Make your audience UNCOMFORTABLE (86 EIGHTY-SIX)

#EightySix #videoessay #anime

This anime caught me by surprise. 86 is a military sci-fi anime that tackles topics such as injustice and inequality by having a protagonist from a fascist country reckon with the systemic violence of her country, and asks her to contemplate the human cost of warfare and contrasting it with child soldiers who have been stripped of their human rights and forced to fight in a war for a country that does not see them as humans.

Note: I wanted to use more BGMs and footage from the anime, but unfortunately I kept getting Content ID'd. I can't monetize the video either way so I thought that was pointless, but I cut out all animated footage from the show. My apologies, there's literally no way to get around it.

Screenshots:
Eighty-Six Episode 1-4

Game Footage:
MGS3 The Boss' Death
MGS4 Ending

Songlist:
Musicstockproduction – Acoustic
Finval - Old Forest
Finval – Rainy Evening
Finval – Stasis
MusicArea - In The Sky
Melancholicbird – Warm Memories
Vislevski – Love Story
Aliaksei Yukhnevich – End of the Abyss
Real Story by 99 instrumentals
Coffeehouse by 99 instrumentals
Summer Evening by Romanov Studio
Scott Buckley – Ascension
Scott Buckley – Wayfarer
Scott Buckley – Horizons
Scott Buckley – This Too Shall Pass
Scott Buckley - Filaments
Miguel Johnson – Unexplored Moon
AERØHEAD – Fragments

0:00 Making an impact
1:18 The setting
2:22 An Ironic World
5:48 The Truth of the Eighty-Six
10:51 Recognising Humanity
17:22 Making Your Audience Uncomfortable
20:06 The Distance between Handlers and Processors
24:01 The Importance of a Name
27:54 How Spearhead Squadron See Handler One
33:49 Concluding remarks