of
the characters were to exaggerated, it seems they (the characters and the set)
were different elements and in anime it's a bit awkward!
But I have to be fair (actually not, but
in this case I will be) this style makes a clear distinguish between humans and
Coppelions, and it gave a more artificial aspect to the Coppelions!
Analysis
I can’t analyze the anime without
explaining what is a Coopelion?
Coppelion are humans genetically changed
to support extreme radiation conditions!
Why the name of “Coppelion”? For me is a
weak name and its explanation (a doll made by a Doctor in France) even weaker. I think that
was preferable to leave it open or get a better story, after all, this is an
anime… there are no limits :)
I will divide the analysis between two
topics: the part I liked and the part that I didn't like!
The rescue story was pretty nice, when the
Coopelions are only exploring a destroyed capital, suffering with the state of
the city and the resilience of the survivors to stay and resist to the rescue.
The Coopelions in extreme conditions
suffered for save the survivors. In their first attempt to save a family with 3
members only one survives. This anime presents to us the dilemma of the
survivors, mostly ex-convicts (stay free or go back to jail) and the moral of
the responsible for the disaster and its rehabilitation to feed and give
conditions (radiation suits) to the survivors who stayed in capital.
While the focus remain in rescue, in
chaos, in corruption (maybe this was the real cause of the postponement ), in
political decisions and in human greed who led to destruction, Coopelion was
great (the first 4 episodes)!
And then the focus suddenly changed, and
started to be about the Coppelion itself and human's ethic (genetically changed
humans!)
Begins with the question if they are only
dolls controlled by the government, to play them whenever and how they want and
easily disposed if necessary!
The story and the world built in the first
episodes was dropped and starts to be about a military group that control the
capital after the disaster (also abandoned by the government to die). As the
anime opening spoils about Coppelions fighting Coppelions, to prove that they
are not dolls controlled by the government, removed all the surprise when
unfortunately happened!
Each Coppelion started to earn a specific power and
gained the personality of the person which has been cloned! We watched then a
parade of powers, from super vision, resistance, super strength to electric
powers!
When the story and its quality dropped, a
detail of this anime started to gain some relevance! It’s a fact that 99% of
the anime is based a school scenario or at least the characters are students! I
really don’t care, but in Coppelion it simple doesn’t make sense! They are a
military unit trained for a specific mission! They were not trained in a high
school (I think), if they are a military unit why they are dressed with a
school uniform?? Simply doesn’t make sense! It's a military mission and they
aren't equipped for that!
And to end the criticism, I think I
watched to the most annoying character of all the anime that I watched and its name is Aoi, is simply annoying!
That is a really exaggerated outline :P
Only
in anime moment
Coopelion, is the first one to receive a new column in
my blog about moments that are only possible in anime! That’s why l love anime
:)
I present to you an injection given with a gun:
?Future Seasons?
Well this is the easiest prediction that I will do,
although there is some room to a second season (What happens to the Coppelion,
lifespan, mission, society acceptance), the anime ended it a irrevocably, end
of production message.
So, there will not be a second season, I think that it
won’t be required by the anime fans community unlike High School of the Dead 2,
I’M STILL WAITING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If a second season is produced, I’ll probably watch
because I think this anime has capability to much more, depending the director
/ manga writer focus!
*Watched by me in
2014 – originally released in 2013
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