Kokkoku

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English: Kokkoku

Synonyms: Kokukoku, Moment by Moment

Japanese: 刻刻

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jan 8, 2018 to Mar 26, 2018

Premiered: Winter 2018

Broadcast: Mondays at 00:30 (JST)

Producers: Twin Engine

Licensors: Sentai Filmworks

Studios: Geno Studio

Source: Manga

Genres: Psychological, Supernatural, Drama, Mystery, Seinen

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 7.03¹ (scored by 55,523 users)

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Ranked: #3586²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #1075

Members: 146,238

Favorites: 280

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Synopsis

Having failed 19 job interviews in one day, Juri Yukawa's dreams of moving out of her parents' home are utterly dashed. Stuck living with her working mother Nobuko, NEET brother Tsubasa, laid-off father Takafumi, and single-parent sister Sanae, the only hope for this family to raise a decent adult is her little nephew Makoto. However, this struggling family's life takes a turn for the worse when Makoto and Tsubasa are violently kidnapped by a mysterious organization and held for ransom. With only 30 minutes to deliver five million yen to the criminals, Juri's grandfather reveals a dangerously powerful secret to her and Takafumi.

By offering blood to her grandfather's mystical stone, the three enter the world of "Stasis," a version of their world where time stops for everyone but the users. Having arrived at their destination, their rescue efforts go awry when they are assailed by a surprising group of people who are somehow able to move around within Stasis. While all hope seems lost, a monstrous giant known only as the Herald appears amidst the chaos, its intent and motivations as cryptic as the very nature of this timeless world.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Yukawa, Juri

Main

Anzai, Chika
Japanese

Jiisan

Main

Yamaji, Kazuhiro
Japanese

Majima, Shouko

Supporting

Seto, Asami
Japanese

Yukawa, Makoto

Supporting

Iwata, Ryuuto
Japanese

Sagawa, Junji

Supporting

Gouda, Hozumi
Japanese

Yukawa, Takafumi

Supporting

Tsujitani, Kouji
Japanese

Sako

Supporting

Yoshino, Hiroyuki
Japanese

Shiomi

Supporting

Uchida, Yuuya
Japanese

Yukawa, Sanae

Supporting

Nabatame, Hitomi
Japanese

Yukawa, Tsubasa

Supporting

Nojima, Hirofumi
Japanese

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Kimura, Makoto

Producer

Oohashi, Yoshimitsu

Director

Fujita, Akiko

Sound Director

Suganuma, Eiji

Episode Director, Storyboard, Setting, Animation Director, Key Animation

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Opening Theme

"Flashback" by MIYAVI vs. KenKen

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Ending Theme

"Asayake to Nettaigyo (朝焼けと熱帯魚)" by Boku no Lyric no Bouyomi (ぼくのりりっくのぼうよみ)

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Mar 25, 2018

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 4

DannyTheDonkey (All reviews)

298 people found this review helpful

MOD EDIT: *The review contains spoilers*

There’s a reason why average amount of anime audiences tend to choose, common, less-risky and visually appealing type of show for their seasonal line-ups rather than the irregular one, because sometimes you’ll get something like Kokkoku: Weird, Slow, and simply put a bloody waste of time. The anime really doesn’t deserve more attention it needed to be.

That doesn’t to say this is kind of stuff that is hard to get into. In fact the anime has pretty straightforward idea: it got superpower, it got alternate world and it got basic tales of good and evil where the good guy trying to save families whilst try escaping from said world. In all, the basic concept of the anime is quite alright, the execution however is where causing the major problem.

First of all. When I said “weird” that doesn’t meant to say the plot was convoluted or full of disgusting phenomenon (although it does at some point because the visual style). It just the many poorly written even that happen during the show; perverted jokes happen ruining the serious event many times; character changing sides because they want to; valuable item founded in unjustifiable way; the inconsistencies of the world where the good guy sometimes running, sometimes walking when chased by the bad guy, and don’t forget the ED video where it is show lots of skins of female characters. What’s that all about? The journey to say the least is a weird experience that raising “wtf?” during the critical moment. The show also likes to teases the audiences with a cliffhanger at the end of the episode only to show that there is nothing dangerous later on. If it have occurred once, it is tolerable, but when happens many times, it is simply become not exciting anymore. Most of the insult comes from the conclusion, which is anticlimactic to say the least where the bad guy gets second chance despite how much people does he sacrificed. Random revelation of the mastermind, and pulling deus ex machina in the end.

