440https://i.ur.com/zXQcGQV.png You came to Eikyuu Kazoku / Eternal Family because youre on a Kji Morimoto kick. Theres no other explanation. Maybe you started with that Dirty Pair: Project Eden openinghttps://www..com/results?searchquery=dirty+pair+project+eden+op or maybe it was that sweet Ken Ishii music videohttps://www..com/results?searchquery=ken+ishii+extra. But at this point youve already seen Beyondhttps://www..com/results?searchquery=the+animatrix+beyond and the excellent collab with Yko Kanno and Masaaki Yuasa Noiseman: Sound Insecthttps://www..com/results?searchquery=noiseman+sound+insect and now youre digging deeper. Digital Juice? Genius Party? 0rangehttps://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffabq=koji+morimoto+0rangeiax=imagesia=images? Yes you should own 0range. Whats this? Morimoto directed a 53episode TV series that can somehow be bingedwatched in a halfhour sitting? How can that be? My I read this somewhere over a decade ago information suggests that Eternal Family was a series of TV spots that NHK slotted between programs. Like the infamous outoforder broadcast of Suzumiya Haruhihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HaruhiSuzumiyaAnime that set the internet of 09 ablaze one cant hope to recreate the true Eternal Family viewing experience whatever it actually was so a marathon that nauseatingly starts stops every 30 seconds is all well ever have. 440https://i.ur.com/NGul0zr.png The premise resembles but predates The Truman Show by a year the parasocial qualities of reality television presaged our present VTuber dystopia and everyone back then seemed to sense the impending doom. In Morimotos familiar dystopic futureworld the titular Eternal Family is a reality TV show that casts with scifi brainwashing a bunch of deranged dropouts as a normal Japanese family whose domestic antics are broadcast 24/7 through the states propaganda apparatus. One day this social experiment escapes from the TV set into the wider world of Hodgepodge City where all manner of super fans government goons and other unscrupulous characters go on the hunt for our hapless violenceprone television stars. 440https://i.ur.com/jmSn3zj.png In practice its a series of cartoon comedy vignettes with the recognizable postmodern cyberpunk stylings of Studio 4C figureheads like Morimoto Tatsuyuki Tanakahttps://duckduckgo.com/?q=tatsuyuki+tanaka+cannabis+workst=hyva=giax=imagesia=images and others in that aesthetic wheelhouse. Its borderline insufferable but hits something of a stride when the Family is set loose upon the city and the imaginative borders expand slightly beyond baseline potty humor. 440https://i.ur.com/aA4ekdU.png It takes a real desire to seek out Eternal Family. Morimotos many shorts music videos freelance sakuga momentshttps://www..com/results?searchquery=sharon+apple+concert and other projects all give us desperate devotees little glimpses into his inner cyberworld a world which was sadly never realized into a magnumopuslike feature film or fulllength TV series. There is no culmination into a grand conclusion no payoff nor catharsis for this review and Morimotos legacy. The man is already in his 60s and Ive stopped expecting anything beyond the hodgepodge of works that form a city we can skirt the borders of but never truly explore. 440https://i.ur.com/vBK15pk.png Comment on this reviewhttps://anilist.co/activity/270080797