C- Control was an anime created in 2011 directed by Kenji Nakamura and written by Noboru Takagi. This anime follows Kimimaro Yoga, a college student, who just like
anyone else wants to live a stable ordinary life, and is learning how hard it
is to make money. Early on Kimimaro is approached with a question, if you were
given the choice to earn large sums of money every week in exchange for your
future to become collateral would you take it?
This anime
largely specifies how people view their money and how desperate they are to
acquire it. Kimimoro is still just a young adult who, like many oblivious people,
will be drawn into the world of the Financial District where he will make deals
to obtain the Minus Money he needs to survive inside and out of the Financial
District.
At first
glance Kimimoro Yoga is your typical college student. He works hard in his
academics and is kind hearted with only one or two friends as well as a part
time job to help pay for school. Kimimoro also lacks the confidence that a son
would only learn from his father who left him at a young age. Now living with
his grandmother he strives for his goal of a simple and stable life.
Accompanying
Kimimaro in the Financial District is his Asset Msyu, who acts more human like
than most Assets. An Assets exists in a card you are given upon entering the
Financial District, almost like a credit card. They are what you use to battle
in deals you make with other members. If you win your funding’s grow, if you
loose, the bank and your opponent get your money and then you learn who really
has all the power.
C- Control
lets you explore a world where money is everything, not too different from our
own. In real life money controls almost everything and C- Control just lets you
view this concept in a more extravagant way. It exercises the phrase “slave to
the mighty dollar.” If you loose all of your funding in the Financial District
while fighting in a deal your life essentially falls apart in the real world transcending
to your real loss. Whoever has the money has the power right?
What I love about this anime is that in such a
short time you get to watch Kimimaro grow into someone who stands up for what
he believes in. It’s all about the choices you make and the people you trust as
you grow that will depend on how your future turns out and if you can make the
right choices yourself. Kimimaro has the pleasure of learning how to make
choices the hard way and it is what makes him such an intriguing character.
Though this is a short series it is full of intense battles to decide the fate
of its’ characters and will keep you glued to the screen.
-Takizawa
