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Welcome to every cry. never life., a small shrine to the series Mnemosyne, also known as RIN -Daughters of Mnemosyne-, or Mynemosyne -Mnemosyne no Musume-tachi-. For an series this odd and obscure, it has too many names. Mnemosyne is, at heart, a detective story, but the supernatural and mythological elements that go with it are what makes it stand apart. With gratuitous violence and sexuality, Mnemosyne is a series that recieves a "Mature" rating with ease, but manages to have an interesting story and even more interesting characters.

Mnemosyne is a six episode series made by Xebec and Genco to mark the tenth anniversary of the AT-X network. It has since been licensed by Funimation. The series also has a light novel and manga based on the anime, but little information is avalible about them. However, the story revolves around Rin Asogi and Mimi, two immortal private investigators. The story follows these two over a sixty-five year period and the mysteries behind why they are immortal as well as the cases they recieve. This shrine does contain unmarked spoilers, so continue reading at your own risk!

Angels Don't Cry

Rin Asogi

Along with Mimi, Rin runs a private detective agency in Shinjuku called, not so cleverly, Asogi Consulting. Rin has a whimsical personality, but is also ruthlessly clever and strong. Rin is a caring person, however, and is especially close to her assistant Mimi. She is immortal because of the Time Spore within her, and though her precise age is unknown, she is over one thousand years old.

Mimi

Mimi is Rin's assistant for Asogi Consulting. She is also an immortal, and states that she and Rin met when Rin saved her from an Angel that would have killed her. After that, Rin and Mimi stayed together. Mimi has a fondness for alcohol (especially vodka) and is skilled with technology. Mimi helps Rin by doing miscellaneous jobs ranging from hacking to managing their finances.

Koki Maeno

Koki is the first of the Maeno line that the series loosely follows. Koki meets Rin and Mimi in the first episode, asking them to find out why he has few memories, and they find that Koki is actually a clone created by Sayara's pharmaceutical company. Koki decided to work for Rin, but he was killed after being transformed into an Angel and having his Time Spore taken by Eipos.

Sayara Yamanobe

Sayara is the sadistic head of the Aoyama Pharmaceutical company's research department. She researched bacteria, and eventually discovered with them the possibility of cloning. She continued illegal experiments with cloning, aiming towards a way to achieve immortality, but is left by Rin to be killed by zombies she created in the first episode. Sayara is mutilated, but "saved" by Eipos when he gives her a Time Spore.

Laura

Laura is a skilled assassin who appears in nearly every episode to try and kill Rin. It's revealed that she is being sent by Eipos, and despite the fact that Laura is killed by Rin in most of their confrontations, Eipos brings Laura back to life. She eventually becomes a cyborg, and then an android, revealing that only her brain remains immortal.

Eipos

Eipos is many things, including the Guardian of Yggdrasil and a hermaphrodite. He calls himself a "God" and is a sadistic villain who has no concern for other's pain, and he instead has a twisted sense of beauty. Eipos consumes the Time Spores from both the Angels and the Immortals, since he enjoys the memories inside them. He has a particular interest in Rin, even wanting to take her as his Bride in episode six.

Flowers Don't Shed Tears

Episode One

In 1990, the Asogi Consulting Company recieves a simple job to find a lost cat. Rin searches the city for the cat, but instead finds a young man named Koki Maeno. Koki is being pursued, but once these people strike Rin, Rin strikes back and knocks them all out. She takes Koki to her office, where he admits that while he has memories, they do not feel like they're his, and he doesn't know why he's being chased. Rin and Mimi work to help him, and find out that he is linked to the Aoyama Pharmecutical company. Rin and Koki inflitrate the facilities, but Rin is caught and then tortured to death by Sayara, the chief researcher. However, Rin survives, healed of her injuries, and confronts Sayara again after finding out that Koki is a runaway clone. Sayara is left to die with a group of zombie like test-subjects. Koki and Rin escape, but Rin gives Koki a gun, and the choice of whether he wants to live or die. He seems to commit suicide, but shows up at the Consulting Company the next day with the missing cat.

