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My overall anime watching has been reduced since entering basic, but I still have gotten around to finishing some stuff. It's stuff I actually feel deserves being talked about too! Earlier this week I finally got around to crossing off an item from my "Great List of Anime Shame", which is basically a list of anime that I really, really, really should watch, but have not. Only 17 years too late to the party, I got around to watching "Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade". A film about a dystopian Japan in the wake of the Second World War. Civil unrest has been a constant in the past decade and the government has created a special anti-terror unit in response to the anti-government organizations that have sprung up in this time. We follow the story of Kazuki Fuse, a member of the elite "Kerberos Panzer Corps" as he is part of a taskforce ordered to eliminate a local terrorist cell. The situation spirals out of control and ends with a young female insurgent blowing herself up with an improvised satchel charge right in front of Fuse. What follows is a story of guilt, atonement and living with yourself and your actions. I feel that I cannot talk about this movie in the detail that I would like, so I'm going to end the spoiler-free part of this post here. Spoilers ahead, click at your own risk! Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade is actually a part of a bigger franchise surrounding the "Kerberos Panzer Corps", but I will judge this movie as a singular entity, rather than as a part of the franchise. Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade was a beatifully animated story with interesting insight into the human state of mind. PTSD is not a thing that is often portrayed with any sort of realism in most modern television or cinema, be it Western or Easten, but Jin-Roh manages to do it very convincingly and tastefully. Everything is not as it seems in this film and as the puzzle was gradually pieced together, I was on my toes and unable to look away from my screen. A wonderful experience overall and I highly encourage everyone to watch this film, even if you don't like Japanese animation in general, I consider Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade worth watching. I believe I have posted it in this thread before, but the prologue to the movie is available on YouTube and will give you a taste of what to expect from this movie, granted the action does tone down significantly through the middle part of the film. Excuse the grainy YouTube quality as well.

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