NieA_7's Poor Animation Life: Review and Impressions

NieA_7 domestic poor@nimation - NieA_7 domestic poor@nimation

■ Public Media

TV anime series

■ Original Media

Anime Original

■ Broadcast period

April 26, 2000 - July 19, 2000

■Broadcasting station

WOWOW

■Frequencies

28 min

■ Number of Episodes

Episode 13

■Original Story

・Original work: gK

■ Director

・Director: Takuya Sato

■ Production

・Animation Production: Triangle Staff

■Works

©Yoshitoshi Abe/NieA Production Committee

■ Story

The story is set in the near future, where aliens are everywhere. The aliens arrive in droves on motherships, and are no different from humans except for their sharp ears and the ability to send and receive messages through standard antennas on their heads. They demonstrate excellent adaptability to the environment, and have become accustomed to everyday life on Earth, and humans have also accepted them without much thought. It feels like the alien bubble has burst. In that era, the story takes place in Enohanayu, a downtown district of Enohana. The story depicts the pathetic daily life of Mayuko, a diligent cram school student who lives there, and Nia, a free-spirited alien. "NieA_7" is such a poor anime.

■Explanation

・Ebana District Ebana District is so retro that it's hard to believe it's only an hour by train from Tokyo. Left behind by development, it still retains the scenery of the 1960s, with wooden houses lining the shopping streets with old-fashioned tofu shops and set meal restaurants. On the other hand, smoke sometimes billows out from the large crater that was created when the aliens' "mothership" landed. The area around the crater is home to under-class (low-rank) aliens and giant plants, making it a very suspicious place, so it is apparently off-limits to the general public. The setting for NieA_7 is the Ebana District, but there's no way that everyday life in this crappy town is normal! Keep an eye out for the crappy incidents that occur every time!!!

・Ebanayu Mayuko and Nia are staying at Ebanayu, a 50-year-old public bathhouse located in the Ebana Shopping Arcade. Outside the window, you can see a retro wooden house street and a crater, and on a clear day, you can even see a UFO. However, they cannot resist the flow of time, and recently the number of customers has decreased dramatically, and they have been in the red. Mayuko is staying in a room on the second floor for former employees. The owner, Kotomi, lives in an apartment in the city center and usually works as a career woman at a video company, but she occasionally comes to check on the struggling Ebanayu and thinks of a strategy to turn it around. The boilerman, Yoshinen, is silent and honest. He is a cool middle-aged man who continues to work silently for Ebanayu. Ebanayu is run by an old lady who doesn't move like a statue. Public baths are now all but gone, but they play an important role in this story.

■Cast

・Nia/Yuko Miyamura・Mayuko/Ayako Kawasumi・Chiaki/Fumiko Orikasa・Genzo/Aki Okamori・Kotomi/Rumi Ochiai・Kana/Tomoko Kawakami・Yosinen/Takayuki Sugo・Grandma/Chieko Ichikawa・Master of Quarche/Hozumi Goda・Chie-chan/Mari Ogasawara・Chada/ALLAN SCHINTU
・Geronimo Hongo/Chiba Susumu

■ Main staff

・Original story/gK (Geronimo Hongo and Kuso Sensei)
・Original character design: Yoshitoshi Abe・Director, scriptwriter: Takuya Sato・Chief director: Tomokazu Tokoro・Animation character design: Yoshiaki Yanagida・Sub-character design: Yuichi Tanaka・Set design: Akihiko Yamashita・Art director: Aiichiro Hirose・Color and design: Michiyo Iriomote・Editing: Takeshi Seyama・Sound director: Yota Tsuruoka・Music: Yoshio Owa・Production: Triangle Staff・Production: Kadokawa Shoten, TBS Service, GENCO, Geneon Universal Entertainment

■ Main Characters

Near
(Around 15 years old) One day, a large group of aliens came to Earth and became a nuisance. Aliens living on Earth are ranked by their contribution to the planet, and Nia is the lowest ranked "_7". For some reason, she is staying at Mayuko's boarding house. She doesn't have an "antenna" that all aliens have, so she is always teased, but she doesn't care at all. She lives a carefree and happy life. Her special skill is collecting junk and building fake UFOs.

・Mayuko Chigasaki
(18 years old) A student who came from Gifu and is attending a prep school in Tokyo. She failed the entrance exam because her preferred school decided to accept alien students, but she is originally the type who studies hard and her academic ability is above average (apparently). She is living in a boarding house on the second floor of a public bath "Enohanayu" run by a relative. In addition to helping out at Enohanayu, she is a hard worker who also works part-time jobs such as newspaper delivery and at the set meal restaurant Uetorisu. However, she is always extremely poor. She lives in the countryside with her mother and younger brother. Her father died of illness when she was young, and her mother and brother are often sick. Therefore, even though she is poor, she is a brave girl who has vowed not to rely on financial support such as money sent home, and not to cause worry to others.

