Amnesia Collection [DVD]

Nice series.It makes me think of Kenny from South Park on how when he dies he wakes up in his bed every time.

love this anime

its not bad

This is one for the connoisseurs. It's a good story in the niche-market area of disturbed memory function and travel between time/space dimensions. Sadly, the producers lost their nerve (or maybe their funding) late in the day and put in some heavy-handed unnecessary explanations of the plotting. They also brought in a new character as though there were to be a lot more episodes. However, as it stands Amnesia is suspenseful, the cameo characters who come and go have genuinely interesting contributions to make to the narrative and the central characters have a lot of appeal.

This is one of them anime's you have to watch with an open mind! Seriously beautiful animation and colours a real joy to look at!The story line isn't a typical one and I found it slow going, but once I appreciated the story for what it was and simplicity I quite enjoyed it

It's bad enough when a movie or TV show makes you think, "What did I just see?" But it's far worse when it also poses the question: "Why did I even bother?"And that question rattled in my head for most of "Amnesia: Complete Collection." This odd little anime -- based on an interactive video game of the same name -- is a story so strangely forgettable, generic and teeming with pointless characters and stories that it barely even deserves a title. Literally almost nothing in this story actually has any true significance or importance until the last few episodes.An amnesiac heroine (whom I shall call Nameless, since they never bother actually naming her) awakes at the back of a cafe, with no memory of how she got there or of any of the people she's interacting with. Or much of anything, really. Also, a strange flying child named Orion -- whom only she can see -- explains that her memory loss is his fault, and he wants to help her regain her lost memories.And so Nameless tries to get to know her coworkers/friends -- brooding Shin, seductive Ikki, rigidly logical Kent, and obsessive Toma -- so she can figure out which is her boyfriend. Also, she has fragmented memories of falling, being accosted by a gang of angry girls, and there's a strange green-haired boy who seems to appear wherever she goes. To make things even MORE complicated, she finds herself shifting through parallel realities, where she is a different guy's girlfriend in each one.How can a story with dimension-shifting, godlike spirits and a time loop end up being so staggeringly, stultifyingly BORING? From the very first scene it's painfully obvious what this story is going to be like: Nameless drifts around looking confused and vague, people say Important Things about past events, and there are a lot of fake-outs where it seems that something interesting is happening... only for it to be revealed that no, it didn't. It's like being slowly drowned in a vat of room-temperature wallpaper paste.The biggest problem is that... to be blunt, ten of the twelve episodes have no actual importance to anything that ultimately happens in the story. They're about Nameless working out her romantic issues with the men (all are total strangers to her), but they effectively vanish from the story once their purpose has been served. Even the fragmented memories that Nameless starts to recall don't actually amount to anything of importance.And this might have been okay, if the characters were interesting. But Nameless is exactly the sort of character you'd expect for a video-game stand-in to be -- she's so bland, useless, featureless and personality-free that she makes Bella Swan look like a dynamic and complex character. While this works in a video game, where the player would actually BE her, a passionless and useless heroine with no development or personality is not fun to watch in a TV series.As for the other characters, most of them have exactly one character trait -- sexy, nerdy, mildly mentally unbalanced or tormented. The only exception is Ukyo, who ends up being the most intense, tragic and interesting person in the entire story.... and who therefore barely appears until the last two episodes.Those two episodes are actually somewhat gripping... or would be, if I cared at all about Nameless. That is the point in the story when it's finally explained what's going on, and in so doing, revealed that a MUCH MORE INTERESTING story happened entirely out of our sight. In fact, a story filled with tragedy, death, intermingled hate and love, and the prospect of fighting against fate itself... but hey, at least we got to watch Nameless going to a street fair with Mr. Logic. Oh, and the story pulls a brand-new, never-before-mentioned character from its butt for a cheap deus ex machina.Nine whole episodes of "Amnesia" can be skipped without actually missing anything of importance to the story, and the real tragedy is that the most interesting part of the tale is something we never even glimpse. Most useful as a soporific.

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