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Blame!

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2017.05.21

This is a good anime about a time in the distant future where humanity has been sidelined by its own housing and infrastructure, and now ekes out a marginal existence in the shadow of security systems that refuse to let them sufficiently travel or build to reclaim their world. It's a little uneven in place but generally sticks to its trajectory and delivers on that in the end. The world-building is very good and the design of that over-built maze of a planet was perfect.

Recommended.

rand()m quote

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

—Sigmund Freud