Chiaki is a classmate of Mayuko at prep school. Unlike Mayuko, she is sociable and smart. She is basically a modern prep school student. However, she is an eccentric UFO enthusiast. She is overly sensitive about rare UFOs, which can put Mayuko off.

・Kana A level +1 alien. A proud and arrogant girl. However, she is quite stupid. She was originally an elite +5 alien, but was demoted due to some past problems. For some reason, she lives in a proposed development site (currently a poor tenement house) in the Ebana district (a group that enthusiastically welcomes development). She always finds Nia to be her enemy, and she always gets into loud fights at the monthly alien gatherings. She is equipped with a high-performance antenna that can receive Beijing Broadcasting, so she is obsessed with pseudo-Chinese fashion and language.

Genzo-kun is Mayuko's childhood friend. He is attending high school in Tokyo, following his father who is working away from home. He is aiming to enter the same university as Mayuko, with the entrance exams coming up next year. He has feelings for Mayuko, but due to his quiet and blunt personality, he doesn't show it, and only occasionally brings her plasticines and other gifts. (His family owns a rice shop.) Perhaps he is at the mercy of the whirlwind of information about Tokyo, but for some reason his fashion changes every time they meet.

・Kotomi
(Early 30s) Real name: Kotomi Hiyama. Owner of Ebi no Hanayu. Normally a hard-working career woman working at a video production company in the city, she comes to check on Ebi no Hanayu, which is struggling financially, and comes up with strategies to turn the business around. Although she has a bit of a silly side, she has a bright and refreshing personality, and is the type of woman Mayuko looks up to.

・Yosinen
(Around 40 years old) Real name: Toshimochi Yoshioka. Boilerman at Ebisu no Hanayu. Taciturn, honest, and working silently for Ebisu no Hanayu. He is an ordinary, silent middle-aged man whose personality changes when he lights the kettle. He commutes to Ebisu no Hanayu every day to work. He is a kind-hearted man who dotes on his pet cat, Wakaba (not a dog), and is a studious person who sometimes goes to the crater to look for materials that could be used as fuel.

・Grandma: An old lady in charge of running Enohanayu. She is hard of hearing and getting senile, so she is always stationary like a decoration. She is usually either watching period dramas on the wide-screen TV in her room or drinking tea on the veranda.

The owner of Karuchie is a regular customer at Enohanayu and runs a diner called Karuchie. He is a single father and has a daughter named Chie.

・Chie-chan from Karuchi
(8 years old) Real name: Karita Chie. A regular customer at Ebihanayu, she is the daughter of a single father who runs a diner called Karuchie.

Chada is an alien who runs a convenience store by the crater in the Ebana district. He is Indian for some reason. Most of the products sold at the convenience store are specialty curries. He studies Earth culture in his own way and makes every effort to run the store, but he is extremely mistaken. His product suppliers are very suspicious and there are many mysteries surrounding them. The Ebana district alien gathering is held on the second floor of his store.

・Geronimo Hongo
(Self-proclaimed 21 years old, probably around 30) An alien who used to live in a shack in the Ebihana district, but is now a star all over Japan. He is a rising star among aliens, and is active mainly in TV variety shows. Current level +5. He sometimes secretly appears at the Ebihana Alien Society.

■Subtitle

Episode 1: Aliens and the UFO Launch BathEpisode 2: Aliens and the Raging Space BathEpisode 3: Aliens and the Radio Noise BathEpisode 4: Aliens and the Newbie Waitress BathEpisode 5: Aliens and the Dry Amusement BathEpisode 6: Aliens and the Rival BathEpisode 7: The Mothership, the Blind Date, and the Cloudy Sky BathEpisode 8: Depression and the Summer Shell BathEpisode 9: Close Encounters and the Bath after the RainEpisode 10: Fireflies and the Nocturne BathEpisode 11: Near and Under Seven Bath (Part 1)
・Episode 12 / Near and Under Seven Baths (Part 2)
Episode 13: Time flows in the Perilla flower bath

■ Theme songs and music

・OP1
・Come here・2～13
・Lyrics by SION
・Composition: SION
・Song: SION

・ED1
・Venus and the Little Gods・1～12
Lyrics: Naruyoshi Kikuchi; Music: Tsuneo Imahori; Singer: Maria Yamamoto

・ED2
・KA MOA'E
13
・Song: Yoshio Owa (Freedom F)

・Insert song 1
Shadow 12
・Lyrics by SION
・Composition: SION
・Song: SION

Review and Recommendation

"NieA_7 domestic poor@nimation" is an anime series that was broadcast in 2000. It is set in a near future where aliens have become a part of everyday life, and depicts the daily lives of Mayuko, a boarding school student, and Nia, an alien. This anime offers viewers a fresh experience with its unique worldview and humorous storyline.

