Introduction
In the near future, technology has made a few leaps and bounds, and videophones and constant wireless internet access are available to everyone. However, it would seen that the government has been careless and a skilled hacker was able to break into the national information archive. Using the data held there he creates the Platonic Chain website for people to discover information about themselves and their friends. Words start to spread quickly that there is a site that enables you to look up anything. Coincidentally, three young girls, Hitomi, Rika, and Kanae, are able to access the site.
(Source: ANN)
Audience reviews
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Curlybrace101
"Digital data is absolute! It will all last forever, even after you die! It will all come up if you do a search on Yamada Kenichi! It's all spelled out accurately right there!"
Platonic Chain has a MAL rating of under 6: a rating so low you know it HAS to be bad, considering reviewers tend to rate things above average and review sites operate on more of a four point scale than a ten point one.
For once, the MAL score lies.
Platonic Chain's low score can be chalked up to two things: length and animation. For starters, shorts tend to get lower ratings because there is less content there to dig into. They bore. However, Platonic Chain has so MUCH to dig into. People are biased against short runtime, but if you meet Platonic Chain at its level and engage with the shorts, you'll find they ut…
Read at the sourceSupersonic_Pain
This is a very weird anime looking back on it now
If you want a full blast of just Y2K right in your face, this is your show.
The graphics are definitely dated and you'll get a lot of your tells on the emotions of the characters off their VA rather than their animation but I thought it was charming that they looked like characters from a Nintendo DS game.
These are 3 minute shorts so they don't get to do much but even then, I thought they had a lot of intriguing ideas that could've been longer arcs in a different anime. Episodes 16, 18, and 19 in particular have a lot of meat on the bone to be developed into either characters in a different show or even full on shows themselves.
It's kind of surreal seeing this all-knowing powerful supercomputer being used by teen girls (and boys) for…
Read at the sourceJyushimatsuno
Platonic Chain is fascinating for several reasons. At its core, the story is about the mundane lives of several teen girls in Shibuya in a "slightly more advanced" version of the early 2000s. The whole story has a sense of oddness to it, since it has all of the makes of a tech-based dystopian horror, and yet the young characters go about their daily lives in stride. While the Platonic Chain tech in the show is new to the girls as well, they adapt to it quickly and incorporate it into their lives in a way that is very deeply human and very accurate to how we interact with new technology today.
As a watcher in 2024, I was struck by the horror of how everything in the show (made in 2002 mind you) and all of its dystopian elements are just...life in 2024. The most horrifying aspects of the sh…
Read at the sourceammaranth
I only mark this as mixed feelings because I recognize some will not appreciate it. But there is a specific audience that should enjoy this. Don't compare this anime to any other modern anime, because it's just comparing apples to oranges. This is a historical artifact and should be enjoyed as such. A lot of people will complain about the CGI art style, but given the hindsight of 20 years - it's awesome. I think it's perfect for this anime; lifeless, creepy CGI animation was this thing that was everywhere for a very short amount of time until everyone finally realized it was totally ugly and then it was really only relegated to those straight to dvd children's movies that were rip offs of disney IP. So I think it shows us exactly where this show was coming from in history, it situates you…
Read at the sourcejaliscojackson
It's extremely hard to judge Platonic Chain. It provides one of the most dystopian premises of all time, and yet it centers itself around the general mundanities of teenage life in Shibuya, with the same kind of tone you would have in most other slice of life comedies. It has a very unique sense of humour that sometimes lands and sometimes doesn't, but either way you will have fun. Each episode is technically 6 minutes long, but the actual episode content is only 3 minutes once you subtract the opening and ending. Within those 3 minutes is batshit insanity.
If you know how much I hate CGI animation, you might wonder why I like this anime so much. I hate Berserk 2016, I'm not the biggest fan of Dorohedoro, so why this? I love that this looks like a forgotten Dreamcast game. I love the soun…
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Ok, i will keep it simple. I like Platonic Chain, i really do. Its no masterpiece, but the characters are solid, their body expressions are also good. The story until ep 15 its pretty good, just normal girls doing normal stuff while (for us) exploring the ends of this new website. For them is no different from us just googling some information. And thats what they do, showing how this made up tecnology takes place.
After ep 15, things get just kinda..eh. It seems like intros to really cool and interesting plots, but ofc with 4min op-endg theme you cant really tap into it. So it just hangs there, unsolved, unexplored. I think the manga may be actually better on this matter, but couldn't for the life of me find it online.
Overall, its a cool anime, something fresh to watch while doing some…
Read at the sourcegwern
Story-wise, the authors seem to definitely be thinking and haven't written too much stupid or cliche stories; after some good early episodes, the remaining 14 episodes were mediocre. Downside: all the episodes are extremely ugly animated, and short.
Read at the sourcealx222000
No other reviews? Okay, I'll write one then.
Platonic Chain is essentially a look at the many different possibilities about how personal information (Such as video records of EVERYWHERE you've been for the last few years, voice recordings, personality profiles, and more) could be used if it was accessible to the public, though this series is a light one, and the uses it shows are all relatively harmless.
It really is an interesting idea, and there are some really creative, even amusing uses on display, though I won't spoil them.
Unfortunately, the series does have a number of drawbacks. The first thing you'll notice is the animation, which is anime-styled CGI. I'm not a fan of CGI anyway, but this stuff is clearly showing it's age.
Now, short episodes aren't necessarily a bad thing, ho…
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