Episode Two

In 1991, Rin's company recieves a job to track down a rare postage stamp. She visits a homeless man, who appears to possess one, but he is severely injured. Rin looks through his things, but is attacked once again by the woman that appeared in the first episode, Laura. Koki, however, meets a girl who is looking for an "angel", as she calls it, who may know where her brother is. He hears the explosion from Laura and Rin's fight, and goes to see what it was, and witnesses Rin regenerating. Mimi and Rin explain that they are immortal because of the time spores inside them. They eventually find out that the girl's brother is an angel himself, though a twisted version. Angels are the enemies of immortals, since the angels want to eat the immortals, and the immortals are sexually attracted to them. She confronts the girl's brother, guessing that she will be the last victim, but as the angel starts to devour her, she kills it. Eipos appears to take the time spore, but Rin gives it to Koki, who gives it to the girl, Yuki.

Episode Three

In 2011, Koki still works for Rin, and is married to Yuki with a son. Rin recieves a call from a person wanting to meet her, but the girl dies in front of her after only saying one sentence. Rin discovers that the girl had the symptoms of a biological weapon called "Higan". Shortly after, Rin is captured and taken to the site of testing, appropriately called "Death Island". Mimi tracks down Rin, and finds that the group behind her capture is a group named "Kudoru". Rin, however, meets an old enemy: Sayara. Sayara was given a Time Spore, but only after being mutilated by the zombie like creatures Rin left her with. Sayara plans to destroy humanity with Higan, leaving only immortals, but Koki arrives to save Rin. He is mortally wounded by a gunshot, but consumes Yuki's brother's Time Spore, turning into an Angel. He carries Rin away before he loses his sanity, but is killed by Eipos when he returns to devour Sayara.

Spirits Don't Scream

Episode Four

In 2025, Koki's son Teruki is the one who comes to Asogi Consulting. He explains that he witnessed a virtual idol named Ruon's murder. In this time, there is a virtual reality network called "2.0" and the real world is called "1.0". This is considered impossible because Ruon only exists in the "2.0" world, but Rin and Mimi agree to help. After witnessing Rin being attacked by Laura, Teruki recieves the same speech about their existence that his father did. Mimi discovers that Ruon is an AI created to replace the creator's daughter, who he killed himself. Ruon invites Teruki to "2.0" again, but their meeting is interrupted as Asogi Consulting is attacked by the military. They flee, but are attacked and Teruki is captured. Realizing that the Ruon Teruki met in the real world was an android and that Teruki is boarding a plane, Rin follows. She boards the plane, but finds the creator dead, shot by Ruon. Ruon is revealed to be behind the military actions, since Teruki was the only person she cared about. Teruki is safe after leaving the plane with a parachute, but Ruon and Rin go through the jet's engine. Teruki finds the Asogi Consulting building demolished, and Mimi is seen leaving.

Episode Five

In 2055, "1.0" and "2.0" have been combined, and things are, essentially, downloaded into the real world. Teruki is a successful businessman with a curious daughter, Mishio. Mishio discovers her father's records of Rin, and by chance, meets her. However, Rin has no memory. Rin works in an unextraordinary job, but the company's CEO (an immortal) is killed by Laura. Laura, now disguised as Rin, works for Eipos to retrieve Time Spores. A man proposes to Rin, but she refuses him, citing her amnesia. Mishio then decides to ask her father about Rin, but Teruki tells Mishio to let Rin leave peacefully without her painful memories. Teruki finds Mimi, a Buddhist nun, who in turn tells him that "Rin" is hunting immortals. Rin's lover proposes again, but this time, she accepts. Laura interrupts their love making, killing both of them, but returning Rin's memories. Rin and Mishio go to meet Mimi in Kyoto, but Rin arrives to defeat Laura and some angels, but finds Mimi raped by Eipos, who is apparently both an angel and an immortal. Eipos removes Rin's Time Spore.

