Project #133: Zankyou no Terror

Hello and welcome to Project Nitsuj. Let’s talk about terrorism. Terrorism is definitely one of the biggest taboo subjects to talk about in today’s world. It’s a subject people don’t want to talk about but it’s a subject that can’t be ignored especially in today’s world. Now terrorism is nothing new to media. There are lots of movies and shows out there that have terrorist as the villains and it’s up to our badass hero to save the day and kill all those terrorist who wish to hurt us. So when Watanabe announced that his next anime was going to be about terrorism nobody was really all that shocked. However, they were shocked when he announced that the main characters of the show were the terrorist. This shocked everybody, nobody knew how to react to this information. They didn’t know whether to be intrigued by this anime or disturbed but they all tuned in anyway to check out Watanabe’s new anime Zankyou no Terror. Zankyou no Terror when translated means Terror in Resonance and came out in 2014 under the production of MAPPA a new animation studio that got started in 2011 by Masao Maruyama the founder of Madhouse, one of my favorite animation studios in Japan. This anime was named one of the best animes of 2014 and was voted on by you fans as AOTY in my blogs. It’s also the only Watanabe anime not to be dubbed in English as of yet. Let’s check out Watanabe’s most controversial and riskiest anime to date. This is Zankyou no Terror.

 

Opening and Ending Theme

 

The opening for this anime is “Trigger” by Yuuki Ozaki (from Galileo Galilei). The opening is beautiful and was my second favorite opening from 2014. The music is great, the singer fantastic, the lyrics deep and meaningful, and the animation matches up perfectly with the song. It’s as if we’re getting a first inside look into the minds of our main characters. I also like how near the end of the opening they do a shout out to Cowboy Bebop. Little touches like that are great. The ending for this anime is “Dareka Umiwo” by Aimer. Once again the song is beautiful and takes us into the mind of our third and innocent protagonist into the series. This song has all of the qualities that made the opening so great. Great music, talented singer, deep and meaningful lyrics, but the one thing that really sales this ending is the animation that goes along with it. By God, that animation is amazing.

 

Episodes 1-5

 

The anime begins in a nuclear power plant in the cold reaches of Aomori (wait, a nuclear power plant? I thought Japan closed down all of their nuclear plants after the Fukuushima nuclear disaster in 2011) where our two main terrorist have rob the place and escaped with a plutonium (scene here: //youtu.be/vVRT3OCv8PE, wow, great security work guys. You just let two high schoolers escape with something that could destroy an entire city in one minute). We fast forward 6 months later to Tokyo where our terrorist Nine the mature one with a bright mind and calm demeanor voiced by Kaito Ishikawa and his partner Twelve the one with a childlike personality voiced by Sōma Saitō are attending high school posing as students (the perfect cover). At the school Twelve takes an interest in a girl named Lisa voiced Atsumi Tanezaki a depressing girl who’s always being bullied by fellow classmates and seems to have problems at home (and the Watanabe formula is at work again here. Two males who are crazy, reckless, and dangerous with a female companion who seems to be the normal one of the group). We see the two don’t waste time giving Tokyo a good scare by creating a Youtube video of them ripping off Daft Punk and informing everyone the Shinjuku district will go dark and be lit up with flashes of fire (yeah whatever, sing Something About Us). They set their plan into motion where they cause a power outage in the district and using that time to plant bombs (in the form of dolls) into a building being evacuated. As Twelve is planting bombs he runs into Lisa and gives her one of the dolls leaving the choice of whether or not she should live all up to the Nine (well she’s dead, I know it’s only been 3 minutes of screentime but I’m gonna miss her). Nine calls her and tells her she has one of two options. One, die in a fiery explosion or two, become an accomplice in their plans (or 3, drop the doll and run to the police saying: holy shit my classmates are terrorist and they’re gonna kill me! Here’s what they look like, here’s their phone numbers! Please catch them). Not wanting to die she uses option 2 becoming their accomplice and gets saved by Twelve where he saves her from the exploding building. The upside to all of this is that nobody died in the attack and we end with Twelve and Lisa rejoining Nine not realizing what she’s gotten herself into (should of gone with option 4 kid. Which was RUNNNN~).

