![]() Let alone provide us with more than one satisfying payoff. Sadly the story isn’t good enough to justify the many cliffhangers. It is just a collection of speed bumps trying its best to distract you from how poorly written the story and characters are.Īs a mystery, it'll keep you guessing. Almost nothing that happens in Kokkoku actually matters in the end. After watching it all, I can confirm it's all filler. All of this presented as crucial information. Most of the time is wasted on backstories and boring conversations that are barely relevant to the story. It's like the show stretched its content to be 12 episodes. The Yukawa family plans what to do next rather than doing the thing. Most of the show takes place in an alternate reality. Plagued with horribly inconsistent pacing, the mystery story becomes nearly impossible to get engaged with. Sadly we don't get much more in terms of moral intrigue until the end, instead, the show tries to distract us with a shallow but occasionally entertaining mystery. These frightening creatures enforce the rules of Stasis by brutally killing anyone who dares to break them, namely no killing allowed. It’s a thought-provoking moral quandary to put forward right away what would you do if you had this power? Adding to the moral intrigue are the giant tree-like monsters known as Heralds. The grandfather states how this world can lead to people losing all sense of morality while they know there isn’t any consequence. Despite this, the show offers up some intriguing moral implications. It's so difficult to be immersed in this anime when the story is so unbelievable, no matter how maturely it presents itself. When a story wants to be mature and realistic it cannot have such glaring plot issues. ![]() Stasis is a very intriguing idea that thankfully does get some moral exploration, but from a logical perspective, Kokkoku rarely makes an effort to be more than nonsensical. Coincidentally, the criminal group is looking for the magical time-freezing rock so they can use it to commit crimes and what-not. The ridiculous setup at least quickly introduces us to the leader of the group and cruel antagonist Sagawa. Repeatedly it bends our suspension of disbelief, with no care if it breaks or not. They would go on to fight against the evil criminal group responsible for the kidnapping who also somehow accessed stasis and entered it at the very same moment as the Yukawa’s… Um… What? How? These plot issues crop up everywhere while watching Kokkoku, and the show doesn’t even acknowledge them. Once entering, the three of them find it won’t be as easy as they thought to retrieve their stolen family. Juri, her father, and grandfather enter the frozen time world of Stasis. This is only the first of many gripes I have with the woefully underdeveloped sci-fi setting and spotty world logic that plagues Kokkoku at every turn. The rock gets only one partial explanation at the end that handwaves away any need for logic and chalks it up to ’it just works that way’. Knowing they would have to take matters into their own hands, Juri’s grandfather reveals his magical time-freezing rock, hoping that they can use it to save their family members. After the two are kidnapped, the family receives an impossible ransom request and is unable to ask the police for help. Little did I know, there wouldn’t be any logical answers for the many questions that are continuously piled on top of one another all the way into the final episode. What better of a catalyst to kick off all of their character arcs than a kidnapping? An unbelievable tragedy that happens to two of the family members, but I was intrigued by how Kokkoku would answer why this would happen to such a mundane family. Her living situation is well detailed early on and gave me enough to want to see her family grow and change, hopefully becoming tolerable enough for her to happily live with them. It's understandable why Juri's searching for jobs to move out, but sadly she has yet to be accepted after many interviews. She’s usually the one who has to take care of things like picking Makoto up from school, making dinner, and taking care of the family while her sister goes to work. In the first episode, we’re introduced to Juri's NEET older brother Tsubasa, slob father Takafumi, her nephew Makoto, and wise grandfather. older sister in the family Juri is the most put-together of them all. They hit, yell at, and curse at each other. ![]() It would be an understatement to say they don’t get along. The dysfunctional Yukawa family are our main characters. The many interesting themes it juggled are freezing time, a dysfunctional family, and psychic powers, but Kokkoku wastes them on mediocre execution. ![]() Its story is illogical, the art is ugly as sin, the characters are frustrating, and its glacial pacing makes it one of the most boring thrillers I've ever seen. It failed to understand the limits of its budget, taking on far more than it could handle. ![]()
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