AniWorthThe Asylum Session
Introduction
The story takes place in the far future, when the civilization has declined. Hiyoko is a high school girl, who aims to enter an art university. She runs away from her home because her father tried to throw away her mother's keepsake drawings. She finds a slum located in a stadium and meets the leader of the street children, Akira.
The police attempts to demolish the stadium for the beautification of the city. In order to resist the demolition, the people in the stadium plans to hold a street-art event "The Asylum Session". Hiroko takes the charge of a giant painting on the stadium.
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MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 4.83/10 · 1245
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Audience reviews
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TheAngryNerd
Asylum Session is one of the most odd things I've seen in this medium. The best term to describe it as would be "mixed bag".
Review:
Story/Plot/Writing: I have many conflicting thoughts regarding this area. The story is unique, for it's very different from your average dystopian or corrupt society story, and I really liked the idea of resisting the authorities through an artistic event, but it's really lacking in terms of depth. The whole thing just feels really shallow, since it doesn't delve too deep into the world it takes place in and doesn't give us much information. Why does the police want to take down the Asylum town and evict the residents? What caused them to act in this way? What's the history behind this world? There was a war, but what caused it? The plot itself is very simple…
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This one's an oddity. Set in a seemingly corrupt future, Asylum Session is focused on an aspiring art student named Hiyoko, who bonds with the residents of a tent town called Asylum who have set up their own society and are under threat of eviction by the town authorities.
Before I go into the story and characters, let me first address the rather obvious issue with this film that comes in the form of its CG animation. The rendering of it is quite rough with characters looking rather crude with how they look at many points in the film and animation looking just as crude with stiff, awkward movements and attempts at creating special effects like paint being sprayed and smoke looking quite fake. This is perhaps the worst implementation of a fully CG-animated film that I have come across with…
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