History Anime / NightHead2041

* TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: While it's revealed that the rest of the world was indeed affected by the events leading up to the series. The Japanese government uses their position as the "safest place in the post-war world" to spin the narrative that the rest of the Earth is inferior to them in pretty much every way. Notably, a couple of talking heads mock the Middle East for still engaging in wars, suggesting that the anti-fiction and anti-war laws aren't universal across the planet.

** [[spoiler:This doubly applies to the psychics working under the SWE, who are fine taking out or even murdering people with even the tiniest hint of supernatural abilities and use their loved ones as hostages or worse. A trait that Naoto calls Takuya out on during their fight. Takuya unsurprisingly doesn't believe any of this and tries to kill Naoto over the incident that involved both sets of brothers seemingly being taken away all the while trying to justify his and the other psychics under the SWE in their actions while everyone else is forced to suffer.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: As brought up in "Shoko Futami -Shoko-", any attempt to talk about fictitious concepts results in either imprisonment or outright execution by the SWE, while actual crimes like arson are either completely ignored or even justified in some cases.

* {{Hypocrite}}: In general, the SWE's use of Psychics to track down, incarcerate or even kill people who think different than what the government wants, including the Kiriharas, has shades of this.
* JurisdictionFriction: In "Protection and Salvation -Our Destiny-", the SWE is ordered by Tokyo that they'll be in Russia with limited support as they can't been seen as intervenining in Russian affairs in the course of investigating the Kiriharas' connection to the country.

** "Revelation to Ruin -March to Decimation-" introduces Akkio Okuhara, a MadOracle under the SWE's employ, who contacts Yuuya after he directly connects to the network itself to find out more about his and Takuya's past. Finds out that the Kiriharas were indeed involved with their past, and then she reveals to him that they're a TemporalParadox and supposed to be on the other world; that their presence on the world the Kuroki brothers are living on is going to cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, which Naoya and Yui witness as well. It's also revealed that World War III was just a cover up to hide the fact that the psychics left the world the non-believers lived on.
** The final episode, "Inheritance, Episode -Start Over-" has both worlds saved in the nick of time by the Kiriharas returning to their own timeline, and Kimie now taking over the SWE and feeding the Kurokis a lie about their parents' death and how they were the ones responsible for killing them before leaving. The truth of the incident is revealed shortly thereafter -- Okuhara sends some soldiers out to retrieve the Kurokis as children by killing their parents; the Kiriharas arrive to perform a StableTimeLoop that shows they were in fact, trying to save the family. Their mother shown to be alive but injured due to some glass cutting her forehead during the raid, ending with the two being sent into hiding for some time as to not arouse suspicion from the SWE.

* WouldHurtAChild: The SWE doesn't spare young kids and teenagers when they're caught breaking the law. In some instances, they're forced to be put on display to humiliate them and to serve as a means of deterrence against potential/future law breakers alongside the adults.

* WhamLine:
** "Dimensional Fusion -Unity-": [[spoiler:Said by Daisuke: "I'm a psychic too!]]

Naoto and Naoya Kirihara find themselves awake and alive in 2041, when the last thing they remember is with their parents drugging their drinks before they brought to a psychiatric institute in 2014 and finding out that they were suppose to be around by 2023. Meanwhile, SWE operators would be tasked to investigate and apprehend the Kiriharas. They include Takuya and Yuuya Kuroki, who also shared the same backstory as the Kiriharas when their parents abandoned them too.

** The final episode, "Inheritance, Episode -Start Over-" has both worlds saved in the nick of time by the Kiriharas returning to their own timeline, and Kimie now taking over the SWE and feeding the Kurokis a lie about their parents' death and how they were the ones responsible for killing them before leaving. The truth of the incident is revealed shortly thereafter -- Okuhara sends some soldiers out to retrieve the Kurokis by killing their parents as children; the Kiriharas arrive to perform a StableTimeLoop that shows they were, in fact, trying to save the family, with their mother shown to be alive, but injured due to some glass cutting her forehead during the raid, the two being sent into hiding for some time as to not arouse suspicion from the group.