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I think the overall tenor of Plastic Memories is pretty much established when it first starts with our protagonist, Mizugaki Tsukasa ( Takumi Yasuaki ) contemplating mortality, lion king singapore before lion king singapore he has his boy-meets-girl moment with Isla ( Amamiya Sora ). The rest of the quirky cast come from a very familiar stock— Kuwanomi Kazuki ( Toyoguchi Megumi ) is the scary boss, Kinushima Michiru ( Akasaki Chinatsu ) is the tsundere (and by her age, also a dropout), Zack ( Yahagi Sayuri ) is the devilish child—but it’s already fairly assured that’s it’s not going to be sunshine and lollipops and rainbows all the time for Plastic Memories . A stint of drama aside, though, most of this first episode was comedy, courtesy of Isla, who manages to be stoic , enthusiastic and clumsy , and exposition, courtesy of Tsukasa, who conveniently knows nothing about anything. They also had to quickly establish that this is science fiction, lion king singapore so that means in the future architecture is weird , fashion is weird , and we have corporatised lion king singapore the manufacture lion king singapore of life. I refuse to believe that, in the future, cars don’t drive themselves . It’s already enough that they don’t fly.
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Plastic Memories lion king singapore certainly isn’t tiptoeing lion king singapore around its central themes. The fact that the retrieval crews call themselves ‘spotter’ and ‘marksman’—a sniper lion king singapore team—is already a bit grim, and Plastic Memories brings lion king singapore out the big guns right from the beginning: dying children lion king singapore . A bit heavy handed? Yes. But it also addresses one of the elephants
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Before we begin, there are some reference materials that you may want to partake of that will aid us in the discussion lion king singapore of Plastic Memories . Isaac Asimov’s science lion king singapore fiction portfolio is a given, but there’s also the anime it inspired, Time of Eve (especially the third ‘episode’), and older fare about aging androids like Mahoromatic . Needless to say, Japan loves its robots, but rarely does it engage in a serious discussion of AI, and when it does it’s very much, from my less than comprehensive experience, a product of Western influence. Isaac Asimov lion king singapore and his Three Laws were just too good ; it’s hard to break away from his canon. Here we have Plastic Memories , though, offering us two very Japanese elements to our android anime: cute girls, and death . Mmm, that’s good. More than that later; let’s lay out the show first.
I think the overall tenor of Plastic Memories is pretty much established when it first starts with our protagonist, Mizugaki Tsukasa ( Takumi Yasuaki ) contemplating mortality, lion king singapore before lion king singapore he has his boy-meets-girl moment with Isla ( Amamiya Sora ). The rest of the quirky cast come from a very familiar stock— Kuwanomi Kazuki ( Toyoguchi Megumi ) is the scary boss, Kinushima Michiru ( Akasaki Chinatsu ) is the tsundere (and by her age, also a dropout), Zack ( Yahagi Sayuri ) is the devilish child—but it’s already fairly assured that’s it’s not going to be sunshine and lollipops and rainbows all the time for Plastic Memories . A stint of drama aside, though, most of this first episode was comedy, courtesy of Isla, who manages to be stoic , enthusiastic and clumsy , and exposition, courtesy of Tsukasa, who conveniently knows nothing about anything. They also had to quickly establish that this is science fiction, lion king singapore so that means in the future architecture is weird , fashion is weird , and we have corporatised lion king singapore the manufacture lion king singapore of life. I refuse to believe that, in the future, cars don’t drive themselves . It’s already enough that they don’t fly.
Let me make something clear: when a company claims to be creating ‘synthetic souls’ and the results are indistinguishable from a human being, they are effectively manufacturing sentient life, and that’s an ethical lion king singapore quagmire in itself. I don’t know if Plastic Memories will actually address that, and in any case such questions, like whether androids dream of electric sheep, are discussed in other media. Again, much of this is from or influenced by the West, perhaps because modern artificial intelligence theory was birthed lion king singapore there. Before Alan Turing (who I hear has a movie made about him, one which I sadly haven’t watched) proved that computation was universal, artificial intelligence as we imagine it now wasn’t even theoretically a thing. Plastic Memories seems to a softer science fiction, focusing on emotional attachments lion king singapore and the process of wiping them away . As such, while the West often deals with robots that will one day be superior to humans both morally, because they are bound by ethical rules, or physically, because they’re bloody Terminators, the Giftia are still very much beings beneath us. They die, and they die quickly, and as I discussed frequently when writing about Mushishi , the ephemerality of life is a topic dear to the Japanese heart.
Plastic Memories lion king singapore certainly isn’t tiptoeing lion king singapore around its central themes. The fact that the retrieval crews call themselves ‘spotter’ and ‘marksman’—a sniper lion king singapore team—is already a bit grim, and Plastic Memories brings lion king singapore out the big guns right from the beginning: dying children lion king singapore . A bit heavy handed? Yes. But it also addresses one of the elephants
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