I mean his relative and one friend gave away the location of the bomb in the last episode, oh my, how convenient indeed. He was the only one advancing the plot, but even this with the most trivial and convenient ways possible, like I told you before. The whole cast of characters was so lackluster, with barely any real explained motivations or fleshed out ones among them, the only decent one being the detective Shibazaki. They should have spent more time on the "important characters" and explore those more.
And she also did pointless and silly riddles with bombings, which the main characters now had to solve and disarm… While the character of Five was not complete useless, I do agree that she shouldn’t have been there. And to do this she went overboard multiple times, resulting in countless casualties, damages and wounded innocents along the way, for a ridiculous, nonsensical and compleely unjustified reason and motivation if you ask me. She seemed just like a psychotic woman who had to stop Sphinx because the US said so. Five was basically the point on when I almost gave up on the show.
Also in the end he meets a few men who willingly agree to just tell him everything he wants to know in fullest detail, just because.Īnother point when the show took a huge nosedive in my opinion, was when a former “friend” of the main characters “Nine” and “Twelve” was introduced as their nemesis, called “Five”. I mean Shibazaki (together with "Five" in the middle part of the anime) was the only one driving the plot along thanks to his super knowledge and his daughter who knows a lot about bombs and nukes. How the story played out felt a bit cheap in general. I’m sure you know what I am talking about.
#Is zankyou no terror movie#
It reminded me of some cheap Hollywood movie in which the protagonist finds out some very important clue due to something a kid spouts. I mean the main detective, Shibazaki, seemingly knows all of Greek mythology (that’s what the riddles are mostly based on) and at one point he clears a riddle because he watches his fat friend play a video game. What I found somewhat disappointing that there was no real tension during the moments when the investigations took place and the investigation process went waaaay too easy. The show generally shows its story from two perspectives, from the bomber’s, naming themselves “Sphinx”, and the police’s perspective. Either I didn’t get them, or the riddles were just there to make the show appear smart. That’s what I was thought to be quite interesting and I was hoping for there to be a message behind the bombings and some deeper meaning and connections, but sadly that wasn’t so.
And they announce their terrorist attacks on YouTube and ask the police riddles, so they may or may not stop the bomb from going off. That’s a weird characteristic for two young blooded terrorists, but there are reasons for this, obviously. Basically the show is about two special kids, who build bombs and make them explode, but with no people around so nobody gets hurt. “An anime about terrorism?” Sounds thrilling alright, but sadly it turned out to be quite a train wreck with lose plot and lackluster characters in the long run. The plot, or rather the premise, was what caught my attention and interest at first. Just make sure that I will NOT be able to hideĪll possible spoilers, so just read this review if you have already finished the show or dropped it and don’t consider picking it up again! Or if you just don’t care about spoilers. The show also gained a bit of a hype because of the famous Shinichiro Watanabe (Samurai Champloo, Cowboy Bebop), who I am in all honesty no big fan of, but okay, let's get this review started. Zankyou no Terror (Terror in Resonance or Terror in Tokyo in English) was one of my most anticipated titles of the season and I am sure I was not alone. How much did I praise you during the early few episodes, but how could I know that you will turn out how you did.
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