Tokyo 24-ku

In a special jurisdiction area built in Tokyo Bay commonly known as the 24th Ward, the population enjoys a very safe life thanks to the Hazard Cast—a surveillance system that predicts accidents and assists victims immediately. However, the system cannot foresee the exact nature of these accidents nor prevent them from happening.

Ran Akagi, Kouki Suidou, and Shuuta Aoi—a trio of friends nicknamed "RGB" due to their hair color—experienced the tragic nature of these limitations when Suidou's sister Asami passed away in a fire at her high school. A year later, Shuuta still blames himself for failing to save Asami, while Ran pursues his dream to become a famous street artist, and Kouki works in the Hazard Cast intervention unit.

After the RGB trio reunites at a commemoration for the victims of the school fire, each of them receives a mysterious phone call. Bewildered to hear Asami's voice, the three friends are shown images of the future and asked to choose between two grim alternatives. Refusing to be bound by predetermined outcomes, the three tackle this troubling event head-on, marking the beginning of a series of cruel dilemmas that they will have to overcome in order to protect the 24th Ward and its people.

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Aoi, Shuuta Main

Enoki, Junya Japanese

Akagi, Ran Main

Uchida, Yuuma Japanese

Suidou, Kouki Main

Ishikawa, Kaito Japanese

Kinako Supporting

Tomaru, Nanami Japanese

Sakuragi, Mari Supporting

Makino, Yui Japanese

Suidou, Asumi Supporting

Iwami, Manaka Japanese

Kunai Supporting

Saitou, Souma Japanese

Shirakaba, Kozue Supporting

Hidaka, Rina Japanese

Shirakaba, Hiroki Supporting

Ueda, Youji Japanese

Tsuzuragawa, Sakiko Supporting

Nabatame, Hitomi Japanese

Sotokawa, Akihiro Producer

Higashi, Mao Producer

Kida, Kazuya Producer

Kitazawa, Shiryuu Producer

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Jan 10, 2023

kdsekai

Recommended

This is masterpiece for me…. Actually at first i thought it was just some kind of other animes ive seen but when i saw the last two episode i cried asf. The ending was so touching! Like tbh I don’t think they need to release season 2 because they ended it so well! Episode 9 was the ep where it revealed the history thatd make the first other eps makes sense. And still goosebumps for me seeing the connections of characters 😭 i still can’t get over with final ep. Others might get bored bec theres so much happening and could be overwhelming but just ... watch it till the end id say

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Aug 1, 2022

Sheklon

Mixed Feelings

Should you ever watch Tokyo 24th Ward?

It depends on whether you're expecting something particularly good out of it or not. It should be noted that this show had severe time constraints which lead to many serious production issues, to the point that even the key animation director manifested his pessimism towards the series on a personal Twitter account. Considering this context, the reader is invited to investigate the matter and I will not add another negative comment about the production to the existing pile.

Regardless, I will say I had fun watching this series and was genuinely surprised at the amount of interesting concepts and characters ... they managed to include despite the aforementioned problems (though I'm a little biased towards the sci-fi genre). However, these same characters and concepts never get fully explored, and the show lacks in providing a strong or specific message about anything that sticks to your memory. Many of the themes revolve around philosophical issues that humanity will likely face in one way or another in the future, such as how accurately can we predict incidents or accidents within society; how preventable these situations are; and how should we ethically respond to that knowledge. Yet, the anime either never had the time to or was never interested in exploring these themes in a fulfilling manner — it feels more like an introductory class on philosophy and technology. The characters that participate in the story, while some likable and believable, are not very deep either, and will sometimes only act in favor of the plot, with no prior indication that their behavior was in line with their mindset or moral beliefs (this is because we never get to know those things in detail, or they are simply not there).

It saddens me that the show never got to seize its full potential, for it had enough good ideas behind it that it could make up a long and iconic series had it tried to be one. However, due to the rush of the current industry and most likely a lack of inspiration from low-spirited animators and writers, it was never meant to be something great.

If you like futuristic narratives and want to watch something off the genre for entertainment, then I'd recommend it as long as the sadly very unpolished animation and frequently off-model characters don't bother you (as well some other VFX issues, such as a low quality blur on the screen in various frames). But if you worry about good animation and expect to engage in a complex story or become familiar with three dimensional characters, this show will probably only disappoint you.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Feb 15, 2024

Drakestalker

Not Recommended

It’s funny how we all have these things that we know, but we don’t really know them. That is to say we are in possession of the information – rattling around in our brains somewhere – and we understand it on an abstract intellectual level, but we have no genuine understanding of it, for we’ve never actually been brought face to face with the first-hand reality of it.

