Terror in Resonance
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| Director | Shinichiro Watanabe |
| Format | Anime (TV) |
| Made By | Studio MAPPA |
| # of Episodes | 11 |
Contents
Genre
Sum it up in a Sentence:
Two teenagers enact a campaign of terror throughout Tokyo for mysterious reasons.
Main Description
In an alternate version of the present, Tokyo has been decimated by a shocking terrorist attack, and the only hint to the identity of the culprit is a bizarre video uploaded to the internet. The police, baffled by this cryptic clue, are powerless to stop the paranoia spreading across the population.
While the world searches for a criminal mastermind to blame for this tragedy, two mysterious children—children who shouldn't even exist—masterfully carry out their heinous plan. Cursed to walk through this world with the names Nine and Twelve, the two combine to form "Sphinx," a clandestine entity determine to wake the people from their slumber—and pull the trigger on this world.
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Personal Opinions
Redcrimson
Terror in Resonance is an angry and outspoken show, as you might expect from something about terrorism. Except that's not quite right. Terror in Resonance is about the disenfranchised and the abandoned reclaiming their voice from an innately predatory system that marginalizes them, and terrorism is just the specific device the story chooses to express that voice. The show's individual elements reflect and parallel each other in graceful and intelligent ways, and terrorism is just another one of those elements. Terror in Resonance is a show with a message, and it is ardently determined to makes its point. Which unfortunately means the show doesn't quite work if you're not parsing it on those terms. As a thought-piece, this show is one of the most elegant I've ever seen, but as a psychological crime thriller, it's pretty hit-or-miss. Thankfully, Shinichiro Watanabe proves without a shadow of a doubt that he is every bit the legend that the fandom thinks he is. This show is gorgeously animated with incredibly striking cinematography. Of course Watanabe isn't the only industry legend on the project, and the preposterously talented Yoko Kanno turns out arguably one of the most haunting scores of her career for this show. It’s definitely not a perfect show, not even close, but I thought that it concisely said all that it wanted to say. Ultimately I think Terror in Resonance is a show that will test how much you value plot/characters in a story, because it's not really about those things. This is a show that's all about ideas, to the point where it seems as if they forgot to care about everything else.
