Wonderful Days Sky Blue
A group of scientists in a last desperate attempt to save wo/man kind build a biological structure called Ecoban that feeds off the pollution. The structure grows into a huge city with rooms, floors, elevators and an environment where humans can live safely and cleanly enclosing them in from the pollution outside.
However, there are some who are on the outside of Ecoban who are living among the remains of planet earth. Folks inside Ecoban want to keep the folks on the outside just where they are.
Mother earth finds a way and she starts to heal itself after many years of a polluted atmosphere. This is bad news for Ecoban as it needs pollution to be able to sustain itself and the huge population inside.
There is another reason why this is bad news. The leaders governing Ecoban decide that the atmosphere must remain polluted in order for them to keep their reign over the "dirty" folk on the outside.
The governors at Ecoban have a device that continues to pollute the earths atmosphere which creates a constant dark cloud hiding the sun.
The main hero-type of the story called Suha is quite miffed about the situation - hes on the outside and knows what those evil folks at Ecoban are up to and sets out to put a stop to the dastardly shenanigans....
The high quality CG, animation and music is most atmospheric and captures a futuristic tale of post nuclear earth. I really liked the concept of a city that was initially built to feed off the nuclear pollution that engulfed the earth.
The novel that I picked up goes into much more detail about how Ecoban was built etc etc - not only an excellent read but its helping keep my Korean language ability in shape - kind of ^^;
Was so excited about the release of the film at the time that I went to Korea just to see it ^^; A recommended watch if you have the time.
Some screenshots below which I saved from the official site (which doesn't exist any more) and the whole film picked up from YouTube below that - I do recommend that you see a better quality version though.
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Great movie, I liked it ^^
Afro-ed Student
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Woah. Want to watch it. Now.
Pokemon master
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Oh, why have I not heard of this before!? I'll definitely find some time to watch this.
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i recall thinking after seeing it: "All style, no substance".
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Sound guu. I interest. Me go see.
ひきこもり/Hikikomori. Suits my current state more than a 大学生/University Student. ^^
Looks great but I might not watch it. The art's a bit off for me, like the size of the upper eyes and their overall impression - somewhat different from what I encounter in Japanese animations, and that's a big turn off for me. ^^
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Sounds a bit like the Ergo Proxy story, least bout the polution and that ecoban thing. ^o^
I like end-time themes movies though i haven't heard of that one yet.
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I saw this years ago, and while i found the CG, animation and design to be very impressive, i found the characters, plot, ending and overall film a bit 'meh'.
To be honest, there has been loads of really nice looking anime films that fall short, such as paprika, millennium actress, steamboy and the place promised in our early days. The girl who leapt through time was the last truly excellent 'film' i saw - despite the fact it didnt look as amazing as the others.
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Before the movie came out, there was a big hype surrounding it but after it's release, it flopped. The movie flopped so horribly that they said this movie alone dealt a heavy blow to Korean Animation industry.
I believe the biggest problem it had was that it tried to be too big of a blockbuster movie but forgot the essential point such as good story line. And so now there was no other movie like this ever come out again in Korea.
Exchange Student
Now that's funny, just found the DVD yesterday for 5€ and was thinking about getting it because it did look quite nice but I wasn't sure about the story so I left without it :0
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I don't know why, but at first, the synopsis reminded me of planetarian LOL
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Beautiful CG, animation and music score, too bad the plot is abit on the lacking side.
NEET
Thanks for the tip Danny, will definately check it out!
Student
Ergo Proxy anyone?
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damn its korean. i just hope it isnt screwed up lol.
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All I can say is thanks Danny! I had no idea this was out there, if it weren't for you I might have never got to see this. I looked all over for the HD version for sale some where? No affiliate link? I'm downloading an HD version from a Japanese Television broadcast. It will look great on my 52" 1080p "L C D" ;)
University Student
Nice animation. Do you sometimes mix your Korean with Japanese? I find myself doing it all the time with Spanish LoL.
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I watched this movie a few years ago and liked it very much. The soundtrack is nice, too. :)
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Loved the CGs... wonder if there's a blu-ray version and where I can get it...
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I haven't had the chance to see this yet, but I LOVED Ergo Proxy and this seems to share the same type of elements to some degree. I'll have to add this to my list of must sees. Thanks for the recommendation Danny!
Student
Good CG action movie, if a little deficient in the plot department... kinda like final fantasy (both of em), to me.
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seems very very interesting, since the story is kinda connected to the possible future of earth, and there are many issues addressed there. Judging from the trailer, it reminds me of blame! and fullmetal alchemist somehow. A must watch for sure, gonna wait till i find a high quality one
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I love that movie. Music is just great and gives the right mood. Sometimes I got a feeling that I need to watch it over again. The main feature of "Wonderful Days" is the good mood.
Student (for-ev-er)
From the trialer(s) it looked awesome and sounded awesome. If I can find a copy I will definitely watch! Unfortuately seems like the plot is lacking, but can't have everything all of the time I guess. Kinda reminds me of the Animatrix. Some of it was pretty abstract for the animation, but at least it was derived from a hell of a good story line.
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Looks good, checking stores for it now :D
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Thanks Danny, I will check it out also. I forgot this came out awhile back.
Computer Engineer
Bought the DVD a few weeks ago yet still havent got round to watching it. Will watch it tomorrow now this post has reminded me. ^__^
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Looks awesome, need to download it now!
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wow the cg looks awesome.. I'm so getting this!
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This movie was out a few years ago.The trailer and the stills might look very impressive but the cell animation is still not on par with the Japanese.Overall, I was disappointed with the quality of the animation because I was expecting something spectacular after watching the trailer.
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this looks great, sounds very interesting story. I'm defiantly going to watch this one.
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Wasn't this movie released three years ago? I got an original VCD collection from the shop. I am impressed with the animation and the 3D. The stories is a okay side for me. i will still asked you guys to check out this Koren anime.
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I saw Wonderful Days around the time it was released, too. Great great Korean anime, I have to agree.
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I even got my hands on it, but didn't watch it due to lack of time when it was released.
But I'm watching it... because I just love dystopias. Post-apocalyptic Earth specially.
And the premise sounds really interesting.
Thanks for reminding me of that one Danny! o/
Wonderful days was something I was looking forward to from all the promotional pictures and the poster. I was impressed by the visual effects of the movie but didn't like the story that much. And one big disappointment was character design, which looked nothing like the poster or illustrations ;;
Hopefully, Korea's animation industry can improve from this experience and make something better.
ps: 한국어를 계속 사용하시는걸 보니까 좋네요 ^^
I saw this anime. Great!
Hmm. Looks good. I'll have to watch it!