His name was Yuzo Miyajima, but that was a fake name and they also got a sketch of culprit. The culprit was a facility employee who had only worked there for a few months. They look at the footage of the security cameras who were in police station which was bombed and take that the video is a confirmation of their challenge to the police.Īfter the meeting Kurohashi and Shibasaki meet each other in the park and it seems like they found one of the culprits behind the plutonium from the nuclear fuel reprocessing facility in Aomori. The police holds another meeting to discuss the bombing of the police station which happened in the previous episode. You don’t need words to convey the sense of fear that was emanating from that flashback.Shibazaki joins the team working on the Sphinx Case while Sphinx tries to confirm suspicions of their own with their next riddle. Oh my gosh, I almost forgot to say something about that dream sequence. The subject matter itself is still up in the air as to whether or not it will grab my heart, but at the very least I can watch and enjoy the technical excellence going into this show. First episodes, for me, are always a matter of building confidence, and I feel like I’m in good hands here. I don’t have too much to say about the story or the characters at this point, but from a craft perspective, Zankyou no Terror really impressed me. There were a couple pieces of the soundtrack that actually caught my ear (a rarity for me) during the first and final scenes, which I would say was a good thing this time. If I recall correctly, Watanabe is supposed to be known for his integration of music into his work, and I’ll be interested to see what he does with it going forward. And the music by Yoko Kanno was top-notch, as well. I’ve never heard of MAPPA before, but I’m impressed with their work here. The final collapse of the building rivaled the animation of Aldnoah.Zero‘s widely acclaimed final cataclysm, and the visual vibe of the show reminds me a lot of the GoHands style. Which is worse./?Īesthetically, Zankyou no Terror looks and sounds great. Even before she utters the line, “I wish everyone would just disappear,” shots like the first one in this piece convey a look that very clearly reads as loathing. Nevermind the absurdity of someone getting coerced (sort of? I mean, she could have chose to die) into joining a terrorist duo and the due actually being totally cool with accepting her-Lisa clearly has some problems in her life, and I’m not sure an overattentive mother is the answer. To me, the more interesting character is Lisa Mashima, the unhappy, bullied school girl who gets roped into being an accomplice in the two boys’ terrorist attack. One of my favorite moments was the repetition of the shots when Nine and Twelve are placing the bombs, and then again when the bombs go off.Ĭharacter-wise, Nine and Twelve are a normal anime pairing-Twelve being kind of genki, happy-go-lucky Nine being cool and brooding. The rest of the episode was a little more standard, with a lot more dialogue filling the time, but there were still moments when the visuals took over. Everything that needed to be conveyed was done in the space of a few seconds. They exchange a helpless look, make worried noises, and then the scene moves on. Nine gestures with a gun towards the stolen object (presumably a bomb of some sort) and the shot changes to the men watching him on the screen. My absolute favorite moment out of the first few minutes was the silent exchange between the figure I’m almost certain was Nine and the supervisors hapless watching through the camera.
All the action was conveyed through the visuals. And sure, there were people talking, but that was background, atmosphere. It takes a lot of artistry and cleverness to build an truly engaging-not just cheap thrills-but a truly immersive, instense scene like that without any dialogue. If I watched more stuff like the opening sequence of Zankyou no Terror, I would become a fabulous screenwriter just like that (I know this because I already see how studying character writing in shows like Monogatari has made me better at character writing). And it’s that lack of text that caught my writer’s eye. I want to start off with the opening scene of the show, an almost wordless high-speed theft involving grenades, guns, spray paint and snowmobiles. What can I even say about this shot? Just…man.
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