 

We start off episode 2 with Lisa returning to her home where we see her mother is a very frantic person (and that’s saying it nicely). Apparently Lisa’s dad ran out on them so now the mother is afraid that Lisa will do the same so she’s constantly texting her wanting to know where she is and having a panic attack whenever Lisa doesn’t respond to her messages (call Arkham). It’s a short scene but we clearly get an idea of what Lisa’s home life is like. It’s a life where she’s constantly being stressed out by her mother. After that all the safety forces in Japan have come together to investigate the bombing incident calling this an act of terror. In their investigation we get a more in-depth explanation into how the building (which was a government security building) came crashing down, how Nine and Twelve cover their tracks so that nobody could catch them, and the defense force discovers Nine and Twelve’s secret code V-O-N (whatever that means) which has them pretty scared. Back on the side of our terrorists they plan their next act of terror with Nine disguising himself as a raman shop delivery boy and delivers raman to a police station which is really a bomb. He plants the bomb in the station and leaves where they send out another Youtube video only this time they not only rip off Daft Punk (still waiting to hear you guys sing Something About Us) but they also rip off The Riddler and leave a riddle for the defense force to figure out in order to stop the bomb from going off (scene here: //youtu.be/5I4JUOdMxVw, explore. Solve my riddle. And when all of Tokyo is drowning in a sea of blazing fire you will know. . .that the numbers Nine and Twelve are better than you). The riddle of course is the sphinx riddle one of the most well-known and popular riddles out there. The police think they figured out the riddle but in truth they haven’t and go to the wrong building. Shibasaki voiced by Shunsuke Sakuya, a police officer who works for the archive division but used to be a part of the investigation division contacts the leader of the defense force and tells them that they went to the wrong place and that the bomb is in a police station but it’s too late. The bomb goes off in the police station but once again nobody was killed (a few injuries but nothing too serious or life-threatening). The leader of the defense force begs Shibasaki to rejoin the investigation saying that he knows who the bombers are and that they plan on picking a fight with Japan (and at the moment they are winning). Twelve also approaches Lisa again where he reminds her that she’s an accomplice now but not one of them and if she does anything to screw them over he’ll kill her (and he means it he will kill you).

 

Once again we get great exposition and story in episode 3 on the part of Shibasaki. Shibasaki has rejoined the investigation team and we learn a little more about him. We find out that he’s a member of the second generation atomic bomb victims of Hiroshima (ohhh~) and doesn’t like the summer because the town would always go quiet (like frighteningly quiet as if the city had become a ghost town). He also doesn’t like summer because in the past he was investigating the suicide of a politician which he didn’t believe was suicide out of depression but rather to keep quiet about something. Shibasaki traced the cased back to his police department but was forced to drop the case and as punishment was moved to archives. During the investigation of the second bombing police have come to realized that Nine ignored all of the security cameras in the police station and take this as a direct signed that the terrorist are challenging the police force of Tokyo (oh wow I totally forgot about that. He didn’t hide his face or anything. He just dropped the bomb off and left. I’m surprised he didn’t wave to camera). During more investigating Shibasaki finds out that the construction worker who cut the power line in episode 1 was paid to do it and that Nine and Twelve are the same guys who stole plutonium from the plant in Aomori. Nine and Twelve plant their next bomb and this time they actually give a time when the bomb is set to go off (well that’ll add more pressure to the investigation team). The riddle this time is a follow up to last episode’s riddle where the bomb is in a building next to a temple that holds some connection to Oedipus. Through enough investigation and studying Shibasaki figures out their riddle and actually does a live feed where he tells all of Tokyo hoping that Nine and Twelve will hear is answer. His answer is correct and the boys are impressed with him (alright, we got us an even playing field now). As for Lisa, she finally reaches her breaking point with her mom and runs away (like father like daughter).

 

