#Zankyou no terror episode digibro series#

Supporting characters Kurahashi ( еЂ‰ж©‹) Voiced by: Hideaki Tezuka (Japanese) Sean Hennigan (English) The chief of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department station, who heads the investigation into Nine and Twelve's bomb threats. Her obsession with Nine exposes her willingness to endanger, or even kill, innocent people to get close to Nine and Twelve. She becomes an American FBI operative who travels to Japan as part of her duties with NEST to lend support to the terrorist attack investigations. Five ( гѓЏг‚¤гѓґ, Haivu) Voiced by: Megumi Han (Japanese) Jamie Marchi (English) She is the third survivor of the Rising Peace Academy experiment, highly competitive and has a love-hate relationship with Nine because of his talent. He is highly intelligent and is called back into the force to investigate the terrorist group Sphinx. KenjirЕЌ Shibazaki ( жџґеґЋ еЃҐж¬ЎйѓЋ, Shibazaki KenjirЕЌ) Voiced by: Shunsuke Sakuya (Japanese) Robert McCollum (English) A detective of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department who used to be an ace of the police force's investigations division, but was demoted to its records division after continuing an unauthorized investigation. She is befriended by Nine and Twelve who save her from bullies at her school and she becomes caught up in their plans. Lisa Mishima ( дё‰еі¶ гѓЄг‚µ, Mishima Risa) Voiced by: Atsumi Tanezaki (Japanese) JДЃd Saxton (English) A schoolgirl with a problematic life both at home and school. He uses the civilian identity of TЕЌji Hisami ( д№…и¦‹ е†¬дєЊ, Hisami TЕЌji) and is skilled at operating vehicles like motorbikes and snowmobiles. He is kind and caring, and befriends the lonely schoolgirl, Lisa.

Twelve ( гѓ„г‚Ёгѓ«гѓ–, Tsuerubu) Voiced by: SЕЌma SaitЕЌ (Japanese) Aaron Dismuke (English) An apparently childish young man who is the second member of Sphinx. He and Twelve are survivors of a secret experiment by the Rising Peace Academy to develop 26 highly intelligent orphaned children into human weapons. He is one of the masterminds behind Sphinx. They befriend Lisa, a lonely schoolgirl, who becomes caught up in their plans to expose the nefarious activities of the organization.Д¬haracters Main characters Nine ( гѓЉг‚¤гѓі, Nain) Voiced by: Kaito Ishikawa (Japanese) Christopher Bevins (English) A secretive young man with a bright mind and calm demeanor, who moves to Tokyo and attends high school alongside Twelve under the name Arata Kokonoe ( д№ќй‡Ќ ж–°, Kokonoe Arata). They are survivors of a secret experiment by the Rising Peace Academy to develop orphaned children with Savant syndrome into human weapons. Calling themselves 'Sphinx' ( г‚№гѓ”гѓіг‚Їг‚№, Supinkusu), they upload a video onto the Internet and threaten to destroy Tokyo city unless a cryptic riddle can be solved. My overall rating for Zankyou no Terror is a 9/10.In an alternative iteration of the present, two teenage boys who go by the names Nine and Twelve steal a prototype atomic bomb in an apparent terrorist attack. The opening theme (very important for animes) is also very good (attached). The music is also fantastic, capturing the mood of every scene.

ItвЂ™s almost like watching a watercolor in motion. These videos spread their message almost as fast as their attacks, showing the rise of the internetвЂ™s power in the modern age.ДЇrom a technical stand point, Zankyou no Terror has some of the best animation I have ever seen. They always reveal these messages via YouTube. To reinforce their point, Nine and Twelve adopt the name вЂњSphinxвЂќ and leave the police cryptic messages, revealing the nature of their crimes. Their goal is not to attack Japanese society as a whole, but to alert society to the shortcomings of the government at its center. Nine and TwelveвЂ™s attacks are always highly public, claim no lives, and highlight the dysfunctionality of a government that, they feel, has failed them. Nine and Twelve suffered as orphans, and possibly test subjects, when they were children.

#Zankyou no terror episode digibro series#

This series takes an interesting spin on terrorism as the main characters use it almost as a form of expression. This series is told from the terroristsвЂ™, Nine and Twelve, points of view. I chose this series first because it deals with a hot topic in both Japanese and American society: terrorism. Without further ado, the first series will be Zankyou no Terror (Trans: Terror in Resonance), a 2014 Summer anime released by studio MAPPA that is eleven episodes long. Japanese word of the day: вЂњnoвЂќ which means вЂњofвЂќ, usually in the possessive sense, but can mean вЂњinвЂќ or вЂњonвЂќ to ease in translation (as it is in this animeвЂ™s title)

Sequel series will be included in the same blog post as the original series (anime seriesвЂ™ second second+ seasons often go by different names like the Star Wars movies). The way this blog will work is each post will examine one anime series. If you havenвЂ™t guessed from the title, I have decided to do an anime blog.