Episode Six

Rin wakes up in Eipos's castle at the foot of the tree Yggdrasil that creates the Time Spores. She is locked in a room with an Angel, but eventually kills him, only to find that it was her lover killed in the previous episode. Tajimamori, the former Guardian of Yggdrasil, tells Mimi and Mishio the opens a portal to Eipos's castle. When they arrive, Rin and Laura are fighting, but Eipos betrays Laura to allow Rin to escape. Laura, in turn, teams up with Mimi and Mishio, leading them to Yggdrasil. Rin meets Tajimamori there, and it's revealed that he is her love for a millennium. Eipos, however, kills Tajimamori and pushes Rin into the Yggdrasil. Yggdrasil tries to merge with her, but Rin is able to escape with Mishio's help. Eipos attacks, but he is pushed into Yggdrasil by Rin, who is the new Guardian. In the epilogue, Rin lives in the castle with Mimi, Mishio, and her son, whose father is Tajimamori.

The Holy Night Doesn't Shine

There's no denying that Mnemosyne is an odd series. It's certainly not a series for anyone, and it's not exactly the most intellectual of anime. In fact, I'll be the first to admit that its target audience had to have been college-age males, which I am decidedly not. But I'm able to overlook the elements of the series catered towards that group for the interesting characters and situations that are in Mnemosyne.

One of the main draws to the series, for me, was the main character. Rin is a character that I really enjoy because of her interesting personality. She's a whimsical badass, so to speak. She's a character of masks, where there are two sides of Rin to see. There is the front that she puts up as a whimsical, but clever private investigator, and the one of the cold-blooded killer. She doesn't seem tired of living, even after a thousand years, and despite her cold demeanor at times, she's still a kind and caring person. I love the idea of what kinds of things Rin has seen, only hinted at by her recalling of a friend in the 40s, or Tajimamori, from a thousand years ago. While we hardly know anything about her very long past, I like the very idea that she's lived long enough to know the truth about many things, but says nothing of them.

I also enjoy Rin's relationship with Mimi. While I don't like Mimi as much as Rin, I really enjoy their cute partnership. While there are blatant hints that their relationship is more than platonic, we never see Rin and Mimi have sex, despite the fact that this show is not shy about showing it. The most that we see is a kiss, or some forward sexual advances. Instead, their relationship remains mostly understated, and certainly not the focus of the series. Rin saved Mimi from an Angel, which is why Mimi is so devoted to Rin, but it seems that Rin is just as devoted to Mimi. They are best friends, and I think personally think lovers, but their relationship is mostly a sweet and very honest one. They take care of each other, and Mimi is always glad to offer her vodka (which is Russian for water, in case you didn't know) to Rin.

There are also a few interesting elements that stand on their own. While the existence of Angels and Immortals, in my opinion, is only a plot device for gratuitous sex and violence, the ideas surrounding them are much more interesting and rooted in mythology. Though the two mythologies primarily represented are quite different, they combine to form a symbolic representation of time and memory as a theme of the series.

Mnemosyne

The title of the series comes from the Titan personifications of memory. Mnemosyne, the daughter of Gaia and Uranus, and mother of the Muses fathered by Zeus, is a goddess who plays an important role in mythology. After all, what is a person without memory? In Plato's Critias, Critias says to Hermocrates:

"... and in addition to the gods you mentioned I must call upon all the rest and especially upon Mnemosyne. For practically all the most important part of our speech depends upon this goddess ..."

Mnemosyne is also considered the Goddess that organizes "Time" in a human's mind. Now, with these ideas in mind, the reason that this Mnemosyne was chosen to represent the series is simple. Mnemosyne deals with memory, and the loss of it. Rin has her memory erased, and loses her personality and dreams, and she is dominated by her thousand years of memories, and chasing after Tajimamori. The Immortals, who have lost their sense of "time", never age, and can live as long as they have their time spores. Mnemosyne is related to the Immortals because of how memory dominates them and how time is not so set for them.

