Pale Cocoon



Pale Cocoon is an OVA anime written by Yasuhiro Yoshiura, who would later go on to make The Time of Eve.

Ura is mining digital archives of the distant past for information. The world in the future he lives in is one of elevators, glass and shining metal, and that's all he's ever known. When he looks at the old files, he sees and wishes the past's animals and blue sky and growing plants. Their own environment was about to be destroyed, so all of humanity moved. Ura wants to know when this happened in the past. There's one archive file that he's looking for, because he thinks the lost files of their past could define their future in a big way. His coworker, Riko, has become distracted and listless, and he has become increasingly obsessive over his research.

Tropes used by the short film:

 * After the End
 * Apathy Killed the Cat
 * Bittersweet Ending
 * Deliberately Monochrome: Just about everything but the pictures in the archives and eventually
 * Earth All Along:
 * New Eden:
 * Technology Porn: Most of the short is spent showing what the archives look like in order to give the viewer a feel for how the characters live. It's done wonderfully.
 * Title Drop: