Review of Time of Eve
Time of Eve is a rather short series, and although it is short it is one of the most well done "robot" type anime I have watched. I haven't watched many so that may be why, but either way it was good enough for me to enjoy watching it. My review is going to be based on the impression it gave me while watching it, and I say this because I think it may have giving different messages to different people. Anyway I hope I can at least convince someone to give this a try, I have not watched the movie yet, but I planto as I an told it has more detail.
Story
So in a world where androids (Robots) are being used more commonly you can't show gratitude towards them without being considered (a name I forget) Anyway while watching I was wondering why they weren't being polite toward the robots because they may be machines, but they still did something for them, and they were acting like shallow jerks, but it seems that it is the way people are expected to treat their androids, and anyway basically the owner of one robots tracks their robots movements and ends up at this weird coffee shop and then the story begins. I have to say that the story itself is very interesting but at the same time I couldn't quite put my finger on the main point of the story, was it about how robots are treated unfairly, or maybe it was about our main character and how he once had issues with robots along with his friend. I really couldn't figure out. I still overall think it is a nice story but if you need to have a pacific plot point then you may want to find another anime to watch, also the ending felt like it was unfinished, and frankly it was kind of a cliff hanger. Overall for the story considering it was a 6 episode story it was fairly well done.
Art
Now the art was really well done. As I normally say in almost all my reviews I really am not picky on art, but it was drawn well, an it gave the anime a more homey feeling if that makes any sense. I also felt that the art gave off how the robots were feeling, when the robots were being mistreated the art looked gloomy in a sense. I really hope I am making sense, but either way I really liked the art.
Sound
Now for sound something else I really don't care to much about unless it is outstanding. Now this anime did not have any intro or ending song. I liked the music that was played at the ending of each episode. It always fit. I also liked the song that was played on the piano at one point, although I was confused on what happened with all this piano business. Anyway I found the music to be okay, but not the greatest.
Character
Now I am kind of being generous for even giving a seven, but again for a 6 episode series it was okay. There were many characters I was confused on, but maybe that was the point, I barley even found out about the main characters "issues" I did understand that characters all had their issues with either robot laws or how they were treated, and some may have even had issues with robots in general, but all the issues revolved around the same subject. However that doesn't make up for the fact I barley even seen characters stories in a sense, there was some development, but what had happened in the past to make them the way they were, or what made them go to that place, maybe the point was to show that robots and humans were the same and the reason for us to not know much was so we could get a better feel. Frankly I will probably never know but at the same time I felt that little mystery made me watch the show with a little more curiosity.
Again I am sorry if that made no sense.
Enjoyment
So the question is did I enjoy the show, and again for a 6 episode series it was fairly well done, so I will say yeah. I enjoyed the series to an extent waiting to see where the story went, was I disappointed by the ending well I was a little but I still enjoyed watching, I also enjoyed how the anime had a homey feeling to it. Again I wish the ending was different, but maybe the ending was meant to be the way it was.
Overall
By now if you made it this far in my review you are probably very confused, and wondering if you should bother watching this anime. If you are looking for a calming and relaxing anime to watch that you will now look to deep into then I suggest this series, but at the same time maybe you need to look deep into the series to fully get it. There was so many things that confused me when I finished this mainly because of all the cliff hangers, which is why I say if you wont look to deep into t you may enjoy. So really if you like robots give it a try. Frankly it will vary from person to person I enjoyed the anime, however as I ave been saying I am still wondering about a lot of things. I hope I made things clear, just give it a try I will say as my last statement.