As far as I can tell, there isn’t a trailer for this anime on youtube but there is a trailer on its Netflix page so that’s what I’m linking here.
The synopsis is:
When a lonely hacker gets entangled with a group of underground couriers, they uncover the dark truth lurking beneath Tokyo’s seemingly perfect facade.
That sounds perfectly cyberpunk and I’m interested. But the trailer looks… like a kids cartoon? Yet Netflix is calling it TV-MA? I really don’t know what to think of this. I’ll definitely watch it (I’m a sucker for anything cyberpunk) but I’ve got my expectations pretty low on this one.
It’ll be available on Netflix on November 21.
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Why is Netflix so bad about making trailers for their original shows? This tells me nothing about the world or story, it’s just a scene from the show without any context that would inform a viewer about what they’re looking at. All this trailer conveys is that some people ride motorcycles, and I guess some other people don’t like that.
I’m sure it’s a fine series, but damn is Netflix not doing it any favors with this trailer.
Agreed. Netflix does a lot of dumb shit for inexplicable reasons. There’s a similar issue with basic descriptions. They used to be known for their quirky content descriptions, but now, so many content descriptions are just a list of credits or acclaim quotes. How are you supposed to know of you’re interested or not with zero information regarding what it is about?
Extracted trailer from Netflix: https://gofile.io/d/Tg6RTv (can watch directly).
Also, they give 13+ age rating here.
For what it’s worth, I just watched the first episode and I thoroughly enjoyed the world. I’m not sure which direction the plot will go, but I’m interested enough to keep going. It doesn’t exactly have “adult themes” but it isn’t a children’s show either. The TV-14 rating seems about accurate for their target audience. I’m into it.
It gives me the similar vibe of Netflix animation series Fast & Furious: Spy Racers just instead of being US focused its Japan focused.
I watched the first 2 episodes and thought it was pretty good. The tone reminds me of Avatar the Last Airbender: it’s sometimes dark but not grim, and like AtLA has decent writing. As far as I can tell the series was “created by” Dai Sato who wrote several episodes of Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell: SAC, and “written by” Isao Murayama, who’s written a bunch of stuff I don’t recognize, looks like kid’s anime? I don’t think it’ll be a classic, but I’ll probably watch through to the end.
Hold up, I was reading about the co-director Yuske Fukada, and apparently:
His latest project, TOKYO OVERRIDE, is a sci-fi animated TV series… Using an innovative development methodology called Worldbuilding, led by U.S.-based world designer Laura Cechanowicz … He also collaborated with world-leading designers from Yamaha and Honda to create realistic future mobility designs …
https://www.capeusa.org/beyond-japan/yuske-fukada
That “worldbuilding” stuff sounds like the kind of thing Spielberg did for Minority Report: get a bunch of scholars and artists together and think through a lot of the details. Cechanowicz joined the faculty at ASU a couple years ago and did her PhD at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts where she was affiliated with something called the World Building Media Lab that studies that kind of thing.
I was a little skeptical of the corporate collaborations, but Yamaha has a page on the project that includes a video with the industrial designers involved, where they talk about how they incorporated future techology and considered the needs of the script.