Too many things, the superpower stuff also done poorly. There is no limitation or risk whatsoever for the superpower from the heroes but there are weaknesses on the villain. I know it is understandable to create weaknesses onto the villains because otherwise there’s possibility of pulling an aspull in order to defeat it, but making the heroes overpowering the villain is not right as well, because there is not much tension going on especially when you have unlimited teleportation power. There is lots of cliché, breaking the rule event, such as superpower revealed whenever the author want it to be or when the heroes’ power becomes stronger even though it was said many times that he had already at his limits, just because the protagonist cheered them up.

The second problem is the alternative world itself or called “Stasis” in this show. I can’t recall any anime that surrounding quantum break or time stops world other than Kokkoku in recent year. But even in this novelty, there nothing much it can helps. They try info dumping the world along the way, but the end what we learn is: a) if you try to kill the people who cannot move within the world of Stasis you’ll be ‘punished’ by the ‘Herald’ and b) The Herald is actually the deceased of the previous Stasis user who are not strong enough or defeated. Other than that, everything else is just the same, literally there’s nothing special about this world.

There are also no consequences or relation between Stasis and the real world, making it somewhat of a riddle as to why the show makes use of such setting in the first place. You could replace the setting to something like closed room with many daily life’s supplies like Danganronpa, where it also had someone punished you if you breaking the rule and there not much differences.

By appearances the world is also offer nothing visually appealing since it is the same as the real world. Only the difference is that everything is stopped. As a whole, the show does not deliver anything in the way of a particular outlook on the world, a concept that resonates in everything that happens or a focus on the role of the Herald in the world and the show: while the creators could have had the series be focused far more strongly on the notion that the Herald are really everywhere, living a shadow-existence without all that much interacting with the human world, perhaps there would have been something more of a point to the stories, even if that point wouldn't be all that interesting. As it stands, there is no real point or purpose to the show.

The third issue is the pacing which is horrendously slow. It literally takes the entire series for the heroes to be finally backed into the real world. Most of the time it was devoted to chasing, running, teleporting, pushing bad guy back to reality, showing a bit of their backgrounds and some info dumping about the stasis which could be summarized of what I said above. There are so many unnecessary events occurs and the actual content of the show is actually quite shorter than it was presented.

The Whole stuff about family were not works too since the shows are too busy about planning strategy and info dumping so there’s not enough time to bonds these characters considering the length of the series. It was been established that they are families but practically the cast had not much differences than the typical survival-death type of series when stranger became friends just because they share the same goals.

Although there are character’s backdrops. They are quite meaningless in regard to their characterization, it doesn’t serve anything aside from as to why they are could be able living in Stasis. Even in content, the backdrops are just ‘good ol tragic’ backstory that we have already seen uptent time.

The villain motivation was okay I guess but it was definitely ‘weird’ to say the least, because it surely raises the question as to why are they feel the need to be kills someone. For appearances, they are very lacking in charisma. The characters in general weren’t deep and very clearly black and white. They are pretty much closer to being plot devices as an exposition tools because they did plan and talked a lot but don’t have anything besides that. If I have to give this show credit for anything, they did a good job at making Takafumi easy to hate. (Because clearly, the man is a douche).

At the end of the day as much as Kokkoku’s novelty in doing time-stops world concept. It didn’t manage to make up itself to be memorable series. Nobody’s going to talk about its plot. Nobody’s going to remember its visual and nobody’s going to care about its characters. What they will care about is the OP song which is probably the catchiest in this season. Overall, it is more interesting for the ideas brewing under the surface than it is for anything that actually transpires.

Avoid it.

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Mar 25, 2018

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 4

RebelPanda (All reviews)

60 people found this review helpful

Kokkoku is an ambitious failure. It fails to understand the limits of its budget and writing, taking on far more than it could handle. Its story is idiotic and illogical, the art is ugly as sin, the characters are frustrating as hell, and its glacial pacing makes it one of the most boring 'thrillers' I have ever seen.

It juggles many intriguing ideas like stopping time, a dysfunctional family, psychic powers, and many more, but Kokkoku wastes them on mediocre execution.

The dysfunctional Yukawa family comprises the main characters; an unusual choice for the cast that piqued my interest. It would be an understatement to say read more

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Mar 25, 2018

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 7

dadnaya (All reviews)

37 people found this review helpful

Let the time... STOP.

You are now stuck in a world where everything is frozen, except you. What now?

That's basically what Kokkoku is about, Juri and her group is stuck in the "Statis" along with the bad guys of course.

Review will contain minor spoilers, I guess.

Kokkoku started out as an interesting anime, interesting premise. Why are they stuck in the Statis? What is that world? And what is that huge creature shown in the OP (or the ending of the first episode?)

