Talk:Mnemosyne (anime)

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[edit] First header

ehh, anyone know anything else about it? 68.8.219.56 (talk) 09:23, 10 February 2008 (UTC)Jopojelly

ok, edited with stuff from the japanese wiki article - Iron2000 (talk) 09:42, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Demographic

Charano! is a shounen and seinen magazine. Indicative? What do you think? --Koveras ☭ 21:32, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

No, I don't think so. The primary subject of the article is the anime, so no target demographic should be placed here. Incidentally, there's an ongoing dicussion about demographic here. Kazu-kun (talk) 23:03, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
OK. --Koveras ☭ 06:56, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
If the anime is the primary subject, why did the infobox get changed? I thought the primary topic of the article was supposed to get first billing in the infobox. -SeaFox (talk) 03:34, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Generally, the infobox is arranged in chronological order, regardless of the primary subject of the article. Kazu-kun (talk) 03:48, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Music section

I removed this section because it was redundant with "OVA" (under "Media"), which already has this info and in prose form. I think any further info about the soundtrack should be added there for the time being. Kazu-kun (talk) 16:34, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

I merely moved the music section into the OVA section to make it easier to read and less redundant; I mean, both songs were written, composed, and performed by the same people, so there's no need to list it out twice. Plus it's better to have prose rather than an embedded list.--十八 22:50, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
Oh, sorry, I didn't notice the last sentence of the section. My bad. ^^;; --Koveras ☭ 11:00, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Episode list

How about eventually extracting the episode list to a separate article? FLCL got one, too... --Koveras ☭ 16:27, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia

Changed the name spelling of Apos to Eipos, as that is how it is spelled in English Alphabet on the Production DVD. Here is a screenshot from the DVD... [1] --Ichigo69 (talk) 05:04, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

In Maeno Kōki's character section, I changed the word dissection to vivisection since he was still alive when they were doing it... --Ichigo69 (talk) 06:19, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Format

Hm, is Mnemosyne really an OVA? According to the Xebec's site, it "airs on the first Sunday of every month on AT-X"... so it has to be a TV series, doesn't it? Plus, it also says that the most recent DVD to have been released is the second one... Even ANN seems to be confused: it calls it an OVA but lists AT-X as a broadcaster. --Koveras ☭ 09:42, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

The japanese wiki has it as a TV anime with AT-X as broadcaster also. I'll go change it. Iron2000 (talk) 16:30, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
Part of the confusion is probably from the fact it only airs once a month and has so few episodes in total. -SeaFox (talk) 21:52, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Genre

Cyberpunk? I dunno. There was the bit about the conciousness being transferred to the android from the Net and the virtual reality world, but overall this show has very little in the way of computers in it and we don't have the ideas of corporate government prevalent in cyberpunk either. -SeaFox (talk) 21:57, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

We also have cyborg Laura, clone Maeno, bioweapons, people drug-addicted to cybertechnologies (2.0), and Sayara with her exoskeleton. Plus, I just disliked the "science fiction" entry sitting next to "horror" and "neo-noir" but still wanted to retain the aspect of the series being set partly in the future... --Koveras ☭ 06:11, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, but technology isn't such a central theme in the series. I'll give you people addicted to 2.0, but do the rest of those examples exist because technology has taken a more dominant role in society in Mnemosyne's universe? Or simply because the show is now set in the future so these things are normal for a future world. Science Fiction and Horror can coexist as genres for one work (Alien, Event Horizon), although the 'neo-noir' might have been making things too crowded. I thought 'supernatural' was one of the better genres given for this. 'Horror' would be the one that fits least. There may be lots of violence, but that's more a staple of the show being neo-noir, not from any attempt to frighten the audience. -SeaFox (talk) 19:49, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
What do you suggest? --Koveras ☭ 20:13, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure. :) The original situation has changed now since 'neo-noir' and 'cyberpunk' have been replaced by 'tech-noir' (I actually felt the need to look at the history for that article to see if it hadn't just been created). I'm still not quite in agreement on the 'cyberpunk' part of it, but we'll see once the show ends. I think horror should go now, I believe it was a reaction to the first episode. Do you feel horror still applies to this? -SeaFox (talk) 20:19, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Well, there is still the matter of Apos/Eipos... that guy is just sick. :-/ Though I admit, he became a bit moderate about his hobbies lately... but we'll see more of him, I'm afraid. Well, whatever I may feel about horror elements, it's still listed among the genres in the ANN entry. As is sci-fi, go figure. :D --Koveras ☭ 09:07, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
The producers call Mnemosyne a "hard-boiled science fiction action" series; so, by the producers' account, the genres are just a little bit off. On "tech-noir": since the article says tech-noir is another name for "cyberpunk neo-noir", the genre could still be wrong for this series. Although, I don't like that label; I much prefer "sci-fi noir".
Although I'll need to watch at least two episodes to form an opinion, I'll say this: you should be wary of having "noir" as a genre. Some people just slap "noir" (and "heroic bloodshed") to anything.--Nohansen (talk) 19:15, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
The first two episodes are set in 1990 and '91 respectively, so there's nothing cyberpunk about them, although they might make the horror genre choice seem more accurate. I associate the word "Hard boiled" with Noir, but that may just be from the greasy-spoon diners that show up in noir stories, not the prose itself. ;) Considering the small number of episodes for this show, this may just be a better issue to revisit after the series is completed. With more time passing between episodes now in-universe, this may turn into a cyberpunk show yet, but the issue of the supernatural time spores and the tree that produces them hasn't really been explored either. -SeaFox (talk) 22:30, 29 May 2008 (UTC)