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Below you’re likely to find a 5min preview of Kim Moon-saeng‘s masterpiece Wonderful Days (released dubbed in the US as Sky Blue), one of the most top-notch and best produced examples of Dystopian anime I’ve come across in ages (Thanks Matt!). Sadly, the original Korean subbed version, in all it’s stunning feature length goodness, appears to be only hosted by Veoh; who want you to download their particular player. Stuff like that always makes me more than a little squirrely.

This is one of those exceedingly rare times that I’m going to tell you its worth it.

Watch Wonderful days (ENG SUB) in Animation

(Ed.Note: both link and download tested clean to all 4 scans I ran, and seem to be working quite well. Nor has a full system scan returned anything untoward.)

My recommendation? Take the two minute jump-through-hoops and grab the download. Run the install without any of the extra crap, and once it syncs with your browser check back in. You’ll never have to think about it again.

Actually, as it happens, I had to do far worse just to watch a live debate on a local TV channel. And they didn’t even blow shit up.

This has been on my short-list for a few years when showing folks what I consider to be excellent anime. Some may be a bit put out by the CGI (yes, I heard that!) but the characters are all displayed using traditional cell animation style.

And true to the nature of my endeavors in this Friday series; this encapsulates most, if not all, of the classic hallmarks of Dystopia, and possibly one or two more. Not everybody runs with the Ecopocalypse, after all.

Definitely one to be savored, and in my book, comparable to Ergo Proxy or Cowboy Bebop.

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