KOUKAKU KIDOUTAI ARISE: ALTERNATIVE ARCHITECTURE

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  revyrain

  69/100
  A constant full-serious scenes from the very first minute to the end. That makes you fall asleep from its flatness.

  I decided to make a slight changes to the sub-scoring of ARISE: Alternative Architecture.

  It does not change the overall 6.9 score still however. Just that, stating the Story being as bad as 6.2 is kinda a stretch I admit. So I decided to impose more of its negatives toward the Presentation instead (from 6.0 down to 5.6). Since it is closer to pacing and enjoyment problems, actually. (You may check all the sub-scores in my profile, if you'd like).

  FYI this review is spoiler free.

  Indeed, the story didn't have any real purposes from the characters, including the Major Kusanagi herself. Despite all the plot twists and complexities being thrown here and there, they are (the team) actually just doing their job as national security agents here in this series. No more or less, fundamentally.

  And I can say that, out of the five arc stories in Alternative Architecture, I enjoyed only one. Which is when they investigated the death and the coffin of Lieutenant Col. Mamuro. I felt that the flow of the plot and storyboard was pretty much better in that one, compared to the rest.

  Though it doesn't mean that the other four arcs' stories were that bad either. Twasn't really bad to be honest.

  But it's just that the deliveries of these stories were end-up being fall flat, because of the restrictions which occurs due to its own style of perspective and storytelling.

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  Look, it's actually quite complicated for me to explain. But bear with me a little if you're curious.

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  This anime has a bad habit of delivering stories by words and discussions. You know, actions and illustrations speaks a thousand words, but ARISE chooses more of the thousand words than to illustrate or utilize the storyboard.

  There is not much space really, to enjoy the show. The flow suffers due to its kind of storytelling. Like, you blinked for a second, or your mind leaps a bit, you lose valuable information or two.

  It happens because they try to give you much more of the perspective of detective side. 90% the agents' viewpoints, 10% the enemy's views, I can say.

  What's the aftermath of this ?

  Well, when you watch other animes, they'll give you at least the outline idea of what's the enemies intentions and purposes are. Some even went so far to delve deep into the minds, the surrounding, the backstory, the progress, and the motivations of such antagonists.

  In ARISE, you couldn't wish much for that. You have to guess. As how the Major (and her team) guesses. Well, I get that this is a detective show, but IMO they went overboard for this. They sacrificed the pacing and compositions for the sake of secrecy. The only revelations and hints from the enemy viewpoints are shown mostly when subjects were getting closer to Major Kusanagi, or when they are captured already.

  Then how do this anime delivers all the details and plot to the viewers ?

  By thousand words, of course. I said it once again. There is not much other way.

  Yes, the twists and illustrations (was it illustrations ?) was no illustrations. You have to hear the characters exchanges a ton of dialogues. To discuss, to guess, to negotiate, strategize, argue, etc etc, because they don't show much of the enemy's doing. And unfortunately when the action happens, it wasn't depicted any close to wonderful animation either.

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  So there is much less thrill than what I suppose should be. Because thrill needs momentum. And momentum needs changes in between. And there is hardly changes here, when all you see is a constant full-serious scenes from the very first minute to the end, that makes you fall asleep from boringness due to its flatness. And the soft tune of beats of the techno music helps you very much toward that end.

  Probably this was the TL;DR. Did I made it? Yeay. :'D

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  I can say, this anime took it too far to present a 'sophisticated detective playing' experience. Which will not be enjoyable for most viewers. Some might feel challenged to guess what's going on, but most other will suffer the chore of its tedious flat attention span.

  Well, if you're smart, has an ultra-long attention span, and likes to solve twists, this anime is probably for you. But if you can't even survive reading this rather long review, I suggest you better don't go watch it.

  As for me, it makes me feel fortunate that I wasn't taking a detective job IRL. I wouldn't want to go daily guessing on what other people's trying to do all the time, while risking your life on it. As how Major Kusanagi's team seems more than motivated to do.

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