Metallic Rouge : Episode 8

Current Episode Score: 6

This is a great example of a show that is suffering horrendously at only being 12 episodes. Because episodes like this one just feel so rushed and lacks so much of the emotional power you feel it should. I have a vague understanding of the story now, Eva and Roy created this Neans with Eva creating the asimov’s laws for the Neans. Than regretted doing that after they started being abused, and worked to try and fix her mistake in Project Eve. And than was killed after finishing, but was able to spread her data throughout the immortal nine somehow.

So now we have different factions who know about Project Eve and the potential Nean freedom, and have different idea’s on how to get to that endgoal. Jill’s side of the immortal nine seem to want to use violence against the humans and declare war after freeing the Neans. Meanwhile Jean’s side want’s to build up a more healthy relationship between Neans and Humans before doing so, that way the Neans don’t hold as much hatred for humans and hopes their will be less fights. I guess the government just wants to control Project Eve completely, and just not use it? Finally we have the circus guys, who I don’t actually know who they are associated with, doing something in Venus with the Nean production. At least I think this is all that is going on.

But yea, this should have been 24 episodes or even more to properly tell this story with all the emotion you should have. We had Noid 262, Ash’s partner, die this episode and it just didn’t have many emotions behind it. Because I just don’t really know him, he has gotten 5min of screen time total, and never really became a character you are rooting to survive or anything. The conflict between immortal nine feels super sudden and completely out of nowhere. And suddenly you realize every character we have ever meet with a name is apparently an immortal nine, which makes this universe feel very small. I feel this show had a ton of potential to be a very good anime and scifi story, and raise a bunch of questions you would expect. But just got killed and reassembled into the sparknotes version by the traditional 12 episode anime cour which by this point I feel has ruined so many potential great shows. And in this age of streaming, I really wish it would die already.