Yggdrasil

Yggdrasil is a concept that has actually appeared in quite a few anime, unlike Mnemosyne. Yggdrasil as a concept or name has appeared in Oh My Goddess!, Digimon, and even a manga by that name. It is, in Norse mythology, the "world tree". A world tree is a concept that appears in many mythologies, and is a tree that supports the heavens. Thus, it connects heaven and Earth through its roots. Norse mythology in particular represents Yggdrasil as a giant ash tree, and appears in the Poetic Edda.

In Mnemosyne, Yggdrasil is also the tree of life, though in a much more long term sense. Yggdrasil gives eternal life to the women who its spore enter, and those immortals can then see a physical tree in the distance, whose branches seem to be lit up. Yggdrasil is the central concept to the series because of its role in making Immortals and Angels, as well as the idea that Eipos's castle is supported by the great tree's roots.

And to the Door of the
Kingdom...

I think I totally get carried away with challenges, but this site was the second to be created for amassment's one page shrine marathon. Mnemosyne is a show that I have a love hate relationship with, with the love being in the first five episodes, and the hate being in the sixth. Still, I have fond memories of watching this anime at like three in the morning, because that way no one would walk in and see me watching such classy things as piercing torture and tranny sex. Am I kidding? You decide.

This site was first created on July 16th, 2009, and I finished it a few days later. The title of this shrine is actually some Engrish that I saw on a completely unrelated series' promotion material, and I quite liked it, so decided to title the Mnemosyne shrine in my head after it, and it really went from there. The section titles are all episode titles, and are not nearly as cool as the site's title.

The image used in the layout is from a piece of promotion material for the show, and is both visually appealing and very creepy. Just like the show. It's perfect. If you'd like to link back to this page for some reason, you can take a button below. Thanks for the consideration!