In episode 4 the police are still stuck in trying to figure out who Nine and Twelve are. Even though they were able to trace all of their purchases which they got from Amazon (Amazon. Providing you safe and easy E-commerce solutions for all your daily terrorist attacks) the police are still no closer to finding out who these guys are. If anything they’re actually further away from finding out who these guys are. Even when Shibasaki goes to Aomori in the hopes of finding out Nine’s identity he comes up short because nobody remembers him working there (it’s as if the police force were chasing ghosts or everything that’s been going on has just been an elaborate scheme that they’re pulling on themselves). The guys have once again dropped off another bomb and this time instead of telling the police to find the bomb they instead tell them to stop it and they want no cheating otherwise the bomb will go off even if they solve the riddle (and if you guys do cheat I will throw you through a table and slap you silly). The riddle this time is the last part to Oedipus’ story where at the end of his life he is led to the Underworld by his daughters (well that’s very comforting) going down bronze stairs. And to add a little excitement to this bomb the guys upload a link to the bomb’s timer telling everyone that the Internet is the Underworld (no arguing that) and that the key to solving the bomb’s password and stopping it is to know thy self. Shibasaki tries to solve it but can’t figure it out while the rest of the police force think the bomb is in a building near one of the temples so they watch camera footage of all the temples (you dare spy on such holy grounds? A pox on you) and they think they see Nine drop the bomb off at one and rush out (you are cheating~). Shibasaki figures out that the password is his name but the bomb’s timer refuses to stop because the rest of the police force cheated and didn’t follow the rules (//youtu.be/iq87efgyRuU?t=12s). The bomb goes off and this time instead of it being a physical bomb (oh no that would have been better for the police) it was instead an internet bomb. Nine managed to hack into the Metropolitan police station’s database which is the station leading the investigation on the terrorist case and uploads all of the investigation reports online and sends them to everyone in Tokyo where everyone can see how much the police are failing. In the side story of this episode, Lisa wonders the streets homeless until Twelve comes to get her since he’s been keeping an eye on her and has somehow put a tracking device in her phone (you know, if he wasn’t creepy already than this would definitely make him creepy). She willingly goes with him (I guess she has a thing for terrorist boys) where we get a cool motorcycle scene between her and Twelve (scene here: //youtu.be/EHHMkIbd2wI, that’s actually a legit question are you boys going to destroy the world?). He takes her back to his place where Nine says he can’t keep her and she passes out right in front of them (now they have to take her in).

 

In episode 5 Nine and Twelve take Lisa in because she has the fever and leaving her out on the streets would be too mean and cruel (aww~ they like her. Or at least 12 does). We get a few comedic moments with her such as her almost accidently setting off a bomb in their apartment (boy that would have been ironic) and trying to cook them a meal which turns out to be disgusting (she’s really proving how useless she is to them isn’t she?). The boys set their next bomb on a subway and this time make the riddle so easy and simple that Shibasaki is able to solve it within 3 minutes (man, these guys must like Shibasaki if they’re just feeding him easy riddles like this). Even though the police know where the bomb is the higher ups have order them not to move out saying a special task force will take care of it (well that’s not a good sign). Nine and Twelve begin to worry because news of the bomb being found hasn’t been broadcast yet so now it’s up to them to disarm it before it kills a whole cart full of passengers and they can add mass murderers to their list of names people will call them. Yeah, something you’ll notice about all of their attacks so far is that no one has been reported dead. There’s been a few injuries but so far no one has died in any of their attacks. This tells us that these guys aren’t after blood, death, and chaos it’s something else something that only they know. While Twelve goes out to look for the train Nine hacks the data banks of the railroad hoping to find the train where they placed the bomb but somebody has laid a trap for him and instead infected his computer with a virus. Nine grabs another computer and finds out that the train is close to where they live and he goes there himself to stop it. He arrives at the station, sets off a smoke grenade scaring everyone away, and gets a dumb passenger who has her headphones on (idiot) off the train in time before the bomb explodes. We end the episode by finding out that the person who arranged for all of this to happen is a new character named Five voiced by Megumi Han who had some relationship with Nine in the past (old girlfriend Nine? If only her name was six that would have been perfect).

 

Episodes 6-11

 

Episode 6 serves as build up for the battle to come between Nine, Twelve, and Five. We find out that when these 3 were younger they tried to escape the institute that was holding them. Even though Nine and Twelve escape Five for some reason (and that reason being is she’s insane) choose to stay in the institute. It’s now years later and she works for the FBI (speaking very bad engrish) wanting to finish her game of chess she started with Nine when they were kids (you wanna have sex with Nine don’t you Five? Cause that’s the crazy vibe you’re giving off here). In order to force the boys out she pretends to be them and sends another riddle to the police saying there’s a bomb set to go off at the airport. Nine and Twelve knowing that she’ll seriously set off the bomb and kill hundreds if not thousands of people make the choice to go to the airport and defuse it themselves knowing that it’s a trap waiting to happen. Lisa joins them saying she wants to be one of them (about time she did something, earn your keep around here girl) and Shibazaki along with other police officers go to the airport to investigate even though they were ordered by the top brass not to move out. Nine and Twelve make it into the airport where Five finds them through the video cameras and begins the game of chess where if they win the bomb’s location will be given to them (//youtu.be/Y5JxIrn4OVs) and the chess board is the airport (this is going to be great).

