

That they were back together with studio MAPPA, the place where they made the well-received Kids on the Slope (2012), seemed to bode well. Their names are synonymous with the sort of quality series that creates anime fans – just think of Cowboy Bebop (1998). The hype over Zankyou no Terror was big considering the project saw acclaimed anime auteur Shinichiro Watanabe and skilled musical composer Yoko Kanno reunite to work together on an original title. Perhaps dialling down expectations would have helped. It proves that, regardless of the quality of director and animation studio, a script does count for a lot. Zankyou no Terror is quite possibly the most frustrating anime of recent years. Who are they and why are they doing this? A school girl named Lisa Mishima and a disgraced detective named Kenjirou Shibazaki get caught up in a battle between the boys and the Japanese government, who are desperate to cover up something called The Athena Plan. They become known as “Sphinx” and play a deadly game of cat and mouse with the authorities.
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The boys go under the code names Nine and Twelve. The only clue to their identity is a strange video uploaded to the internet. On a summer day a massive terrorist bombing suddenly occurs in Tokyo and it seems that two teenage boys are behind it.