Slavery is a good example of this. We all understand the mechanics of slavery, consider it to be one of the greatest crimes against humanity, we get mighty agitated about it, and compete to see who is more ... fervently opposed to it whenever the subject comes up, but we’ve never actually seen a slave, so other than signaling our virtue, we don’t do much of anything else. Slaves exist in Saudi Arabia today. Open slave auctions exist in Libya today. You know this. I know you do. But it doesn’t quite click, does it? It doesn’t horrify your soul. It doesn’t give you that debilitating anxiety where you literally feel like you can’t sleep until it is fixed. And why should it not? It is the exact crime against humanity that we all intellectually agree is unconscionable in the abstract, yet most of us sleep just fine at night knowing that there are human beings who live in literal slavery in the Middle East right this instant. Why is that? Why are we able to just get on with our daily lives? Because we’ve never actually been there. We’ve never seen them. We’ve never seen a Saudi slave. We’ve never seen an open market Libyan slave auction. As such, it just stays at the back of our minds, mere information, a thing we know, but we don’t really know.

This is how I feel about TikTok misinformation. Ask anyone. We all know that TikTok is full of misinformation. Any old Joe can give you the skinny on the subject. It’s a secret to no one that, given the precious little information you can distill in under a minute, you can make just about anything look good and interesting. Hell, if I were to make a 60 second montage of the sakuga scenes from the first season of the K-Project, the result would the coolest looking anime TikTok in the world. Everybody and their mothers would be in the comments going crazy asking for the name of the show! Name? Name? Name? Surely this must be an awesome anime. Wrong! What you would get is some of the most boring 4 hours you will ever spend in your life.

Everybody understands this. We all are in possession of this information and understand it on an abstract intellectual level, and yet, until we personally get suckered by some ad on TikTok, we believe ourselves to be above the propaganda. Oh, those people fall for this sort of thing all the time, but not me, no. I’m /tfwtointelligent. I would never fall for it. Oh, hey, look at that YouTube short of this out-of-context cool scene from an anime. It must be a really cool show! What’s it called? Tokyo 24? Wow, I can’t wait to watch it! I’m sure I’ll have a great time with it. Jesus fucking wept.

Yes, I just compared TikTok to slavery. No, I’m only half-joking.

Tokyo 24 is a kind of shitty Minority Report wanna-be where technology is invented to predict crimes and the show attempts to make some kind of ethical point about it – ‘attempts’ being the operative word. Aside from the prevalence of the increasingly ubiquitous left-wing notion that crime is caused by poverty and lack of opportunity, so being against crime effectively translates to hating poor people, there’s really nothing interesting about this anime, that is if you consider that trite social commentary in any way, shape, or form interesting in the first place. “Instead of using his billions to eradicate poverty, Bruce Wayne decided to cosplay as a bat and beat up poor people!” Yes, thank you for your input, Lipsquiesha, very insightful.

To go with the general left-wing tilt, the series is permeated by that kind of degenerate neon-punk aesthetic that seems to be all the rage nowadays. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, then just watch the League of Legends True Damage music video on YouTube. It’s gross. What kind of moron wears neon spray paint on their clothing? You’re not in an Avril Lavigne music video. Grow up. Yes, I’m sure it’s society’s fault you’re terminally unemployable, not the neck and face tattoos. And of course there’s loads of LGBT and non-binary and whatever the fuck else representation. Does that really come as a surprise?

Here's the rub, though.

Depending on your political orientation, you might think that all of this so far is wonderful. Ok, splendid, I’m happy for you, but even if you approve of or at least ignore the political agenda, what you’re otherwise left with is still uninspired, insipid, badly written garbage.

You have a trio of 3 dudes as your main characters, but the de facto protagonist is somehow the least interesting of all of them. Tokyo 24 tries to present him as a sort of Naruto-type talentless, though honest hard worker, but it just doesn’t land. There’s nothing exciting or compelling about him. When your hot-headed, pure-hearted meathead spends every other episode in some kind of comatose depression because of one thing or other, you’ve fucked up. The other 2 are just about as paint-by-numbers as they come. One is a glasses nerd who has a stick way too far up his ass and never questions authority. The other one LARPs as Banksy and thinks that defacing people’s property is art and will change the world.

