(L) Chaos;head anime

[Midonin]

Originally Posted by blitz1/2

Does anyone have pictures of D-swords?

[VDZ]

Originally Posted by blitz1/2

Does anyone have pictures of D-swords?

Spoiler for Game CGs:

[kamikazex]

well just finished watching this...and gotta say it was probably one of my favorite series this season along with ga rei zero and kurozuka

[orion]

So how come Taku got a simple D-sword and the girls got the complicated designs?

[iceyfw]

just finished the anime and i enjoyed it. madhouse definitely captured the mystery around the plot and characters to capture the viewers interest and they did it for me. now this is coming from someone who knows absolutely nothing about chaos;head beforehand. of course the last 2 episodes felt out of whack to me but what can you expect really for a 12 episode adaption.

and i understand people complaining about the anime because they left out some very important details and depth from the VN on how things came to be for the characters. i felt like this anime was made as a marketing of some sort to get more people's attention on the 360 chaos;head port. similar to what world destruction did.

BTW can someone PM me on what the B ending is about in the VN?

[VDZ]

Originally Posted by IcExAlcHeMy

BTW can someone PM me on what the B ending is about in the VN?

Spoiler for B ending:

Basically, Taku fails to destroy Noah II and is shown delusions in which he experiences every single one of the New Gen incidents. I don't really know the details though, as I haven't fully played it yet.

[Sorrow-K]

Having watched the final episode, this is yet another example of a mystery series in anime where the final solutions simply don't do the initial mystery justice. It's like the mystery version of all-style, no-substance, where there's so much emphasis on creating a heavy atmosphere at the beginning and posing questions that keep the audience guessing that the writers seemingly couldn't come up with satisfying and creative answers to those questions in the end.

The other big problem was that most of the girls were boring, and almost seemed incidental to the plot. The only genuinely interesting and likable character, IMO, was Sena. She was the only one who showed anything close to something resembling depth. Yua was almost a plot device for the first few episodes, and Ayase was so cryptic that nothing she said ended up making sense. Kozu-pii and Nanami were also pretty pointless.

I really enjoyed how loathesome they managed to make Takumi, but in the end he triumphed because he could control his inner power after finding strength through courage and love. Yawn! What a cliched resolution. I also didn't like how Shogun didn't sound like an old man. Instead he had the voice of a bishounen. It would have been far more sinister and atmospheric (especially for the earlier parts of the story) had Shogun sounded like the old guy from Shigurui, for example.

I'm giving this an "Above Average" rating of 6/10. Initially creepy and atmospheric, but the answers are disappointing and the ending was decidedly cliched. The female characters are uninteresting as well. It says nothing when Takumi's delusions about an anime figurine makes for one of the most interesting female characters in the series.

[FlareKnight]

Originally Posted by VDZ

Spoiler for B ending:

Basically, Taku fails to destroy Noah II and is shown delusions in which he experiences every single one of the New Gen incidents. I don't really know the details though, as I haven't fully played it yet.

In that case the B ending is one rough way to finish.

[MarthX]

Originally Posted by FlareKnight

In that case the B ending is one rough way to finish.

B end

Spoiler:

Suwa defeats Takumi by making him experience all the New Gen cases in the perspective of the victim (making him feel all the pain and suffering) This kills his heart and he's captured along with Kozupii. Both are tortured and have their CODE sample extracted. Afterward he stays in a dark room where he watches his delusions.

All color, all light, went away.
I was hugging my knees in a pitch-black space.
Before me was the sole light source in this place.
It was a like a monitor, like a window, like a picture frame.
Inside it, Rimi, and Sena, and Kozu-pii were chatting about something, looking as though they were enjoying themselves. I couldn't hear their voices.
As I watched it. My emotions lay absolutely still.
Or else, maybe my heart was dead.
Then I realized.
I had been watching my delusions.
The 2-D world into which I'd fled.
A perfect illusion.
Since when had it been a delusion?

Norose: From the beginning.

I looked behind me.
Norose stood there.
But it was dark, and all I could see were his feet.