 

So much epicness in episode 7. Nine plays his chess game with Five while Twelve hides behind blind spots from the cameras and security guards to make his way up to the airports data center. Lisa sets off a flare in the women’s bathroom distracting Five and allowing Twelve to sneak into the data center and place recorded video over the cameras fooling Five (check bitch). Five discovers this and steps outside the camera room where she gets confronted by Nine holding a gun (checkmate bitch). Nine confirms that the bomb they’re looking for is at gate 106 (um don’t talk just shoot the crazy bitch) and Five tells Nine that she has Lisa who got caught by police security because she was acting suspicious in the airport (one job! You had one job and you failed! I’m sorry, I didn’t wanna use this but, //youtu.be/m5RtlpXsl8k). Nine is forced to fall back and regroup with Twelve at gate 106 where they don’t find the bomb because the bomb is on the plane heading towards gate 106 and Lisa is on it. Five is controlling the plane remotely from the watch tower swarming with security so getting inside isn’t possible for them but Nine does know someone who can get in, Shibasaki. He calls Shibasaki up, tells him who’s really behind this and he busts his way into the watch tower where he forces them to turn the plane away from the airport (nice move Shibasaki). Nine and Twelve rescue Lisa before the bomb goes off thus ruining all of Five’s plans (sometimes you win some sometimes you lose some. Also, here’s all the funny engrish lines from Five. Scene here: //youtu.be/0hrwTMPrrk8, six).

 

After the events in episode 7 Shibasaki and the others are suspended from the police force with Shibasaki suspended indefinitely (so this is his reward for having the balls to stand up and do what’s right. Can no country go uncorrupted?). But Shibasaki doesn’t let this stop him from continuing his investigation where he discovers that 7 years ago there was a government sponsored project called the Athena Plan that took orphans in with special gifts and removed them from the face of the Earth (so they abducted the children). Shibasaki believes that Nine and Twelve were a part of this project and are planning something big that will shake the very fabric of Tokyo (you have no idea). Back on Nine and Twelve’s side of the story, Five somehow found their hideout, sent a bomb to the place and had it explode thus destroying the hideout (how the hell did she find out where they were living, I don’t even know where they’re living and this crazy bitch manage to find them with ease? That makes no sense, they don’t even give a hint as to how she found them she just did). With their hideout destroyed they move to their second hideout which is an abandoned retro arcade (hey they got Donkey Kong). Nine says it’s time to execute their final plan sooner than expected since Five is on the scene (you should of shot her when you had the chance) and Lisa leaves saying she doesn’t want to be in their way anymore (well at least she recognizes how much she’s breaking up the band like Yoko did with the Beatles. Also, while I’m glad she recognizes her faults it’s probably not the best idea to go outside considering that Five KNOWS WHAT YOU LOOK LIKE AND IS STALKING YOU VIA CAMERA!). And sure enough Five finds her and captures her (it’s getting really hard to find this character likable). Five sends pictures to Twelve and Nine showing she has Lisa and Twelve goes to rescue her to end the episode (he’s in love with a useless emo girl).

 

Episode 9 is an intense episode. In the first part Shibasaki finds out the truth about the Athena Plan. In this project the children who were abducted by the government had what’s known as savant syndrome a real life condition where the brain function is extremely high but only in a specific area (such as a person could suck at math but they accelerate at art). The goal of the project was to artificially reproduce the syndrome and create humans who accelerated in different areas (a super-human project so to speak). 26 children were gathered and chosen to be test subjects where they administer a drug to their bodies to help bring out their true potential but the bodies and minds of the test subjects couldn’t handle the drug and died from it. Out of all the test subjects the only one to leave alive was Five who was taken in by the American government after they found out about the project and Nine and Twelve escaped about a year before the project was officially shut down. We also find out that the three don’t have very long to live (noo~ it’s Cowboy Bebop all over again only this time more painful). Twelve arrives at the amusement park where Lisa is being held captive in the Ferris wheel where he gets in (//youtu.be/4F4qzPbcFiA) and locked inside with Lisa who has multiple bombs on her body and Twelve only has 10 minutes to disarm them all. Right away we can tell that Twelve won’t make it in time (this is what you get for falling in love Twelve) and Five tells him she’ll disarm the bomb herself if Twelve tells her where he and Nine hid the atomic bomb (what! Holy shit you guys were trying to destroy the world). Yep, apparently it wasn’t plutonium that they stole it was actually an atomic bomb that Japan was working on in secret (didn’t you learn your lesson from the last war?). Twelve gives in and betrays Nine telling them that the bomb is at the school in their locker (you hid the bomb in the school? What the hell?). Just as Nine is going to get the bomb the police show up and he escapes in the nick of time before getting captured with the bomb.

