Medium: Anime (OVA)
Episodes: 6
Rating: R++
Subs/Dubbed: Dubbed
Holy God. This has got to be the most risque, messed up, boundary-pushing thing I think I've ever watched. If the story wasn't so damned intriguing, I probably would have dropped it after the second ep.
Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne is about a woman named Rin and her assistant Mimi. They have formed their own detective agency, where they take on all sorts of cases, which often turn out to be bigger and more dangerous than they initially thought, including dealing with assassins, human smuggling rings, killer androids, and a lot of seriously sadistic characters. Not to worry, though! Did I mention that they're immortal, and that no matter how gruesome of a death they experience or how badly they get injured, they bounce back 100% fine (given enough time to heal)?
You see, there is a phantom tree named Yggdrasil, which produces both normal fruits and the much rarer Time Fruit. These fruits float on the wind, and if a Time Fruit enters a woman's body, she becomes immortal. Normal people can't see Yggdrasil or its fruits, and immortals can only intermittently see them. I think it kinda blinks in and out of existence.
Anyway, you're probably wondering what happens if a Time Fruit enters a man's body. The answer is simple: He becomes an 'angel', named as such only because of their resemblance to one. Angels are a much different creature than immortals; instead of a crazy effective healing factor, angels get super strength. They also lose control over their minds, becoming something like feral humans, and are the things of an immortal's nightmares. Immortals, you see, are programmed to want to breed with angels, a desire that goes way beyond lust and need, attracting them to the angels against their own will. Angels, on the other hand, are programmed to want to breed with immortals- and eat them alive while they do so. Once they reach and devour the immortal's time fruit, it's all over. Angels are one of the very few things that can truly (permanently) kill immortals, and it's not pretty to watch, as it basically equates to rape with a side of cannibalism.
Yeah.
What kept me watching, however, was not to see how sick and depraved the show could get (and it did get pretty bad, especially when Apos was involved), but the fact that Rin is a detective, and wherever there's a detective, there's a mystery. And I do like me some mystery.
Each episode focuses on a different case, each of which starts out simple, but soon turns out to be more wonderfully complex than one could imagine. A stamp worth billions of dollars, which everybody seems to be dying to get their hands on. A search for a missing cat leads to a boy with no memory of the last week. A serial killer that seemingly attacks at random and vanishes without a trace, who leaves only a single word splashed on the wall in his victims' blood. A woman thought to be dead reappears decades later on a supposedly 'cursed' island. A virtual idol appears to a kid in real life, begging for help moments before she's seemingly killed. All good fun. But that's not all- Since the series deals with an immortal protagonist, each episode takes place years after the last one, and we get to see characters age and mature as time passes- which, if you think about it, is actually pretty cool. Rin's a fun character, too- She's witty, clever, crazy prepared for most situations, and an utter badass in combat. However, she's also the main character, so she gets to end up stripped down, blown up, shot multiple times, bled to death with unusual piercings, crushed, pureed, etc.
I really don't want to think about this show more than I have to, as... well, it got seriously messed up at times. Cannibalism (context explained above), forced lesbianism, torture, at least one sex scene per episode, body horror, vivisection... just to name a few. Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne is like an angsty teenager. If you can look past its edginess and crude behavior, there's a legitimate gem shining in there. Unfortunately, it pushes as many limits as it can possibly find, for what seems like the hell of it, so it's really hard to see the gem behind all the grunge.
I'm not sure how I feel about this one. All I'll say is, if you decide to watch it, you should probably take it in small doses over time...
Rating: 6/10
Pass/Fail: Uh... Yes.
Please don't ask me how to pronounce "Mnemosyne", I have no fecking clue. Go Google it.
Episodes: 6
Rating: R++
Subs/Dubbed: Dubbed
Holy God. This has got to be the most risque, messed up, boundary-pushing thing I think I've ever watched. If the story wasn't so damned intriguing, I probably would have dropped it after the second ep.
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| From left: Mimi, Rin, and Kouki. |
You see, there is a phantom tree named Yggdrasil, which produces both normal fruits and the much rarer Time Fruit. These fruits float on the wind, and if a Time Fruit enters a woman's body, she becomes immortal. Normal people can't see Yggdrasil or its fruits, and immortals can only intermittently see them. I think it kinda blinks in and out of existence.
Anyway, you're probably wondering what happens if a Time Fruit enters a man's body. The answer is simple: He becomes an 'angel', named as such only because of their resemblance to one. Angels are a much different creature than immortals; instead of a crazy effective healing factor, angels get super strength. They also lose control over their minds, becoming something like feral humans, and are the things of an immortal's nightmares. Immortals, you see, are programmed to want to breed with angels, a desire that goes way beyond lust and need, attracting them to the angels against their own will. Angels, on the other hand, are programmed to want to breed with immortals- and eat them alive while they do so. Once they reach and devour the immortal's time fruit, it's all over. Angels are one of the very few things that can truly (permanently) kill immortals, and it's not pretty to watch, as it basically equates to rape with a side of cannibalism.
Yeah.
What kept me watching, however, was not to see how sick and depraved the show could get (and it did get pretty bad, especially when Apos was involved), but the fact that Rin is a detective, and wherever there's a detective, there's a mystery. And I do like me some mystery.
Each episode focuses on a different case, each of which starts out simple, but soon turns out to be more wonderfully complex than one could imagine. A stamp worth billions of dollars, which everybody seems to be dying to get their hands on. A search for a missing cat leads to a boy with no memory of the last week. A serial killer that seemingly attacks at random and vanishes without a trace, who leaves only a single word splashed on the wall in his victims' blood. A woman thought to be dead reappears decades later on a supposedly 'cursed' island. A virtual idol appears to a kid in real life, begging for help moments before she's seemingly killed. All good fun. But that's not all- Since the series deals with an immortal protagonist, each episode takes place years after the last one, and we get to see characters age and mature as time passes- which, if you think about it, is actually pretty cool. Rin's a fun character, too- She's witty, clever, crazy prepared for most situations, and an utter badass in combat. However, she's also the main character, so she gets to end up stripped down, blown up, shot multiple times, bled to death with unusual piercings, crushed, pureed, etc.
I really don't want to think about this show more than I have to, as... well, it got seriously messed up at times. Cannibalism (context explained above), forced lesbianism, torture, at least one sex scene per episode, body horror, vivisection... just to name a few. Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne is like an angsty teenager. If you can look past its edginess and crude behavior, there's a legitimate gem shining in there. Unfortunately, it pushes as many limits as it can possibly find, for what seems like the hell of it, so it's really hard to see the gem behind all the grunge.
I'm not sure how I feel about this one. All I'll say is, if you decide to watch it, you should probably take it in small doses over time...
Rating: 6/10
Pass/Fail: Uh... Yes.
Please don't ask me how to pronounce "Mnemosyne", I have no fecking clue. Go Google it.
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