Norose: Didn't Suwa-kun kill your heart?

I had been in a delusion ever since then, the whole time....?

Norose: I've succeeded in extracting your CODE sample. I'm finished with you, so do feel free to return to being dust anytime you please.

Takumi: ....

I felt nothing.
Because my heart was dead.
I should have felt nothing.
Yet a single tear streaked down my cheek.
At the very end, I'd gone back to being a loser. I'd run from the harshness of reality.

Norose: How nice for you, being able to have a pleasant dream at the end.

When you got down to it, I'd been a worthless human being.
Sorry, Rimi.
I apologized, but I didn't really get why I had to apologize anymore.
Nor did I feel any guilt.
And I decided to return to the continuation of my delusion from before.
Someone would probably be nice enough to kill me sooner or later.
So, until then, I wanted to wallow in the happiness of the world I'd fled to.

The harem delusion you see in the last episode is the delusion he sees in the B ending. Where all the girls are throwing themselves at him.

[Synria_]

Got some awesome pics in here... But I have to ask why does RIMI like Taku in the first place??

So are all the girls he's with fake or real??

[VDZ]

Originally Posted by Synria_

Got some awesome pics in here... But I have to ask why does RIMI like Taku in the first place??

So are all the girls he's with fake or real??

Spoiler:

Real Takumi: Because he saved her from the delusional torture of living in a completely empty world, with nothing but darkness and the dead bodies of the previous Rimis who couldn't bear living in that dark, empty world and just killed themselves.

-

Rimi: "....Is this the sky?"

"That sky--"

"Why is it so blue that it makes me want to cry?"

Shogun: "Because someone wished so."

Rimi: "Not me...."

Shogun: "I wished for it."

"Because this place is your imagined world, and at the same time,
it's also mine."

Rimi turned my way.
She looked at me dubiously.

Rimi: "Who are you? There shouldn't be anyone here besides me."

"Are you a separate me?"

Shogun: "No."

Rimi: "Then who are you? How did you come here?"

"This is inside my heart, you know? There was never anything more
than darkness. The only light was the spotlight on me."

"Yet the moment you came here, the darkness went away, and the sky
was born."

Shogun: "Our delusions synchronized. Because your power was so very strong."

Rimi: "I see...."

Rimi looked back up at the sky.
A clear, azure sky.

Rimi: "I've never seen the real sky."

"When the personality that is me was born, I was already shut up in a
dark room."

"Both inside my heart, and outside it, there was nothing but
darkness."

"They'll never let me out."

"........."

"I tried to die just now."

"To make my heart kill itself."

"I think every other me up till now did the same thing."

"But since you've gone so far as to bring the sky to me,"

"Would it be okay if I carved this scene into my memory? So the next
me can imagine the same thing."

Shogun: "Do you want to die?"

Rimi: "Yeah...."

Shogun: "Don't you think you'd like to see the real sky?"

Rimi: "........."

"....Say."

"Is there really a sky out there?"

Shogun: "It's there."

"But the real sky is much more dirty than this one."

Rimi: "Where is it?"

"Where is that sky?"

Shogun: "Anywhere you wish it to be."

Rimi: "Is it okay, to wish....?"

Shogun: "Of course."

Rimi: "How do I wish for it?"

Shogun: "Light is made up of waves in an electromagnetic field. Human sight
detects its oscillations as color."

"Try applying the color you desire to your own dead spots. If you
do--"

"You can create the color of the world you desire."

"The world will respond to your wishes."
-

As for Taku: Rimi came to keep an eye on Takumi, so he wouldn't awaken to his gigalomaniac powers, as that would cause Shogun to die. However, as Taku is a lot like Shogun, she probably just got attached to him after being close to him for some time.

And all of the girls he's with are real, except Seira-tan.

[orion]

Originally Posted by VDZ

Spoiler:

Real Takumi: Because he saved her from the delusional torture of living in a completely empty world, with nothing but darkness and the dead bodies of the previous Rimis who couldn't bear living in that dark, empty world and just killed themselves.

-

Rimi: "....Is this the sky?"

