With this episode, we finally saw how it all began for Watashi and her life as a mediator for the UNCC.  And though this episode showed us the origin to the story, it also provided us an insight into the possible conclusion, too. Given the placement of this episode within the order of their broadcasts, [...]
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Well, I guess we have another “episode 1″ for this week. This time, Watashi’s first job as Mediator. I’m thinking you could definitely watch these episodes chronologically (based on story timeline) without losing anything in the experience. I wonder why they’re released in this way. At any rate, I still have the same question of [...]
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Didn’t she say last week that religion wasn’t one of the things you invented? Just one week after presenting us with a use of the common main-character-becomes-god trope, Humanity Has Declined went right back to it, rewinding all the way back to the main character’s 1st project as mediator to show us her first experience [...]
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And here it is! The long-awaited first chapter of the story, showing the first mission that Watashi had to undertake. And interestingly it is a bit of a semi-sequel to the previous episode as well, keeping with the format of having two-episode arcs in this series. This episode’s purpose was to explain what went on [...]
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「妖精さんの、ちきゅう」 (Yousei-san no, Chikyuu) "The Fairies' Earth" I’m starting to run out of ways to describe how Jinrui continues to amaze me.
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Categories: Anime, Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita, Summer 2012Tags: Jinrui wa Suitai ShimashitaTo quote a deep and profound character from another series: “fun things are fun”. Now how exactly does this apply to the current episode of Jinrui? While I had a few issues with what the previous episode of Jinrui hoped to accomplish … Continue reading →(Read more...)
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Short little arc this time…I guess mostly to give a bit more insight into the fairies. So they’re basically just a much more prolific form of humans…able to go through generations in a matter of hours (rather than decades). I wonder why they haven’t declined themselves. If humanity has declined in this series, I’m sure [...]
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Humanity Has Declined is an anime defined by the fairies.  And though the fairies have been present and highly influential in every story, this is the first episode where the story revolved around the fairies and Watashi interacts with them.  Finally, an episode with some insight and information on the adorable, pint-sized creatures that dominate [...]
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「妖精さんの、ひょうりゅうせいかつ」 (Yōsei-san no, Hyōryū Seikatsu) "The Fairies' Survival Skills" Just pretend you slipped on a banana peel and it's Sunday again...
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“Oh mai Goddo…” On an amnesty mission in response to fairies’ overpopulation, the main character finds herself the queen of a startup fairy society on a deserted island. Predictably, things turn sour quickly, but not before she and her sweets-fueled fairies produce some amazing things. Breaking the 2-episode-arcs formula, this was a standalone episode, a [...]
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Mai Nakahara, what’s this? *opens up a video of Kamichama Karin that only Mai Nakahara fans are aware of* I. Love. this. Episode. The mediator was sent out to some distant place to bring the fairies into their asylum — only to recreate human civilization and its decline in just a week, is a good story that is full of dead serious satire for all of us. In all of the scenes in the episode, what I did enjoyed the best is that fairy holding a narcotic. He peed in his pants! Look, he peed in his pants! LOL9K Setting aside the bloody bread, fairies went on to create sugar cube radish and plants that bear sweets. Science? I think not. With convenience are environmental issues — the episode simply explains the humans’ over-reliance to technology that brings bad effects to the environment. It’s not a bland type of environmental propaganda though, but I got to see lots of it before this. Also, bullying.
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Categories: Anime, Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita, Summer 2012Tags: Jinrui wa Suitai ShimashitaI suppose the saying “Rome wasn’t built in a day” never reached Jinrui’s world. Though this episode of Jinrui had a few issues with its pacing, it was one of the first episodes in a while which I felt had … Continue reading →(Read more...)
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You know, this was actually very adorable. In this episode Watashi gets sent to some random island along with a truck full of fairies in order to “cultivate” it. A few episodes ago it was outlined that the more fairies there were, the more luck you have. This episode showed that you can also overdo [...]
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Categories: Anime, Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita, Summer 2012Tags: Jinrui wa Suitai ShimashitaIt’s not like we even needed any thorough explanations on time-travel mechanics since this arc wasn’t going to make sense anyway. But hey, at least the presentation was good and the dialogue remained entertaining. With each passing arc of Jinrui, … Continue reading →(Read more...)
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What the heck? The assistant spoke! This is complete madness! I mean, the wilder form of him was pretty crazy, but the idea that the assistant we’ve known up to now spoke as well is pretty nuts. I didn’t expect him to ever speak. But that aside, this episode was a bit weird, I guess. [...]
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The shippers must’ve been all over this one. One would expect this episode to be all about answering the crazy questions raised in the last one. Especially since a time loop is a major portion of it. But Humanity Has Declined hasn’t always stuck to the formula. It’s a show that likes to leave things [...]
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Time seems like a very straightforward concept. It flows at a steady pace, affecting everything and everyone. From the smallest cell to the giant stars, we all operate on the same mechanic of time. Despite the sheer logic behind time, … Continue reading →
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Though it is unclear based on the testimonies of the characters, it is nonetheless remarkable to note that the Assistant we’ve come to love and enjoy reconstructed himself based off of Watashi’s preferences conversed at the tea party.  But what exactly was he like before?  Watashi, the Grandfather, and the Doctor all envisioned the Assistant [...]
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Albeit the disappointment that I saw due to 2/3rds of the episode being dedicated regarding the last episode, I would let it stay that way in order to understand Assistant’s search for his personality. That one above is NOT the Assistant but the Mediator’s grandfather during his younger days. It’s easy to think that you will base yourself on what others say about you, but it’s hard to do. The Assistant did it effortlessly thanks to the fairies, perhaps?
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