This is the crazy level of storytelling in this anime, and it is the established normalcy. The anime withheld that information, because the character doesn’t know about it as well. Why? Because the character was unconscious when he killed the bear and so the guy doesn’t know about it too. What is that power? The audience doesn’t get to know that. He loses, but somehow, it’s revealed he has some super powers and it helped him kill the bear. The shirtless guy is now in a panic, but he still fights. This reveal is something the character just learned, and so the audience also just learns of this as a well. The announcer then introduces your opponent: a f*cking bear. The announcer introduced you, and you scream at the audience letting out your excitement and anxiousness. As you remember some more, they promised you a donor if you agree to this fight. He agreed to a fight because the rich folks that created the event promised that they’ll help your childhood friend to get better. As he thinks, he remembers why he is there in the first place. The fighter is getting anxious, uncomfortable and a little bit scared as well. The visuals also establish a level of discomfort by shoving the camera insanely close to their faces. These are unfamiliar people but they’re all kinda creepy and excited. The announcer began to address the crowd that’ll watch your fight and you survey the entire place. You’re in a cage, shirtless, ready to fight your opponent and the lights are off. You should realize though that the entire sequence is told in a character’s perspective: the guy that fought the bear. Most of you would probably chalk the entire messy presentation on an anime that doesn’t know what it’s doing. As an audience, your first reaction would be confusion and then a bit of clarity as you realize “oh, the guy is going to fight a bear”. The bear won their first exchange, eats some parts of the guy, but the guy somehow stood up and beat the living hell out of the bear. You see the main character getting ready for a fight, we are given a backstory as to why he is there, and we are introduced to his enemy: a f*cking bear. It opens with an announcer in a dark stage, and then you see flashes of unfamiliar faces, and then you see the stage is shown with a cage in it. Terraformars opened with our main character fighting a bear, and a lot of things are actually established in its first ten minutes. This is where the audience gets a small taste of the overall experience. This is where the scope and limitation of the anime is established. The first episode is often the most important episode of an anime, because it sets the tone for the rest of the series. The anime is operating on some Christopher Nolan level sh*t though, so it isn’t really outright bad. It’s truly a high concept form of storytelling, and the anime kinda did a sloppy job of it. It’s not about a neat story but more about the soldiers stuck in the waters fighting for their lives. The closest I’ve seen this kind of storytelling done is probably Dunkirk by Christopher Nolan. Character background, exposition and the overall story is told in chunks and pieces as the soldiers’ experiences them as well. You’ve been with the soldiers from their rendezvous on Earth up until their journey to Mars. In its truest sense, Terraformars treats its audience as the 101 st member of the Annex 1. The audience isn’t given exposition ahead of time or any foreshadowing unless the characters know about it too. You see, the story is told through the characters.
Terraformars took an entirely different approach. Anime has its structure and clichés that we’re all fond of. People that hated the anime’s story are also kinda right. The entire thing looks like a mess, but really, the entire thing is brilliant. We have a bloated cast too, so the focus shifts from one group to another. It always feel like you’re always out of the loop and you have no idea where the anime is going. For a weekly viewing experience, Terraformars will be off putting. Things don’t really settle and you’re either lacking information about a scene or overwhelmed with it in another. The story is really all over the place, and the pacing is really fast. Actually, let me just- *check MAL reviews*, and yeah, this anime kinda didn’t work. I can tell a lot of people won’t like it. Oh boy, this was certainly an interesting anime.
The third expedition into the red planet carries a hundred soldiers ready for war, but are they fully prepared for what’s waiting for them? You can bet not all one hundred makes it back to Earth. It is natural selection at its best as it pits the humans against evolved cockroaches from Mars. It’s a really awesome show, so let’s read on. It’s a thirteen episode anime about a bunch of cockroaches killing a bunch of surgically enhanced humans. This anime is part of the Fall 2014 lineup, and it’s called Terraformars. This is review number four hundred and twenty seven.
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