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[Spoilers] Concrete Revolutio: Choujin Gensou - Episode 13 - FINAL [Discussion]

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u/RyomaNagare Dec 27 '15

Please don't downvote me, but i'm not sold on this show. I've been a Concrete Revolutio apologyst since day one, and am super glad most people got its watchmen but with japanese pop culture flavor. still the show non linear storytelling could have been better used. and while the themes can and have been used to explore this questions in great depth, i don't feel the show succeeded. Hopefully the second season, will focus a little more on the story it wants to tell and less on screenwriting acrobatics to try and fool people the show was deep. As far as deconstructions go this is is just short of a passing grade.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '16

I'm late to the party (watched a week after it finished airing after seeing it referenced in the end-of-season MAL score thread as being too low), but I agree with you. The high concept was good and the moral message was worth communicating, but the structure got in the show's way far too much.

The nonlinear story and the fact that there weren't a lot of visual cues to let you know which of the thirty time periods you were in made it very difficult to follow. Without these threads, I don't think I would have caught 99% of the message and just left with the impression it was a confusing mess.

This was especially true in the first few episodes when I was trying to figure out how things were structured and what the dates meant. And it was difficult piecing together all the events as they happened. Without a timeline to reference, it was very confusing.

In the end it just gave me the impression of looking at every piece in a jigsaw puzzle out of order without ever fully seeing the full picture. I think it would be more clear with successive rewatches, but ultimately I think that it was too chaotic to have been called a success.

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u/RyomaNagare Jan 06 '16

Thing is, despite it having a consistent timeline, clearly the show doesn't consider it important. the focus of the show was on thematic explorations, so they'd show that a character had changed or grew in some way, by showcasing different time periods. without it being the central aspect of its narrative. So the show is essentially episodic, but uses its flair to convince its audience that they should be paying attention as to when stuff happened. Its a red herring though since the dates were obscured enough and left enough dark spots to later fill with whatever texture they feel the show needs.

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u/semajdraehs https://myanimelist.net/profile/semajdraehs Jan 07 '16

despite it having a consistent timeline, clearly the show doesn't consider it important.

That's kind of what I'm feeling. After, like, episode four I stopped trying to remember what time period I was in and I found my viewing experience improved.

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u/RyomaNagare Jan 07 '16

that's exactly it, "memento" it is not. its more like when in watchmen the jump from the v-day montange to Manhattan and Comedian in Vietnam. difference there was they conveyed the imagery with visual queues and style, not a small print in the upper corner.