Pale Cocoon

[Munsu]

http://www.datorrents.com/down...T%20EngSubs%5D.torrent (http://www.datorrents.com/download.asp?id=6332&name=%5Bhf-network%5DPale%20Cocoon%20%5Bh264%20MKV%5D%5BSRT%2 0EngSubs%5D.torrent)

"In the far future when the continuity of the history has been lost, it is the world where ruins spread to far away. The sea and the sky have disappeared, and the past scenery exists only in the records excavated in the relic.

The Bureau of Record Excavation is an organization responsible for this task. Ura works for the 92nd office of the bureau. He is absorbed in various records and the world in the past. Riko keeps a little distance to watch him, and she averts her eyes from the records.

Everyone in this world knows that to know the past means to know the misery of this world.

One day, Ura restores a strange video"


http://www.studio-rikka.com/page/pale/pale_top.htm
http://anidb.info/perl-bin/ani...how=anime&aid=4158 (http://anidb.info/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=4158)
http://www.animenfo.com/animet...qknoz,pale_cocoon.html (http://www.animenfo.com/animetitle,3631,fqknoz,pale_cocoon.html)

[Darknodin]

downloaded this but I haven't watched it yet... though i peeked and i can say the animation is beautiful!

[Lefty]

This is a nice short film. I really like this. I highly recomend this movie.

[masamuneehs]

Hmm...

I DLed and tried to watch this movie. Audio is fine, but no video. I use VLC Media Player and its worked fine in the past with most .mkv files. I have the CCCP codec, the latest divx codec packs. Might someone know what to do? I searched through some of the .mkv file topics but am not sure what to DL or try. Thanks.

I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop that runs Windows XP.

[Munsu]

I run it in the newest MPC with the newest ffdshow without a problem...

[masamuneehs]

Originally posted by: Budweineken
I run it in the newest MPC with the newest ffdshow without a problem...

got it, works like a charm. Thanks bud.

[masamuneehs]

ASG-Across has released this movie
It's pretty good and I'm sorta curious to see if this group is any good...

edit, how the hell was I supposed to know it was a Polish fansub?!? Sorry guys.

ITS IN POLISH!
Pale Cocoon - MKV format - ASG-Across (http://a.scarywater.net/asg-across/Pale%20Coocon%20%5Bsub-pl%5D%5BASG-A%5D%5BB5ABED7E%5D.mkv.torrent)

[Chaos]

Originally posted by: masamuneehs
ASG-Across has released this movie
It's pretty good and I'm sorta curious to see if this group is any good...

Pale Cocoon - MKV format - ASG-Across (http://a.scarywater.net/asg-across/Pale%20Coocon%20%5Bsub-pl%5D%5BASG-A%5D%5BB5ABED7E%5D.mkv.torrent)

Their version is a Polish fansub...

[Kraco]

What the fuck? I downloaded a Polish fansub? Just great.

Well, I won't blame you, masamuneehs, as I doubt you realised that, when you posted the link.

[masamuneehs]

Originally posted by: Kraco
What the fuck? I downloaded a Polish fansub? Just great.

Well, I won't blame you, masamuneehs, as I doubt you realised that, when you posted the link.

lol, sorry guys. I was in a hurry and just figured another version of this movie might be appreciated.

It doesn't say anything about it being in Polish on Scarywater, (or for any other ASG-Across release for that matter) but the group's webpage is in Polish... Not like I dig that deep.... I always just assume a fansub (especially on a page in English) would indicate subs that are in different languages.

no wonder I'd never heard of that group...

[Kraco]

To replace the Polish sub I downloaded (and later deleted as I wasn't able to learn Polish sufficiently in half an hour), I decided to try this avi format one:

Xvid AVI by Doremi, HF, and Shakugan (http://a.scarywater.net/doremi/%5BDoremi_HF_Shakugan%5D_Pale_Cocoon_%5BXvid%5D%5B BAEE1167%5D.avi.torrent)

It looks like HF joined a couple of other groups for this release. It's under Doremi at scarywater.

As I wasted bandwidth once for the Polish sub, I think I'll now settle for a smaller file. The original file in the first post is significantly larger than this, and seemed to have less seeders/leechers.

[Kraco]

An interesting and artistic short film. Very thought-out settings, atmosphere and colouring. The plot isn't actually that surprising or original, but somehow the plot wasn't the main (or at least only) focus. I'm not sure what the focus was, perhaps just some mood or idea in the mind of the main character. An enjoyable show certainly, all things considered.

[Board of Command]

Ok to bring this thread back to life...

I just watched this and I'm a bit puzzled about the ending. During the time of the music video, the Earth was still in ruin. The singer says something along the lines of "They're trying to restore the Earth." In the very last scene the Earth is nice and blue: the way it should be.

My understanding is that Ura was hallucinating. He was about to die and the thing he wanted to see the most was a blue and green Earth, and so he imagined it. The Earth is still "rusted" and uninhabitable. Now the questions is: how does that tie into the rest of the OVA? And also, how does Riko's grandmother tie into the story (i.e. what is symbolized by her falling?)

Now, here's a totally different perspective on things. What if it's not about pollution on Earth? In the second video (after the music video) the singer mentions "the mother star wakes up." It would make sense if the "mother star" is in fact our sun. Maybe humans did something to the sun causing it to die out faster or get weaker. This would result in the death of all life (including plants) on Earth's surface, which explains the "rust colored Earth." It also explains why things would get better if the "mother star wakes up."

More on the sun theory: Ura's "coworker" says "maybe the archives are all lies?" Maybe he's right! The archives seem to focus on pollution and how it ruined a perfectly serene world. Then out of nowhere comes a strange video talking about the "mother star." Also, the fact that nobody remembers any history hints at the possibility of the archives being fabricated.

But the biggest issue regarding both theories is why can't they stay on Earth? ala Matrix-style? If they built the facility on the moon, surely they could have done it on Earth as well, which is probably even easier. And it doesn't matter if the environment is ruined because they're underground and separated from the outside world anyway.

[Y]

I'm going to hellbump this thread.

The animation in this short, contrary to some posts here and the guy on IRC who recommended it to me is pretty sparse. Lots of still shots, repeated animation, and simplistic 3D models instead of hand-drawn backgrounds. That being said, it wasn't exactly bad on the eyes either (I like the extremely limited color pallete and the design work on their electronics). It reminded me a lot of the world of Blame as it would have been before the Superstructure got too random and chaotic.

The grandmother falling from above tied in with him decoding the music video. She probably fell because she had lived outside the range of the gravity generators and strayed too close to them - this, combined with the woman sorting through archives on the surface, led to his realization of where they were.

Not only do I think the last shot is real, but I don't think the boy is necessarily dead (although the fact that the girl's grandmother found her way down by falling really fast doesn't bode well). They've been waiting for their machines or nature to clear up the mess they've made for so long that people forgot where they were and why they existed. After thousands of years, any environmental damage human beings managed to do would be reversed, so I figure Ura is the first person to see the results.

It's worth throwing 20 minutes of your time out for, anyway.