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all things anime and really about why certain things happen and why some things don't happen
so here i am on the internet minding my own black ass business
you know the usual until when i thought hey you know be really cool if i go watch some old anime
so i scroll down the popularity chart at miami list and there i see it plastic memories i
remember i gave it an average score at the time but now looking back i really wouldn't change it
all too much it's just it caught me off guard to see it almost put out a eight out of ten like it
was good but it wasn't like that good you know at least that was my opinion of the show and
for a lot of people this is their first anime or introduced them to animes outside the name of oh i
don't know one piece dragon ball naruto you know the type so if you haven't seen the show let me
give you a summary of it really quickly an 18 year old named tsukasa muzukaki has failed his college
entrance exams but after pulling some strings he's actually managed to land a job at ceon artificial
intelligence corporation or aci for short it's a corporation that is responsible for the creation
of griffias highly advanced androids which are almost discarnable from normal human beings
however unlike humans griffias have a maximum lifespan of 81 920 hours or around nine years
and four months for short terminal service one the station that tsukasa has assigned himself to
is responsible for collecting griffias that have met their expiration date before they lose their
memories and become hostile probably after joining terminal service one tsukasa is partnered with a
beautiful griffia named isla and considered the best in griffia retrievals contrary to her petite
size and placid nature time is fleeting for her and tsukasa must come to terms with this feeling
he has for isla before her time is actually up no matter how much someone really desires
for something nothing lasts forever and i find it really telling when some members of his own
squadron have been in the field but opted out to not doing that anymore because of this emotional
attachment they get to the griffias and the people that they end up taking the griffias
from from the synopse alone it reminds me a lot of like beatles and showbits where the focus of the
show is to have a intimate relationship between a robot and a human but when you realize what
the show is actually doing you would immediately see the comparisons to angel beats and charlotte
which put their young protagonist in a mind-breaking problem or emotional dilemma
let me explain um isla is a young beautiful robot human-like girl who actually has feelings and acts
like a normal girl she has traits like she's clumsy or someone who hides her own personal
interest who like us all has insecurities about her own job who wants to believe deep down that
she can continue doing her job and be around people that she actually cares about and loves
but she knows that's impossible by the end of the series we actually get her real personality
where she's childish lively and a fun-loving and caring girl which makes that goodbye that
much more of a heartbreaking moment tsukasa is a young impressionable relatable main character
isla is his first love and over time he gets quickly attached to her while having a job that
is intentionally ripping apart the bond between griffias and humans that bond that he wants to
have with isla as someone who wants to change isla's fate this has to be a very depressing
thing to watch almost every day you have to see a bond being torn apart or come to an end so with
having to deal with the job that at times can feel very rewarding you're helping people but it must
take a very big mental and emotional toll on him it also doesn't help that he actually has adults
around him who love isla but are very desensitized to the fact that she will die soon it's not like
they're being like necessarily harsh to him or just like trying or trying to just bring him down
it's just the reality of the situation and from his perspective it can really feel very harsh and
different from what he's you know what it could be expected to hear in other shows like this there's
always going to be like a talk about a cure or some way to get out of this you know i hope
that they can sell to the audience that hey this isn't so bad they can actually make it out of this
and as an audience member we can get very much used to it being a happy ending or happy story
for a very bleak situation in this show no it tells you the entire time what is going to happen
but we assume that there's going to be some type of fairy tale ending to only be met with
the actual harsh reality that they posed at the beginning of the show that's what i really
respect about the show like just because we want something to happen we just want this plot to be
you know be happy it's not going to lie to us about the situation and the world that they built
just to satisfy our emotional needs in this case but that's enough for the synopsis let's talk
about how much this anime actually sell because money is a part of the enemy business is a part
of any business so let's talk about it anime is a billion dollar industry but let's keep it a buck
it's like drake said in one of his lines 10 of us are actually making money while the rest are broke
essentially and 10 of the animes are actually eating in this case and the rest are just losing
money or broke just look at the workers the animators they get paid basically less than
minimum wage don't believe me go check out a link i have for you plastic memories came out in the
spring of 2015 which shows how confident they were in their product the reason why i say that
is because there was some good competition they would have had to meet and compete against i'll
take out naruto the one pieces of course because those are in a completely different category than
the seasonal animes that only have one season or 12 episodes as well as i'll take out jojo because
it's jojo besides that they had competition like damachi season one which was the best one
for a lot of people assassination classroom food wars season one which was probably one of the best
ones if not the second best one snafu season two which was quote unquote the best one but you know
dxd bourne nissa coy fate unlimited blade works season two which is definitely the best one for
fate these franchises alone can average 10k sales which like i said average they could honestly at
peaks do more than 10k easy which is a lot for the majority of all other animes as well as a
cult classic in shows called serif at the end um kekkai sinsen kuroko no basket world trigger and
the gristia projects and now that i think about it it was a fairly highly competitive time in 2015
yet let alone 2015 spring there's only so much money that people are going to be willing to
spend so at this time it was reported that they sold 1977 copies and looking at it now i think
that's impressive alone they were able to sell that many i mean that's only 2k but at the time
like i said this is very competitive and simply still not enough to get a season two but still
impressive alone like from the perspective there's only about like i would say a hundred and ten k
dollars in a single split that people are going to be usually spending right like going back and