First, let's talk about the story. "NieA_7" depicts a world where aliens have come to Earth in large numbers and have begun to coexist with humans. The aliens are ranked by their contribution to the Earth, with the main character, Nia, being placed at the lowest rank of "_7." Nia lives a carefree and happy life while staying at Mayuko's boarding house. The story revolves around the daily lives of Mayuko and Nia, and entertains viewers with various lame but major incidents.

Next, let's take a look at the characters. Mayuko is a cram school student who moved to Tokyo from Gifu and is staying at Ebi no Hanayu, a public bath run by her relatives. She is studious and hardworking, but is always extremely poor and works part-time jobs as a newspaper deliveryman and at a diner. Nia, on the other hand, is a free-spirited alien who is good at collecting junk and making fake UFOs. She doesn't have an antenna and is always teased, but she doesn't mind at all. The comedy woven by these two characters provides laughs for the audience.

The other characters are also unique and attractive. Chiaki is Mayuko's classmate at prep school. She is sociable and resourceful, but she is also a UFO enthusiast. Kana is a proud and arrogant alien who often clashes with Nia. Genzo-kun is Mayuko's childhood friend and has feelings for her, but he doesn't show it because he is silent and blunt. Kotomi-san is the manager of Ebi no Hanayu and is thinking about rebuilding the business while working as a career woman. Yoshinen is the boilerman of Ebi no Hanayu and is a silent and honest middle-aged man. Ba-san is an old woman in charge of the management of Ebi no Hanayu. She is hard of hearing and is getting senile, so she is a character who is always motionless like a decoration. Karuchie-shu and Chie-chan are father and son who run a set meal restaurant called Karuchie and are regular customers of Ebi no Hanayu. Chadha is an Indian alien who runs a convenience store next to the crater in the Ebana district. Geronimo Hongo is an alien who used to live in the Ebana district and is now a star all over Japan. These characters enrich the story and draw the viewers in.

Let's also touch on the Enohana district and Enohanayu, the setting of the story. Enohana district is an hour's train ride from Tokyo, and is a retro town that retains the scenery of the 1960s. There is a large crater created when the aliens' "mothership" landed, and the Under aliens live in the surrounding area. Enohanayu is a long-established public bathhouse that was founded 50 years ago, and is where Mayuko and Nia are staying. Outside the window, you can see the retro wooden houses and the crater, and on clear days you can even see a UFO. However, unable to resist the flow of time, the number of customers has decreased, and the business has been in the red for a long time. These settings give the story a unique atmosphere.

Next, let's look at the staff. The original story was created by gK (Geronimo Hongo and Kuso Sensei), and the original character design was done by Abe Yoshitoshi. The director and scriptwriter was Sato Takuya, the chief director was Tokoro Tomokazu, the animation character design was Yanagida Yoshiaki, the sub-character design was Tanaka Yuichi, the set design was Yamashita Akihiko, the art director was Hirose Aiichiro, the color and design was Iriomote Michiyo, the editor was Seyama Takeshi, the sound director was Tsuruoka Yota, and the music was Owa Yoshio. It was produced by Triangle Staff, and produced by Kadokawa Shoten, TBS Service, GENCO, and Geneon Universal Entertainment. These staff members came together to create "NieA_7."

We'll also touch on the theme songs and music. The opening theme is "Come Here," with lyrics, composition and singing by SION. The ending theme is "Venus and the Little God," with lyrics by Kikuchi Naruyoshi, music by Imahori Tsuneo and singing by Yamamoto Maria. The ending theme for the final episode is "KA MOA'E," with singing by Owa Yoshio (Freedom F). The inserted song "Kage" has lyrics, composition and singing by SION. These songs liven up the story and resonate with the hearts of viewers.

Finally, here are some recommended points for "NieA_7". This anime offers viewers a fresh experience with its unique worldview and humorous story. The characters have rich personalities that enhance the story. The setting of the Ebisu district and Ebisu hot springs also gives the story a unique atmosphere. The work is full of the staff's masterpieces, and the theme song and music are also wonderful. Please give it a watch. I'm sure it will soothe your heart.