 

At the start of episode 10 Nine gives himself up to the police (EHHHHHHHHHHHHHH~) but he refuses to talk to anyone except Shibasaki who’s on leave. They work out a deal where Nine will give a live press conference telling Japan everything and give the bomb back to them but if they break their promise to him and for any reason whatsoever he can’t make it to the conference in person the bomb will go off. The US government want to take Nine in because the reason they’re here in the first place was to get that bomb out of the hands of the Japanese but the Japanese refuse to have the US interfere in this case any longer which pisses Five off because she won’t let anyone have Nine but her (she already took out Six, Seven, and Eight so who knows what she’ll do). Twelve on the other hand isn’t sure if he should go save Nine because he feels he’s betrayed Nine and is unworthy to save him (//youtu.be/DhfR17Yvgcc). After a bit of convincing from Lisa (still trying to give her purpose huh anime?) Twelve decides to help Nine. As Nine is being transported to the conference Five attacks the car carrying him but Twelve comes in to stop her until he takes a nasty spill on the road (thank God he has his helmet on). Five’s superior says he’s had enough and tells Five to stop but she shoots him and continues pursuing Nine who has escaped the van carrying him. Five and Nine finally come face to face where she says her whole purpose of living was to beat Nine but it’s too late because her time is up. She kisses Nine and kills herself right in front of him (I’m gonna miss her engrish). With Nine not making to the press conference a recorded message goes on throughout the city telling everyone that Nine has launched the atomic bomb which will go off in 2 hours and nobody can stop it.

 

In the final episode we see that Nine isn’t setting the bomb off on the ground (no that would be too cliché) he instead launched the bomb into the stratosphere where it will kill no one but it will cause an EMP shockwave to go off bringing all of Japan back to the age of darkness and make any aircraft currently flying stop functioning and crash to the ground (okay so they might kill a few people). Shibasaki figures out his plan and tells the police but he’s too late the bomb is in the stratosphere and Japan’s jets can’t reach it (oh man Japan is screwed). Lisa finds Twelve and nurses him back to health (about time she did something useful) and the bomb goes off bringing Japan to the age of darkness once again (but on the bright side the night sky does look frightening beautiful. Scene here: //youtu.be/DV28waq9YbA). The next day Nine, Twelve, and Lisa go the graves of the other numbers and Nine forgives Twelve. After that they just spend the day playing soccer and listening to some music until Shibasaki shows up where we find out the whole plan this time was for the two to get captured so that the whole world would be focus on them and they could tell their story to everyone (it was a perfect plan and all they needed was a smart detective to catch them). They give themselves up to Shibasaki as long as he promises to protect Lisa and just before Shibasaki can make a proper arrest the U.S government comes in prepared to take Nine and Twelve down because they know too much about the two bombings caused by Five (you’re gonna kill them over two bombs instead of facing the music yourselves? Our government folks). Nine pulls out a detonator saying that it’ll set off a nuclear plant in Japan if the U.S doesn’t back off but they take a shot at Twelve and kill him (noooooooo~, he was the heart of this anime). Nine breaks down in tears over the loss of his one and only friend and is about to set off a nuke but Shibasaki stops him saying that he promises to tell the world their story no matter what. Nine believes him and hands the detonator over to Shibasaki and kills himself leaving everything in Shibasaki’s hand (scene here: //youtu.be/HFBvH62fj9w). We end the anime one year later where the truth has been told to the world just like Nine and Twelve wanted and Lisa and Shibasaki living on with their lives while still remembering the boys (also Von is Icelandic for hope. And since I’m such a nice guy here are all the riddles: //youtu.be/ydOOwkKSzpA).

