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The Web of Rebellion
This is an unusual anime feature, based on a manga which is largely unavailable in the US. In its multifaceted story of resistance to the Persona Corporation which has come to own 90% of the world, it seems to take no viewpoint, It follows the common Japanese story-telling convention of bringing up the story as an intricate composition of story lines rather than one single driving thread. <
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>Two things trigger the events in the film. A young boy, Katari, flees some troublemakers and falls into a hole into another dimension. Somehow he is rescued by a peculiar doctor driving a stagecoach who will remind you of Vampire Hunter D (Hideyuki Kikuchi did work there as well). And a rebel raid successfully sabotages a Persona control center and only one of them, Tatsuya, successfully escapes and a pretty young gang leader, Mai, becomes involved in his rescue. <
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>The Doctor, takes the name of Darkside after the the place he arrives - the Kabuki-Cho district of Shinjuku Tokyo. There he practices a form of 'medicine' called Renewal. He touches many of the people in Shinjuku, especially Mai and Selia whose fate becomes entwined with Tatsuya's. Darkside has some past with the family who owns Persona, and Renewal has something to do with enspiriting both Katari and Selia so that the opposition to the corporation can continue. <
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>Guren and Tamaki, the owners of Persona are classic villains. She is a sadist who get pleasure from turning people to gold when they are still alike, and he if the cold corporate master who thinks nothing of destroying a Himalayan mountain to kill a few rebels. Thus each character casts a human and an archetypical shadow, and it is not always clear which you are seeing. <
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>And there you have it, a cast of idiosyncratic characters enacting a set of woven storylines to reach an inevitable tragedy and a transcendent moment of hope. All to the background of American blues music. This may turn out to be one of those little known classics which you either hate or love, since it raises more questions than it could ever answer. But it invites the viewer's introspection - what is the nature of opposition to oppression? Are hatred and grief powers, or curses?

so mysterious..
I had to watch this movie 3 times before even getting the grasp of the plot or what the hell was going on, but that doesn't mean that I wasn't fascinated by it. The mystery of the characters, specially Darkside, is so intriguing. The fact that they don't tell you anything straighforward but instead leave you to figure out what the hell's going on, is fantastic! This is a very complex anime and if you're someone who got bored with "the end of evangelion" then probably you will think this anime stinks. I'm a sucker for weird and different things, so naturally I love this movie. The animation is old school, but it's still very, very good. A very disconcerting, yet perfectly fitting thing was the music sang by the old man with the guitar. At first I was like: What the hell?, but after a couple minutes it felt perfect for the scene, in fact the whole movie. <
>Regardless of whether it's a slow paced movie, it's still very interesting.