Humanity Has Declined
Plot Summary: It has been several centuries since human
population has declined. Food has become harder to find and what little sources
the humans have are considered highly valuable. The most prosperous species on
the Earth are "Fairies", 10 cm tall creatures with high intelligence
and a great love for sweets. A nameless girl, the main character, became a UN
arbitrator between the humans and the fairies and had returned to her hometown
to help her grandfather. One day, the village is sent some strange products
made by a company called FairyCo. Since the villagers are wary of using the
products, the girl, her grandfather, and a nameless boy decide to go to the
factory to find out about the mysterious products and who is behind making
them.
This is a weird combination of dystopia, utopia, science
fiction, fantasy, and reality. I wouldn’t call it bad, but it’s very
interesting to call it good. Very easy to call it good, but very interesting to
do so as well. Since that’s ridiculously vague, let me explain.
It starts off with a sentient robot piece of bread killing
itself so that it can be eaten. And that’s just the first episode. It was a
ridiculous moment of dystopia in a seemingly utopia, but it’s also a dystopia.
This is a hard show to explain.
But I suppose a big flaw in this show is that it’s kind of
just a cool story and there are no big character revelations (until the very
end, which is a flashback of telling how the Mediator went through school and
met Y).
Those cool stories, though, are absolutely brilliant. In
one, you get that piece of bread. In another, you get sentient uncooked
chickens trying to take over the world. In another, you get thrown into a manga
world. In another, you get a time loop. I’ve seen these stories done before,
and I’ve seen them done better, but damn if there isn’t something unique and
cynical about these stories that you just have to love. I mean, the fairies
constant smile that creeps you out more than anything else in the show and at
the same time they represent the cutest thing the show has to offer is just
brilliant.
What was so great about the show was its stories and its
utopian cynicism about, literally, the decline of humanity. The show has its
dull moments, but it also had its brilliant ones. The great thing about it is
that you can skip the two episode arcs you don’t like and get straight to the
ones you do, because nothing is lost in between.
Rating: 8/10
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