Although the five-episode sci-fi fantasy drama was originally released in Japan in April 2025, it didn’t air globally until the end of September. It is said to have appeared earlier Samsungon a proprietary streaming platform in the US, but since there are probably only five people watching this way, I can’t verify it. RemoIts distribution strategy for licensed shows remains inexplicable and sane.
Peace It’s a fascinating project, first announced in 2023 by Japanese agricultural equipment manufacturer Yanmar. To promote their rather niche business, they asked their engineers to abandon tractor manufacturing and design a futuristic robot – built, I must stress, in the form of a large life-size resin statue – based on animation. This robot,”Peace“They were armed not with weapons, but with the kind of tools provided by agricultural companies, such as tools for digging or construction. What was their motivation?”We hope for a more peaceful, sustainable and better future. That’s why we build a wide range of tools and services. We wanted it to have all the tools, not the weapons. We don’t make weapons – we make equipment for a peaceful future.“
While it’s commendable that a major company avoids producing weapons (unlike many other similar companies around the world), how does such a pacifist concept translate to anime? Turns out, pretty good. The central idea is Peace Sent from the future to correct problems that have arisen in the past to ensure the future survival of humanity. It’s kind of like a cross between the two quantum leap and Vivy: Song of Fluorite Eyes. Each episode is independent and produced by a completely different director and studio, giving each episode a very unique look and feel. These are obviously meant only to serve as snippets of a larger story, as we don’t start with the first episode, but with “Episode 79” and culminate in “Episode 926”. Presumably the intention is to make us imagine Peace There are hundreds of other adventures that we don’t know about yet.
“The Legend of the Galactic Heroes Episode 079 Stardust Memory“, directed by Kashima Norio (Hua Jiusheng and chorus blue) in the studio Lin Qis a CG production performed in low-Earth orbit, and its mechanical design was Kenji Teraoka (Rebel Ruth). This is a tense but simple space disaster story about an old astronaut whose job is to collect space debris before it destroys satellites and space stations. While the background and mechanical CG are very smooth, there are some truly dizzying camera rotation sequences that made my stomach twist (which is why I avoided watching this movie) gravity), unfortunately the characters are too simplistic and stiff, and the low frame rate animations are distracting. It looks like something made decades ago, before animators mastered their primitive CGI software. Frankly, this doesn’t get the show off to a great start, and I wouldn’t criticize anyone for abandoning the show midway through.
Thankfully, the more traditional 2D animation “Episode 101: Lord of the Jungle” performed much better, perhaps because it was directed by Studio TriF Okamotoresponsible for last year’s excellent anime series Mecha-Ude: Robot Arm. Okamoto Cute character designs are also available. It’s more of an environmental story, telling the story of Mario, a young jungle guide who joins forces with a conservation group to fight against reckless illegal loggers and massive wildfires that threaten to destroy the rainforest. PeaceIt can transform into a huge eagle. This is somewhat reminiscent of American TV cartoons from the 1980s captain planetalmost as tiresome moralizing, but I still enjoyed this one.
scooter movie“Episode 217: Londonderry” returns to CG, but is overall smoother and more stylized, and overall looks pretty good. its director is Tomohiro Kawamura (Higa Shimajiro: Shimajiro and the Song of Snow), character design by Sino Aliceof tooth. Thematically, this is the most interesting episode yet, as it focuses on Ame, a music student selected by her university to help develop a generative artificial intelligence that can learn her playing style. She initially feared that AI would make musicians like her redundant, but when a tragic accident damaged her arm, she embraced the use of AI, training her skills to run wearable prosthetics that helped her play music again. This episode explores artists’ legitimate concerns about artificial intelligence, while also providing a nuanced look at how such technology can be used for good. This means that Ame’s experience in guiding artificial intelligence towards a non-exploitative future has resulted in Peacethe final creation. This episode alone is enough to justify the show’s existence.
To appease viewers eager to experience the apocalypse, “Episode 630: Reply: Peace,” directed by Fate/Grand Order: Camelotof Sanpin Naofun and produced by the studio radaropened at Peace Desperate attempts were made to deflect a nuclear warhead as it hurtled through the atmosphere toward a densely populated city. It’s a sobering story, told largely out of chronological order, that follows conflict resolution expert Miho as she desperately tries to defuse a tense dispute in a fictional African country. It most intuitively shows PeaceThe core premise of “The Butterfly Effect” is that a seemingly trivial event leads to a series of runaway coincidences that ultimately lead to nuclear apocalypse. This is a decidedly more adult piece of work, with a grim ending that’s only averted by a slightly annoying but entirely understandable storytelling conceit. While most of the animation is in traditional 2D, the CG action elements are fantastic.
Finally, “Episode 926: Wait, I’ll Be There” from LARX skylark studioand by Nakafu Saori (wedding ring story) is a bright, light-hearted post-apocalyptic story that quickly turns melancholic and hopeful. it reminds me a lot girls last touralbeit less nihilistic. Set in the most distant future we’ve ever seen, we finally understand something Peaceof creation. Character design by Terumi Nishui (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable) is very sweet, and it’s an enjoyable way to spend 24 minutes, even if the story itself doesn’t make much sense if you look closely.
comprehensive, Peace A bit of a mixed bag. Aside from the distracting CG in the first episode, the rest looks pretty good. The stories are fairly simple in nature. Peace He doesn’t really have much of a role himself, as he’s essentially a deus ex machina who rescues the main characters of each episode from danger. Each episode begins with a brief appearance of a futuristic girl, but her identity is never explained. The ending sequence has an awkwardly cute chibi version Peace Dance to the closing electronic music. By the end, this feeling started to creep up on me, probably from Stockholm Syndrome.
most, Peace This is a fairly throwaway anthology, but it’s much better than I expected from a corporate ad. It’s aimed at a young teenage audience, which seems a bit odd since I don’t think they’re the target market for farm implement manufacturers. The positives outweigh the negatives in almost every episode, and I recommend it as an easy watch for anyone interested in optimistic mystery novels.