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Cats Don't Laugh Welcome to every cry. never life., a small shrine to the series Mnemosyne, also known as RIN -Daughters of Mnemosyne-, or Mynemosyne -Mnemosyne no Musume-tachi-. For an series this odd and obscure, it has too many names. Mnemosyne is, at heart, a detective story, but the supernatural and mythological elements that go with it are what makes it stand apart. With gratuitous violence and sexuality, Mnemosyne is a series that recieves a "Mature" rating with ease, but manages to have an interesting story and even more interesting characters. Mnemosyne is a six episode series made by Xebec and Genco to mark the tenth anniversary of the AT-X network. It has since been licensed by Funimation. The series also has a light novel and manga based on the anime, but little information is avalible about them. However, the story revolves around Rin Asogi and Mimi, two immortal private investigators. The story follows these two over a sixty-five year period and the mysteries behind why they are immortal as well as the cases they recieve. This shrine does contain unmarked spoilers, so continue reading at your own risk! Angels Don't Cry Rin Asogi Along with Mimi, Rin runs a private detective agency in Shinjuku called, not so cleverly, Asogi Consulting. Rin has a whimsical personality, but is also ruthlessly clever and strong. Rin is a caring person, however, and is especially close to her assistant Mimi. She is immortal because of the Time Spore within her, and though her precise age is unknown, she is over one thousand years old. Mimi Mimi is Rin's assistant for Asogi Consulting. She is also an immortal, and states that she and Rin met when Rin saved her from an Angel that would have killed her. After that, Rin and Mimi stayed together. Mimi has a fondness for alcohol (especially vodka) and is skilled with technology. Mimi helps Rin by doing miscellaneous jobs ranging from hacking to managing their finances. Koki Maeno Koki is the first of the Maeno line that the series loosely follows. Koki meets Rin and Mimi in the first episode, asking them to find out why he has few memories, and they find that Koki is actually a clone created by Sayara's pharmaceutical company. Koki decided to work for Rin, but he was killed after being transformed into an Angel and having his Time Spore taken by Eipos. Sayara Yamanobe Sayara is the sadistic head of the Aoyama Pharmaceutical company's research department. She researched bacteria, and eventually discovered with them the possibility of cloning. She continued illegal experiments with cloning, aiming towards a way to achieve immortality, but is left by Rin to be killed by zombies she created in the first episode. Sayara is mutilated, but "saved" by Eipos when he gives her a Time Spore. Laura Laura is a skilled assassin who appears in nearly every episode to try and kill Rin. It's revealed that she is being sent by Eipos, and despite the fact that Laura is killed by Rin in most of their confrontations, Eipos brings Laura back to life. She eventually becomes a cyborg, and then an android, revealing that only her brain remains immortal. Eipos Eipos is many things, including the Guardian of Yggdrasil and a hermaphrodite. He calls himself a "God" and is a sadistic villain who has no concern for other's pain, and he instead has a twisted sense of beauty. Eipos consumes the Time Spores from both the Angels and the Immortals, since he enjoys the memories inside them. He has a particular interest in Rin, even wanting to take her as his Bride in episode six. Flowers Don't Shed Tears Episode One In 1990, the Asogi Consulting Company recieves a simple job to find a lost cat. Rin searches the city for the cat, but instead finds a young man named Koki Maeno. Koki is being pursued, but once these people strike Rin, Rin strikes back and knocks them all out. She takes Koki to her office, where he admits that while he has memories, they do not feel like they're his, and he doesn't know why he's being chased. Rin and Mimi work to help him, and find out that he is linked to the Aoyama Pharmecutical company. Rin and Koki inflitrate the facilities, but Rin is caught and then tortured to death by Sayara, the chief researcher. However, Rin survives, healed of her injuries, and confronts Sayara again after finding out that Koki is a runaway clone. Sayara is left to die with a group of zombie like test-subjects. Koki and Rin escape, but Rin gives Koki a gun, and the choice of whether he wants to live or die. He seems to commit suicide, but shows up at the Consulting Company the next day with the missing cat. Episode Two In 1991, Rin's company recieves a job to track down a rare postage stamp. She visits a homeless man, who appears to possess one, but he is severely injured. Rin looks through his things, but is attacked once again by the woman that appeared in the first episode, Laura. Koki, however, meets a girl who is looking for an "angel", as she calls it, who may know where her brother is. He hears the explosion from Laura and Rin's fight, and goes to see what it was, and witnesses Rin regenerating. Mimi and Rin explain that they are immortal because of the time spores inside them. They eventually