_The **truth** is the only hope in a world embraced by darkness._
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Almost two thousand years later, the Earth's surface has become a toxic death camp. Deep within the shelters, protected by environmental maintenance teams, lives the last wave of humans. Among the tasks they have to survive, exploring the past often serves as the starting point for understanding the present.
In the archive exploration section, crammed with computers and binary codes, images of the green world are processed and restored in an attempt to decipher time without planetary death. And although the evidence demonstrates the beauty of times without apocalypse, the passing years and the oblivion they drag with them end up turning them into a mere myth.
_Something irrelevant, meaningless..._ Although among so many souls abandoned to resignation, there is one man who, delving into the traces of the past, can find the truth that the rest of existence refuses to discover.
_This is **Pale Cocoon.**_
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**Ura** believes it is still possible to understand the wake of the past, even if the rest of existence considers it useless. Faced with the green history of glorious times, there in the archives reflected on the computer, _Ura_ prays that those images of landscapes and flowery fields are more than a simple myth.
_Humanity only knows the excavation areas; a great metal shelter beneath the planet where life no longer makes sense. There they live apathetic, routine, without any other value... Confined to reliving the past through photographs and stories that no one knows were true.
Only **Ura** retains the enthusiasm to decipher history, although her partner, **Riko**, believes it's not worth investigating how humans destroyed their own planet. For her, there's no point in dwelling on the past, on the painful, on what cannot be seen or touched.
_It's better to forget, **Riko** believes, because in forgetting lies true peace..._
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**Ura and Riko**
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Suddenly, a new file arrives at **Ura**'s office. For the first time, it's a video. He rushes to restore it, surprised by the images that show texts unrelated to the computer.
Despite **Riko**'s refusal, **Ura** embarks on the unthinkable. Upon deciphering the archive, she decides to delve beyond what her eyes see, in an attempt to convince the apathetic souls.
_And so she finds what ultimately sheds light on the origin of the shelters, and on what was capable of saving humanity at the time._
Everything makes sense before her eyes, and before ours as well.
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**_Pale Cocoon_** delves into the constant battle of the human mind for its identity, its history, its traces of the past. It is an OVA of beautiful transitions, of harsh realities drenched in disillusionment, but which, in **Ura**'s mind, become hope.
_How far can apathy go?_
This OVA is a reflection on that which completely destroys us: oblivion. There are no quick cures in a world that is collapsing, that is dying. The story of a happy past can be bitter in a devastating present. However, hope lies there, in the times that once existed and were kind.
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Wonderfully nostalgic and captivating, _Pale Cocoon_ is an OVA tinged with the power of _Cliffhanger._ At twenty-two minutes long, the story has enough power to sweep you away in a sea of sensations with metallic yet beautiful images.
For a short story, it's capable of staying in your memory forever. Without a doubt, it's one of the best OVAs I've had the opportunity to watch.
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The Only Hope in an Unremembered Future - Pale Cocoon: Review [ENG-ESP]
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· 2025-07-26 17:20
· The Anime Realm
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