カオスチャイルド

CHÄOS;CHILD

ANIME

STATUS
COMPLETE
EPISODES
13
RELEASE
March 29, 2017
LENGTH
23 min

DESCRIPTION

After a magnitude-7.8 earthquake hits Tokyo's Shibuya ward on November 6, 2009, a black fire spreads and causes mass panic on the day of the earthquake. The sudden disaster that becomes known as the "Shibuya Earthquake" kills 3,851 people and injures 30,927 more.

The story set in a reconstructed Shibuya district in October 2015. A string of mysterious deaths occurs in Shibuya amidst the reconstruction. People begin to take notice as the strange events start on the same day that chaos broke out in Shibuya with a certain incident five years earlier. The events are called the "Return of the New Generation Madness."

(Source: Anime News Network)

Note: Includes episode 0.

CAST

Takuru Miyashiro
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka
Serika Onoe
Sumire Uesaka
Senri Minamisawa
Sarah Emi Bridcutt
Nono Kurusu
Sarah Emi Bridcutt
Hinae Arimura
Suzuko Mimori
Mio Kunosato
Asami Sanada
Hana Kazuki
Sayaka Nakaya
Uki Yamazoe
Inori Minase
Yui Tachibana
Yumi Hara
Shinji Itou
Yuuki Fujiwara
Shuuichi Wakui
Masayuki Katou
Takeshi Shinjou
Takuya Kirimoto
Hisashi Sakuma
Tomoyuki Shimura
Masashi Kawahara
Atsushi Abe
Katsuko Momose
Kujira
Yuuto Tachibana
Kokoro Kikuchi
Takumi Nishijou
Caster
Ayano Hamaguchi

EPISODES

Dubbed

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REVIEWS

beanwolf
30/100
Horrific adaptation of an already bad VN. Nonsensical plot and characters paired w/ generic art, animation, and music.
I've been baited by the damn semicolon. After coming off Occultic;Nine last season, I thought I could at the very least find some sort of intrigue to enjoy here. I knew that the prequel to this series, Chaos;Head, was near universally panned, but Silver Link had me interested when they offered up a special "recap" of Chaos;Head re-animated and clarified as episode one. After that (and a trip to the Chaos;Head wiki), I felt pretty confident that I'd be able to understand what was going to happen in Chaos;Child. I couldn't have been more wrong, and I'm 99.99% sure that it isn't even my fault.

Now, although Child is definitely a sequel to Head, the new plot of Child more so builds off of the results of Head instead of continuing some sort of overarching narrative. The show sets itself up as some sort of supernatural murder mystery concerning psychic powers. Not a bad premise but certainly not something terribly original. Of course it's set in high school, and we've got probably the most stereotypical cast of visual novel characters of all time. I've already made it a habit of rattling off tropes so I'll spare you this time, but just know that there is nothing original or interesting about our characters here... at least not at first. As the incredibly convoluted and confusing story plods forward, a two or three of them start to become slightly more interesting with their own sorry excuses for motivations other than "let's solve the mystery because MC likes mysteries".

As the plot all comes vomiting out after about the first five or six episodes of doing next to nothing to advance it, it becomes terribly apparent just how poorly the adaptation was done. Chaos;Child is a pretty well liked and in-depth visual novel with ~50+ hours of gameplay, so a branching narrative is obviously one of its strong points. In adapting that, the directors chose to basically "set up" everything first, which lead to the 5 or 6 episodes of no advancement and the subsequent vomit. I don't understand why anime directors think they can get away with these "condensed" VN adaptations. We need look no further than the original Fate/Stay Night by DEEN to realize that this approach is never going to work well.

In Chaos;Child's case, this just makes the already pretty weak climax and "twist" we are presented with in the second half feel even more out-of-left-field and not genuine than they already would have if the director would have just stuck to adapting one VN route. This isn't even acknowledging the other ridiculous plot points, such as Nono being shanked in an alley and left for dead, surviving as if nothing had happened, and instead of being hospitalized just being laid down in her home, TREATED BY HER FRIENDS AS IF SHE HAD A COLD. The utter insanity of how some of these actions play out (and are flat-out glossed over by the characters) is frankly unforgivable.

Go read a synopsis, and if it sounds even remotely interesting to you, just go out and play the VN. There's honestly nothing to enjoy here in the adaptation outside of possibly the first episode and some incredibly generic art, character designs, and music.
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