Arwen Spicer's Blog: Diary of a Readerly Writer (and Writerly Reader) - Posts Tagged "please-save-my-earth"

Last month I likened the anime, Ano Hana, to 1993’s Please Save My Earth. This month, I thought I owed PSME an entry of its own. Adapted from an intricate manga by Saki Hiwatari, the anime recounts the experiences of six teenagers and a younger child united by dreams of past lives as alien scientists studying the Earth from an outpost on the moon. The anime is only six episodes long and ends in medias res, but in this case, I hardly find that a drawback. The story, by its nature, is tangled and complex, and the open-ended finish of the anime fits the narrative’s resistance to pat conclusions.

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