This week, let's tag along with a young boy's journey to retrace his childhood memories. Along the way while retrieving bits of tales, he soon find himself on an amazing "out-of this-world" discovery.
Aka - 絶対少年
Storyline
(Episode 1~12)
Ayumu Aizawa who seems to forgotten about his past took his summer holiday visiting his father, a veterinarian, in a small town of Tana at a countryside. Travel aimlessly across the valley with his bicycle, he meets up a girl named Miku. Upon searching for his long lost friend Wakkun, he soon discovers that the boy has not aged since they played as children. Wakkun is wearing clothes very similar to the raincoat and galoshes that Ayumu wore habitually as a child. Ayumu was also introduced to Wakkun two friends, Dosshiru and Shisshin, a mysterious flying objects that alternate between a mechanical form and a sphere of yellow light.
These lights seem to be invisible to most of the people in town, but appear in reflections in people and animals' eyes. A local reporter, Akira Sukawara, shows up, attracted by reports of kappa and other mysterious events. She follows the animals, notably a cat one of the local boys saw fighting a kappa, to the yellow lights, and grills a reluctant Ayumu for information. Unable to remember the summer he spent in Tana as a child, Ayumu, with the help of Miku and several other people from Tana, tries to understand what happened when he was a child, and the mysterious connection between him, Wakkun, Dosshiru, and Shisshin.
(Episode 13~26)
A year and a half later, after the event of the first 12 episodes, the story focussed on Kisa Tanigawa, a depressed high school student, routinely skips class. On one evening, wandering aimlessly around the city, she stumbles upon another mysterious mechanical object. Naming it "Bun-chan" or "Ping" in the English dub, after the sound it makes, she takes it home and treats it as a pet. When she tries building a fish out of old scraps of metal, the top fin of the fish does not stay, so Bun-chan (Ping) helps glue it on. Meanwhile, Sukawara reappears, now trying to prove the existence of the mysterious objects that appeared at the Cat Dance in Tana a year and half ago, which she terms "material fairies", and hears about Bun-chan. Upon witnessing a meeting between Kisa and Ayumu, she calls Bun-chan not a material fairy, but a "material evil", as its outward appearance does not resemble those of the material fairies spotted in Tana. The material fairies and the material evils, however, seem to be at war with each other. When the three meet, Dosshiru, Shisshin and Bun-chan. Dosshiru and Shisshin start chasing Bun-chan and soon destroy it, leaving Kisa very upset that Bun-chan is gone. After a while the connection of Kisa's fish's metal fin starts glowing. One night the fish turns into a sprite form of Bun-chan. Kisa then decides to name ot Bob.
The city's population becomes increasingly aware of the situation, as pictures of the material evils, spheres of blue light, circulate among cell-phone users, accompanied by rumors that they bring good luck. Murals appear urging people to think and trust themselves. Eventually, a giant spiral, resembling the metal construction of the material evils, appears in the sky, and the police evacuate a section of the city. Some of the same phenomena are present as in Tana, such as the failure of electronic devices.
Medias
Opening theme - Hikari no Silhouette by Coorie
Closing theme - Shounen Humming by Itou Masumi
My End Verdict
This anime requires patience! If you are into action, then this is not the anime for you =P
Rating: 3.5/5. Only watch this if you got nothing better to do.
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