History Anime / Shelter2016

%%* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The anime takes place in the far future, or at least, in a space pod drifting in outer space away from the earth (that was destroyed by a meteorite).

%%* AlienSky: During the flashbacks, with another planet about to crash into Earth.

%%* BodyHorror: Rin's fate in the real world: her body is plugged into a machine through wires piercing her back. The skin around each wire looks as though it's been cracked.

%%* WellIntentionedExtremist: This is how Shigeru can be interpreted. He built a space shuttle just for his daughter, so she could escape the apocalypse and likely live out her natural life happily inside the virtual reality simulator that she could customize to her liking. He obviously didn't realize that he was dooming her to a lifetime of loneliness, which we see taking its toll on her after seven years alone within the simulation.

%%* AllThereInTheManual: The name of Rin's father is never stated or shown in the short film proper, but he does have one, revealed through Porter's official Twitter account: Shigeru.

* AllThereInTheManual: The name of Rin's father is never stated or shown in the short film proper, but he does have one, revealed through Porter's official Twitter account: Shigeru.

* BlatantLies: Rin assures the audience that she doesn't feel alone or troubled at the start of the short. While she does have fun in her paradise, we quickly see this is not the case at all; one scene shows Rin in a black long coat walking through black skeletal trees looking nothing like her usually cheerful self.

* BookEnds: The short opens with a voiceover by Rin stating that she doesn't feel alone despite her solitary existance. She repeats this assurance at the end, only this time she has the understanding to back it up.
* ColonyDrop: A celestial body of some kind- be it a moon, planet, or asteroid- was on a collision course with Earth, and Shigeru's goal was to find any way for his daughter to survive the destruction of Earth.
* DesolationShot: There are a couple times during the short film where the camera focuses on a barren and/or ruined landscape: the first, when Rin is in the bath the desolate landscape is outside her window; the second, during the flashback where the news displays Tokyo as destroyed; and the third when there is a brief shot of Shigeru and a young Rin looking over the oncoming destruction.

* FakeMemories: At the start of the short film, a teenage Rin recalls witnessing the apocalypse herself. However, after viewing her father's memories, the truth is that she was most likely unaware of the apocalypse when she was placed in the shuttle and sent away by Shigeru, implying that she had seen a glimpse of her father's memories of the apocalypse a long time ago. She also misremembers herself being a redhead when she was a brunette in reality.

* VideoWills: Towards the end of the short film, Rin gets to see a final message from her father, delivered via a video. Seeing it helps her finally understand why she isn't alone.

During the 2016 New Year's Eve ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'' marathon, Creator/{{Toonami}} [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2016/12/17/toonami-to-show-shelter-on-new-years-eve aired the music video on television]] making it both the first subtitle-only anime to air on Toonami.

During the 2016 New Year's Eve ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'' marathon, Creator/{{Toonami}} [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2016/12/17/toonami-to-show-shelter-on-new-years-eve aired the music video on television]] making it both the first subtitle-only anime and the first music video at all to air on Toonami.

