AniWorthEstablishment in Life
Introduction
In the distant future, the cities of Japan have been walled off and isolated from one another. Tourism and immigration are heavily controlled—if not impossible. Each region is overseen by an AI moderator that maintains its domain as it sees fit. These clusters are refined into a single ideal, with every citizen fulfilling their role in preserving the moderator's creation. But not everyone is satisfied with the narrowly focused vision of the city they were born in, and thus, they require some under-the-table help in relocating to a more appropriate cluster.
During the day, Equa, Ferres, and Martese are ordinary high school students; but at night, they act as Extractors—people who illegally smuggle civilians between the city borders. Transporting those brave enough to leave everything behind, Equa and her friends risk their lives in order to give their clients a second chance. But the dangers of extraction begin to intensify when the cluster moderators become increasingly aware of the group's actions that threaten their perfect utopias.
[Written by MAL Rewrite]
Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 6.51/10 · 3642
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Audience reviews
5 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
boofgal
Are we at Peak Anime? I think we must be at Peak Anime. There's certainly a glut of it - an inexhaustible supply of anime so cheaply-made that it seems not to matter that hardly anybody watches it. I'm the kind of person who looks at something nobody has watched and says to herself, "I should watch this." Not because I expect it to be good. As a learning experience. I think you can learn a lot about the world we live in by looking at its ephemera, at the products we take for granted.
Estab-Life was apparently created to promote a mobile game that never actually got released. It was made on the cheap, even by the standards of the notoriously parsimonious anime industry. The thing about the anime industry, though, is that... human beings are fundamentally creative. We all have stories we wa…
Read at the sourcebboy_X
Saying this show subverted my expectations is an understatement. “Then why is it so middle of your list then?” Because I wish it had gotten more episodes, but we will be forever stuck with 12. It’s a shame that this series is largely ignored due to a variety of reasons that almost turned me off from watching it. For starters the show is CG, yikes. But after watching the first episode, I was surprised how decent it looked and how natural it felt. It wasn’t anything bad like Berserk or Ex-Arm, nor was it on a level like HnK or Beastars. Its CG worked very well for the show it was, it did not detract my enjoyment of the show like I thought it would. Secondly, it’s a Gacha advert. Many anime adaptations of pre-existing or soon to be made gacha games are usually pretty forgettable. Takt.OP from…
Read at the sourceSenpaiLuna
Despite the show's shortcomings, it is incredibly memorable. I absolutely adore this show. The side characters and the girls in the main cast are awesome and lovable. They do lack depth tho. Also, when you encounter a part of the show which is fleshed out, the show is amazing. However, this can sometimes be the exception plus it is lacking in many parts. For instance; it can be somewhat boring at some parts and the action never makes sense and is only there for plot convenience. This often made me feel like "why didn't they just go in guns ablazing in the first place".
I don't know. It definitely one of a kind. Just wished it was fleshed out a little more.
Still I'll recommend you give it a try because there isn't another show like it 8.5/10
Read at the sourcelamaraptor
There are good and bad elements to this show, but I ended up liking it more than I thought I would after the first few episodes. It's one of those shows that on the face of it should be really stupid. The fun kind of stupid, but still, very very dumb. It's the kind of show you can be trying to describe to a friend and realize how ridiculous that sounds on the face of it, only to realize the execution was far more mundane than the setup made it sound. For example the fact that it has a yakuza boss who wants to run away from crime city and become a magical girl, or the hot spring city where panties are illegal. It throws a bunch of really comedic sounding ideas at the wall, and then executes them like you're going to a business lunch and don't want to stand out too much. All of the potential…
Read at the sourceSanaeK10
My favorite genre is the "Cute Girls do Cool Things" genre, which usually has a predominantly female cast engaged in badass and over-the-top action scenarios with little to no regard for melodrama, and every season I would search high and low for a show that meets that criteria. Usually 3Hz would deliver in that regard, but while expecting a show titled "Healer Girl" to have guns-blazing action is an exercise in futility, I somehow stumbled upon Estab Life, that has absolutely everything I wanted, and then some.
Estab Life is what you would call a "multi media franchise", or in less flattering but more accurate terms, a "made for mobage" show. And in my experience, usually failure or high likelihood of failure mobage would generate some of the best original anime out there (see Kotobuki,…
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