If this was really an anime, I'd watch the shit out of it.

Imagine if these people who created this made a full pledged show.

I already knew the theory behind shelter...why?...because I watched it 100000 times

my shelter theory: it's fucking amazing. the end :3

Some details you missed; 1. The planetoid colliding with earth does not exhibit any significant gravity that it's size suggests. An object that size would be phenomenally destabilizing to our own gravitational field and well, the thing actually hitting us wouldn't be the worry anymore because our atmosphere (and oceans) would be screwed first. So we can conclude that the physics in Shelter's reality makes this a multidimensional event. 2. Humanity's technological level in Shelter is sufficient that a dude can design and build a spaceship in a warehouse within the scope of resources available in a crisis environment. Chances that more people survived this are... somewhat high. Also, the fact the event in the news is imaged from quite a distance above earth wound suggest that humanity is capable of some pretty advanced space mobility. 3. Despite the detail that the ship was designed for one, there are two seatbelts. Unlikely that the father would have made the restraint just for the bear. This suggests that the father designed it initially as a two occupant vehicle. Which also tells us that the reason he didn't join his daughter is that wherever he's sending her the ship either did not have the resources for two people, he would not live long enough to survive the journey anyway or the ship would not be able to meet some parameter necessary to complete the journey with him on it. So we can assume that he is sending her somewhere where she has a future.

No human contact for about seven years !!!!!

My Theory: The ship was designed for 2 people rather than 1 (indicated by that the teddy bear by her side) and the message from her father doesn't apply that he'a actually dead. If he was smart enough to make a ship by himself, then he could've been recruited by a space company and that could explain why he can't see her.

I understood it from the first time I watched it. Things just kinda fell into place for me, XD

Is it weird that I understood everything from the first time I watched the short film?

The Story behind this MV is pretty straight forward compared to ME!ME!ME!

"in the mean time I'm going to go watch shelter a couple more times" me

Another great theory. The first time I watched shelter I felt as though it would be a cute little music video. I have to admit the first couple of minutes into the video i really wasn't feeling the music, but nearing the end I feel as though it was trying to convey the joy and optimism she felt despite the depressing loneliness of her situation. Did the Dad do the right thing, meh, that is purely subjective, he sustained the life of someone he held dearly in a single solely altruistic act. its not the fact that he gave away his life, he left it to live on in the heart of his daughter. Paternal love is powerful, I don't think Rin is suffering, she has surpassed the five stages of mourning and found peace. I think that the video shows her journey through denial as she blocks out the memories of her past (The worlds she creates within her simulation) and depression as she sees her father again, finding peace knowing the extent of his love. In my opinion this music video is very open, it leaves it to the viewer to take from it what they will. Personally I feel that it conveys the act of moving on, not forgetting your past but not allowing it to drag you down. Well another stupid and out of proportion comment courtesy of me. I really liked how you saw it.

If a short anime music video like THIS is probably more popular than actual full-blown anime seasons, I only have one question to ask. Why hasn't Japanese Anime production companies ever thought of teaming up with people of different cultures? Props to A-1 for taking the first step to even better anime in the future.

I agree with most of this theory except for a small part. The idea that someday she will reach an Earth-like planet to live on. I think the actual truth is more tragic, and that's the fact that this couldn't happen. The ship had the thrust to escape the gravity of Earth and the other celestial body, but after that point, it's most likely just a drifter. Even if the ship could at some point reach another planet, Rin couldn't love there. The pod only allows her brain to function, but the rest of her body is long dead. She hasn't used any muscles or received any nourishment for seven years. It may be a form of stasis, but even then, her body grows through time. I believe the real, more tragic truth, is that Rin is in ths simulation forever. It may be an eternity. Honestly, we don't know how long she's been in there thus far. It seems she's 17 in the simulation, as her mind probably aged in that way, but we don't know if there's an endgame to this. She may stay at her desired age forever, or her mind would keep aging and growing, until such a point that her simulation body is unable to move, or her mind starts to deteriorate. Another reminder, this aging process could be entirely different from what we know. One year in the real world could be decades in the simulation. The only way her life could end would be when the ship loses functionality (it's 2055, so who knows how long the power could be sustained), or if the apparatus that holds he simulation fails. The tragedy is that Rin gets to live her life, but only in the simulation. And even then, there may come a point that she doesn't want to live, but she can't stop. The "ending" is so morally ambiguous and tragic in the way that Rin's greatest gift grom her father could later be her worst curse.

