| Title: | Tokyo 24-ku
Tokyo 24th Ward
東京24区
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| Overall: | Unevaluated |
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2022, Sci-Fi, TV
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Animation - CloverWorks
ENOKI Junya
ISHIKAWA Kaito
R1 License - FUNimation
UCHIDA Yuma
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Shuta 'Shu' Aoi liked to think of himself as a hero, but was unable to rescue his female friend Asumi from their blazing school. She died in his arms, and a year later he continues to blame himself for the tragedy. He lives in the Far Eastern Special Administrative Region, AKA the 24th Ward, which is located on a man-made island in Tokyo bay. A year after the fire, Shu is in the middle of a little reunion with his friends Ran and Koki when they simultaneously get a strange cell phone call--from Asumi.
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Shuta 'Shu' Aoi liked to think of himself as a hero, but was unable to rescue his female friend Asumi from their blazing school. She died in his arms, and a year later he continues to blame himself for the tragedy. He lives in the Far Eastern Special Administrative Region, AKA the 24th Ward, which is located on a man-made island in Tokyo bay. A year after the fire, Shu is in the middle of a little reunion with his friends Ran and Koki when they simultaneously get a strange cell phone call--from Asumi.
12 episodes
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Tokyo 24-ku
(One episode watched)
The opening scene suggested that high tech topics like the internet, artificial intelligence, the accelerating flow of information, computers dominating people's lives, etc, would play a leading role in this show. It also looks like there will be a good sized cast--I hope it will be relatively easy to keep track of who's who. The scene in the fire seemed a touch melodramatic, and Shu struck me as possibly too cool after he beats up two trouble-makers in a corny fashion. He seems like a too-good-to-be-true vigilante for justice who protects his neighborhood and as a result is idolized by everyone. Takara was an elementary school? Everyone seems like high school age to me. Red-haired Ran is a sort of street artist who makes a living with a website that displays his sophisticated graffiti art (and is a skilled skateboard rider). Green-haired Koki is the son of a major CEO. I knew we would get a shock at or near the end of the episode, but otherwise this show was not thrilling me. It seemed pretty generic: a special district where people range from the desperate poor to the fantastically wealthy; a special police unit to watch over the area; a freedom-loving secret dissident organization; a main character who aspires to be a hero (and is so agile that you wonder if this is all a scene from a video game); some sort of high tech program, 'Hazard Cast' which will no doubt cause problems, etc. Nothing truly original struck me, and I was getting tired. It's hard to predict just what effect high tech will have on the future and 'wow' people with it today; if you can predict it now, it's not all that amazing. And all things considered, this 24th Ward seems like a pretty good place to live to me, not a place where the people are repressed. The streets are clean, for one thing, and about the greatest injustice is that the safety precautions for a new automated rail line are imperfect (everyone immediately realizes what went wrong and who is to blame after a malfunction). Maybe this repression is taking place in virtual reality; I don't know. When the climax of the episode came, it didn't make sense. Huh, what?! Wasn't the problem that the girl's foot (not the dog's leash) had gotten trapped underneath a rail? For a moment it looked as if Shu had emerged from some sort of virtual reality into a cylindrical room, but no explanation is offered and the conclusions he has drawn seem to remain unchanged. Basically, this show seems like a mess. Impossible things happen but we get no explanation. Some sort of device is apparently offering different 'futures', but why that should tantalize me I do not know. The characters seem stereotypical; Shu is a goody two-shoes type, and Ran especially annoys me. Episode one was double the normal length, yet still left me wondering just what is going on. This show confuses the hell out of me, and seeking an answer seems like more of a chore than entertainment.
Last updated Wednesday, January 12 2022. Created Friday, January 07 2022.
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