001

It's just a piece of Sakuga practice work with sound effects added on... as usual for an animator as eating for you. Don't get it why people are criticizing it as if it should've been some kind of magnificent cornerstone 30+ seconds project in the history of animation development. Maybe just because it was named 001 and was destined to be in the first place of an alphabet ascending ordered list? Certainly it's not an epic piece of work. However, when you watch it frame by frame, you can learn how the facial distortion and raindrops are expressed. (How did you recognize those black spots and shadowsas raindrops at first, yeah maybe a second, glance? That's what animators do!) This piece might be a demonstration material or just for fun.

When searching for quick time wasters, one usually searches for something that is funny, memorable, maybe even a bit interesting. I would have to say that 001 combines all of these very well. Story: 6 To avoid spoilers, it was better than what I've seen some full Anime make in five episodes, and this had 37 seconds so. Art: 7 Very simple art design leaves it to the imagination to fill in the color and the world around it. Sound: 7 Starts off with realistic sound effects that are quickly replaced by random sounds that bring a hint of comedy to a rather dark concept. Character:5 Not a lot of characters that are notable here. They all basically do the same, just different sound effects. However, the characters weren't detrimental to the show so... five! Enjoyment: 8 I mean, it was 37 seconds! If you can find something more impressive that only takes 37 seconds, then I'd like to know! Overall: 7 As this is my first review, I decided to pick a small show that wouldn't be very difficult to explain. It isn't going to waste your time, but the one thing that it will do is make you think about it until you find the next anime series! Overall, it does what it's supposed to, so it isn't bad!

“This says a lot about society”. That's what my meme-loving side would love to say, but it seems, MAL does not allow for short reviews so I'll have to stall, or write an informative, distinctive essay. Take it as you will. I remember back in the day, I wanted to practice my writing skills, and as I was heavy on Anime even back then, I thought I could review every Anime I watched, and thus, win both the entertainment that comes with watching an Anime and the skills that develop after writing countless reviews left and right. That was 3 to 4 years ago, and alot changed during that time. I had this ONA scheduled for a review along with several other shorts, but it seems, for some reason, I ended up sleeping on it all of these years, until now. I think I would have tried to buy as much effort as possible, milking every drop of vocabulary I had ta the time, trying to create a meaningful review that breaks beyond the shallow backgrounds of the reviewed entries, but not anymore. “001” is a shitpost. The more I look at them, the more apparent it becomes as if an aspiring animator had his practicing samples leaked by somebody, and this one in particular, while not the absolute worst, it stands for an impressive display of basic animation techniques from a beginner's stand of point, and I'm no expert, but I can tell random scribbles from a Mona Lisa. Maybe the artist intended to deliver some kind of hidden message in all of that pixel real estate, an unknown figure crashing into what looks like a windshield only to be washed off seconds later, having his or her skin removed layer by layer, and off he or she went with the rest of rainwater. That can stand for an analogy about life, as the dripping rainwater is the time that passes the windshield is the a strong-willed person that runs through, discarding any fake friends (The figure that comes crashing the windshield) even if it was just a reoccurring pattern that never turns for the better.

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