Origin: Spirits of the Past (2006)

• Year: 2006
• Released: 07 Jan 2006
• Country: Japan
• Adwords: 1 nomination
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0493247/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/origin_spirits_of_the_past
• Metacritics:
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: Japanese
• MPA Rating: Not Rated
• Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
• Runtime: 94 min
• Writer: Umanosuke Iida, Nana Shiina, Naoko Kakimoto
• Director: Keiichi Sugiyama
• Cast: Ryô Katsuji, Aoi Miyazaki, Yûko Kotegawa
• Keywords: dystopia, anime,

	6.3/10
	60% – Critics
	60% – Audience

Origin: Spirits of the Past Storyline

It has been 300 years since mankind’s interence with the environment left Earth in ruins.now, the remnants of humanity are divided as never before.The crumbling reamains of vast cities stand in tenuous coexistence with encroaching forest, and humans live on both sides of this brewing conflict.Young Agito, the son of and aging hero,inadvertently sets in motion a series of catastrophic events when he wanders into a forbidden zone of the forest.He stumbles acrosso a cryogenic stasis tube containing Toola,a girl who has a vital mission entrusted to her from the past… It is an unsteady peace in an unnatural time.Only by searching their souls and examining the past will Agito and Toola understand the origin of all things and unite mankind with the forest.

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30 minutes of entertainment, the rest a disaster

Roughly the first 30 minutes of this movie were actually quite entertaining despite ripping Laputa and Nausicaa. We get to see a glimpse into the everyday life of a people adapted to living in the relatively difficult circumstances. Characters and the Neutral City are well introduced and the slower pace suits the movie well. The rest of the movie however is an absolute disaster. Badly written, uninteresting, clichéd and just plain stupid. We get absolutely dull villains, a walking volcano, useless crying heroine and magic forest superhero powers. Even the pretty visuals of the first half of the movie seem to evaporate towards the end.

As pointed out in the other reviews: If you have seen Nausicaa then don’t bother with Origin. Nausicaa did everything better. And even if you haven’t don’t bother with Origin, watch Nausicaa instead.

pretty and reasonably entertaining until it throws logic out the window

This well animated film treads the same nature versus technology ground that Hayao Miyazaki films often do, and in the beginning it is pretty good, with a reasonably interesting premise and very nice, visually striking animation.

There are some minor problems in the plotting early on. Most notably, it’s unclear why bringing civilization back is a bad idea. Eventually it does become clear why, but the movie just kind of assumes it must be a bad idea without taking much pains to persuade the audience.

Still, I was enjoying the movie until perhaps the last 20 minutes, when it becomes ridiculous. It turns out that, rather than restoring the world, the final solution will, as best I could tell, return the earth to the state of burning lava. How is that a good idea? And how would anyone survive? Next, why is the volcano weaponized? If it is just designed to reformat the earth, why does it need defensive weapons? I’m also unclear on why it needs to move. Does it simply destroy a little of the planet at a time? (In which case I suppose the planet could be reformatted piecemeal, which would explain how people could survive.) Lastly, why, if you shut down the volcano, would it self destruct? What possible sense would that make? And how would any personnel in the volcano actually leave? And get far enough away.

Towards the end the movie also gets way too sincere and preachy. So that what should be the emotional, uplifting finale feels like a huge let down.

All that being said, it’s a nice looking, perfectly enjoyable movie if you can accept its flaws.

Where have I seen this before?

If Origin: Spirits of the past seems familiar to you then you are not alone. Even the most indiscriminate anime fan can tell that this is basically a watered-down copy of Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind. There are so many similarities that I’m surprised no lawsuits were involved.

Set in a future where plant life has taken control of a desecrated world the survivors try to live a delicate existence between the powerful forest and the fascist military until one day a mysterious girl arrives out of the past with lots of questions and long, drawn-out answers. Meh, it’s all just so generic and dull full of all the usual anime nonsense. I never really understood why the hero, Agito, falls in love with her so easily. There’s not much going on between them. And who was that calling her on that weird phone thingy near the start? It’s never explained.

This story has been done bigger and better 25 years ago and there’s not any particular reason why anyone should rush out and see Origin. Sorry.