The purpose and meaning of the main characters’ actions are only revealed in the last few episodes, due to which they come off as distant.īut apart from all these flaws, there are certain good aspects to the anime as well. But instead, with its lackluster characters and predictable storyline, the show just goes on without really fleshing out the true motivation behind what the characters are doing.
#Shibazaki zankyou no terror series
The series initially shows a lot of potential and could’ve been a great cat and mouse game just like ‘ Death Note‘.
But this whole concept takes a nosedive because the way it is shown creates no sense of tension or terror between the two parties. It shows you the perspectives of the terrorists and the policemen who are chasing them. The way the plot is written is also quite interesting. This is what initially caught my attention and knowing that such a unique concept is coming from Watanabe, I knew that this one would be worth it. The concept is brilliant and has never really been used in any other anime series. The beautiful purple-pink sky that highlights everything, the heavy music crescendos, as deals are made and characters die.As the title suggests, ‘Zankyuo no Terror’ is an anime about terrorism. The final five minutes of the series are among the best they’ve ever done in every regard.
But of course this show couldn’t do that. “Shibazaki, you are Oedipus” also hits pretty hard and a satisfying callback to the humble beginnings of everything, as well as the final layer to what Sphinx’s plan was all along.Įnding on this would have been fine, with Sphinx’s plan being realized. Nine adding a gravestone for Five, along with the rest of the Athena test subjects is really touching and beautiful. There’s some really deep material going on in this aftermath section that could definitely feel manipulative under a weaker team. We’re told that “Von,” the title of the episode, means “Hope,” and so it’s pretty enlightening that the idea of obtaining this hope is after tearing down so much. It’s the series’ lightest material and it follows immediately after their darkest. There’s an extended ball game sequence, and circus-like music bounces the scenes along. So it’s kind of amazing that what comes next is largely just Nine, Twelve, and Lisa playing around as if they’re the last people on earth.
Seeing everything go black, including the phone running the countdown for the bomb itself, is brilliant.
Time and time again this show hasn’t taken easy exits or cheated their way out of messes, and so this ballsy choice shouldn’t have been that surprising. I found myself kind of speechless that half way through the episode, they pull the very tremendous trigger on this thing and actually blow up that damn bomb. It’s kind of wonderful that such a grounded, as authentic as possible approach is taken to try and fix this crazy situation that hasn’t had to be dealt with in real life, just so we see if it could be stopped, and with a show as dour as this, I found myself thinking that it wouldn’t be all that surprising to see the atomic bomb go off, Shibazaki and co unable to stop it, but aware of where it was the entire time. Knowing this information and actually stopping the bomb is a different story, with some pretty engaging, realistic troubleshooting, like the bomb floating above the jets’ altitude limit.