Summer Time Rendering is a time loop horror anime exploring a mystery in a rural island town off the coast of Japan where the protagonists have a small amount of time to try and change the future because that future features a mass execution event and then a global extinction. This is because of the actions of doppleganger horror beasts, known as shadows that are capable of copying people and duplicating their appearance and behaviour, presenting a longlasting philosophical question: What’s the difference between a thing and its perfect copy?
Like, by definition, there is a difference?
Right?
Right?
The story starts out as a ghost story with an urban legend horror and expands out and up until it’s grappling with a conspiracy and gambits in an effort to outwit extremely dangerous monster people and the reasons they can fight. The time loops that characters get to use to explore this but stop short of the problem you get in time loops, where a character inevitably can just get it right if they can keep trying, right?
Right?
Well, the complications that follow in this story are twofold. One, the time loops get shorter, with the time the characters are going back to getting closer to the now, and also, the villains find out about the time loops and start acting accordingly. What happens on one loop might not work, and you better not try the same thing again because you’ve now given up information and you better hope you have information in exchange for the trouble.
It’s intense.
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