Anime: Harmony 5d3530
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How can one feel alive without knowing the pain of living? Does disease and suffering create our consciousness and our sense of humanity?
Harmony creates a world in which human ingenuity has eradicated illness through the use of medicules, a clever injection of molecules that police our bodies and report our health to world authorities.
With tailored diets, expert fitness routines, and regular psychological assessments, all of humankind have traded an individual-driven existence in order to live healthy, well-balanced lives.
Declining population rates in the aftermath of nuclear fallout have made the human body the world's most precious commodity. The health and continuation of our species outweighs the selfishness of the individual, and yet, suicide rates among those born into this system are on the rise each year.
Three girls come of age in this world, led by one of them, Miach Mihie, a charismatic and overthinker human being, who brings cynicism seeds around her and in the way of the two others who are intrigued by her. Each girl must decide whether to abide by the self-sacrifice of harmony or to rebel against the insulated lives the world expects them to live.
Philosophically, Harmony is the window dressing for a discussion about the nature and purpose of the human soul. It postulates that not only is the ego unnecessary, it is also a hindrance for human evolution. The strife and confusion in society—as well as that within our own hearts—is due to consciousness itself. Only in a world without “I” could there ever be true harmony.
Project Itoh delivers an astounding science fiction work that walks a fine line between utopian ideals and dystopian disillusionment, and provides ample brain candy.
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[Story part : 8/10]
-Pacing is badly driven because of the lenght difference between the novel and the anime adaptation. (0.5/2)
-A solid plot without hole. handled with intelligence and rigour. (1.5/2)
-Extremely deep. It's essential to think a lot to understand. A true "SEINEN" (2/2)
-Regarding Plausibility, it was one of the most relevant and believable perspective of mankind's future I've seen. (2/2)
-An interesting and coherent conclusion in regard to the premise and the foreshadowed spiritual and philosophic issue. But there was an awkwardness in the staging. And it was a little bit rushed. (0.5/1)
-Very good premise. (1/1)
[Animation part : 8.5/10]
-Very high production value. Impressive. (2/2)
-Beautiful visual effects. (2/2)
-A pretty good character design overall, but a bit generic (except for Miach). (1.5/2)
-A contestable staging. There was a half-failed intent to show us several things. (1/2)
-Very detailed background (2/2)
[Sound part : 7.5/10]
-High quality sound effects. (2.5/3)
-A discreet OST, but proper with the atmosphere and the universe. (2/3)
-Efficient voice acting. (2/3)
-Good BGM, atmosphere is totally immersive. (1/1)
[Characters part : 7.5/10]
-About characters presence, there is a huge focus on the protagonist, Tuan Kirie... and that does sound not so bad. Because she's the only interesting character beside Miach Mihie. (1/2)
-Catharsis is symbolically the key word in this show. (2/2)
-Character development is here, but overblown by the rest, especially by the story. (1/2)
-Characters personality : Interesting, rationally cynical, original (only for Miach Mihie concerning this last word)... (1.5/2)
-A gargantuan (Gargan...Tuan...) backdrop, as far as the eye can see. (2/2)
[Miscellaneous part ( doesn't count in the notation ) : 8.5/10]
-An analytical replay is appropriate. (3/3)
-Ending theme is particulary memorable. (1/1)
-Well on, it was an enjoyment. (4.5/6)
OVERALL : 8/10[/b]
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| Main Title | Harmony (a10932) |
|---|---|
| Official Title | enverified |
| Official Title | ja |
| Official Title | it fr |
| Synonym | Гармония, ハーモニー |
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In the future, Utopia has finally been achieved thanks to medical nanotechnology and a powerful ethic of social welfare and mutual consideration. This perfect world isn't that perfect though, and three young girls stand up to totalitarian kindness and super-medicine by attempting suicide via starvation. It doesn't work, but one of the girls - Tuan Kirie - grows up to be a member of the World Health Organization. As a crisis threatens the Harmony of the new world, Tuan rediscovers another member of her suicide pact, and together they must help save the planet... from itself.
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Source: Viz Media via ANN
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Running Time 4g4xh
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Completed p533i
1153 (55.4%)
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915 (43.9%)
Dropped 543712
14 (0.7%)
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Explanation by corran on Sunday, 13.11.2016 02:36
Two-sided society with female lead character and all-controling hive seeking perfect order.
Movie, 2003, 5.67 (2606), 7.19 (2621)
Approval: 71.43% (7 votes)
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Explanation by inim on Monday, 11.05.2020 15:28
Two anime exploring complex philosophical themes, free will and suicide as it's ultimate expression in particular. Both use a criminal investigation by the protagonist, who works for international law enforcement, as a framing device. Both take place in both Japan and other countries (even continents) due to the international nature of the mystery conspiracy. Both have an antagonist who may or may not be supernatural and has similar powers over the mind of other people, yet neither anime has a respective tag. Both have a similar, half-open ending and conclusion to their subject matter. Babylon is more heavy handed and story driven, where Harmony is mainly a character drama and dialog savy.
TV Series, 2019-2020, 12 eps, 3.86 (843), 5.74 (852)
Approval: 60.00% (5 votes)
TV Series, 2006, 23 eps, 7.41 (11141), 8.06 (11376)
Approval: 57.89% (19 votes)
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Explanation by keeperofds on Tuesday, 11.06.2019 22:02
Both works of Itou Keikaku start as investigations of mass murders, but lead to interesting discussions on the human mind.
Movie, 2017, 5.64 (517), 6.66 (522)
Approval: 33.33% (3 votes)
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by deleted 094967 on 2016-08-13 17:53
Despite initially appearing to be a story of not that far into the future world, this is in fact a story of a young woman in a not that far into the future world. If you make the mistake of thinking it's the former, you'll be left disappointed as the seeming plot will end abruptly, prematurely and unsatisfactory. On the other hand, if you watch knowing that it's the later, you'll... still probably feel dissatisfied as in that regard the story is never fully expanded due to switching between the story of the world and story of the girl or properly concluded. Perhaps that lack of a proper conclusion in itself is the message of the work. Still, the first half is pretty enjoyable as is voice acting, especially near end, and directing is good throughout the movie.
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by ThatAnimeSnob on 2017-02-05 19:24
Rating: 3.5
Approval: 97.3% (1 votes)
So I watched the second of the Itoh trilogy of movies regarding existentialism. The Empire of Corpses was bad, but could still keep my attention a bit through mindless action scenes and old book references. Harmony fails even at that, since it lacks action and is not even animated as well. You can spot the cgi much easier, while the artwork is blander.
The premise is about a world where pain and suffering have been eradicated thanks to the use of nanotechnology. Anyone taking a medicine stays healthy and happy while also not aging as fast. Unfortunately, teenagers cannot be pleased even with a perfect world, and feel the need to rebel against it, for the sake of rebelling. Our main characters are a bunch of psychotic lesbians who want to see the world burn by committing suicide. And if that sounds completely retarded to you, it can easily be explained with the typical excuse of “they are teenagers, it makes sense not to make sense” that anime are constantly using to cover up for bad characterization.
So the years go by, and only one of them commits suicide, while the other two get a job. There is one the plot considers the protagonist, although the only thing she is doing is being an excuse for providing infodumps every five minutes. There is absolutely no personality to her other than hating the utopia she is living in. And by the way, she is living in an actual utopia, since there is nothing wrong with it.
The only people who are discontent with it are suicidal angsty teenagers. Everybody else has a perfectly happy life. So, why do these psychotic lesbians hate this fine society? Because everyone is equally happy and thus everything is the same. It’s basically “nobody understands me, I’m so different, adults are stupid.”
By the way, that’s completely hypocritical when they all have eye scouters which show numerical statistics for every individual, and they are clearly never the same. Your complaints are bullshit. Even your job is bullshit. How did you become an investigator when you are so mentally unstable and everybody has access to your statistics? Why don’t they fire you for constantly getting drunk and not following orders?
Anyways, the conflict of the movie is about some angsty asshole brainwashing people into committing suicide. Not because they want to, not because they hate their society, but because he takes control of their minds. No actual reason, and get ready for a lot of edgy scenes, full of gore for the sake of gore. This asshole goes as far as demanding every person on earth to kill someone within a week, or be forced into suicide. Which causes worldwide chaos, as everyone gets crazy and kills everything on sight. Woah, this is so mature…
Turns out the one causing all that is the lesbian who was supposed to be dead, because reasons. She has the supernatural ability to control peoples’ minds, because reasons. And she did everything for the sake of a surprise attack on the eternal. Whatever, you bitch, you killed half the population of earth. She even tries to further justify this genocide by saying she was raped as a child, and everyone must feel her pain. Something which did not happen in the utopia, but in a barbaric place outside of it. So basically, she destroyed a perfectly fine society, for something that happened to her not because of that society. She is even goes as far as saying she did it all out of love. She killed half the planet and her best friend because she loved them.
