The Orbital Children

I think not.

I've never gone out of my way to rate a show if it was less than 5 stars, let alone leave a review. And one too many times, unnecessarily negative IMBD reviews tarnish my experience with a series before the half way point.

Don't let it happen to you.

I really enjoyed The Orbital Children. It has the adventurous spirit of old fashioned science fiction, but takes place in a futuristic high tech setting. The story focuses on a group of kids who find themselves in a difficult situation inside a space station orbiting the earth.

Visually it is excellent, as you'd expect from Mitsuo Iso, an absolute legend of Japanese animation. Really nice painterly backgrounds, interesting shot choices, cool designs & high quality animation. Storywise there are a lot of technical details to absorb, but it worked for me. I liked the characters & found it very engaging. Tonewise there was a nice mix of seriousness & silliness.

You could safely show this to kids without worrying about the kind of violence or sexual content which anime often contains, but the only issue might be the density of the story. I imagine it would be hard for the average kid to process. In that regard Orbital Children is similar to Iso's previous anime show Dennou Coil, which is also a brilliant piece of work, but requires a good attention span to enjoy fully.

If a highly detailed, wholesome, space adventure anime is what you're after then Orbital Children is for you!

For a six episodes show i would have not expected for literally more than half the runtime to be dedicated to the usual anime tropes such as cute girl constantly streaming on twitch trying to be hip. I cant even hate this, it was just boring and nothing happened and the characters were not fleshed out. I usually wait to watch the whole show before reviewing but i have to watch the last episode yet but i am not sure i will.

Jab to other reviewers: if you really think people cant enjoy this cause they are dumb and adrenaline junkies you really need to get out, get some fresh air and touch grass.

Could have been a better story if it cut down the cast in half and fleshed out more the protagonists, not every piece of media has to cater to every different demographic.

Great setting but thats it.

Issues: way way way to much branding I get the idea but constantly mentioning it for no reason it felt like i was watching a perpetual ad, this killed any and all setting i mean filler for ads??? Come on!

Very very lazy research: 1.

Ask any child you ger than 12 or so to pretend like they are talking on a phone they dont use the same gesture as us. Pur gesture would not work in this setting.

2. miss use of ai. Systems in this setting would have much more autonomy than what you present, I think even just talking with someone in the industry will have made a huge difference.

Tldr: this is a visually ok flop.

AGI, Drone, Space Adventure... Keywords that makes me exciting all the time are all gathered in this series.

The series focuses on prophesying upcoming future rather than appealing with fancy technologies.

All of the following concepts are covered in the series:

• Technological singularity of an AI
• Advent of AGI and human's response (or control)
• Human race living on extraterrestrial environment
• AGI's conclusion on the fate of human race
• Drone fight on the space station

Not only it was visually pleasing, it incites imagination of how our future is going to develop.