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Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet
翠星のガルガンティア
2013 · TV series · 24 min episodes · 1 season
ActionAdventureAnimationScience FictionFantasy
While fighting an intense inter-galactic war, a mecha pilot is accidentally warped into a space-time neither he nor his computer recognize. After waking up from a long-time hibernation, he finds himself trapped on a planet, with human residents talking in an unknown form of language, using inferior technologies, and - most shocking to him - naturally breathable air.
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I’m not sure if I agree with the articles thesis. There have always been bleak anime.
There’s so much more out there now. Some of it is whimsical and hopeful. Some that come to mind from the last decade:
- Yuri on Ice - A Place Further than the Universe - Your Name - Sasaki and Miyano - Given - The last Evangelion movie (which was a real holy shit moment for me) - Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet - This one is an odd pick but the Cyberpunk anime Netflix came out with last year was so so good. I know it undercuts my point given how it’s set in a dystopia but I felt like humanizing these characters that are criminals in a broken world and showing how they still have hopes and dreams and love… I found it very touching. - The Stranger by the Shore
Also Chainsaw Man is really really good, though it is dark and gory.
In the currently airing animated TV show [Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet][1], the protagonist has a display that translates things spoken to him into text in his native language.
[1]: http://www.crunchyroll.com/gargantia-on-the-verdurous-planet