All this is also accompanied by some good character designs. The incredibly detailed animation is also accompanied by some gorgeous lighting and great cinematography that showcases everything at creative and interesting angles. It's incredibly crisp, detailed and consistent. The animation reaches Five Centimeters Per Second level of quality on multiple occasions. Mappa did a fantastic job with the series. It could of really benefited from another episode.ĭispite a few short comings, Zankyou No Terror had a very solid and well presented story. To restate myself, the ending isn't actually bad, it's just the presentation. It's like 3/4 into the last episode, the producers just said 'oh wait, this is the last episode' and then sent a frenzy of plot points your way and it all feels anti-climatic. Don't get me wrong, the ending itself wasn't actually bad but it's presentation felt a bit rushed. To avoid spoilers, I won't actually talk about them to avoid spoilers but you'll know them when you see them. There are a few plot points that happen after a new antagonist is introduced in the latter half of the series that just felt. This series is pretty much all about mind games and it pulls it off very well but it has it's fair share of issues. Just because it's about terrorism doesn't mean that it's nothing but explosions and military style gunfights but it does have a couple of action scenes, it's a thriller after all. It also doesn't treat the audience like a bunch of kids. Zankyou No Terror manages to be unique and engaging without trying to get ridiculous like a lot of other series tend to do. Powers, magical girls, demons or shinigami. It's not often that you see for a thriller anime this grounded in reality like. It would be sacrilege for me not be excited especially with the trailer they showed off before it aired, but the important question is, did it live up to my expectations. Cowboy Bebop and Kids On The Slope are two of my absolute favorite series. You have my favorite director, Shinichiro Watanabe, teaming back up with my favorite composer, Yoko Kanno, to produce an anime with studio Mappa. I'm going to be honest, I was really excited for Zankyou No Terror.

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