Concrete Revolutio: Choujin Gensou Episode 5 Discussion

walldotfm said:
enjoyed this week's episode. Didnt have to watch it twice to unds haha.

emi is pretty scary with her ability to take faces and all... but i find her really cool.
so apparently she was Ukyo Yamato of the Beast Radio Inc?
Judging from the mad guy's flashbacks, she was there with him for quite awhile? so where's the real Ukyo?
And the pacing of the ep was good. Feels were there too.
Getting closer to uncovering what Jiro really is..

CookingPriest said:

There was no real Ukyo.

walldotfm said:


I see. Then her purpose was to try to infiltrate Beast Radio Inc and stop the mad guy from committing evil?

Tevens said:
OKAY. Next episode about Monster. From Superhuman , beast , and now Monster. What's the difference between monster and beast?

Wrsty said:
I love that question that Jiro asked the monster as he got there. "Are you a messenger from nature? A victim of humans?are you what we desired?" Or something among those lines. Really questions who the real monsters are..

CookingPriest said:


No. Her purpose was to cause it. They needed an adversary that Superhumans could fight making them look good in public eyes. As Chief explained in his shadowy meeting last episode Beasts were supposed to be something everyone could hate(unlike countries or people), a force of nature.

So Emi was there to shape and manipulate the guy and provide him resources and tools to create a beast army that superhumans could then stop. Supposedly one of ingredients she provided to them was Jiro's DNA(Which they retrieved back afterward as shown in last scene).

I guess in a sense the guy was as mad as he is because of her influence.

dbaranyi said:
So just what is Jiro, such that his so-called "step-dad" secretly put away some vials of blood from him.

And talking about Step-Dad, is everyone here corrupt except for Jiro and Kikko?

dbaranyi said:

BTW it looks to me as if Emi "loves" Jiro in a very non-human way; and mainly because of his power.

CookingPriest said:

Considering his blood seems to reanimate beasts, he most likely is somehow connected to where beasts originate from.



That seems to be the idea.
Furouta is oblivious, Kikko is just learning how fucked up the place is and everyone else just lies to Jiro and manipulates him(it seems he also believes that the fire that burned tokyo was also some random beasts and not him himself).

And even then each of them seems to have secrets:
Chief seems to be completel inhuman existence posessing a corpse or something,
Jiro's step dad is closely connected to the cryptozoology of that world and seems to have a bit of "Doctor Frankenstein" syndrome in terms of experimentation
Emi seems to be just interested in Jiro's potential and is an enigma.
The Time Guy seems to be from some sort of future.
Furouta seems to have a mysterious background that is hinted at(the fact that he is a yokai just like Emi and that scene in his introductory episode where he wakes up with tears in his eyes for some reason)

Even Kikko seems to be from a parallel reality/alternate dimension with her stay in the one she is being a punishment for some sort of crime as implied by ullr.


Yokai by the nature are about mischief and calamities. Especially kitsune. If Jiro has/is something that as he puts it "longs to end the world", it is only normal a trickster would be infatuated with that.

4kicks said:
As far as I can see, those students only wanted to fuck shit up, the moment they forced MegaGon to rampage with the flashlights, to the point even that business-suit lady was confused at their actions.

Araneae said:


I agree with everything. This is actually a sort of post I would write earlier if I didn't have to go to work.

I really find this episode depressing and dark in some way. I mean, it stays in a great contrast with previous episodes when everyone was like super friendly, Emi the best girlfriend, Hitoyoshi the best step-dad, The Time Guy (whose name nooene remembers xD) seemed to have positive attitude and so on, and so on.

And in this episode we clearly say that almost everyone is a lying, manipulative bastard that just wants to use Jiro for something. That's liek opposite from what we seen earlier in eps 1-3, though probably I could've expected that. Even his own step-dad just wants to experiment on Jiro. I actually feel sorry for him. Damn...

The only ones that are innocent so far, except for Jiro, are Kikko and Fuurota, but we know from ep 1 that they are probably still oblivious in year 45, so they're not going to be much help. Because if they're not oblivious in year 45 then they're in favor for whatever's going on, so that's not better.

Actually after this episode I stopped liking Emi and the Professor. Sure, I like them as a charactera and I am really interested in them, but I don't like them as people.

And also I actually wonder if, by any chance, are there two separate plots against Jiro (and both involve Emi, wow). That's just I wild guess, but I noticed that the Step-Dad doesn't seem to know (or at least pretends not to know) everything about the Time Guy. We know that bothe Step-Dad and the Bureau are up to something, but this scene with Time Guy made me wonder if they just didn't inform Step-Dad about all the details, or if the Step-Dad's goal is just simply separate from the Burau's goal (maybe he just wants to experiment and that's all). But that would made Emi basically a double agent. I'm probably overthinking this.

I am also not entirely convinced that Jiro simply has a Kaiju inside, as stated in this episode. I think there is more to it, but the characters hide the truth from Jiro, Kikko etc.

Also I'm pretty sure that whatever locks Jiro has on his arm, make him forget what happens and make him go nuts when they're unlocked. I think they are the reason he can't control his power. I mean this episode clearly shows that he is absolutely unable to control his power. Duh, I don't think he's even aware what sor of power he has. However flashforwards from previous eps showed us Jiro able to figt conciously and in controlable manner without unlocking anything. I wonder why they gave him the locks in the first place, though. Are they afraid of what Jiro might be capable of when he knows what's going on and what he's doing?

But I think now we clearly see why Jiro went rogue in the flashforwards. The amount of lies, manipulation, hidden plots etc. just explains it. Especially this resolve he had at the end of this ep to fight beasts is probably going to be totally crushed.

And is the Time Guy actually able to see the future, or is he from the future, or does he calculate the future, etc.? What's going on with him? Also the official website says he also has another power, which makes his character kind of confusing at the moment, as we don't know a lot about him.

Acridine said:
Also, i think the locks on his arm restrict Jiro from going rampage, rather than causing it.

Acridine said:
All we know about the Timey Wimey Dude is that his clock can stop the time and that he can calculate the future to some extend(he didnt see that the train woulnd explode at the right moment so the old guy had to step in).
I think it´s more like Jin´s side effect from World Trigger where he can see a lot of possible futures and see which one ist most likely to happen

Acridine said:
For me this is the best series this season, Period

skaterperson777 said:
Can someone elaborate on what Emi really is? So she's a monster that does love Jiro but at the same time is kind of working against him? Sorry, I'm a bit slow on picking up even though I rewatched some of this episode again. Thanks!

Araneae said:
The only ones that are innocent so far, except for Jiro, are Kikko and Fuurota, but we know from ep 1 that they are probably still oblivious in year 45, so they're not going to be much help. Because if they're not oblivious in year 45 then they're in favor for whatever's going on, so that's not better

Araneae said:


For me AOTS is Noragami this season, and this one takes second place so far (it can always go downhill, but so far I enjoy it a lot). However I'm more excited for Concrete every week, because I've read Noragami manga, so I already know the anime's plot, and here I don't.

BoboSmrad said:
What is this anime even trying to be. Edgy? The story seems so rushed and not explained well,makes me think the ending will be too. Ugh.

gophercg said:
Kinda sad the "university educated" crowd isn't for peace, but just crazy for rampaging kaijus. I don't get the kid's actions, cares for his "brother", but shines a flashlight regardless.