find out that the girl's brother is an angel himself, though a twisted version. Angels are the enemies of immortals, since the angels want to eat the immortals, and the immortals are sexually attracted to them. She confronts the girl's brother, guessing that she will be the last victim, but as the angel starts to devour her, she kills it. Eipos appears to take the time spore, but Rin gives it to Koki, who gives it to the girl, Yuki. Episode Three In 2011, Koki still works for Rin, and is married to Yuki with a son. Rin recieves a call from a person wanting to meet her, but the girl dies in front of her after only saying one sentence. Rin discovers that the girl had the symptoms of a biological weapon called "Higan". Shortly after, Rin is captured and taken to the site of testing, appropriately called "Death Island". Mimi tracks down Rin, and finds that the group behind her capture is a group named "Kudoru". Rin, however, meets an old enemy: Sayara. Sayara was given a Time Spore, but only after being mutilated by the zombie like creatures Rin left her with. Sayara plans to destroy humanity with Higan, leaving only immortals, but Koki arrives to save Rin. He is mortally wounded by a gunshot, but consumes Yuki's brother's Time Spore, turning into an Angel. He carries Rin away before he loses his sanity, but is killed by Eipos when he returns to devour Sayara. Spirits Don't Scream Episode Four In 2025, Koki's son Teruki is the one who comes to Asogi Consulting. He explains that he witnessed a virtual idol named Ruon's murder. In this time, there is a virtual reality network called "2.0" and the real world is called "1.0". This is considered impossible because Ruon only exists in the "2.0" world, but Rin and Mimi agree to help. After witnessing Rin being attacked by Laura, Teruki recieves the same speech about their existence that his father did. Mimi discovers that Ruon is an AI created to replace the creator's daughter, who he killed himself. Ruon invites Teruki to "2.0" again, but their meeting is interrupted as Asogi Consulting is attacked by the military. They flee, but are attacked and Teruki is captured. Realizing that the Ruon Teruki met in the real world was an android and that Teruki is boarding a plane, Rin follows. She boards the plane, but finds the creator dead, shot by Ruon. Ruon is revealed to be behind the military actions, since Teruki was the only person she cared about. Teruki is safe after leaving the plane with a parachute, but Ruon and Rin go through the jet's engine. Teruki finds the Asogi Consulting building demolished, and Mimi is seen leaving. Episode Five In 2055, "1.0" and "2.0" have been combined, and things are, essentially, downloaded into the real world. Teruki is a successful businessman with a curious daughter, Mishio. Mishio discovers her father's records of Rin, and by chance, meets her. However, Rin has no memory. Rin works in an unextraordinary job, but the company's CEO (an immortal) is killed by Laura. Laura, now disguised as Rin, works for Eipos to retrieve Time Spores. A man proposes to Rin, but she refuses him, citing her amnesia. Mishio then decides to ask her father about Rin, but Teruki tells Mishio to let Rin leave peacefully without her painful memories. Teruki finds Mimi, a Buddhist nun, who in turn tells him that "Rin" is hunting immortals. Rin's lover proposes again, but this time, she accepts. Laura interrupts their love making, killing both of them, but returning Rin's memories. Rin and Mishio go to meet Mimi in Kyoto, but Rin arrives to defeat Laura and some angels, but finds Mimi raped by Eipos, who is apparently both an angel and an immortal. Eipos removes Rin's Time Spore. Episode Six Rin wakes up in Eipos's castle at the foot of the tree Yggdrasil that creates the Time Spores. She is locked in a room with an Angel, but eventually kills him, only to find that it was her lover killed in the previous episode. Tajimamori, the former Guardian of Yggdrasil, tells Mimi and Mishio the opens a portal to Eipos's castle. When they arrive, Rin and Laura are fighting, but Eipos betrays Laura to allow Rin to escape. Laura, in turn, teams up with Mimi and Mishio, leading them to Yggdrasil. Rin meets Tajimamori there, and it's revealed that he is her love for a millennium. Eipos, however, kills Tajimamori and pushes Rin into the Yggdrasil. Yggdrasil tries to merge with her, but Rin is able to escape with Mishio's help. Eipos attacks, but he is pushed into Yggdrasil by Rin, who is the new Guardian. In the epilogue, Rin lives in the castle with Mimi, Mishio, and her son, whose father is Tajimamori. The Holy Night Doesn't Shine There's no denying that Mnemosyne is an odd series. It's certainly not a series for anyone, and it's not exactly the most intellectual of anime. In fact, I'll be the first to admit that its target audience had to have been college-age males, which I am decidedly not. But I'm able to overlook the elements of the series catered towards that group for the interesting characters and situations that are in Mnemosyne. One of the main draws to the series, for me, was the main character. Rin is a character that I really enjoy because of her interesting personality. She's a whimsical badass, so to speak. She's