While a lot of the cast aren’t likeable at first, one of the show’s strengths is that it can develop them into something more, with most of them going through some major changes as the series goes on. As well as giving us some more gory moments when they rip people’s heads off, they offer some more poignant ones as well, building up one of the side characters, Shoko Majima, as perhaps the strongest of the cast, as her story and her relation to the Heralds is revealed. The Heralds are very enigmatic beings, often being treated as gods by the cult and they work really well early on in the story as it’s not clear what they are, and as a viewer you’re trying to work it out at the same time as the characters. A lot of the show’s big reveals involve just what these things are and where they come from, as they form the main distraction from the show’s main plotline of Juri rescuing her family from the cult. The most important of these elements is the Heralds, or Handlers as they are also called: giant floating titans made out of dust that act as the protectors of the Stalled, the ordinary people who are not able to move in Stasis, and are at the mercy of those who can. This left it with a few episodes that were particularly light on content for example, where the two groups are chasing each other around town in Episodes 3 and 4, where instead they could have been used to space out some of the more detailed explorations of the science fiction elements. It front-loaded a lot of its core concepts into the first episode, where it had to handle introducing all of the main characters and the villains, as well as setting up several different elements of Stasis. As a result, it gave me the impression that it had a lot of things to tell, but not enough time to tell them. While it has some fascinating concepts, I often found it to be a bit messy and confusing in its execution, showing a lack of focus and jumping around between its different plot threads a lot. All the while, the mystery around what Stasis is, how it works and how it came to be unravels in the background. This is certainly one bizarre plot that combines a range of time-related science fiction concepts with a cat-and-mouse drama that sees Juri and her grandfather trying to rescue her family. While they think it will be an easy rescue, they end up falling into a trap set up for them by the Genuine Love Society where their leader, Junji Sagawa, plans to steal the stone and utilise the power of Stasis to fulfil his dream of achieving immortality. With only 30 minutes to save them and no car available, things look hopeless – until their grandfather pulls out this mystical stone and stops time, pulling Juri, her father Takafumi, and himself into the world of Stasis. With her family being pretty close to rock bottom, her father just having lost his job, her brother being a NEET and her sister being a rushed-off-her-feet single mother trying to support her son, Makoto, Juri is shocked when her brother and nephew are kidnapped and held to a 5-million-yen ransom in an abandoned apartment block. Kokkoku: Moment by Moment tells the story of Juri Yukawa and her family’s run-in with the Genuine Love Society, a religious cult attached to a miraculous stone which, when fed someone’s blood, can stop time for them and anyone else touching the stone.
These attempts seem incredibly common in Japan, so it’s a surprise they aren’t used more often in anime yet here we have a series which combines a religious cult with ideas on time travel and immortality.
Bottom line, if you are looking for something different and obscure, check this one out.One story that I always hear from people who live, or have lived in Japan, is that they have survived an attempt from a religious cult to indoctrinate them. The studio shouldn't have tried to meet it halfway. The anime tried to make a more streamlined art style, but when you introduce these crazy moments, it looks awkward sometimes. A lot character expressions and actions look out of place in the anime but its mostly because they weren't depicted with the over the top facial expressions and drawings that complemented those scenes in the manga. The anime is nearly a shot for shot recreation of the manga, however the one thing the anime lacks is the zany art style used by the manga. Characters enter and exit the show very unpredictably and adds to the chaos. It's also very rare you have a bad ass female lead in a mature story line which also made this show a breath of fresh air.
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It goes full steam ahead into the crazy, combining a time travel-like story with supernatural elements, and doesn't slow down on its pacing. Its got a unique premise with interesting character dynamics and outlandish concepts. It's very difficult to think of a comparison to this show. A mixed bag show that ultimately earns a high recommendation from me based on it being so odd ball and different.
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