Anime/Manga ► Zankyou no Terror

[Nyangoro]

For those unaware, this is the second of director Watanabe's series this season (the other being Space Dandy, of course). It's also good. Here's why:

1) It's visually stunning. Like, there isn't a bad frame here. It just doesn't exist.
2) One of Kanno's best scores in a long time. Top-tier music.
3) Great chemistry between the two leads.
4) Battles of wits all around.
5) Things exploding.
6) Nuclear weaponry.

It's got it all.

Watch it.

 

[Oracle Spockanort]

I have to say, this is definitely my favorite new series of this season. The story is very intriguing and you can't help but keep watching because you want to know why these boys are terrorists and how Lisa will fit into all of this. (Also waiting for Five to appear in more than Nine's flashback nightmares)

The ending song is just as amazing

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[Hero]

The show is really reminding me of Death Note with Touji and Arata paralleling Light and Shibasaki paralleling L.

Good stuff.

 

[Nyangoro]

spirits flying at the speed of light~

 

[KingdomKey]

I caught up onto episode four now. What really grips me is how, they keep teasing the police with these riddles. I couldn't believe it when, they leaked all of those reports to the public. Some of the citizens were even smiling about it. Odd, don't you think? I'm starting to wonder if, the girl that keeps appearing in Nine's mind is alive or not? Kind of a brutal flashback on the concept of love. Utterly mysterious and suspenseful in some moments. I want to know more about Lisa's background too.

 

[Max]

I am still waiting for this to end before I watch it. It looks and sounds absolutely fantastic. The only reason I can control myself is knowing how short it will be.

 

[KingdomKey]

I am still waiting for this to end before I watch it. It looks and sounds absolutely fantastic. The only reason I can control myself is knowing how short it will be.

I don't know how you do it. After watching the first episode, I was pretty much hooked right into it. Oh boy, its beyond fantastic and definitely worth watching and waiting for new episodes to air.

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I should of known this episode was going to introduce [I]her. [/I] I'm astonished Nine would go out of his way to prevent the bomb from killing all of those people. What's even weirder is the fact that the new higher ups speak English. I found it amusing when, Lisa burnt all that food and accidentally set the phones off; it seems like Twelve is still getting too close to her. This episode gave me chills. I wasn't expecting this to be the results of this week's episode. Looks like Nine and Twelve will be upping their game against Five.

 

[KingdomKey]

You know, I really can't complain if this only has one season.

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I actually thought this episode was really intense. I wasn't certain how far Lisa was willing to go for Nine and Twelve. I dislike Five quite a lot. However, I suppose that's to be expected since she had Lisa locked into a plane. I'm actually starting to see small similarities to Death Note with the way Nine asked the detective to help him stop the plane from crashing into Gate 106. So, I'm going to suspect Nine and Twelve are going to keep Lisa close while dealing with Five. I kind of wish their backgrounds could of been expanded on, but I'm starting to see this is probably not going to happen. Which I'm okay with for the most part. It kind of makes it harder to know what to expect will happen towards the ends of this season besides the obvious. I'm predicting someone dies at the end, or Lisa becomes a permanent member to their team. Plus, we still don't fully know what the word VON means.

Does anybody know if there's a manga of this out there to read?

 

[Nyangoro]

As long as the show can get to its message within these last four episodes, I'll be more than happy with the single season.

Also, it's an anime original; and as far as I know, there's no manga adaptation/spin-off announced at the moment.

 

[Oracle Spockanort]

Aimer's EP "dare ka, umi wo" just came out and it is gorgeous. The song is even more haunting in its full version.

(And if you're an Aimer fan like me, this album is practically the opposite of Midnight Sun in every way possible and I guess I love it for that because Midnight Sun was not her best)

 

[KingdomKey]

Is the full version up on youtube, Ethy? I was looking around for it earlier, but most were the shorten version. :3

At last, we get a brand new episode.

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What I really, really like about this episode is that the detective doesn't get abandoned by his team from the previous episode. It looks like he finally connected the dots about Nine, Five and Twelve. I'm not really sure what to expect to come out of this in the following episodes, since there are only ten episodes, right? It looks like things have shifted between Nine and Twelve. I'm sure all of us predicted why that would happen. I'm actually surprised the man was able to find Lisa so quickly and deliver that bomb to her. I guess its now a race against time itself. What with Twelve racing off to save Lisa. I'm only hoping that Nine goes after him and these last two remaining episodes ends with a bang to Five.