How to get a1 to make something good: You: i got a new idea with a heartfelt story, good art, and good music A1: nope You:it has virtual reality A1: we need to make this nowwww!!!!

Here's my theory. Humanity knew that earths destruction was coming. So with the help of Rin's father they built a giant life support ship that would keep humanity in a simulation for the rest of of their lives. However Rin's family wasn't able to go on this ship because of her mothers pregnancy, so while the mojority of people left Rin's father and his wife stayed behind. Unfortunately Rin's mother died giving birth to her. Because her father new earth was going to be destroyed he used the resources available to him to build small ship for her, unfortunately he didn't have enough time to make one for himself. So as we all know he launched her into space while he stayed behind as earth was destroyed. Now at the end of the video it appears the ship has a destination, I believe this destination is the ship containing the surviving humans and when her ship gets to the large one, her fathers programming will allow it to attach to the main ship and she can then live in the simulation everyone else is living in for the rest of her life. Note: I know her father has a name but I can't remember it.

Shelter always makes me cry😭😭

For some reason, I can connect this to Pandora's Box. Like, Rin is Elpis (the spirit of hope) in the spaceship (box). Some people think it's impossible for her to find another planet to live in. But, *shrugs*, I see another message. It's basically just having hope in situations that seem hopeless. Takes a lot of courage. That's what Rin embodies. I think. *shrugs and flies away*

The feels.......I cried I'm not joking I really did cry

I have a question. Rin lives in an simulation right? In the video you can see she's in some "box" and she can't get ou of it, which you can see when the street forms (she tried to get out but she failed) But how did she managed to walk around a whole field without leaving her box? I mean, you can see her walk down a road with tree's with some kind of marsmallows or something stick to it, and you see her running on a field of grass. How?

I saw Madoka there. I saw Yuki. i Saw Gasai I saw Koro Sensei

"Mildly sad story" I LITERALLY BALLED MY EYES OUT WHILE WATCHING IT

Time moves faster in space that's why Rin's 17

They should make a 12 episode anime out of this six minutes long anime

God I love Shelter. Heres why. If you're not interested then move along. STORY TIME. Scrolling through soundcloud. I found this AMAZING 1 minute 30 second short version of a song. Shelter. It was INCREDIBLE and i fell in love. This was October 16th. Thing is, I wanted the rest of the song. After some searching nothing came up. I eventually gave up after a while and settled for it. Then on October 19th, before school I open youtube. I didn't usually check the featured page, but I did that day. I looked around and saw a video titled Shelter. Im all "sounds familiar, that song, coincidence? its probably nothing." I clicked on it, and I then thought, "Oh! cool looks like a new anime, if i like it I can do more research!" Then the song started playing. You have NO idea the magnitude of me fangirling, internal screams, and just pure shock in that moment. I watched it, listening to the full song for the first time. Loved it. But then the end with the ship and I was confused. I went back to the beginning and rewatched it, this time pausing whenever it went fast to see the details. Long story short I ended up nearly bawling. I actually got the story 9.8/10 the second time I watched it. I just thought maybe the man was her older brother, but thats the only thing I got wrong other then google failing at translating the letter at the end. I truly LOVE not only the song but the 6 minute video. Incredible.

The message made me cry, did you cry too? Anyway I have an explanation myself Since something was hitting earth, the dad wanted his daughter to live so he built some kind of circular thing to let her live, correct? Since she's the only one who had that thing, she was the only one to survive, and since she was the only one to survive, she had no education, job, nor even family, though that is not useful for the destruction of Earth, in the music video, she saw her past self, correct? And then she had a moment of time to see her father again, which is very emotional, but since the machinery her father made might've travel the same speed as light, her father's message was late and her father knowing it would send late, he made the message when Rin was maybe 6 or 7 years old, now in this future she is in a simulation world with a tablet, having seen the message, she felt she was not alone, and in the end, we saw what real Rin looked like, and judging by the position of her body, she was moving forward which meant she was actually travelling through space, which might've also meant that she was going somewhere That's all I could think of, the music video was very emotional, which lead everyone who watched it to tears, thanks for reading my comment, bye :)

