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The episode title this week is “Original Sin, Past and Future.” With that in mind:
In the event you ever have the opportunity to ask any of them a question at a convention, consider inquiring over M3.
I will not begrudge you, of course, should you choose to ask about Sailor Moon, Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine, or Macross. Or anything else from their creative backgrounds. But there is a story here, somewhere. Something, I feel, went very, very wrong. On every possible level it could have failed, from their website, to botched animation, and the heavily delayed the home video release. Episodes of this series are still not available for purchase, as of this writing, and this is a 24 episode show which started in the Spring 2014 season. The first blu-rays come out November 5th. To their credit, I suppose, it will be as a box containing 12 of 24 episodes rather than a more drawn out series of singles, and the base price of ￥27,000 is available sliced down to ￥19,643 as a Amazon preorder.
It is still junk, mind you. But Satelight’s best option may be to treat this as some sort of a tax write off, if they can swing it. At minimum, they are performing a fair amount of corporate gymnastics for the few folks who would ever consider possibly buying this series. I would be interested in what the blu-ray comparisons look like, but this would mean someone needs to buy the show and sufficiently capture screens. That is an exhausting prospect on multiple levels.
I have not even started talking about the finale episode yet.
I have mentioned before various feelings relating to if this series was an older spec script pulling surface level ideas from various Popular Things such as Evangelion and such. Or perhaps a computer yoinking popular TVTropes webpages and slapping them together as a approved by a business class group project spreadsheet program. I have watched every episode of M3, and so no, it is not like I was expecting the ending to wow me or suddenly change gears. I just want the closure, really. How was it going to choose to end it all.
We begin with Susan trying to tell Tsugumi none of this, the rapid expansion of the Lightless Realm, the changed form of the Corpse, and Minashi’s going completely off the mental deep end, is her fault. I will maybe award the third, as Minashi has turned into our antagonist for seemingly no other reason than we are just out of other options if Tsugumi can not be the villain. And if designated hero Akashi defeats him it would break down some vectors of the love polyhedron and leave the two islander girls. Everything else though, well, Tsugumi is responsible for the necrometal deaths of an untold number of people over a decade long span of time. Sure, she had her inner rage due to thinking her childhood crush was taken from her, when the time they were all little kids and ran away were really just scared out of their minds by the horrors of the Lightless Realm. But, I mean, she has been fueled by this seemingly broken crush and in turn has fueled an engine of death and destruction which has rendered a nice multi-mile area of Japan inhospitable for years, in addition to further deaths via investigative efforts within it. Given everything the series has done with framing her position, and even into all but this episode times having given big “Everyone should die for their sins against me!” lines, I do not exactly feel particularly sorry for her despite the series now trying to say I should be.
Minashi continues as best he can the trend of pushing for assault imagery, as his arms turn to tentacles and provides “You want this” style lines to Akashi regarding resonance with him as the appendages latch on to his arms. He can not quite pull it off the same as Heito did in his heyday though, or even the psychic projection of Heito last episode.
Then the projection of Sasame finally shows up, resonates with Akashi, and Minashi is sad. So sad, that the Corpse melts down and collapses as it turns to goo like it was channeling Judge Doom at his worst nightmare moment in Who Framed Roger Rabbit because, and I am quoting, “too much torment.” It has just built up so much sadness over the years, and the Corpse can not handle this one last straw. Our characters speak of how they could ever possibly connect, as Minashi only wanted to infect everyone with necrometal so the world could understand each other. Reaching out with their hands and hearts, as that too is like linking and making connections to each other, is provided as the answer and to act the message of this program.
Cue finale montage, Lightless Realm all gone now, IX in trouble for its actions, research on how to restore those affected by necrometal contamination, and so on. And there is so little feeling to any of it; IX has clearly supposed to be akin to running our NERV equivalent throughout the show, but so nameless and perspectiveless has been the handling of the leadership officials we still just do not know anything about them. I can not say “Well, they thought they had a good reason for what they did” or even “Good riddance.” They are just some dudes who ran an organization we barely learned much about.
Then we have our character section, which is understandable as a note to end on.
Mammu reading to the impaired Emiru her short fiction relating to her fictional character based on herself of Mahsa, that is a nice conceptual moment. We barely got to see them do much together over the course of the series, and the show sabotaged their best moment a few episodes ago, so I can not say it has much weight or resonance. But, it is inoffensive and tries to somehow tie Mammu’s story writing back into the fold. Material relating to why some of said writing was alarmingly accurate to present events early on in the series before it just flat out forgot about that plot point has never been touched on. I guess Tsugumi must have also read the fiction journal at some point ten years ago, and Mammu has been using the exact same book ever since? That is about all I can think of.
Akashi and Tsugumi: “If i untangle the clump of resentful hearts, are there warm feelings among them?” I suppose those are words which form a grammatically correct sentence.
Heito is giddy and happy because he has his old snuggly wuggly teddy bear now. Keep in mind, this is a character who has committed multiple sexual assaults, physical by his own hands and body and mental via LIM unit psychic connections, across the course of the series to no retribution at all. Characters have feared him for this. In other areas, he hurled knives and such at his teammates early on, tried to kill them multiple times for his own amusement, and brutalized officers even in his introductory scene for kicks. But, he has a teddy bear now, and is reminded of the delight of a child.
The Corpse is now some kind of baby Digimon thing, as it waves us off in the light of a new day.
Honest, I feel bad for everyone involved in this production. Nothing went right at any point for them, be it beyond their control or within their own power.
Okada’s screenplay is a swamp which seems akin to something one charts out when writing an entire plot in one go without ever going back around for sufficient finer editing or seeing if earlier events line up with later ones as intended. Sato’s direction is one of incredible disinterest in elevating the material, if not outright boredom. This series has an episode where two character psychically converse in a blobby grayscale CGI mess of a world for half an episode, and all we do is snap back and forth between their faces as they mind talk. And Okada and Sato are the original creators! Kawamori did some of the mechanical designs, some of which are at least passable in a boxy robot sort of way, but his greater role as an Executive Director of the company means quite a lot as well. M3 even has multiple upcoming video games which were in development and are still on track for launch.
So why is everyone so, well, tired and uninterested?
If it was a passion project with industry friends and M3 flubbed up the execution, that would at least be understandable. Highly successful creative people still crank out duds sometimes. But, if they believed in what they were doing, one would at least be able to suss some of that passion out somewhere over the course of twenty four episodes, right? Even if it did flop? I have been able to do that in all manner of other overall crummy films or shows over the years, where one can at least tell the team is trying and has their heart set on indulging something.
M3 has left me with the television series equivalent of watching a flatline on a heart monitor. For almost ten hours.
I am writing this on October 1st, a day most folks agree we can collectively bust out all manner of Halloween decorations with, among other things, the undead and re-manufactured monsters. But, I do not think M3 was ever alive to begin with.