* HeroicSacrifice: Shigeru built a spacecraft for Rin to escape on, rather than just one for himself or the both of them, knowing he would die on Earth with everyone else after she was gone. As the spacecraft carried Rin off, he seemed happy with his decision.
* HomeworldEvacuation: Downplayed. The one spacecraft shown leaving Earth is carrying Rin, and ''only'' Rin.
* TheIngenue: Rin still acts like a child despite being 17 years old because she was a child when she first entered the virtual world (and has been alone since).
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Heavy emphasis on innocent rather than on the fanservice part. Rin is often wearing different clothes, but often with her legs exposed and being barefoot. Some of her dresses don't cover much of her skin either. Her real body is completely naked inside the spaceship.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: It's implied to be the reason why Shigeru place her in a space capsule, put her on life support, and put her mind in a virtual world alone.
* JustBeforeTheEnd: The entire flashback sequence.
* LotusEaterMachine: Rin is a comatose and alone in a blank slate dream world which she can shape and rebuild on a whim, but what she really wants to see her dad again.
* MagicSkirt: Despite all of Rin's flips and tumbles, you never see her panties.
* MeaningfulEcho: "I'm not lonely/ I don't feel alone." A {{Blatant Lie|s}} at the start of the short, but gains weight after she learns the circumstances of her virtual life by the end.
* MinimalistCast: Rin is the only character to appear in the short outside of flashbacks.
* MissingMom: Rin's mother only appears in a photo. A FreezeFrameBonus translation of her father's message confirms that she died before the flashbacks.
* NoAntagonist: While there is conflict revealed at the halfway point, there is no villainous individual causing the conflict, and neither of our main characters are the "bad guy". This is all a tragic act of nature, and the object on course with Earth is doing so completely by cosmic chance.
* OneWordTitle: It references the location that Rin is in.
* PlatonicCave: Where Rin has spent her life in after the apocalypse.
* PosthumousCharacter: Rin's father, Shigeru.
* ThePollyanna: Rin happens to be very cheerful and optimistic. Even after finding out the truth of the world she lives in and the fate of Earth, she still remains optimistic and hopeful for the future since her father's love is always with her.
* PrefersGoingBarefoot: Rin is barefoot for 95% of the time and even outdoors, only wearing shoes once outside of flashbacks, and even there, she is not wearing shoes.
* RedHeadedHeroine: Rin, the main character, is redheaded. However, it is shown in the flashbacks that she used to have dark hair, and in the end, we see her real body with the same dark hair color, indicating that she only imagines herself as a redhead.
* RewritingReality: Rin can do this with a tablet, stylus and some kind of design software. This is because she is living in a virtual reality, and can create any world she wants.
* SceneryPorn: Creator/A1Pictures strikes again. It helps that Rin creates the world around her as she desires, meaning it isn't constrained by real world physics or geography.
* SleptThroughTheApocalypse: Rin, without even knowing it.
* WistfulAmnesia: It's shown that Rin vaguely remembers pieces of her childhood. In particular, the desolate scene when she is in the bath looks like the meteor about the crash into Earth and she draws a scene that looks like a Tokyo lit up at night.
* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: Several shots of Rin looking out over the beautiful landscapes.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: This is how Shigeru can be interpreted. He built a space shuttle just for his daughter, so she could escape the apocalypse and likely live out her natural life happily inside the virtual reality simulator that she could customize to her liking. He obviously didn't realize that he was dooming her to a lifetime of loneliness, which we see taking its toll on her after seven years alone within the simulation.
* TragicKeepsake: There is a teddy bear that sits in a corner in Rin's room. It's a birthday present from Shigeru and the sole keepsake that accompanied her on the spaceship.
* VideoWill: Towards the end of the animation, Rin gets to see a final message from Shigeru. It's because of this that she finally understands why she is not alone.
* YouAreNotAlone: :One of the main themes of this video, also subverted. Yes, Shigeru is long gone and she's all alone in a virtual world, but after learning the truth about the world, Rin realizes that she's not alone and is hopeful for the future because her father's love and memories will always be at her heart.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The anime takes place in the far future, or at least, in a space pod drifting in outer space away from the earth (that was destroyed by a meteorite).
* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Rin was this in her childhood.
* AfterTheEnd: Shelter takes place after the Earth is destroyed by a collision with a celestial body.
* AlienSky: During the flashbacks, with another planet about to crash into Earth.
* AllThereInTheManual: It's thanks to concept art revealed on Porter's twitter that we know the name of Rin's father: Shigeru.
* AndIMustScream: Rin has spent at least seven years of her life alone in her virtual reality with no indication of when or if she will be found and freed. By the end of the music video, she’s still in this situation, although her suffering is alleviated just slightly by the memory of her father.
* ApocalypseHow: Earth is implied to have undergone at least a ApocalypseHow/Class6 (potentially ApocalypseHow/ClassX) due to [[ColonyDrop another celestial body crashing into it]].
* ArtisticLicenseSpace: If a Mars-sized object like that had approached the Solar System, we could have detected it from tens or even hundreds of years ago for a more effective countermeasure (like world-wide evacuation) and Shelter probably wouldn't have had such a bleak ending. It is in fact the small and medium-sized asteroids that pose a more serious threat because their agility and smallness make them much harder to detect.
* BeautifulVoid: There's nothing else but Rin and the gorgeous landscapes she creates. The flashback scenes also count.
* BlatantLies: Rin assures the audience that she doesn't feel alone or troubled at the start of the short. While she does have fun in her paradise, we quickly see this is not the case at all.
* BittersweetEnding: While there's no indication that by the end there will be any changes to Rin's predicament as she's still all alone in the virtual world and her home world is destroyed meaning she has nowhere to return to, she feels less alone now knowing of her fathers love and sacrifice.
* BodyHorror: Rin's fate in the real world: her body is plugged into a machine through wires piercing her back. The skin around each wire looks as though it's been cracked.
* BookEnds: Rin repeats her assurance that she doesn't feel alone at the end of the short, only this time she has the understanding to back it up.
* ColonyDrop: Revealed towards the latter part of the animation. A celestial body of some kind, whether it's a moon, planet, or asteroid, is on a collision course with Earth, and Shigeru's goal was to find any way for Rin to survive the destruction of Earth.
* DesolationShot: Shown several times. First, when Rin is in the bath the desolate landscape is outside her window. Second, in the flashback, the news displays Tokyo as destroyed. Third, there is a brief shot of young Rin and Shigeru looking over the oncoming destruction.
* PrefersGoingBarefoot: Rin is barefoot for 95% of the time and even outdoors, only wearing shoes once outside of flashbacks, and even there, she is not wearing shoes.
* EarthShatteringKaboom: The final shot of Young Rin in the spaceship, as the view of the earth and the other object colliding is visible in the window's reflection.
* EverybodysDeadDave: The truth of Rin's life is that she's been literally alone for almost seven years following the destruction of Earth, and doesn't realize she's possibly the last human left alive. Rather than being a forlorn ending, however, the trope is partially subverted as this revelation, being saved by her father and having her memories of him, means she will never be alone as she carries him in her heart.
* FakeMemories: At the start of the video, a teenage Rin recalls witnessing the apocalypse herself. However, after viewing her father's memories, the truth is that she was most likely unaware of the apocalypse when she was placed in the shuttle and sent away by Shigeru, implying that she had seen a glimpse of her father's memories of the apocalypse a long time ago. She also misremembers herself being a redhead when she was a brunette in reality.
* FanDisservice: Rin being naked inside her spaceship is not very appealing to the eyes when lots of wires are piercing her body to support it.
* GoodParents: Rin's dad is a loving father on top of secretly making a spaceship to save his daughter.
* HeroicSacrifice: Shigeru built a spacecraft for Rin to escape on, rather than one for himself or two, knowing he would die on earth with everyone else after she was gone. As the spacecraft carried Rin off, he seemed happy with his decision.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: It's implied to be the reason why Rin's father place her in a space capsule, put her on life support, and put her mind in a virtual world alone.