The anime really wants to sell you on the idea that they were a unit, a tight-knit group of friends, a team. They even come up with a group name for the trio, RGB, and they will really shove that nickname down your throat every chance they get. The acronym somehow comes from their names. I won’t even pretend I remember their names. But again, it simply doesn’t land. I never got the impression they had any meaningful chemistry or even liked each other all that much.

In actual fact, RGB means Red Green Blue, i.e. the primary colors in additive color synthesis, the combination of which can result in every other color of the spectrum. I’m sure you’ve heard of RGB lighting before. Now you know what that means. As such, some corporate shill over at CloverWorks thought naming the series’ golden trio RGB would be a hella clever way to relate to the ‘kids these days’. In case it’s unclear, Banksy’s hair is red, Glasses Nerd’s hair is green, and dollar store Naruto’s hair is blue.

CloverWorks have put out some good stuff since their inception, great stuff even, but this ain’t it, chief. This just ain’t it.

Early on, way too early, a paternal figure character dies – a pretty dumb death, if I’m being perfectly honest. There’s a reason Joanne waited until the end of book 6 to kill Dumbledore. Who the fuck was this guy? Why do I care about him? Oh, that’s right, I don’t. What should have been a very emotional moment and a turning point for the characters’ interpersonal dynamics fell completely flat for me.

In essence, everything about this show seems to go from 0 to 100 instantly with no preamble or jobbing and you are expected to just accept it and remain invested. It’s not unheard of for anime characters to get into shouting matches while spilling their hearts out during arguments. Generally speaking, this can be a very effective vehicle to help the audience relate to the characters’ emotions. Swing and a miss as far as Tokyo 24 is concerned – the totally believable RGB dream team trio will get into these shouting matches a couple of times throughout the course of the series, but the pacing is just all jank. The argument will start because of the most insignificant issue, and then, before you’ve taken even two seconds to scratch your balls, all of a sudden, they’re yelling themselves hoarse. Words cannot describe how artificially manufactured it feels.

Perhaps the worst scene in the show was the one where they start bona fide fighting each other. You know how in many action movies and series, once the dude and the other dude have been fighting for a good while, and they’re both completely gassed out, they’ll start to just slug each other in a protracted manner with whatever little strength they’re still able to muster? Yeah, the creators of Tokyo 24 thought it would be a great idea to have that scene for their main RGB trio, but it was so contrived, that it was the exact moment my investment evaporated completely and I gave up on the anime. If memory serves, I burst out laughing. The way they’re hitting each other didn’t even make sense. Since there’s 3 of them, they can’t just hit back whoever just hit them. Instead, Not Naruto would punch Banksy, and then Banksy would slug Glasses Nerd, and then Gasses Nerd would sucker Not Naruto. They were taking it in turns like some retarded game of rock-paper-scissors.

Just about the only thing vaguely connecting the RGB dream team seems to be their dead childhood friend, first name Mary, last name Sue. Ok, a tragic past, a dead loved one, that can be a compelling backstory. I mean, that’s literally all there is to Afro Samurai’s character description, and he’s one of the coolest anime protagonists ever. The issue with Mary, however, is that she’s not a real character. She’s just human valium. In every single flashback, without exception, she’s always seen laughing, smiling, giggling, being happy, being jovial, making jokes, giving sage advice, cheering everyone up, the light of everyone’s life. Yeah, that’s not at all irritating or exhausting.

Just in case I’m not being transparent enough, I’m kidding about her name. It’s not actually Mary Sue. I’m just expressing my contempt – also, I don’t actually remember her name. Come to think of it, for all I know, it could very well have been Mary Sue.

Even the one thing the show had going for it, the cool scene from the YouTube short I initially saw, felt somehow way less cool in context because of poor build-up and dogshit pacing, and I was left completely underwhelmed. I watched it with my girlfriend and both of our reactions amounted to something along the lines of “Oh… I thought it was gonna be more… well, more.” It was one of the rare occasions where obnoxious TikTok edits with phonk music spliced in made the scene more intriguing than it actually is, rather than distract from it, because there was no substance to distract from.

Don’t waste your time. Watch Legend of the Galactic Heroes instead. I know you’re still putting that one off.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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