Go to 2:03 to skip the long intro not being rude just saying

+DuoReview I totally love this video and the song.... But talking about the back history of "Shelter", I want to remark somethings... 1. The screen: On the end of the video you can see a solar system with some kind of "travel route" on one screen... I am not sure but I think it is the collision course of the earth and the planet, but if it is indeed a "travel route" of Rin's spaceship to another inhabitable planet it means she is traveling to there. 2. Her position: Rin is thrown forward, her hair is falling and she doesn't look like if she were floating in space, her feet and body looks a little thin (like a person with a disability) because may be the lack of exercise. I think she on the ship has gravity, may be not created by the ship itself but the the movement of the ship... It may be using a "constant acceleration" of 1G to provide her of a inhabitable environment and for travel. 3. The 3 years lost: Did you noticed that the time of Rin's 6th birthday, the age she would have on the spaceship and the age when she receives the her father's message doesn't match for 3 years? If you look closely, when she opens her gift you can count 6 candles, on the blueprints of the ship you can read "7 years old", but she is 17 when receives the message from her father. If she was 7 when she took off to the space and have passed 7 years, should not she be 14 or 15 not 17... where are those 3 years left?!

Hmm...Seems someone is using Fire Emblem Music :) Great Theory By the way!

*But hey, It's just a theory* *AN **-GAME-** ANIME THEORY*

6:30 Actually, if she was travelling near the speed of light, and 7 years passed for her, way more than 7 years will have passed in the outside world, due to relativity. This means that she could have traveled much further than 7 light years. Performing some calculations shows that if she was travelling at 99% the speed of light (reaching the speed of light is impossible), then 7 years for her would be around 50 years outside, so she could have traveled up to 50 light years, not 7. If she could travel at the absurd 99.9999999999988669% the speed of light, she could have theoretically traveled 46.5 billion light years, and reached any point in the observable universe.

One time i had this song going through my head while i was asleep and i was thinling aboit all the people who lost that were very special and when i heard the part "until your gone" and that really made me cry

I'm a Simple Mirai Nikki fan, I hear the intro, I click like.

My theory: the same as u until the end In the there’s a message from the dad right? Well yeah but the message kinda meant that the ship couldn’t hold her for any longer so she had to die. In the end she dies and says thank you

lol it says "kuma" on the bear, which translates to bear

This rushes so much thoughts into my brain, thanks for explaining to all of us throughout your opinion.

This little thingy is 490% better then naruto, one piece together :D

why does everyone have a hard time understanding what happens in this video? the number of people who have gotten anywhere close is way smaller than it should be...

I think if you pay attention to the lyrics you can kind of get the picture of her Father's motivations. "I'll give them shelter like you've done for me" It's clearly a song about parental love, and an adult's promise to their parents to look after their children. The lyrics speak to a generational cycle, the idea that looking after your child and knowing they will have their own giving a kind of satisfaction, even though you will never meet your future descendants: "And they won't need to know our names or our faces/But they will carry on for us." However, Shelter's video subverts this. Whether through plague, war, or the interaction's with the falling planet, Earth is devastated, and you can see there is some sort of dome in the middle of a ruined city, where Rin and her father live. I personally choose to believe, that most of humanity died some time before Planetfall, leaving Rin, her father and possibly a few survivors in other protective domes scattered around the ruins of the planet. This is the source of the subversion of the song's intent. Rin's father is the last parent there will ever be. He sacrifices his life to give his daughter Shelter, as it's the only thing a parent can do, whether right or wrong. But he knows she will never be able to give shelter to children of her own, as she is alone. A counterargument is: "What if Rin's father sent her to a human colony/ spaceship?" If Rin's ship is incapable of faster than light (FTL) travel, she will never reach them, as they clearly had a very long, at least 7 year leadtime. If it is FTL, then why is it taking so long to reach anywhere? Besides the name of the video is Shelter, not Transport, and Rin's Shelter had no active means of propulsion in space.

i got an ad of ppap lol

The fact that every anime needs a movie or series to entertain people But when Shelter came out 🤷

This does not need to be explained. it's self explanatory.