* YouAreNotAlone: :One of the main themes of this video, also subverted. Yes, Rin's father is long gone and she's all alone in a virtual world, but after learning the truth about the world, Rin realizes that she's not alone and is hopeful for the future because her father's love and memories will always be at her heart.

''Shelter'' is a six-minute animated music video produced by Creator/A1Pictures. It accompanies the song of the same name by Music/PorterRobinson and Music/{{Madeon}}. It shows the story of Rin, a 17-year old girl who lives in a virtual reality that [[VirtualRealityWarper she can control with a tablet and stylus]]: lush meadows, giant cliffs, a tree swing, if she can draw it, she can realize it. However, she is all alone and doesn't remember how or why she ended up in this strange version of reality.

The music video is available for free on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzQ6gRAEoy0 on Porter's YouTube channel]]. It includes English subtitles embedded in the video.

!!This short film provides examples of:

-->-- '''Porter Robinson and Madeon''', "Shelter"

''Shelter'' is a 6-minute animation produced by Creator/A1Pictures and an accompaniment to the song of the same name by Music/PorterRobinson and Music/{{Madeon}}. It tells the story of Rin, a 17-year old who lives in a virtual reality that [[VirtualRealityWarper she can control with a tablet and stylus]]. However, she is all alone and doesn't remember how or why she ended up there.

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzQ6gRAEoy0 Can be found on Porter's YouTube channel.]]

Creator/{{Toonami}} [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2016/12/17/toonami-to-show-shelter-on-new-years-eve aired the music video]] during the 2016 New Year's Eve ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'' marathon, making it both the first subtitle-only anime and the first music video to air on Toonami.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Rin is barefoot for 95% of the time and even outdoors, only wearing shoes once outside of flashbacks, and even there, she is not wearing shoes.

* WellIntendedExtremist: This is how Shigeru can be interpreted. He built a space shuttle just for his daughter, so she could escape the apocalypse and likely live out her natural life happily inside the virtual reality simulator that she could customize to her liking. He obviously didn't realize that he was dooming her to a lifetime of loneliness, which we see taking its toll on her after seven years alone within the simulation.

* AndIMustScream: Rin has spent at least seven years of her life alone in her virtual reality with no indication of when or if she will be found and freed.

* 20MinutesIntoTheFuture: The anime takes place in the far future, or at least, in a space pod drifting in outer space away from the earth )that was destroyed by a meteorite).

* 20MinutesIntoTheFuture

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!!Shelter provides examples of:

* ApocalypseHow: Earth is implied to have undergone at least a Class 6 (potentially Class X) due to another celestial body crashing into it.