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after watching chou kaguya-hime and being disappointed with it but finding a certain aspect of the premise interesting, two good friends have suggested we should watch the film called rakuen tsuihou, so i think i'll do that!

ok here we go

the very first minute of rakuen tsuihou is two characters having a conversation about how much it costs to render their 3d models and private servers. this movie came out the same year as the first release of vrchat. very promising!

WHY IS ARARAGI'S VOICE ACTOR IN THIS dhfdshfsdlkfjsdf

they set up a whole premise in just six minutes and it's a really interesting one, man i have high hopes for this film

immediate battle sequence with a banging synth soundtrack

characters with personalities!

so the premise is there's a virtual world where people live (were their brains uploaded?) hosted on a space station, but someone's trying to hack it, so this girl has been materialised onto earth, now a post-apocalyptic wasteland, to find the hacker together with this cowboy

and he's the one with the same VA as Kaiki Deishuu. delightful

they're already discussing the disconnect between people who've only lived in cyberspace without corporeality and people who live in flesh and bones. and we're only 24 minutes into the movie

oh man they even get to have such an exchange but centred on rock music. not surprised our musician friends like this film

we are barely half an hour into the movie where a cool cowboy with the same VA as kaiki deishuu gives a cold dose of reality to a girl who is getting to experience corporeality for the first time and god what a film

i wonder if any of our rat-y friends and acquaintances have seen this film…

correct response when the robot sounds like that

「それが私の存在証明でした。」

for people who are only reading the thread, i should mention at this point that the hacker's motivation is to send (virtual) humanity out to explore the cosmos. also we get to meet said hacker. it's a film about competing transhumanist ideologies

there's no escaping the rat race, huh

“I'm not going to become a cog in a machine, even if that machine is paradise.”

oh yeah there's a mech battle btw but it earns it

what a wonderful film

considering the premise, the people involved in its production, and the strength of the recommendations we got for it, it's not too surprising that I liked Rakuen Tsuihou

nonetheless: it was in fact a very good film

normally I wouldn't mention it, but: I appreciated the calm

sometimes a great film is mostly just three people talking to eachother

this was a good palette cleanser and helpful confirmation we haven't lost our mind. meaning is not density of pretty images or ideas per minute, meaning is not runtime, meaning is not hard to keep up with