| Dimension W - What About Old Tesla? [message #308077] |
Sun, 10 January 2016 23:47  |
Dave Baranyi
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From Newsgroup: rec.arts.anime.misc
“Dimension W” is a sci-fi anime based upon a manga published in Monthly Big
Gangan. Around the middle of the 21st Century a Japanese scientist finds a way
to obtain endless energy from an alternate dimension. This is turned into a
world-wide corporation that provides the entire world with energy, eliminating
the need for fossil fuels or any other energy source. In future Japan the New
Tesla Corporation has control of that dimensional energy source and hires
Collectors to collect back any illegal dimensional coils.
A Collector who hates Coils and still drives an ancient gas powered sports car
is hired to collect some illegal coils from some small time punks. While the
Collector is about his business he runs into a loli super android who knocks the
Collector out and steals the illegal coils herself. But the New Tesla official
police are also in the area and find Loli Android's father, who is the original
discoverer of the dimensional energy source and who left New Tesla two years
before. The Angry Inventor blames New Tesla for the deaths of his family and
destroys himself and many nearby coils with some sort of black hole coil.
The effect also puts Loli Android out of commission so the Collector takes her
back to his boss where they find out that Loli Android is Very Special and when
she is re-powered she begs the Collector to take her on as a Collector of
illegal coils.
One of the reasons that I usually don't like anime sci-fi is that so many
stories are based upon a premise that knocks my Suspension of Disbelief into a
Solar Intercept trajectory. Dimension W is yet another example. No – my issue is
not with the concept of obtaining “unlimited” energy from an alternate
dimension. That was done very well in 1972 by Isaac Asimov in his multi-award
winning novel, “The Gods Themselves”. My issue is with the idea that just
because someone comes up with such an energy source the Entire World will
suddenly adapt this with only 60 sources on the planet to be shared peacefully
between everyone.
Huh? – do anime sci-fi writers assume that all anime viewers are totally
ignorant of how the World really works and has worked over the past thousands of
years of civilization? Why is it even necessary to postulate a world in which
everyone shares a resource like energy peacefully? Robert Heinlein ignored such
details in his stories with the “secret” nuclear power sources, but that was 75
years ago!
Okay, rant over. Aside from this, how is the show? It's got a Cowboy Bebop sort
of look to it, with acceptable action and recognizable character types. One
thing that is different is that there aren't many animes where you will
simultaneously get cleavage fan service from a loli and from an overweight old
broad. Otherwise, from my p.o.v. it's much of the same, all over again. I've
seen all of these characters and this general situation plenty of times before,
and I'm not seeing much of anything new here. I assume that plenty of people
will like this, but I'd rather re-watch Cowboy Bebop or Samurai Champloo. So I'm
not following Dimension W and my final rating is C.
Dave Baranyi
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| Re: Dimension W - What About Old Tesla? [message #308572 is a reply to message #308077] |
Fri, 15 January 2016 11:26  |
Arne Luft
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From Newsgroup: rec.arts.anime.misc
On 11 Jan 2016 04:47:14 GMT, Dave Baranyi <anthony.baranyi@bell.net>
wrote:
> One of the reasons that I usually don't like anime sci-fi is that so many
> stories are based upon a premise that knocks my Suspension of Disbelief into a
> Solar Intercept trajectory. Dimension W is yet another example. No my issue is
> not with the concept of obtaining unlimited energy from an alternate
> dimension. That was done very well in 1972 by Isaac Asimov in his multi-award
> winning novel, The Gods Themselves.
There is the idea of space based solar power generation. The energy
transport from space to earth will be done with maser. The receiving
antennas look like that building in "Dimension W", and there should be
only a short number of them necessary. So it is not completely
unrealistic.
Peace will be the result of the power of those, which control the
masers in space, because they can also be used to grill the enemy.
Don't be afraid that a dictatorship will control mankind then. The
technology is so sophisticated that it only can be obtained with a
society in freedom.
> My issue is with the idea that just
> because someone comes up with such an energy source the Entire World will
> suddenly adapt this with only 60 sources on the planet to be shared peacefully
> between everyone.
Why not? 'Our world', which has been rescued uncountable times by
pupils, should be capable of that.
Well, I go with this show actually, and shall break up later, if my
expectations are not met. For me this show has a little bit of "Blue
Submarine No. 6". Zorndyke, Tetsu Hayami, and the like. But that maybe
only a temporary impression.
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