A very interesting thing to notice is how the virtual landscapes she draws get progressively more surreal. - - She starts with 'regular' places, like a cozy room and a landscape with hills, trees and rivers. - Then she takes herself to icy lands with aurora borealis, and runs around on a fiel, where rocks surge from the flood beneath her feet, as she jumps. - Next up she shows up in a beautiful rainy bamboo forest, and in this fantastical crystal island with a blue-red background. - Then she's in a bathtub with her tablet half-sunk (*hint hint* it's not real, viewers :D) and goes right off to crazy things like an apocalyptic landscape and this dream-like black-white-red place where trees grow cubes. It's like she's almost losing contact with reality. And that's when the message kicks in, she sees all her past memories and we got the ending. Bonus points for them showing us how the father notices how much she likes to draw :)

Personally my opinion is that we can escape in technology but feel really Lonely and that reality is always painful and sometimes it's better than knowing what is somethings definition but in those definitions it can either make us stronger and let us move on or just be trapped in the thought of those definitions so that is what is think about shelter but its just my theory don't let it influence what you think

I CRIED WHEN SHE WAS REMEMBERING AND TRIED TO REACH FOR HER FATHER, JESUS. THANKS FOR BREAKING MY HEART, ANIME.

How did he know what the message said?

The interpretation is amazing. Thanks a lot for uploading this. The feels after finally getting the true essence of the anime ❤😍

how can she survived without eating for 7years ?

No matter what theories would be conveyed, the fact that Rin's father sacrificed his time, effort and dedication to let her continue living even if meant for her to be alone.... is extremely sad :(

Shelter tells the story of Rin, a 17-year-old girl who lives her life inside of a futuristic simulation completely by herself in infinite, beautiful loneliness. Each day, Rin awakens in virtual reality and uses a tablet which controls the simulation to create a new, different, beautiful world for herself. Until one day, everything changes, and Rin comes to learn the true origins behind her life inside a simulation.

I'm glad you were here to explain this. I'm really not good at understanding artsy stuff despite being really quite smart, but I knew there was a lot here packed into such a short show. Thank you! Also, despite having been around on KZfaq since quite early on (50,000 subs was the highest in all of Britain), I'd never found I channel I just HAD to subscribe to until this one.

this is the first video i’ve seen from you, but it’s great. keep it up!!

SEEKING TO A LIVING PLANET: MUSIC SQUEAL?

they should make a part 2 of this, idk why but the possibility of many theories being right at the same time just bothers me i need closure dammit

So like many others, I believe Rin has been in the space pod for 10 years. One of the things I noticed was it said that there were no messages in 7 years, so it's possible that she had received a message, or multiple messages, during the first three years in space. Another possible scenario is that the simulation itself started after she was in space for three years, so therefore the message box would have started receiving messages after the 3 years.

This is a masterpiece and has a powerful message to those that are loosing hope that they should keep going! even tho they think that they are alone out there in the world and to remember all the people that love them! What i get from this is that she knows shes alone, everyday since she was saved by her fathers love, he could have gone with her but she had more chances of survival and maybe finding a planet with the resources he could get for her knowing that he sent her out alone with that hope in mind. For years she has been alone drifting through space in a VR he made for her so she wouldint get lonely and every now and then she looses hope and has forgotten her short time and memories with her father it is then the tablet suddenly put's things in for her and by doing so she slowly remembers and when she has lost all hope the tablet takes over drawing the town she lived in showing her ,her memories of the time she spent with her father that loved her very much and what he did for her, she misses him and through out the video you can see that she yells out for him to wait as she streches out her hand trying to get to him but cant. That is when all hope was lost.. then as everything gets dark she get's her fathers message and final words which gives her hope and the will to keep going and remembers that he saved her and even tho she is all alone she wont get lonley because he will always be in her heart watching over her.

Shelter give me a strange feeling when i first watch it kinda hurts my heart when i first watch it and my heart hurts for a month im good aftet that now that i know the real meaning it hurts even more. Such a great father.

Ii really think that the message trigger when she reach a determinate age, but honestly, i like more your optimistic interpretation.

I saw future diary in the intro. You got a subscription

I think you forgot to add that her memories began to quietly leak images such as the swing set which she didn't recognized from her tablet...

