Harmony
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“In a post-catastrophe utopia, mandatory happiness and health implants spark rebellion as inspector Tuan confronts humanity's engineered perfection.”
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In a post-catastrophe utopia, mandatory happiness and health implants spark rebellion as inspector Tuan confronts humanity's engineered perfection.
In a future where humanity has rebuilt itself after a devastating global catastrophe, society has been transformed by the World Health Organization's complete reimagining of human life. Through advanced medical technology, nanomachines, and augmented reality, people now live under a system that guarantees health and happiness—but at the cost of personal autonomy. In this carefully controlled world, high school student Miach Mihie finds herself increasingly suffocated by what she sees as the dehumanizing effects of a society that treats people as resources to be optimized. As her 18th birthday approaches—the age when citizens receive mandatory health monitoring implants—she begins to question the price of this engineered utopia. Years later, Tuan Kirie, once Miach's close friend, now works as an inspector for Helix, an organization tasked with monitoring global conflicts on behalf of the WHO. When Tuan is reassigned to Japan under circumstances she'd rather forget, she finds herself confronting the very society she once fled. Upon her return, she faces a disturbing phenomenon that challenges everything she thought she knew about the system designed to protect humanity. Now tasked with investigating a mysterious crisis, Tuan must navigate the complex web of a society where health and happiness are mandatory, and where the greatest threat might come from those who dare to question whether humanity has lost something essential in its pursuit of perfection.
[Written by MAL Rewrite]
In 2019, following an uprising in the USA and a subsequent global nuclear war, humanity was decimated by a catastrophe called "The Maelström." A half-century after this cataclysmic event—to preserve humankind—the World Health Organization (WHO) has progressively assimilated worldwide political power and completely redefined society: people are now considered public resources and are guaranteed a happier life. The heightened development of medicine, nanomachine technology, and augmented reality promote this greater devotion to human health. Suffocated by the excessive kindness of Japanese society, high school student Miach Mihie decides to oppose the societal values she considers dehumanizing before the health implant surveillance system WatchMe activates itself the day she turns 18. Miach plans to kill herself with two of her friends, Tuan Kirie and Cian Reikadou. However, Cian betrays the pact in disagreement with Miach's intentions, allowing Tuan to survive her suicide attempt, unlike Miach, who is declared dead. Thirteen years later, now a high-ranking inspector of Helix—an organization affiliated with WHO to monitor military conflicts—Tuan is sent back to Japan after her drug smuggling activities in the Niger warzone are discovered by senior Helix inspector Oscar Stauffenberg. On her first day back to the country she tried running away from, thousands of people simultaneously commit suicide. Tuan is now in charge of investigating this wave of mass suicide and exposing the terrorist organization behind the unprecedented attack.
[Written by MAL Rewrite]
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7.3/10
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- 8/10 “The characters are very good and the art pleasing, while the unique sound design and the fun of questioning everything kept me hooked despite the boring stretches. The story feels common and the...”
- 7/10 “This anime delivers refreshing WLW representation with an explicit lesbian relationship free from comphet or male pandering, packaged as an enjoyable jet-setting action story with secret societies...”
- 8/10 “The Utopian story concept and the compelling dynamic between Miach and Tuan make this adaptation worth watching, though the film struggles with missing novel details and rushed pacing that leaves...”
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A self-contained story.
No sequels, spin-offs or alternate tellings — Harmony begins and ends here.
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Reel · 01 Cat. №BS-9700
- Format
- 1 × 119′
- eps × min
- Total runtime
- 1h 59m
- all episodes
- Aired
- Nov 2015 – Nov 2015
- Fall 2015
- Source
- Movie
- media type
- Rated
- R+
- Mild Nudity
- Ref.
- BS-9700
- catalog