Many questions, some answered, some not, but meanwhile- The bad guys are taking place. Well, they want to research this statis, so they're bad. read more

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Mar 25, 2018

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 5

AdolZeppeli (All reviews)

18 people found this review helpful

Back in time, when I was wandering around at the anime list of what were about to air in Winter Season, there were an specific anime I got attracted to: Kokkoku, the PV, the art and the synopsis looked great and quite different from what we normaly watch. But is it being different what makes an anime good? Not in this case. This review might be heavy on spoilers.

From my life time, I always wanted to stop time and do whatever I want, be it kissing girls, trying to finish my homework, trying to have more time at certain stuff, things like that. And when I saw that this anime had this "time stop" theme on it, I wanted to check out what was it about and the logic behind it. And when I watched it, I have thoughts of being an Inuyashiki again, meaning that it would disappoint and suck, yet there was something on it that was relieving on that sense, we were having some explanations about the logic behind it, and even if some things were quite convenient, it had something that make me think: "Well this makes sense". But in fact, things weren't that far to become retarded in no time.

The story goes around Juri, a Woman who one day got a call from kidnappers that kidnapped his brother and her nephew. Armed with a Knife (because reasons) she decides to go and set them free. Fortunately, Her grandfather stops her from doing a mistake. Here we are introduced to the "Stone" a Stone that is capable of stopping time. After some assurances, they decide to stop time. So, this is not your JoJo kind of Dio Stopping time, everything will stay still until they use the stone to go back after doing what they had to do. Unfortunately, when they reach the place were they have Juri's Brother and her Nephew, they found out that they aren't the only ones capable of moving while time is stopped, this is also where the "herald" appears, an omnipresent being that serves as an overseer of "Statis" (this is how the stopped world is called), this herald holds the power to instantly kill someone who is threatening the life of the "Stopped" (This is what the people that isn't moving is called) with a single blow of its hands. This is also the place were we see the grandpa using his teleport ability.

This pretty much sums up the introduction of Kokkoku, it was alright at this moment, but then, what went wrong?

On the first episodes, we are set on explaining how Statis works and how the abilities works. The abilities explanation is quite bullshit, as the grandpa just says that "it happens spontaneously", still the abilities aren't god tier. Grandpa's teleportation isn't accurate, and later on we are introduced to Juri's ability which is very practical for the situation she's in, her ability is to force someone out of statis as she touches the chest of whoever threatens her. I accepted the "logic" behind these abilities because they weren't good enough as an advantage against their enemies. We are introduced to another abilities later on in the anime, which I won't go into much detail to avoid spoilers (Potential spoilers for the end of the anime)

Then, we come to the heralds explanation. Oh boy, the Heralds were the thing that most sense had in this anime, the effort put into its explanation was noticeable. Apparently, when someone enters in Statis without concern and starts freaking out because they are weak of mind, the "jelly" of their body starts leaving it, transforming them into Heralds (In this anime, your "Jelly" is what maintains you in Statis). But then, the anime starts destroying its explanations attempting to do a more "complex" story and this is were Kokkoku throws everything they have done to shit. This anime suffered from a lot of twists on the main plot: it goes from saving your family from kidnappers, to fanatical people of the "stone" trying to claim what's theirs, to a "Villain" transforming into Hulk, to a "Villain" that wanted to stay in statis and "see the future" by himself, to a Evangelion kind of psycho shit. The amount of bullshit and plot conveniences thrown at your face starts increasing by a lot. And boy, it doesn't work.

It saddens me that they spent a lot of time trying to explain what Statis is and how Heralds works just to make it go full retard in no time. The main antagonist of this series tried to make himself a "conscious" herald with powers that exceeds humans. As I said before, this is supposed to make him live in statis to witness what the future holds, I mean, if he wanted to do that, why would he need to do a lot of killing in order to do that? As easy as he can go by himself and explain statis to Juri's family and see if he can borrow their stone for scientific purposes instead of threatening the lives of innocent people. But well, the anime decided to go for the most "complex" and ludicrous way in order to do that, which obviously backfired.

After the appearance of "The Hulk" this anime went downhill pretty fast as more and more bullshit were thrown at the screen because the plot demands it. This anime had the potential to be as good and interesting as Steins;Gate, but it went full retard like Inuyashiki. Hell, there's even an ability shown later in the anime that consists of CONTROLLING HERALDS as if they were pets LMFAO.

Probably, the only good thing about this anime is the Opening, which is very unique, there is nothing else left to speak on over the Art and Sound department.

Enjoyment 6/10: Even if things went retard, I must say that this anime can keep you entertained as long as you disconnect your brain from your logic data base.

Overall: 5/10

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