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Gilgamesh
Season One
This psychological anime, whose name derives from the
Babylonian epic, is set in the realisable future, or ‘super present’. We
might all be fretting about terrorism but of course, Gilgamesh’s
creators are right to point out that if a terrorist wishes to make an
attack on the level of civilisation, it must be global and it must be
electronic.
And so, in the ‘super present’, a clever cookie has
released an electro-magnetic bomb into the atmosphere which has
distorted the geo-magnetic field to such an extent that our sky has a
miasmic translucence and electro-magnetic communication—phones, mobiles,
and the internet (alas!)—no longer function. Well of course civilisation
collapses.
But fret not, for two mysterious siblings have been
born. Not quite telekinetic, not quite psycho-empathic they still manage
to manipulate the space around them. They soon fall victim to various
power interests and their main goal quickly becomes sheer survival.
This is a very aestheticised world, where pretensions
to realism have been left, like shoes, outside the door. I personally
relished the segment where one of the characters listen’s to Beethoven’s
Fifth Symphony in analogue playback—because he is a purist.
Felix Staica |