"That sky--"

"Why is it so blue that it makes me want to cry?"

Shogun: "Because someone wished so."

Rimi: "Not me...."

Shogun: "I wished for it."

"Because this place is your imagined world, and at the same time,
it's also mine."

Rimi turned my way.
She looked at me dubiously.

Rimi: "Who are you? There shouldn't be anyone here besides me."

"Are you a separate me?"

Shogun: "No."

Rimi: "Then who are you? How did you come here?"

"This is inside my heart, you know? There was never anything more
than darkness. The only light was the spotlight on me."

"Yet the moment you came here, the darkness went away, and the sky
was born."

Shogun: "Our delusions synchronized. Because your power was so very strong."

Rimi: "I see...."

Rimi looked back up at the sky.
A clear, azure sky.

Rimi: "I've never seen the real sky."

"When the personality that is me was born, I was already shut up in a
dark room."

"Both inside my heart, and outside it, there was nothing but
darkness."

"They'll never let me out."

"........."

"I tried to die just now."

"To make my heart kill itself."

"I think every other me up till now did the same thing."

"But since you've gone so far as to bring the sky to me,"

"Would it be okay if I carved this scene into my memory? So the next
me can imagine the same thing."

Shogun: "Do you want to die?"

Rimi: "Yeah...."

Shogun: "Don't you think you'd like to see the real sky?"

Rimi: "........."

"....Say."

"Is there really a sky out there?"

Shogun: "It's there."

"But the real sky is much more dirty than this one."

Rimi: "Where is it?"

"Where is that sky?"

Shogun: "Anywhere you wish it to be."

Rimi: "Is it okay, to wish....?"

Shogun: "Of course."

Rimi: "How do I wish for it?"

Shogun: "Light is made up of waves in an electromagnetic field. Human sight
detects its oscillations as color."

"Try applying the color you desire to your own dead spots. If you
do--"

"You can create the color of the world you desire."

"The world will respond to your wishes."
-

As for Taku: Rimi came to keep an eye on Takumi, so he wouldn't awaken to his gigalomaniac powers, as that would cause Shogun to die. However, as Taku is a lot like Shogun, she probably just got attached to him after being close to him for some time.

And all of the girls he's with are real, except Seira-tan.

So then what is Rimi?

[Synria_]

Originally Posted by orion

So then what is Rimi?

Yah good question... I am also wondering how she got into that state, because there was no way she was just born in the darkness and shogun somehow happened to tap into her delusion (which is what it sounds like right now - taking VDZ's words into account)

[Eisdrache]

Am I the only one who thinks a) that Takus sword is looking infinitely gay and b) Kozu-piis sword is just wrong for her? (it much more implies someone who would go hack and slash around)

[Dagger]

Kozu-pii *is* that kind of person, though.

[Magin]

... when it comes to Rimi, I suspect she may have been part of the experiment that dealt with the delusions and all that; after all, we know that Sena was involved with some sort of experiment, so who's to say there weren't others as well?

[Tyabann]

Rimi was definitely one of the experiments, yeah.

The game explains this a little better.

[VDZ]

Originally Posted by Magin

... when it comes to Rimi, I suspect she may have been part of the experiment that dealt with the delusions and all that; after all, we know that Sena was involved with some sort of experiment, so who's to say there weren't others as well?

Yes, there are others. Ayase's torture was also done by Nozomi, and so was Mia's 'suicide'.

[Eisdrache]

Dont know if that has been discussed here before, but can someone explain me how the new-gen perpetrator

Spoiler for questions 1-4:

1) made those 4-5 people jump down the roof? AND making one of them say "whose eyes are those?"
2) made that "zombie" green?
3) killed herself????
4) why she did those acts? She says its all for Taku to awaken but she is just BAM IM THE ENEMY BOO without any explanation.

[Mega-Japan]

Thanks for the images VDZ.

I also finished the anime a while ago, it was great stuff, not the best but it got its place, just like that other bloody one, Ga-Rei Zero.

P.S. Nanami's D-Sword owns...