a character of masks, where there are two sides of Rin to see. There is the front that she puts up as a whimsical, but clever private investigator, and the one of the cold-blooded killer. She doesn't seem tired of living, even after a thousand years, and despite her cold demeanor at times, she's still a kind and caring person. I love the idea of what kinds of things Rin has seen, only hinted at by her recalling of a friend in the 40s, or Tajimamori, from a thousand years ago. While we hardly know anything about her very long past, I like the very idea that she's lived long enough to know the truth about many things, but says nothing of them. I also enjoy Rin's relationship with Mimi. While I don't like Mimi as much as Rin, I really enjoy their cute partnership. While there are blatant hints that their relationship is more than platonic, we never see Rin and Mimi have sex, despite the fact that this show is not shy about showing it. The most that we see is a kiss, or some forward sexual advances. Instead, their relationship remains mostly understated, and certainly not the focus of the series. Rin saved Mimi from an Angel, which is why Mimi is so devoted to Rin, but it seems that Rin is just as devoted to Mimi. They are best friends, and I think personally think lovers, but their relationship is mostly a sweet and very honest one. They take care of each other, and Mimi is always glad to offer her vodka (which is Russian for water, in case you didn't know) to Rin. There are also a few interesting elements that stand on their own. While the existence of Angels and Immortals, in my opinion, is only a plot device for gratuitous sex and violence, the ideas surrounding them are much more interesting and rooted in mythology. Though the two mythologies primarily represented are quite different, they combine to form a symbolic representation of time and memory as a theme of the series. Mnemosyne The title of the series comes from the Titan personifications of memory. Mnemosyne, the daughter of Gaia and Uranus, and mother of the Muses fathered by Zeus, is a goddess who plays an important role in mythology. After all, what is a person without memory? In Plato's Critias, Critias says to Hermocrates: "... and in addition to the gods you mentioned I must call upon all the rest and especially upon Mnemosyne. For practically all the most important part of our speech depends upon this goddess ..." Mnemosyne is also considered the Goddess that organizes "Time" in a human's mind. Now, with these ideas in mind, the reason that this Mnemosyne was chosen to represent the series is simple. Mnemosyne deals with memory, and the loss of it. Rin has her memory erased, and loses her personality and dreams, and she is dominated by her thousand years of memories, and chasing after Tajimamori. The Immortals, who have lost their sense of "time", never age, and can live as long as they have their time spores. Mnemosyne is related to the Immortals because of how memory dominates them and how time is not so set for them. Yggdrasil Yggdrasil is a concept that has actually appeared in quite a few anime, unlike Mnemosyne. Yggdrasil as a concept or name has appeared in Oh My Goddess!, Digimon, and even a manga by that name. It is, in Norse mythology, the "world tree". A world tree is a concept that appears in many mythologies, and is a tree that supports the heavens. Thus, it connects heaven and Earth through its roots. Norse mythology in particular represents Yggdrasil as a giant ash tree, and appears in the Poetic Edda. In Mnemosyne, Yggdrasil is also the tree of life, though in a much more long term sense. Yggdrasil gives eternal life to the women who its spore enter, and those immortals can then see a physical tree in the distance, whose branches seem to be lit up. Yggdrasil is the central concept to the series because of its role in making Immortals and Angels, as well as the idea that Eipos's castle is supported by the great tree's roots. And to the Door of the Kingdom... I think I totally get carried away with challenges, but this site was the second to be created for amassment's one page shrine marathon. Mnemosyne is a show that I have a love hate relationship with, with the love being in the first five episodes, and the hate being in the sixth. Still, I have fond memories of watching this anime at like three in the morning, because that way no one would walk in and see me watching such classy things as piercing torture and tranny sex. Am I kidding? You decide. This site was first created on July 16th, 2009, and I finished it a few days later. The title of this shrine is actually some Engrish that I saw on a completely unrelated series' promotion material, and I quite liked it, so decided to title the Mnemosyne shrine in my head after it, and it really went from there. The section titles are all episode titles, and are not nearly as cool as the site's title. The image used in the layout is from a piece of promotion material for the show, and is both visually appealing and very creepy. Just like the show. It's perfect. If you'd like to link back to this page for some reason, you can take a button below. Thanks for the consideration!
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