All men are dead. Women run the world. It's already going badly.
By A.D. 2010, all men have died off quickly due to a dramatic change in the environment and an unknown contaminant. The population decreased to the lowest number ever seen...until only the women were left alive. They live huddled in small corners of a world mostly reclaimed by nature. There are those who accept their inevitable extinction and live a carefree life... There are those who try to continue on the race with the help of science... It is a society of constant conflict over their differences of principles and policies. The story takes place in the center of Tokyo. It is one of the places left for them. The conflict over the specimen of ICE and the chance it may provide to save humanity begins
Direction
Kobayashi's cramped framing amplifies claustrophobia
Production
Gorgeous decayed Tokyo backgrounds, budget be damned
Writing
Messy ambition that bites off more than it chews
Director
Makoto Kobayashi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Condensed from a 3-episode OVA series; the seams show in jarring time jumps and unresolved subplots.
Part of a weird 2000s wave of 'world without men' sci-fi that accidentally became queer-coded through production constraints and target demographics.
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