Review of Memories

Memories is as robot carnival is as neo tokyo. They're all sets of 3 stories with different styles and genres, though all remaining sci-fi, and all completely brilliant. In terms of direction, story, art, etc it's mostly amazing. I'll admit I did like the first episode the best, because horror is my favorite genre. The art was some of the most creative and incredible that I've seen, the acting was pretty great, and the story had my attention in a death grip the whole time. There's nothing I'd critique tbh. As for the second one, well I guess I just don't like "black humour" asI've seen it called. I just spent the whole time pissed at the main character lol insufferable little jerk. But it was interesting, well animated, and generally smooth in terms of plot movement.

The third episode is unbelievably detailed, and all done in one shot I think. The movement from room to room, the background, all the details of the steam cannons, I just can't praise it enough. It seems to take inspiration from WW1 Europe in terms of what the characters wear, plus the British bombers, which definitely adds to the militaristic and dystopian theme. I don't know anything about who wrote it and what the real meaning is, but I like to think that since they drew from multiple countries, it's intended to say that none of us are immune to falling into a dictatorship and overly nationalistic society. War hurts us all.

I absolutely recommend this, it's an instant classic