If I told you I was going on an anime pilgrimage, you probably would have thought I was planning a trip to Japan. Unfortunately, that sort of adventure requires more than just the six days we got over [...]
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Title: FractaleGenre: AdventureRating: 8.5/10 Summary: The story takes place on an island, where a “Fractale System” is beginning to collapse. One day, Clain finds an injured girl called Phryne under [...]
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Anime Herald Anime Herald - We'll talk nerdy to you. Fractale is a series that’s brimming with ambition. Born from the mind of Japanese cultural critic Hiroki Azuma and given life by director Yutaka [...]
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I start watching Fractale. It looks like a pretty normal anime. Nice characters. Looks like a Germanic world. Very classic. And then Clain’s parents appear. One of them seems to have a bowl of water [...]
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Fractale VS. Sound of the Sky Watched via Funimation and Sound of the Sky WHITNEY CRYSTAL PLOT: Fractale is a conglomeration of Sci-Fi tropes, all used successfully in prior anime series. When [...]
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Fractale premiered in January of 2011 as part of the noitaminA animation block on FujiTV. The series’ inclusion in noitaminA led to high expectations. The block, putting aside its lame name (animation spelled backwards), has a reputation for interesting and innovative shows, including Honey and Clover, Eden of the East, and House of Five Leaves. [...]
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This is review number one hundred and sixty two. This anime is part of the Winter 2011 lineup and it’s on the noitaminA lineup. It’s Fractal and this show is really infamous. It’s an eleven episode anime about a boy and some chick and their journey to destroying the internet or something. Let’s read on. [...]
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So yeah, as the title suggests, I finally finished Fractale. I actually ended up finishing it over the summer, but I didn’t have to Let’s restart this a little bit. Yes, I had planned to write all about Fractale after I had finished it over the summer. Yes, I also planned on elaborating as much [...]
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Ohh more figures that have come down from that open hole in my ceiling. I can’t wait till I tell you where they are all coming from, such awesome news! I’d been wanting Nessa for so long now, she was high on my wishlist and an instant pre-order. Except, I had to cancel the pre-order [...]
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It is here that Fractale’s plot proper begins, as Clain and Nessa meet all the residents of Granitz Village (who just happen to be terrorists). Ostensibly they are hostages, but in reality they are treated more like guests of honour. Sunda, the leader of the Granitz faction of Lost Millennium, reveals that Nessa is to [...]
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Fractale develops further upon the themes it explored in its opener here. Clain meets Nessa for the very first time, but he is blinded by his anger at Phryne for leaving her with him. So, on the suggestion of his father, he decides to leave her with the police in a nearby (almost deserted) town. [...]
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One year ago, a certain magical girl series was taking the anime world by storm, but apart from a few people getting excited over who was associated with the series (i.e. SHAFT, Shinbo), Madoka passed by mostly unnoticed when it came to season previews. No, the series that was getting the most people hot under [...]
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ZZeroparticle at Anime Instrumentality was so kind as to let me write a guest post for his amazing blog.  For months, I’ve wanted to write about the fondness the Japanese feel toward Irish music, using one of my favorite EDs, Fractale‘s, as an example.  Please go have a read: Fractale’s ED and Japan’s Nostalgic Drive [...]
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Today’s guest post comes courtesy of TWWK over at Beneath the Tangles and I have to say that we’re in for an ethnomusicological treat. Now, ethnomusicology has always been an interesting area of study and I’m sorry to say that I just haven’t had the opportunity to dig into it further because it’s interesting to [...]
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I believe that I have one post sitting in the drafts which was supposed to be about Fractale, and to be specific, the Fractale System itself. Since I lost the motivation to actually continue the post (who knows if it’ll rise from the graveyard), I thought I should at least mention it here. And no, [...]
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Japanese publisher Square Enix has posted the what-could-be final chapter of the manga adaptation of the anime Fractale. The dispute between the director of the anime series and the manga artist had brought the question as to whether the manga adaptation of the series would continue. Mutsumi Akazaki, manga artist for the Fractale manga adaptation,
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It somewhat reminded me how C got itself gained in notoriety for having the unexpected twist for exchanging your future for money. From a shounen show, it turned to a darker and realistic philosophy on how economics and money affect a persons life and its future. The case in this goes to tell its viewers that “Hey, were not just about boys loving boys, we [...]
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This is not necessarily a review of the anime Fractale but more of an in depth discussion as to why I think Fractale worked, or rather why I think Fractale achieved what it was set out to do from the get go, and that was revolutionise the Anime industry after its release, according to Mr Yutaka Yamamoto anyway. The Hype [...]
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I forgot about Fractale so well, that I had to refer to archives to refresh my memory. There I found that apparently I never blogged an opening bracket, let alone the cancellation. Notes are rather thin and the best is probably this: “the physics do not pass the smell test about Nessa interacting with the [...]
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Fractale… Do you remember that thing? Talk about “forgettable”. I forgot about it until Aziz of Hailbane.info finished it and his review is as bland and explanatory as the show deserved. Also, almost lost me here: Of course as the writers intended I completely identified with the “terrorists” cause of self-determination and … I never liked that [...]
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