buying another anime essentially and realizing hey this one's actually pretty good is impressive
still 2k is not enough to get a season 2 like i said and it's not like classroom elite or fire
force that can you know get away with having a bad sales and rely on other streams of income and get
a second season and even though i said classroom leave this video i'm coming to realization that
they have a chance of getting season two but i'm not making another video about it nor am i gonna
be like yeah it's 100 gonna happen i'm not gonna give you false hope all right in fire force it
already happened there yeah that's another video but now let's get to the actual backstory the
author because i feel like the author has a really bigger role than they usually are dealt or given
and honestly looking at it from a 2021 perspective they need to be trying to get more control and
power over their works and you know try to lever some type of control to get a second season but
you know some authors don't really care that much to get a second season you know they think it's
cool you know they don't exactly care so let's get into black's memories um plastic memories
is an original work from nayataka hayashi who is known for being an animator actually he scripted
an original work of this anime who's done exceptional scripting for other shows like
stein's gate franchise and i do mean the steins gate franchise and darling the franks which are
impressive works altogether and when i think about the tone of this anime and the delivery they give
to the characters it should really be considered a classic the only shows who can do this really
are in your life in april clan ad pancreas and june myoto works which in the short list
is impressive this is just a talented guy who's been around for some of the
greatest animations that have ever been made so what now well nothing the people behind it
wanted to push it out as much as they could for the original work and product that it was
they made on the website to promote the merch of the anime and blu-ray sales you know they put it
on streaming services as well they even took it to the one step further and made a facebook page
which which doesn't feel like anything right now in 2021 and feels kind of weird like facebook like
come on out but at the time of 2015 it really wasn't as common as it sounds and it really
is was like really underrated i would say that as well like only the tier 2 and tier 1 animes
did things like this for make an actual facebook page for a product that they actually believed in
which if you follow them you should definitely come and follow my facebook page at the official
barry anime but uh you know and with checking the page it had nice engagement on it but but like i
said it was run by the companies so after the term of 2015 is done they're done promoting the anime
if this was actually ran by the author he could actually push out more works more
independent works for his project he could try and say oh i have another source material for
this or source material for that or so you know he could do something with it so it's seeing it done
by a company i know it's not going to get very much after their term is up which kind of helps
my point of they're not coming back they don't have any new content on the facebook page or any
promotional stuff anywhere else so you know this is not like some of those other like blog posts
you might see online you can go check them if you want saying oh season two is gonna be coming out
in 2021 rumors rumors expecting could be you know like they use wording and trash words like that
to get you to click on it it's all clickbait i'm not gonna sit here and try to lie to you
or clickbait you on the reality of the situation lastly i'll say this the author really reminds
me of june maida a guy who's you know like i said talented and makes great original works which is
very much different from a light novel and manga i might do a video on that later but they're
very much different they make an original work and they leave being this show was meant to be
a one-off or only have one season as far the production companies you know the people that
actually own the anime it's owned by anyplex majority-wise um muvic atx asci mediaworks ushi
road mages who actually does music for the project asashi production ps1 this only further proves my
point of it being a one-off series and kind of reminds me of the round table from log horizon
if you watch the anime you might get it um anyplex is one of the best metrics for quality
mainstream titles for this generation real anime veterans know this and could honestly tell me why
and for the normies who are asking why um they did demonstrate sao and fate to name a few they
only take on established and proven animes which is kind of more of like a monopoly move
on all the animes you know that are actually known to be profitable animes honestly like when i said
only like ten percent of the animes actually make money and the rest just like broke or like
lose money i was not joking but whatever the only times they actually take a little original works
are rare at that and the ones they usually do take are bound to make some type of a nice little
profit for the year being the jew middles works in angel beats and charlotte anohana and the darling
the franks franchise i didn't even mention current logic but you know there you go guru and and these
are well commercially received and profitable franchises not ever seeing the light of day again
the best you can do is to get a movie out of it or slightly a familiar spin-off series so there's
an extremely low chance of it getting a season 2 given the history of the people that own it and
the fact that eight other companies own plastic memories is kind of a red flag it's meaning that
these eight have to all come together and agree for season two which in of itself could take
five years right plus japanese business people aren't really like american business play people
meaning that they're not really willing to take a risk in america we're known for taking a risk baby
and now my last thing the ending so all in all plastic memories is a solid 3 out of 5 work
and from this i actually did learn some lessons like i learned from this anime that nothing is
going to last forever and we have to make the moment that we have what people count which from
hearing the history of the anime is a little telling i can say that after re-watching this
i learned that you shouldn't take things for granted as well as not regret doing something
you want to do like just because tsukasa couldn't save isla or have his happy ending with her
does that mean he shouldn't have made an effort in the first place you should still be thankful for
the time you have and you get to spend with people that you love i think there's a five
percent chance of this anime getting a season two and there is no source material or attempt at one
like right now you can go look up that there's a manga and there's a light novel but they don't
have many chapters and they don't go past the first season at all we should be happy with
the work that we actually got and just really be hoping for some type of a spin-off series
that hayashi would give us rather than a season two but to be honest i don't see that happening
either so yeah so yeah thank you guys for watching the video have a good day later