I have just surpassed the halfway mark for this anime series, and thought to do a quick review of JAPAN SINKS anime, currently streaming on Netflix - by way of my Instagrammed images/slideshow, with reposting my commentary here :p
8minutes into #japansinks2020 on #netflix, for a split second you forget that it’s an anime you are looking at ... the narration as the characters transverse thru the destruction is pretty effective to wrestle the emotions out of you, at least for a person like myself who has never experienced living thru a earthquake.
After seeing the destruction in the first episode, the peaceful opening title sequence feels so bittersweet... an instantaneous feeling of “loss”, of a life one has taken for granted...
"Japan Sinks" is a disaster novel by Sakyo Komatsu published in 1973, with this anime based on said novel (labelled as "science fiction" in the show's description) ... and there was a rather cheeky reference to the novel (seen in a slideshow Insta-upload embedded below), which at the same time addresses the very real current online/media climate.
Rated “R21”, this season consists of 10 episodes total, with each ep clocking in 25(ish) minutes per, and thus far I’m at ep2 (what happens in the end would fck you up tho), and I am hooked... but fearful, becoz I don’t know how much I can take ... feasibly finishable within a dedicated day to watch this #anime, methinks. This is like a disaster movie in small doses each hit... ...then it hit ep4 and I was WTF? The story veered off-road or a couple of episodes, with a dedicated theme, resolved by Episode 6.
SUMMARY: "Shortly after the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, a major earthquake hits Japan. Amidst the chaos, siblings Ayumu and Gou of the Mutou household, begin to escape the city with their family of four. The sinking Japanese archipelagos, however, relentlessly pursue the family.
Plunged into extreme conditions, life and death, and the choice of meeting and parting—in the face of dreadful reality, the Mutou siblings believe in the future and acquire the strength to survive with utmost effort."
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