Your intro saying thing reminds me a lot of Game Theory Good theory htw

I watch the m/v like 900000000000000 times

when ever any idea of loneliness comes up in this way it brakes my heart in multiple ways. it doesn't just give feel for the character but giving me a feeling that could fuel depression for an eternity. . . its just a sad concept and to be honest i wouldnt wish this kind of fate on any one not even the most evil of souls . . . it goes with out saying that this is one of my deepest fears losing or worse finding out everything ive come to no is fake . . . ( through out typing this ive actually been holding back alot of tears )

shelter is one of my favorite anime videos. SUCH AN AMAZING STORY. I LOVE IT SO MUCH!

your theory is good

Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Game Th-i mean Anime Theory XD

He sent her to space just to make her live. awww what a great dad.

I've loved this short since it came out but never knew what the message she received toward the end said, so thanks for that!

The story: Me crying The end

This Shelter anime is amazing i just wish they could make an anime for just a bit more things they could add like how she is surviving everyday, what she is trying to achieve and ya. I think it would be really nice if there was an anime series to this. and maybe a season 2 where there were a couple other survivors and their goal is to start a new life again in a different planet.

I love the retro future diary theme opening you played for your opening!

i really hope that shelter could have an anime than just a short story

You need way more subscribers dude way more

Wonderful explanation, thank you. But this is so sad . 😭

I have never seen this short before since i only got into anime and manga in 2021😢 i saw a post by CR talking about it and was so confused why everyone was being sad in the comments until i saw your video. Really good stuff. There is so much i am still discovering in anime

I know I'm late but I see shelter boi I click! My screen has a crack 😭 this was amazing ✌️

Dude.. she was 7 when she escape earth.. You can see her age at 3:57 in Shelter video... so she's in space for 10 earth years.. i think the simulator activated 3 years before the distraction of earth.. Ow yeah! ever wonder why the places that Rin and her father visit still looks good even though that at the news the world is in apocalyptic state? My theory to that is both of them are in a simulation(i think?) i want to hear your thoughts on my theory..

Free or Noragami

awesome video man great job

She's DREAMING all of those in the spaceship!

Uploaded on my birthday :)

when i watched this vid, i remember my dad and i miss my dad. i cried sorry if my english are bad

hey man... keep on making great teories... i love your teories and i believe you will reached hundred thousand of subs or maybe million .. ;)

dude you're a good youtuber you're gonna be big!

Ok goodnight into the next vid ok

how is she there--- but then she's in the pod?

I think she's gonna live on that pod forever, Since she was in it for seven years. Her body can not stay alive by itself anymore, But even though she's lonely and gonna stay on it until she dies, She's happy because she knows what her dad did for her! But there's a map or something showing a planet, so maybe she's being sent to another planet where there's more humans or human like beings?

Dope theory I love your channel

I cried 2 much to hate this😢 How can anybody hate this anime? It's amazing ☺

i under standed it frome the first time ive seen it

Everytime ive watched the Shelter video, ive balled my eyes out and i love it so much!❤❤

Agreed even its a short video it's so good!

I mean...technically you did lain. shelter is sort of like it...because spoilers. but yeah. lol anyway, I think this is generally what everyone else thinks of what shelter is. if not then at most, its a simulation made for her by her father to keep her safe. also lol you keep jumping to other animes before getting to your schedule. I have no problem with this but its just odd is all. it would be better if you just stop haveing previews of your next theory if this keeps up. either way, keep making theorie bro. c:

Fucking ruined it!!!! it was so perfect until you mentioned the "moving at the speed of light" part and alpha centauri part... the star is too hot and does not have any proper planets in it's goldilock zone... any object with mass cannot travel at the speed of light and the show was based relatively in the near future, with almost the same technology so the pod with it's size would not have enough energy to get to even 70% light speed let alone stop when it reaches where ever. The closest know habitable planet is keplar-452b and it's like a 1000 light years away so nop! so it would take her atleast 1001 years to get there. The final cut shows that the pod is still or not moving veryfast.... anyways great video! keep it up!

LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!!!!!!! That intro!!! ♥️♥️😍

Thanks bro your interpretation are the best for me

There are so many plot holes to Shelter. My friends are crying to me about this when the story isn't exactly all that spectacular. Honestly.

Rin looks like she's 10

is it me or I just clicked this video curious what kind of theory is in shelter and knowing what is happening in shelter