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Mari OkadaComposer:
林ゆうきCast:
Yūki Kaji, Jun'ichi Suwabe, Rina Satō, Tomoaki Maeno, Aoi Koga, Hiroshi Yanaka, Takaya Hashi, Eiji Miyashita, Yuka Terasaki, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Kento Hama (more)VOD (1)
Episodes(12)
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Sometimes, a Bond Can Bloom from the First Day Eye Contact Is Made (E01)
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If You Can Swallow a Bizarre Situation Like This So Easily, Two Buckets of Barium Shouldn't Be a Problem (E02)
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Depending on How You Look At It, I Think We Could Get Through Anything... Right? (E03)
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Now That We're All Connected, Let's All Get to Know Each Other Better, 'Kay? (E04)
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Wahoo, It's a Training Camp! Let's Step in Deer Poop and Have Pillow Fights! Go, Go! (E05)
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Nothing Good Comes From Being Around All of You (E06)
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A Battle Touching Upon the Identity of the Pain That's Seven Times the Pain of One-Seventh of a Pain (E07)
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Happy Times Don't Tend to Last Very Long (E08)
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It's All Over... I Think (E09)
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You Knew Very Well That Your Romantic Feelings Might Be Unrequited, Right? (E10)
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We Have to Contact Each Other and Confirm Our Feelings. Because We're Friends! (E11)
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If the Kizna System Spread Throughout the World (E12)
Plots(1)
Even within the confines of the futuristic Sugomori City, Katsuhira Agata is a very unique high school boy - someone who simply cannot feel any pain whatsoever. Bullied and isolated, his world is set to shift seismically when he meets a strange girl named Noriko Sonozaki. Before he knows it, Agata has been linked to a number of his classmates as part of a group created to share any pain each of them feels via a system known as "Kiznaiver". Tasked with various trials by Sonozaki as they serve as guinea pigs under the Kiznaiver system, could Agata and his new comrades experiences be the key to their own self-discovery? (Anime Ltd)
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Reviews (2)
The idea of sharing and feeling another person’s pain is quite interesting. If people could feel other people's pain, they perhaps would not feel the need to hurt them, and people would understand each other much more - I can get my head around that. Even so, this show lacked momentum, and the atmosphere only hinted at what it could have been, given it has an interesting topic. Still, this show is not bad. The main characters are, on the whole, an interesting mix of various extreme character types, and while I was not too impressed with them at first, the more I got to know them, the more I liked them. I was not too interested in the main male protagonist, although Hajime Tenga, Nico Niiyama, and Tsuguhito Yuta were quite entertaining. I am also going to mention that I liked the colorful and pleasant opening, even though electronic music is not exactly my cup of tea. In conclusion, even though initially I was not impressed, I gradually started to like this anime series. In the end, however, I still cannot say that it was all that great or that I became very enthusiastic about it. Sure I was curious to see how it would end and how the "very fragile relationships" would unravel. I did not feel disappointed (rather, everything turned out more or less as I expected), even though I think it could have all been much better. So, in my opinion, it is just OK and just OK is worth three stars. 5.5/10.
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Mari Okada's melodramas are swings and roundabouts. Sometimes she can keep her chakras at bay, and, despite the complicated interconnected relationships, her pen can produce a very interesting work, such as Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea, but sometimes this lady can atrociously over-do it and drown an initially promising storyline in an overly sentimental mess full of stupid, irritating characters whose features are basically the only character trait repetitively shoved into the audience’s faces. Kiznaiver is unfortunately an example of the latter. Okada probably got the idea to write an anime about an experiment in humans sharing their pain, but she just did not feel like trying to think any deeper about the implications of implementing such an idea and elaborating on the laws of such a fictional world much, especially when she had the opportunity to limit herself to something she loves so much: melodramas! Emotional outbursts! That is what it is all about in the first place! We have to let them scream it out properly, we have to cram in as much theatricality as possible, and make the audience as moved as possible! ... or suffer like an animal. One star for something resembling an interesting reveal in the last few episodes, to only be followed by an idiotic grand finale at the end, at which point I did not know whether I should laugh or cry, and a small insignificant plus for the excellent opening, though it is a shame that the last single by Boom Boom Satellites, had to be used for something so utterly stupid.
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