 

Final Thoughts

 

Amazing. What an amazing anime. Out of all of Watanabe’s animes this is the one anime that gives us the most plot and story. The story of this anime is like a great thriller mystery. I do like how Watanabe doesn’t use terrorism as a tool to create a story but instead he uses it as a tool to tell a deep and interesting story. He isn’t condoning the acts of terrorism but instead showing us why they’re forced to use extreme acts of violence to get their message across. The anime is neither with them nor against them and instead leaves that choice up to you the viewer to decide if their acts are just or not. The anime has a great air of mystery around it as you’re not entirely sure who’s side you should be cheering for but at the same time you cheer for everyone hoping that they win in the end. We want Nine and Twelve to achieve their goal, we want Shibasaki to deliver true justice, and we want Lisa to be useful and happy in this anime. We want to see all of our main characters come out on top but in the end we know that’s next to impossible. The realistic nature of this anime is great as it really does feel like we’re grounded in the real world. There are a few events that step away from the realistic nature of the anime but it’s all for the sake of the story.

 

The main characters of this anime are great. They’re not too complex but they’re given enough character and backstory that you come to care for them greatly. Nine and Twelve are great leading characters and I like how through the course of the anime get deep emotional-depth into these characters trying so hard to get recognized in the world that has rejected them while still seeking a connection with humanity. You truly do come to understand and relate to their struggles and motivations into what they’re doing and why they’re doing it. Plus, we know that the two care for human life as they make sure that no one dies in their attacks. They know who their enemy is and who the innocent bystanders are. Shibasaki really does come across as a real life veteran detective. He’s determined to stop Nine and Twelve but at the same time he knows the boys aren’t all bad and are trying to tell the world and him something very important. Because he’s a veteran detective he comes across as a mature wise man who’s very experienced with the norm of the world but at the same time he’ll act nonchalant at times and show his true emotions on when he thinks something is wrong.

 

Unfortunately the characters outside of these three characters aren’t really all that good. The side characters such as the government officials and other officers aren’t really all that interesting and aren’t given enough screentime for us to get a firm grasp on their characters. We have one young detective who kind of acts like Shibasaki’s partner who’s young, immature, and lacks experience resulting in him overseeing things and contradicting Shibasaki every step of the way. The others that do get screentime to develop are horrible. Lisa was completely useless in this anime. I know that she’s supposed to act as the human connection for the boys but could you have at least made her do something useful? This girl was pretty much their main downfall in the anime and Five almost ruins the anime for me. She’s just a very bland villain who’s presence in this anime could be erased and it wouldn’t change anything. Her character almost destroys the amount of realism the anime has with her games and distractions and while she had the potential to be a fantastic villain for the boys they drop the ball by not giving her an interesting motivation or background. The anime had potentially two great female characters that they just used incorrectly which is very rare to see in Watanabe’s work.

 

The animation for this anime is fantastic. The explosions in the anime are amazing to look at, like an actual explosion was happening right on screen. In fact everything in this anime looks and sounds real from simple objects like metal and glass having a realistic glare to the sounds of an airplane approaching a gate. One of my favorite scenes was the first person snow mobile ride as it makes you feel like you’re really piloting the snow mobile. This is the first anime I’ve seen done by MAPPA and if the rest of their animes are as good as this then these guys are right behind Studio Ghibli and Madhouse in terms of quality animation. Once again the music is out of this world. The music for this anime was done by Yoko Kanno who also did the music for Cowboy Bebop and just like she worked her magic in that anime she works her magic here. This anime honestly has the best soundtrack for any anime Watanabe has done so far. It even beats Cowboy Bebop’s soundtrack in terms of deliverance, style, and situation. I wouldn’t say I’m the biggest fan of Yoko’s work but when she nails it she nails it good and hard and once you listen to the full soundtrack of this anime you will see why everyone praises her so much.

 

Final Score

 

The final score for Zankyou no Terror is an 8.5/10 with a must watch stamp of approval. This anime may be Watanabe’s most controversial anime on the outside but in truth it’s one of the deepest and well-written animes I’ve ever seen. This is an anime that takes risk, steps away from the social norm of anime, and gives us all something truly amazing and worthwhile. This was the AOTY in 2014 and it rightfully deserves that title. Thanks for reading, and I’ll see you next time on Project Nitsuj.

 

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