Once his plan is unveiled, he puts on a crazy robot suit and battles with Takeshi. Shinji has been secretly transferring his mind into every new leader unbeknownst to the other members of the clan. Together, they take on tech ninja assassin after tech ninja assassin, and Gena finds out that he’s her brother maybe? Another big reveal happens near the end when it’s discovered that the Mizumoto clan’s ceremony of succession is nothing but a lie. But things don’t go very smoothly for them as they eventually discover that the head of the Mizumoto clan himself is trying to have Holly killed. Takeshi and Gena go undercover as Holly’s bodyguards in order to complete both their assigned missions. As the two of them evade the assassins, they run into Gena, an officer of CTAC who is trying to infiltrate the Mizumoto clan to find out what’s going on inside the group. She’s a tattooist working for the Mizumoto clan. Takeshi makes a deal with Hideki Tanaseda, a Yakuza boss, that involves protecting Holly. In the world of Altered Carbon, human consciousness is eternally stored in a chip that can be implanted in new bodies in order to live on after a sleeves death. Totally worth your 75 minutes in home-isolation.A girl named Holly Togram is being pursued by assassins as Takeshi Kovacs is being transferred into a new sleeve. It’s thrilling for all the right reasons too, because we have a badass hero who has ‘an issue with yakuza members who exploit little girls.’ The action sequences are some of the most thrilling that I have seen in a long time. But the function of the initiation ceremony in this film is merely to act as a set piece where the final showdown between the hero and the villain is to happen.Įven before that, we get action scenes galore, thanks to the fact that the man who is to become the next leader, fearing someone is to sabotage the ceremony., keeps sending his ninja-droids(or something along those lines) to fight and kill our heroes. I wished they had explored this aspect of the clan more. This is an interesting philosophy- one that’s spiritual in essence and pragmatic in effect. (It seems to be a consensus that power corrupts sooner or later). The logic behind the initiation ceremony is that no one leader would hold on to power for too long, getting corrupt in the process. But the clan ensures her loyalty by holding onto her dead parents’ stacks. She is key to the initiation ceremony, in other words. The tattoo artist can apply a special tattoo on the clan leaders which could annihilate them when the time comes. The centerpiece of the whole thing is the initiation ceremony by which the clan’s leader gives up his sleeve and stack- accepting ‘real death’- passing the leadership baton on to the next generation. A young buxom woman- a government operative who wants to learn about certain secrets of the clan also gets mixed in this. The man who gets him the sleeve is a yakuza boss who wants him to investigate the death of his brother in the hands of a clan.Ī young girl- a tattoo artist who works for the clan turns out to be his way in to the clan’s inner chambers. Our hero gets reselveed in a soldier’s body with a nicotine addiction problem. It takes place in a future world where if you are wealthy enough, you could keep switching your sleeve- that is, your body- while the stack or the mind could be carried on forever. However, I did thoroughly enjoy the animated film. I have never seen the series and some people say that that may have dampened my experience of the anime. The 75 minute animated flick is spun-off from the Altered Carbon live action series which had captured the world’s imagination for Netflix. “Altered Carbon: Resleeved’ which came out in March 2020, is one among those. Many scientists are skeptical of the idea that we could upload our consciousness into a piece of digital device so that you could potentially live for ever, at least as long as digital storage units don’t tarnish.īut that has never stopped sci fi writers from using the idea for dramatic effects. Representative image, via, ’cause it looks scifiction-y? Yeesh
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