This is the sequel to the original series “Darker Than Black” and the story revolve around protagonist Hei who works for a mysterious organization known only as “syndicate” to gather information and material related to the radiation cause by the meteor crash. Due to the meteor crash causes some of the people on to have special ability and power. Those who have that ability are known as “Contractor”. Hei who is a contractor is known by Messier Code “BK-201” and in this sequel he left the syndicate organization after betraying them in at the end of the first series together with Yin. The sequel will take place 2 years later after the first series and on the run from the organization that they used to serve. They left Tokyo and end up in Russia to encounter Suou Pavlichenko whose family was pull into a war with several government intelligent agency due to their research into contractors.
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Act 6 – Masaki October 11, 2009 at
11:37 am
Begin with a glimpse into the past history of Masaki where he was just only a 4 or 5 years old child and was under the care of his family houseroid Tex. In his room Masaki have a conversation with Tex regarding about his father and mother ongoing divorce court case but Tex feedback to Masaki was that it was neither side that was completely wrong. Tex requested a favor from Masaki to keep this conversation from his father as the topic might hurt his father feelings but without their notice Masaki’s father was already eavesdropping from behind the door. The following morning Masaki’s father inform Masaki that there is a problem with their houseroid Tex and while Masaki try to talk to Tex it seem that Tex no longer talk back.
Back to the future in the “Ethics Committee” meeting and Masaki’s father was chairing the meeting. The agenda of the meeting was regarding the increasing report of excessive human-robot interaction in over 1400 areas and claim all areas identify do not violate robot laws and it must be grey zone due to the limitation of the laws implementation. The committee plan to eliminate such places but first they need to investigate this places further and pick the targets for full investigation. After the eliminations are done then only they will hand over the news to the media. Acknowledging the scope of the investigation is too huge for their current resources to do, Masaki’s father orders the use of large number of android investigators to help out with the investigation. Those suspected android that has excessive interaction with human will be reported to Ethics Committee who works in the police force and have them make the arrest. They are also aware of the group call APC (Android Promotion Committee) which is a group that has conflicting objectives with the Ethics Committee and caution that APC might take this event against them due to that the Ethics Committee will order their android investigator to keep their ties secret from the Ethics Committee. The meeting maybe secret but Dr. Ashimori was listening in secret from her office with a hidden microphone in the Ethics Committee meeting room.
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Rikuo seems to have a problem sleep at night in bed and can hear the tune of piano playing. In the morning Rikuo wake up with a tired face because he was not having enough sleep at night and was inform that by his sister Naoko that Sammy have gone for her monthly maintenance but she had prepare breakfast for Rikuo before going. While taking breakfast Rikuo glance through today’s newspaper and show topics of android job expanding and also show that android can also do play music as well and later was interrupted by Naoko claiming that Rikuo should have turn off the sound while playing the piano at night. This have cleared Rikuo thinking that he thought he was dreaming at night but actually some else was playing the piano at night. The conversation between Naoko and Rikuo also reveal that their mother is a professional music instructor and would not let Rikuo help her with music lesson because Rikuo have stop playing the piano.
At school and after lesson Rikuo feeling sleepy due to lack of sleep at night was disturbed by Masaki. Masaki want to share what he have found on in his father’s computer that reveal that there is a new prototype android model that are made for to become a foster father for human child and already testing in secret. He also comment that machine seem to be butting into everything that human does and then leave.
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Beginning with first person view of a nameless android supposedly a houseriod taking care of a kid and its sound and vision are distorted as if the memory was corrupted then suddenly later a view of it from a remote back alley as if it was abandon by its owner. Back at home, Naoko inform Rikuo that their father is very busy again due customer complain about the new android model and the TV news advise the public to properly dispose of their old android and not to abandon it (due to the high cost of proper disposing it). Rikuo comment that the new android AI still need fine tuning and unable to really comprehend instruction from its owner and would questions the owner.
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Started off by showing a guy in bed with other women then leave the room and then show a women standing outside as she was waiting for someone to get in the car. Back at home Rikuo sister, Naoko check with Sammy about Rikuo status then was inform that Rikuo will be having lunch outside. In fact Rikuo and Masaki are actually having lunch at Time of Eve. They are actually there since they don’t have any activity in the afternoon and discussing that they so far know onw of the customers there which is Akiko. They then look at other customer in the café then they see a couple from the earlier scene where the guy and a woman. The couples were actually flirting and since she is wearing a dress with low-cut neckline that showing the cleavage which Rikuo is staring at. Masaki claim that Rikuo is looking at it and Rikuo rejected the comment then turn into argument. Nagi decided to bud into the argument then said Rikuo was jealous about Koji the guy in the couple then she decide purposely invite the couple over to have a conversation with Rikuo and Masaki.
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Act 2 – Sammy September 15, 2009 at
6:46 pm
Unsatisfied with the answer from Sammy in the previous episode, the next new day Rikuo continues to questions Sammy where she have gone to in the past few days and did anything out of the ordinary other than being instructed to. But fail to get anything out of the ordinary from Sammy.
At school Rikuo still in the disappointing mood and keen to digging out the truth and accidentally slip out his house android name Sammy to Masaki as if he don’t want Masaki to know about it. Masaki then recap Rikuo about the 3 law of an android (robots). 1st Law “Robots do not inflict harm to humans”. 2nd Law “Robots cannot disobey commands from human”. 3rd “Robots must engage in self preservation”. Masaki make a point that there are not law to prevent robots from lying and but he said that does not mean Rikuo cannot trust Sammy. Since Rikuo know that Sammy is going shopping in the afternoon, Masaki suggest that they go back to the café and wait if Sammy will turn up.
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Act 1 – Akiko September 13, 2009 at
10:22 am
The 1st episode start off at the home of Rikuo and he was checking through the activity log of his houseroid Sammy. When suddenly browsing through the activity log Rikuo notice 1 strange log entry and just before going into the details about that mysterious entry Sammy pull the plug from her body and said that log have been output correctly. Since Rikuo are not sure on what to ask regarding the strange log, he order Sammy to make him a cup of coffee instead. Then Rikuo sister Naoko wakes up and get out bed and turn on the TV. The TV channel was broadcasting topic on “Android Holic” which means humans who like to depend on android and treats these android like human. Then Rikuo browse through again the activity log of Sammy that were saved in his cell phone and notice that the strange log recorded is “Are you enjoying the time of eve?” question statement rather than movement coordinate.
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Time of Eve September 12, 2009 at
1:28 pm
Time of Eve is a Sci-fi anime series that portray a distant future in Japan where human like robots (androids) are commonly use to work as servant for humans. The androids are use by human to do all sort of chores like making coffee, cleaning the house, groceries shopping, carrying bags and etc… Androids are so human looks alike that are so real that humans cannot distinguish them from other human, the only way to notice these androids is the digital circulating ring projected above their head.
The story is about a high school student Rikuo who has house maid android at home name Sammy and notice an unknown log from Sammy’s activity log. The log titled “Are you enjoying the Time of Eve?” Have prompted Rikuo curiosity to investigate together with his friend Masaki about the mysterious log and lead them to a mysterious café where the rules is “Human and robots are to be treated the same”. In this café they notice androids go there and their behavior changes become like normal human character with the digital circulation ring above their head off as if these androids have their owned IA personalities.
This is a 6 episodes anime are done using 3D background and using 2D characters in it and directed by Yasuhiro Yoshiura. The anime was first release in 31 July 2008 in Japan and the last episode was plan to release on 16 September 2009 which not long from now. Time of Eve is an interesting anime that have comedy and drama that involves a life of a teenager accepting androids are not just mere tools but to respect it like another human life.
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