The action and blockbuster elements of many animes come from a fantasy or sci-fi position. However, one of Netflix’s original cartoons, Japan Sinks 2020, is more of a realistic drama set in Japan. It’s an exhibition of love, loss and incredibly realistic representations of other people looking for an herbal disaster. My Japan Sinks 2020 anime review highlights how the series works in multiple layers, with an emotional hit in almost every episode. We have a tendency to think of anime as fantasy and high-level science fiction, but it is still a dynamic medium capable of telling many types of stories.
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The animated series begins with Ayumu (Faye Mata), a top student in an athletic education for her school. His father is on a frame site, while his mother is on a plane back to the city. Everything is perfectly general when an earthquake shakes the nation. The plane is in a state of emergency, his father’s backyard is in jeopardy, while Ayumu’s conversion rooms are demolished. It’s a brutal scene with many victims, which puts you on the edge of your seat for the rest of the season. The following is a series in which survivors desperately search for those they have enjoyed and escape to safety as they seek to discover precisely what happened.
The 2020 anime Japan Sinks begins by telling the story of a circle of relatives, however, there are shocking twists in almost both episodes that make the series incredibly appealing. Although it does not follow an end-of-suspension contraption, the anime still provides enough crochet to create an urgency to stay watching the episode. The circle of the story of the relatives expands to come with several other characters going to unforeseen places.
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So that my critic doesn’t make you think that the story is just moments of quiet characters, the anime Japan Sinks 2020 is about the consequences of a mad disaster. In this sense, the series has many similarities to AMC’s The Walking Dead. Like the survivors of a zombie apocalypse, the Japan Sinks 2020 anime team begins away from earthquakes ravaging the country. Along the way, they lose a component of their group, bringing together others who sign up for them. The main cast is a mother, her daughter Ayumu, her young son, a YouTube star, a former athlete and many others who embark on this holiday on the road to safety.
At first, they come across a probably deserted store, which is more than it looks. Then there is the utopian society where everything is almost perfect. Almost. Interestingly, there is also a child who can communicate with the dead. In this society, they locate a paraplegic scientist who may have the key to surviving the disaster. Halfway through, survivors will have to locate a secret lab that may have coordinates that can also take them to safety. Although there are no express sequences linking to the Zombie series, the themes and moments of loss are definitely the same. They are essentially other people who run away from anything they can’t escape from.
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Japan Sinks 2020 is incredibly poignant and exhausting to watch. The series has crazy turns you don’t see coming. Some are brutal, some extraordinarily unhappy, while others are simply misplaced. The exhibition begins with a tragic loss of life, but more victims overall of the disaster. Only after the first episode is we surprised by the first wonderful death. This becomes a style for the series, although the remedy to the death of each character is simply beautiful. The emotional substance of the series really surprised me. I didn’t expect him to have so much intensity and excitement.
There is an episode in which Ayumu and his younger brother, Goh, find themselves trapped on a life raft in the middle of the ocean. Without saving lives in sight, neither of us will have to find a way to eat, drink and survive. The episode maintains this tension as we wonder if there is salvation. The characters die in this series, so there is a lot at stake. Japan Sinks 2020 does a lot of that; put the characters in conditions where there is no escape. When salvation comes, it never seems like we see it coming. The obvious depression of the animated series is almost overcome through a type of message or uplifting result. In a way, this is a lesson that The Walking Dead can be reported from Japan Sinks 2020.
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If your only delight in anime has been a high-level fantasy or sci-fi series, then the japan Sinks 2020 anime is a must for you. He won mixed reviews, however, I appreciated his realistic depictions of love and loss. It is an animated series that has an incredible character development, subtlety in its themes and a masterful writing on how the occasions unfold. Although there are countless videos and television screens that use the crisis genre to tell its story, Japan Sinks 2020 does a greater task by offering something new and deep using the same formula. And the way the series ends is the ultimate unforeseen of all.
Japan Sinks 2020 is now airing on Netflix.
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Shah Shahid is an entertainment writer, film critic (that’s what he thinks), host of the split-screen podcast (on Apple Podcasts and others) and a film father who has the project of educating his daughters about decades of film history. Armed with uncontrollable sarcasm and cautious optimism, Shah loves to talk about the content of movies, television and comics until his wife’s eyes shine. So save her by getting her involved in her own blog BlankPageBeatdown.com or twitter @theshahshahid.