And then the movie ends by the plot device that is the protagonist simply shooting the psychotic lesbian. There was no battle, no chase, no resistance at all. She just sat there, waiting to be shot after infodumping her bullshit for half an hour. What an amazing showdown. There is not even any epilogue. We don’t see the after effects of this disaster, aka what the survivors did after it was over, or how the society changed because of it. We only get sceneries of nature with sad music. The author didn’t give a fuck about people, he only cared to say his bullshit philosophy and wrapping everything up.
This is the cardinal sin of most sci-fi. They treat characters as mouthpieces, and kill them off as soon as they served their purpose. There is nobody to care for in the whole movie. Half the population of earth gets slaughtered in a completely hollow way, and the only thing the author focuses on is spewing existential dribble and showing us trees and lakes.
There isn’t even a sense of plot. The protagonist is constantly moving around the world, not because she follows clues but because she is told to go somewhere for the sake of infodumps. She could have spent the whole movie talking over her phone and it wouldn’t make a difference. Traveling doesn’t mean anything, it’s just pretty colors in the background. The setting doesn’t matter, nor its people, because they are just excuses for existential dribble, which will bore the hell out of everyone within a few minutes. Final verdict, Itoh is a terrible storyteller.
The premise is about a world where pain and suffering have been eradicated thanks to the use of nanotechnology. Anyone taking a medicine stays healthy and happy while also not aging as fast. Unfortunately, teenagers cannot be pleased even with a perfect world, and feel the need to rebel against it, for the sake of rebelling. Our main characters are a bunch of psychotic lesbians who want to see the world burn by committing suicide. And if that sounds completely retarded to you, it can easily be explained with the typical excuse of “they are teenagers, it makes sense not to make sense” that anime are constantly using to cover up for bad characterization.
So the years go by, and only one of them commits suicide, while the other two get a job. There is one the plot considers the protagonist, although the only thing she is doing is being an excuse for providing infodumps every five minutes. There is absolutely no personality to her other than hating the utopia she is living in. And by the way, she is living in an actual utopia, since there is nothing wrong with it.
The only people who are discontent with it are suicidal angsty teenagers. Everybody else has a perfectly happy life. So, why do these psychotic lesbians hate this fine society? Because everyone is equally happy and thus everything is the same. It’s basically “nobody understands me, I’m so different, adults are stupid.”
By the way, that’s completely hypocritical when they all have eye scouters which show numerical statistics for every individual, and they are clearly never the same. Your complaints are bullshit. Even your job is bullshit. How did you become an investigator when you are so mentally unstable and everybody has access to your statistics? Why don’t they fire you for constantly getting drunk and not following orders?
Anyways, the conflict of the movie is about some angsty asshole brainwashing people into committing suicide. Not because they want to, not because they hate their society, but because he takes control of their minds. No actual reason, and get ready for a lot of edgy scenes, full of gore for the sake of gore. This asshole goes as far as demanding every person on earth to kill someone within a week, or be forced into suicide. Which causes worldwide chaos, as everyone gets crazy and kills everything on sight. Woah, this is so mature…
Turns out the one causing all that is the lesbian who was supposed to be dead, because reasons. She has the supernatural ability to control peoples’ minds, because reasons. And she did everything for the sake of a surprise attack on the eternal. Whatever, you bitch, you killed half the population of earth. She even tries to further justify this genocide by saying she was raped as a child, and everyone must feel her pain. Something which did not happen in the utopia, but in a barbaric place outside of it. So basically, she destroyed a perfectly fine society, for something that happened to her not because of that society. She is even goes as far as saying she did it all out of love. She killed half the planet and her best friend because she loved them.
And then the movie ends by the plot device that is the protagonist simply shooting the psychotic lesbian. There was no battle, no chase, no resistance at all. She just sat there, waiting to be shot after infodumping her bullshit for half an hour. What an amazing showdown. There is not even any epilogue. We don’t see the after effects of this disaster, aka what the survivors did after it was over, or how the society changed because of it. We only get sceneries of nature with sad music. The author didn’t give a fuck about people, he only cared to say his bullshit philosophy and wrapping everything up.
