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Someone once said, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. What this person didn’t realise is that while that may be true, humans are also very easily influenced by all the images of “beauty” constantly thrown at us by television commercials, magazine and newspaper advertisements etc. You are only beautiful if you use XXX cosmetics! You are only beautiful if you go for plastic surgery or a slimming center to create that perfect body, nose and eyes, just like XXX actress! You are only beautiful if you wear clothes from XXX fashion house, just like XXX top model!

Right. As if. But like the basic rules of economics say, there is supply only if there is demand. Judging from the number of advertisements facing us everyday, the demand must be very high indeed.

In Animax’s newest original animation, LaMB, lamination suits were originally created as beauty products. This is how they worked: buy the lamination suit, put it on, presto! Your beauty and youth are preserved forever. However, along with time, these suits were used by the government to “preserve” hard-core criminals, or rather, to lock them up in these suits forever, so that they can be controlled and work as slaves for as long as they have the suits on. The suits helped to preserve their lives, but it also served as a personal jail.

So the question then is, if you lived in such a world, how far will you go to attain eternal beauty? Will you kill to attain the opportunity to wear the suit and preserve your youth and beauty forever? After all, people have killed for many various reasons: for revenge, money, jealousy etc. Will YOU commit a crime for beauty and youth?

Many of us have watched sci-fi (science fiction) films and read novels and comics from the same genre. Have you ever thought to yourself how the world will be like in the far future? Technology has improved by leaps and bounds now, there are new tech gadgets being invented all the time, and who knows? Maybe one day we’ll be living like the Jetsons… or like the Will Smith movie “I, Robot”.

Now why do I talk about these? It’s because Animax Asia has produced the first ever original animation production (in high definition!) called “LaMB“. “LaMB”, based on an award-winning script by Filipino amateur writer Carmelo Juinio, is situated in the future on a harsh desert planet called Cerra. And on Cerra, they practice the idea of “recycling” so strongly that even hard-core criminals are “recycled” as slaves. These prisoners go through a process of “Lamination” where they become human ‘robots’. They can’t talk, they can’t make decisions on their own and they can only obey the commands by their masters or get electrocuted as punishment. And the worse thing? When the prisoners are ‘laminated’, they are preserved in a way for hundreds of years until released from their bodily prison.

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you’re like a LaMB? Unable to speak nor express your feelings? LaMB is now asking you: “Have you ever felt you couldn’t speak up or express yourself like a LaMB?“.  Check out the contest page for more details!