Introduction
The year is 2050. A young engineer named Derrida Yvain became famous thanks to his contribution to the development of the "Autonomous Machine DZ" at Rebuild, the manufacturing company founded by his father. One day, Derrida and his colleague Nathan discover a flaw in the DZs and try to warn their boss, but are ignored. Although Derrida and Nathan are aware of the danger, they reluctantly decide to put off taking any measures, and instead go to Nathan's daughter Mage's birthday party. The next day, after enjoying a peaceful day, Derrida and Nathan are suddenly attacked by unknown forces. At the end of the escape, Derrida falls into a cold sleep machine and 10 years later, he wakes up to a devastated world in the middle of a war. While Derrida is attacked by a group of out of control DZs, he almost gives up, but he recalls Nathan's last words.
"Take care of Mage."
Despite the harsh fate that has fallen upon him, Derrida sets off to seek Mage.
(Source: ANN)
Audience reviews
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petesafool
Premise:
Evil doers mess with the programming of robots and cause chaos and destruction on a global scale.
Despite being heavily armed the robots have all but rusted away after 10 years and are incapable of hitting even truck sized objects. They also congregate in places where no one actually wants to live, so spend most of their time in sleep mode instead of actively hunting humanity to extinction... Which results in everyone getting on with their lives. They have water, food, housing and most importantly AI Roadsters and the Internet.
Despite this post apocalyptic utopia, busy body scientist who has been in hyper sleep the whole time decides he needs to right all these wrongs by travelling back in time. This is achieved through the mechanism of retaining strong memories of past events.…
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It is the year 2050. Automatas are now part of human's daily lives. Derrida's father happens to be the creator and now he follows in his footsteps developing them at Rebuild. However, he and his friend Nathan discovers a fatal bug in the latest "DZ" models that could allow them to go out-of-control. Not only that, rumours were the models were going to be militarised which was all the more reason they had to fix the bug first.
Not long later, Derrida finds both Nathan and himself targetted by Rebuild. As he desperately runs away from his assailants, he finds himself falling into an underground laboratory and put into cryostatis. When he wakes up he finds something he had given up research on had happened to him - time leaping. He was now 10 years into the future which was now ravaged by an…
Read at the sourceWingkliP
The animation was quite potato. Just looking at the art by ABe it was meant to be much more reminiscent of texhnolyze but apparently the art department was incapable of drawing something that was not your cliche anime character.
Comparing this and texhnolyze, the greatest things missing are what made texhnolyze so compelling; Hamasaki and the unwavering commentary of the writing/dialogue. It just never went as deep in buildup as Steins Gate or as deep in philosophy as Texhnolyze.
Without much of the depth or genius, it's really not worth the watch time, even if you can finish it in half a day.
And that god damned ad break 'rerided' sound makes my ears bleed why does that exist
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Oh man, I'm a collector of train wrecks at this point. Here, we have a masterclass in doing everything you can possibly do to ramp up the carnage. What starts off as poor decisions escalates into a multi-train pileup, during rush-hour, at the busiest station, during Christmas. That last bit sounds like a stretch, but it's plot relevant so just run with it. While you're preparing your suspension of disbelief for a REVIEW of something that will shatter it regardless, I'm going to run with the train metaphor.
It's all I have left to enjoy about this one.
Story: Time travel gone wrong. Okay, how do you screw that up? No seriously, I've seen my share of cobbled together time travel plots. What the hell even happened during the story boarding for this? It's NOT a disjointed episodic narrative…
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I do enjoy shows with complex ideas, but they tend to be more difficult to execute. This show had grandiose ideas for the idea of people traveling back to special memories as well as a dystopian future exploration with interesting character backstories, but the scriptwriting to keep the plot together was not there, especially for awkward action scenes. I think if they had a guy to specialize on making the action scenes and plot devices make sense it might have turned out into a great show.
Story:
Cool overarching ideas, terrible execution especially action scenes. I did enjoy the themes and ideas in the side stories.
Art:
The important places all were fleshed out. It must have been hard to have to animate all of those robots.
Sound:
I liked the interesting eyecatch audio. Nothing too sp…
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I like the concept of the story involving time travel, or so to speak. I figured after 3-4 episodes, the story along with character development should really pick up. At least that's what I was hoping for. Unfortunately, it really didn't. Besides the 2 main characters, any others introduced were honestly irrelevant.
