In the end, the takeaway from Zankyou no Terror for me is simple – writing really matters. Kenneth Turan once side of Titanic, “It was best movie that was ever made from the worst script ever written”. Watanabe Shinichirou is no James Cameron – he’s a pretty good writer, for […] Read more
Never in my life have I been so happy to see an oxygen mask… I’m going to keep this pretty brief, as I’m starting to see Zankyou no Terror as a bit of a broken record. Just how much this week’s episode resembled last week’s episode is pretty astonishing: really […] Read more
Like Zankyou no Terror in miniature, this episode was a tale of two halves. It’s hard not to wonder when watching this series just how good it might have been if Five had never been introduced. Probably not a masterpiece, as there were still some holes in the writing and […] Read more
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, so they say. Does it work here? Maybe it wasn’t the worst time in the world for Zankyou no Terror to go on a break, because my esteem for the show had reached a low ebb after Episode 7. I came into this one […] Read more
At what point do we judge art by an objective standard, and at what point by that of its creator? There are problems with Zankyou no Terror, don’t get me wrong – and I mean general problems, independent of any bias one might have by reading the staff list. But […] Read more
I want so badly to love Zankyou no Terror, but wanting isn’t enough. There was always one thing missing from the C.V. of Zankyou no Terror, and that was any mention of who the main writer was. We’ve had script credits for individual episodes, a mix of names that may […] Read more
Color me intrigued (and a bit irked). An interesting thing happened with Zankyou no Terror this week. The series got sillier and less believable, and became considerably more engaging in the process. That whole heart/head equation that I’ve been talking up with this series is by no means an either-or […] Read more
Sasuga, indeed. I won’t deny that there are times I wish I loved Zankyou no Terror as much as I admire it. But I do admire it an awful lot. It’s just so relentlessly beautiful in its execution – every episode has moments that leave me just about speechless. The […] Read more
Not much in the way of surprises here, but when what you’re expecting is what I was expecting from Zankyou no Terror, that’s not a bad thing. We’re still very much in the feeling out stages with Terror in Resonance, I think, which is interesting for such a short series. […] Read more
Am I the only one who says “You’re welcome” every time I see the title of this series? Well, there’s just no doubt about it – Zankyou no Terror is anime royalty. While I still find it to be more a cerebral than a visceral experience (less so than after […] Read more