Windy Tales and Lost (episode 15, season 2).

Ξ March 5th, 2006 | → | ∇ |

How could I forget the latest release of Windy Tales?? Jeez! Anyway, thanks to Nyanko for that release, and subsequently, A-Faith/Shia’s responsive release after several months of nothing.

If you’re unfamiliar with the series I serious suggest downloading the current 7 episodes that are out on fansub. It hasn’t been picked up by any licensor despite having finished airing in Japan over a year ago. It’s basically stories about a few high school teenagers who discover how to manipulate the wind. While it sounds like iffy fantasy, the stories are very mellow and fun to watch because of the unimportant and totally normal conversations. Admittedly the animation may not be to everyone’s tastes; being very simple, almost “blocky” and it isn’t in the ‘typical’ japanime style, but for a change it provides an extremely clever and simple way of demonstrating the wind and its effects. Whilst drawing secondary motion can be very time consuming to animators if you’re drawing very detailed, especially if it affects the whole scene rather than a single object or character. Without resorting to computers to fill in (thus escalating costs), Production IG used a very simple and unique style that works wonderfully. The people actually look Japanese, for a change.

Lost, episode 15 was much needed after the last few. Freaky flashbacks and answers posing more questions is always the way to get fans going. *Spoiler Alert*. Although it isn’t clear what Ethan was injecting Claire with, it did contain “the numbers” and CR has been said over a few forums to mean “Clinical Research”. The “Rx1″ suffix, I personally believe just means that it can be injected only by a qualified individual, like an MD.

It’s been suggested the drug was Paroxetine, which is an anti-depressant drug, usually found in the pill forms of Paxil and Prozac etc. However an anti-depressant wouldn’t explain Claire’s lucidity but it could possibly explain her over enthusiastic happiness. It could have different effects when injected, and in large doses.  Whatever the “illness” is, we can still only speculate but it didn’t show how Claire was kept so lucid as she was apparently only having those injections regularly. The illness could possibly be depression. And injecting everyone with this “vaccine” may keep people in line and not care that they will probably spend the rest of their lives there. Perhaps.