There were several times, where I wanted to just drop it but I'm the type who has to finish it, regardless of how bad or good it is.
It felt as if the writer struggled/didn't know how to proceed with the storyline and was a "last minute" mashup ideas.
I had high hopes for this anime after learning the people involved in production but ended up very disappointing.
I don't ever write reviews or place any scores with anime that I have watched. Whether that be bad or good. I l…
Read at the sourceUnconfidence
This anime is enjoyable, but minimally so. It seems to check off the boxes it needs in order to avoid being a bad anime, and I have trouble finding real faults with it. The art is okay but not mindblowing. The plot is fairly well-constructed, although it suffers from some pitfalls to common tropes. The characters were well-defined excepting the ones which weren't supposed to be, and it's decent overall.
That said there was a feeling of distance I had from it. Maybe it's an anime that suffers from being watched one episode at a time. Every week we'd watch an episode and I'd have to remind myself of what was going on and where the plot was, when other anime had really engaged me. There's a good bit going on in the anime but not nearly enough to not be able to keep up with, it just didn't se…
Read at the sourceJiangHaoyi1979
Ok, so this could be consider as a quintessential anime that involves time travel like that of another anime currently being aired this season which is " Irozuku Sekai no Ashita kara" , but unlike that anime this was good because of the mystery that surround the main character Yavin Derrida and Mage Bilstien as they both travel through time in order to fix an apocalyptic future that was ravage by war and the bad guys weren't just them rich people whom were able to escape the apocalyptic war , but also DZ whom were acting like a bunch of wild dogs looking to pounce on any living soul coming in to their territory. Ok so the plot maybe all over the place, but the again can we stop such double standard for a while since there were allot them anime whose plot were all over the place , like that…
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So, to sum it up: this show is just one mediocre mess. RErideD was one of these shows that kept me watching despite it lacking in almost every department. I did have some hopes, the plot was semi-interesting and the idea's it explored was something I thought to be pretty cool, but I was let down. I think it's a shame that these ideas were put into a show that obviously had little to no budget, and maybe if a better studio and more budget was put into this, I think it could've done well.
Some things that were okay (i guess??):
- The ideas were interesting and the story itself was enough to keep me intrigued, it explored things like AI and the idea of how AI could impact war along with the more sci-fi theme of time travelling.
- The ending was actually satisfactory, it didn't leave us on an…
Read at the sourceKANLen09
So...the first Fall 2018 seasonal series to end significantly early...so what are we left with?
With big names such as Steins;Gate director Takuya Satou and Serial Experiments Lain, Texhnolyze, Haibane Renmei character designer Yoshitoshi ABe, you would expect them to do the same formulas that they are well-known for...right? Unfortunately, RErideD is not a series that justifies the expectations that we were RErideD with, and all that is about to be revealed. And if you thought that this is good for even a single moment, I don't blame you, but please reason yourself.
Story:
See that insanely long synopsis on MAL? That's just the basis of how RErideD starts, and interestingly but (obviously) baffingly falls apart towards the end.; Nothing is coherent in this staged timeline of events that…
Read at the sourceAndoCommando
I don’t understand this show.
Not to say that I cannot understand the appeal of this show at all or what it might have been trying to say. Rather, I have barely any grasp on how this series has turned out the way it has. Initially, this show was dubbed by publishing company Kadokawa Shotan as ‘Project D’, an original series centred around time travel. The premise is honestly nothing new as time travel appears a dime a dozen in many anime nowadays. However most of the excitement RErideD was receiving stemmed from the announced staff, specifically Takuya Satou the chief director of Steins;Gate, alongside acclaimed character designer Yoshitoshi Abe. These two are known for bringing their own unique style and unconventional aesthetic to many of their works, and while RErideD is certainly a pe…
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Over a year ago, I came upon a curious trailer that was shown from Anime Expo 2017. Originally, it was a cryptic project going by the codename “Project D’. What got me curious were the two staff that were announced at the time. First, there was director Takuya Satou who previously worked on Steins;Gate. Then, there’s Yoshitoshi Abe who designed the characters for the infamous Serial Experiment Lain. Flash forward a year later and we got much more in-depth information including the plot, more staff, and the cast. What RErideD actually ended up being though is far from an intriguing sci-fi thriller. To even use word ‘intriguing’ to describe this show is an insult to science fiction itself.
Initially, it felt like the show had some innate potential. The idea of a science fiction thriller mix…
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