Coppelion : Future

Episode 2

Again its been a long while but someone was about to be eaten I know that much!

***SPOILERS***



So they find the dead dog and someone in a hazmat suit with a gun to Taeko's head, thankfully Ibara sorts him out. Taeko is still trying to sort out the dog. Turns out he tried to save her, the guy in the hazmat suit is looking for his daughter Miku. So he isn't exactly a bad guy either just driven a bit mad by the radiation.

So their orders are now to find the kid, the guy shows them a room in the hospital that was sterilized and survived the nuclear meltdown, he's been living there with his family since and a food truck has been delivering food every week as well until last week...

Or maybe it isn't his family as Yukiko isn't Miku's mother  and her father is a criminal. Turns out the little girls mother is buried at a racetrack so they go off to find her leaving Aoi to tell Yukiko about Coppelia (a story) and Coppelion.

Oh and the hazmat suit that the guy from the last episode were wearing is better then the ones the Vice-Principal is wearing!

At the racetrack and the kid is nowhere to be seen.

Meanwhile Yukiko is telling Aoi why she was in prison, she killed her newborn baby because she thought she was like a doll. When Aoi goes to the bathroom Yukiko disappears, but so does the guy. Is Yukiko going to kill the kid? Are they using the girls for something?

They find them in the leaning hotel, Yukiko doesn't want to hand over the kid as she'll be sent to prison and won't be able to look after her.

After the hotel collapses on itself (and Ibara has a good cry) only the girl gets out alive... Well so does Ibara but yeah. Her father seems to still be at the racetrack and they go via helicopter to save him.

Personally I don't think it was a strong second episode, a lot of people seem to have felt the same way about it. The cliffhanger of Taeko being in trouble wasn't really dealt with, we were taught that the dogs had become wild but all of a sudden THIS ONE hadn't he'd saved her from a threat we hadn't even seen. And Ibara who was built up as some kind of cold, action girl had all that ripped from her to become Miss Soberfest.

Why would Ibara really feel so sad if she was rejected by a criminal? Yes she's passionate about saving people but really? And if it was a ploy to get the girl surely it should have been more obvious to an audience that is what she was doing? It just looked like the girls have mummy issues (the biggest issue being they don't have a mummy) and broke down at the first mention of what they are.

The actual story was interesting, I just felt like it was a story that needed to be tackled later in the series, nothing from the first episode seemed to have a real connection to the second. And there seemed to be "character development" that needed more built up to it then what we got.

I liked the idea of the criminals not wanting to be saved, they had a life no matter how terrible but what would they have if they were saved? They'd be prisoners again. It was a sad story and one they could have expanded on a lot more then they did, it had a two parter written all over it. As it was it missed the storytelling that could have been there.

Which is a shame because the skeleton of this story, built up on, would have been very interesting. The shift in society, people being given second chances because there is no one there any more, their society has broken down and they have the power to do and be who they want. Some people won't want to be saved they were already saved by the disaster.

Unfortunately it only touched upon that and seemed to add in a load of stuff with Ibara and a lot of mystery that just crowded such a short time space.

Yuikiko going missing should have been end of episode (with more before it obviously) leaving you to believe she might have killed Miku, I don't know why we were all of a sudden meant to think she was lying or else not lying and gone to find the kid, the first thought in my head was psycho who had killed her daughter.

Never mind.

The concept is still interesting I just hope it doesn't get rid of story opportunities to make it a sob fest or bore us with "moments".