Hopefully I didn't mix the numbers up. xD

 

[Oracle Spockanort]

Is the full version up on youtube, Ethy? I was looking around for it earlier, but most were the shorten version. :3

Nope! Content ID has made it impossible to post on YT xD

 

[KingdomKey]

Another new episode that I don't have to wait around for! =D

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It looks like I was wrong, when it came to their backgrounds. I thought we wouldn't get enough time to dive into that, but it was done nicely in a neat bow. I pity the lives of Nine and Twelve the most. Five may of had it worse than Nine and Twelve, but I don't think she can change. It also sounds like the drug in their bodies are likely going to kill them, and shorten their life spans. If what that man said was true. Most likely I think Five will be the one to go down first. Anyhow, it was nice to have that little moment with Lisa and Nine, and it didn't push past the friends zone. So, I'm grateful for that. I still don't know what Twelve's end game will be, and if they'll continue on with their plan or not. I think there's two episodes left?

 

[KingdomKey]

Damn.

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I honestly have no idea how to feel right now. A part of me wants to rant because, we see have Five portrayed as the villain to some extent. Of course, her illness gets in the way of that. So watching Five say goodbye and blow herself up with a car in front of Nine was either anti-climatic or flipping poetic mixed in with insanity. I suppose there's no real hero in this unless you count Shizubaki and his group of suspended cops. They know the truth, but what good is it, if they're not making use of it? Then we have Twelve whom wasted the day trying to pretend he didn't care anymore. Thankfully Lisa knocks him out of it. I guess she's gone to far to go back to normalcy. I don't know if a relationship will ever transpire after this episode. What bugs me is that Twelve went through all that trouble to save Nine. Except now, we don't know if he's even still alive. The way this episode ended left my mouth hanging open.

 

[Space Cowboy]

So the series ended today.

Really not sure what to make of it.

Sure we had superb scenes such as the climax of Episode 9.

But altogether I thought it could do with some more time and development.

And less Five. I understand she was pretty much there to set up the Blade Runner replicant kind of scenario but still...

In the end, they spent too much time on her and not enough time developing the reasons for Sphinx's doings, as in the end...I did realise "Wait...why WERE they doing all this?" I know it got answered at the end, but it just reeked of "Oh shit, this is the last episode."

You've half disappointed me Watanabe.

 

[Nyangoro]

Having finished it, I have to say that, unfortunately, this show turned out to be pretty bad.

It's a shame, considering all the potential in the ideas presented by the end of the series. But it's so painfully executed that I just cannot bring myself to liking this show beyond the production values that were given it.

I hoped for a show much better than this. Watanabe doesn't actually have a lot of experience crafting a full, linear story, and that was made all too clear in this one. The delivery of its narrative was amateur at best.

All the potentially great elements either serve no purpose, are used once and then completely forgotten, or have no effective buildup supporting them. It's kind of a mess.

 

[Rhapsody]

I stopped watching at around episode 8 or 9. I just couldn't get over Lisa.

 

[Space Cowboy]

I stopped watching at around episode 8 or 9. I just couldn't get over Lisa.

So you dropped the series with only like 2 episodes to go?

Even if I wasn't getting on with the show, I'd at least give it till the end. Especially with how good the ending to 9 was.




I suppose that was the only good end 9 had though AM I RIGHT GUYS?

 

[Nyangoro]

Oh, the show's scenes are composed beautifully, which just makes it such a shame that the writing isn't strong enough to use them effectively.

The music playing as it pulls out to the wide shot of the ferris wheel slowly turning is beautiful. The bomb lifting high into the air as the episode ends with Nine finishing his last public announcement gave me chills.

Watanabe has a great understanding of scene composition/cinematography. That's why this is easily one of the most gorgeous shows of the year.

But oh my diddlying god, I wanted them to actually do something with Twelve's synesthesia, or create an actual motif with the raven, and so many other things. That would have lead to even more brilliant visual moments.

 

[Rhapsody]

So you dropped the series with only like 2 episodes to go?

Even if I wasn't getting on with the show, I'd at least give it till the end. Especially with how good the ending to 9 was.

I had already done so much eye-rolling up until that point that I just quit and relied on glorious tumblr gifs to give me the gist of everything thereafter.

I'll finish the series eventually, because it is visually amazinggg.