Harmony

Harmony (ハーモニー, 2015) is a Japanese science-fiction anime thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Michael Arias and Takashi Nakamura directed the feature from Project Itoh's novel, with a chilly future built around one unsettling idea.

Decades after a global catastrophe, humanity has engineered a utopia of wellness. Nanotech monitors every body, illness is gone, conflict has been smoothed away, and care has become absolute control. As teenagers, three girls rebelled against this gentle tyranny by trying to starve themselves to death — not all of them made it. Years on, Tuan Kirie works for the World Health Organization when a wave of simultaneous suicides sweeps the planet, and the investigation pulls her toward a friend she believed long dead.

The film asks a blunt question: once pain, fear and the right to fail are taken from you, is there any will left to call your own. Studio 4°C blends drawn animation with cold interface graphics so that the beauty of each frame quietly undercuts the comfort of the world. It rewards fans of cerebral sci-fi like Psycho-Pass and viewers ready for an ending that offers no easy relief. Stream Harmony (2015) online on iFILM.