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Shelter

  • Video
  • 2016
  • 6m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
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Shelter (2016)
AnimeAdventureAnimationDramaMusicSci-FiShort

A lonely teenager whose entire existence is a series of futuristic simulations learns the heartbreaking truth behind her life in isolation.A lonely teenager whose entire existence is a series of futuristic simulations learns the heartbreaking truth behind her life in isolation.A lonely teenager whose entire existence is a series of futuristic simulations learns the heartbreaking truth behind her life in isolation.

  • Director
    • Toshifumi Akai
  • Writer
    • Porter Robinson
  • Star
    • Sachika Misawa
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.6/10
    917
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Toshifumi Akai
    • Writer
      • Porter Robinson
    • Star
      • Sachika Misawa
    • 6User reviews
    • 1Critic review
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    Sachika Misawa
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    • Director
      • Toshifumi Akai
    • Writer
      • Porter Robinson
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    8sgrockeremo

    Great and Terrible at the same time

    This Music Video turned Anime Short is just... odd?

    We follow behind a girl left in complete isolation who creates false realities within a simulation to combat her overwhelming loneliness and starts to discover through suppressed memories where she is really from and just how tragic her lonely origins are.

    This is the best part of the short in all honesty, the story is rich, interesting, and largely to the point. More on why I said largely a little later. I would rate the story a 9.5 out of 10 as I had only 1 minor complaint with it. Also the art style and animation feel unique and stylistic vs realistic which is nice actually as it allows the short a unique to itself feeling. The scenes as they unfold are fun and imaginative and do a good job of promoting this overall feeling of longing and loneliness in a subtle way.

    The art direction layout and style are all A+ material with the story being a solid A like I said but now for the things that held it back for me....

    For one the story isn't an A+ for me because of the just flat out useless ending, her lines at the ending are fairly generic and added nothing to the narrative not a huge takeaway but still. It hurt it a little but this wasn't my main issue. Either it took away from the pacing of the story a bit.

    The music is generic, a solid C type of music where it isn't horrible but it is just well. Generic.

    But sadly this generic song is happy and up beat most of the time in the song and often conflicts the atmosphere the short would have otherwise achieved.

    In short. Great art style and art direction. A+ Great scenes and layout. A+ Great story minus the generic ending statements the girl makes. A Overly generic song. C Song is just flat out, out of place to the feeling the short otherwise clearly wants to have. D-

    Either way a good B+ - 8/10 short. It is good and worth the watch, but you will be left wishing its faults weren't there to really open up its otherwise great story.
    4framptonhollis

    it's okay

    Oddly overrated, kind of preachy music video with both good and bad qualities.

    The Good: The animation is quite lovely, and the general visual ideas presented are quite appealing. There are some very interesting concepts and moments buried within the loose story this short has going for it, and is even, in the end, somewhat powerful to whatever extent. I mean, the final lines of dialogue are halfway between a pro or con in the context of this short. They are super cheesy and eye rolling and unneeded, a more artful, less "mainstream" work would certainly not include such an obvious explanation of the message at the end, but, on a purely emotional level, part of these final lines did sort of touch me.

    The Bad: Aspects of the video do feel like something a self deprecating self described weeaboo teenager would call deep and cry about, and since it's so easy for me to just create an entire stereotype out of thin air because of these aspects, I'm sure they must take away some Good Anime Points from the general presentation. The music the music video goes to is overly upbeat for the video itself I thought. There were elements to the electronic soundscape created that I found very sonically pleasing, but, generally, it was kind of a lame, generic song that some hipster would blast at a night club he goes to white knight ugly feminist women for a few hours a week that a bunch of cool, epic younger people would raise their red plastic cups full of Underaged Drinking Juice in the air to. This is not a compliment. The lyrics are also kind of really bad and generic. Yeah.

    Overall, the video is okay go watch it if you want.
    10reckno

    Took me only 5 minutes to start crying

    Beautiful. Just heart-achingly beautiful. Not much dialogue is spoken, but the visuals do all the telling of this short story. And it sure as hell made me cry.

    I love me a good anime music video, but I love one that can pull at my heartstrings even more. :')

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    • Release date
      • October 18, 2016 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Languages
      • Japanese
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Porter Robinson presents Shelter the Animation
    • Production company
      • A-1 Pictures
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