This is the cardinal sin of most sci-fi. They treat characters as mouthpieces, and kill them off as soon as they served their purpose. There is nobody to care for in the whole movie. Half the population of earth gets slaughtered in a completely hollow way, and the only thing the author focuses on is spewing existential dribble and showing us trees and lakes.
There isn’t even a sense of plot. The protagonist is constantly moving around the world, not because she follows clues but because she is told to go somewhere for the sake of infodumps. She could have spent the whole movie talking over her phone and it wouldn’t make a difference. Traveling doesn’t mean anything, it’s just pretty colors in the background. The setting doesn’t matter, nor its people, because they are just excuses for existential dribble, which will bore the hell out of everyone within a few minutes. Final verdict, Itoh is a terrible storyteller.
by toncue12 on 2016-09-28 21:47
Rating: 7.66
Approval: -
How can one feel alive without knowing the pain of living? Does disease and suffering create our consciousness and our sense of humanity?
Harmony creates a world in which human ingenuity has eradicated illness through the use of medicules, a clever injection of molecules that police our bodies and report our health to world authorities.
With tailored diets, expert fitness routines, and regular psychological assessments, all of humankind have traded an individual-driven existence in order to live healthy, well-balanced lives.
Declining population rates in the aftermath of nuclear fallout have made the human body the world's most precious commodity. The health and continuation of our species outweighs the selfishness of the individual, and yet, suicide rates among those born into this system are on the rise each year.
Three girls come of age in this world, led by one of them, Miach Mihie, a charismatic and overthinker human being, who brings cynicism seeds around her and in the way of the two others who are intrigued by her. Each girl must decide whether to abide by the self-sacrifice of harmony or to rebel against the insulated lives the world expects them to live.
Philosophically, Harmony is the window dressing for a discussion about the nature and purpose of the human soul. It postulates that not only is the ego unnecessary, it is also a hindrance for human evolution. The strife and confusion in society—as well as that within our own hearts—is due to consciousness itself. Only in a world without “I” could there ever be true harmony.
Project Itoh delivers an astounding science fiction work that walks a fine line between utopian ideals and dystopian disillusionment, and provides ample brain candy.
NOTATION :[/u]
[Story part : 8/10]
-Pacing is badly driven because of the lenght difference between the novel and the anime adaptation. (0.5/2)
-A solid plot without hole. handled with intelligence and rigour. (1.5/2)
-Extremely deep. It's essential to think a lot to understand. A true "SEINEN" (2/2)
-Regarding Plausibility, it was one of the most relevant and believable perspective of mankind's future I've seen. (2/2)
-An interesting and coherent conclusion in regard to the premise and the foreshadowed spiritual and philosophic issue. But there was an awkwardness in the staging. And it was a little bit rushed. (0.5/1)
-Very good premise. (1/1)
[Animation part : 8.5/10]
-Very high production value. Impressive. (2/2)
-Beautiful visual effects. (2/2)
-A pretty good character design overall, but a bit generic (except for Miach). (1.5/2)
-A contestable staging. There was a half-failed intent to show us several things. (1/2)
-Very detailed background (2/2)
[Sound part : 7.5/10]
-High quality sound effects. (2.5/3)
-A discreet OST, but proper with the atmosphere and the universe. (2/3)
-Efficient voice acting. (2/3)
-Good BGM, atmosphere is totally immersive. (1/1)
[Characters part : 7.5/10]
-About characters presence, there is a huge focus on the protagonist, Tuan Kirie... and that does sound not so bad. Because she's the only interesting character beside Miach Mihie. (1/2)
-Catharsis is symbolically the key word in this show. (2/2)
-Character development is here, but overblown by the rest, especially by the story. (1/2)
-Characters personality : Interesting, rationally cynical, original (only for Miach Mihie concerning this last word)... (1.5/2)
-A gargantuan (Gargan...Tuan...) backdrop, as far as the eye can see. (2/2)
[Miscellaneous part ( doesn't count in the notation ) : 8.5/10]
-An analytical replay is appropriate. (3/3)
-Ending theme is particulary memorable. (1/1)
-Well on, it was an enjoyment. (4.5/6)
OVERALL : 8/10[/b]
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| Lyrics (作詞) | Ryo | |||||
| Music Composition (作曲) | Ryo | |||||
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| Harmony | 1 | N/A (0) | Vocals/Performed by (歌手) | 黒田大介 | ||
| Lyrics (作詞) | 矢崎恭子 | |||||
| Music Composition (作曲) | Ike Yoshihiro | |||||
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