History Anime / ConcreteRevolutioChoujinGensou

* AlternateHistory: The Shinka Era, where the series takes place, is very, very heavily insinuated to be an alternate version of the Shouwa era (1926-1989). For example, [[spoiler:the biggest [[ForWantOfANail historical nail]] is that instead of destorying Hiroshima, the atomic bomb became a baby Jiro. This resulted in Mankind to abandon Nuclear research and cause an even bigger oil crisis in the 70's. They still had a Vietnam analogue, albeit one fought against {{Youkai}}]].

* ForWantOfANail: [[spoiler:Although it looks like a lot of other changes happened before it, the biggest one is that instead of destorying Hiroshima, the atomic bomb became a baby Jiro. This resulted in Mankind to abandon Nuclear research and cause an even bigger oil crisis in the 70's. Lampshaded in Episode 25, where they speculated if the bomb actually went off they wouldn't have relied on oil so much.]]

''Concrete Revolutio: Choujin Gensou'' (the subtitle meaning "Superhuman Fantasy"), is a 2015 anime by Creator/StudioBones, directed by Seiji Mizushima and with a script done by Creator/ShoAikawa. The second season aired as part of the Spring2016Anime lineup, titled ''Concrete Revolutio: The Last Song''. It has a manga running in Young Ace as of the September 2015 edition, and its official website is [[http://concreterevolutio.com/en here]].

''Concrete Revolutio: Choujin Gensou'' (the subtitle meaning "Superhuman Fantasy"), is an AnimeFirst Fall2015Anime by Creator/StudioBones, directed by Seiji Mizushima and with a script done by Creator/ShoAikawa. The second season aired as part of the Spring2016Anime lineup, titled ''Concrete Revolutio: The Last Song''. It has a manga running in Young Ace as of the September 2015 edition, and its official website is [[http://concreterevolutio.com/en here]].

* AndThenWhat: Magotake asks this to Touzaki in episode 21 regarding a plan Imperial Ads started - [[spoiler: have a definition for superhumans and to combat non-compliant superhumans with super robots]].
* AlternateHistory: The Shinka Era, where the series takes place, is very, very heavily insinuated to be an alternate version of the Shouwa era (1926-1989).
** ForWantOfANail: [[spoiler: Although it looks like a lot of other changes happened before it, the biggest one is that instead of destorying Hiroshima, the atomic bomb became a baby Jiro. This resulted in Mankind to abandon Nuclear research and cause an even bigger oil crisis in the 70's. Lampshaded in Episode 25, where they speculated if the bomb actually went off they wouldn't have relied on oil so much.]]
** InSpiteOfANail: [[spoiler: They still had a Vietnam analogue, albeit one fought against {{Youkai}}.]]

** Jiro-Red and Pink
** Kikko-Blue
** Emi-Purple
** Fuurouta-Yellow
** Hyouma-Brown
** Raito-Green
* CoolCar [=/=] HumongousMecha: Jiro's car, Equus. It has the ability to transform into a robot.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: While Jirou and Raito are bickering about the student protests in Shinka 43 at Kanda (episode 8), Emi, Kikko and Uru try out sour [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kombu konbu]] strips while talking to a policeman, and they make disgusted faces. There are two foreground events that make this more obvious: the subs getting more crowded than usual and the box of konbu filling up the screen momentarily.

** GenreDeconstruction: ...And shows just what happens when you have all sorts of super powered beings in a socially turbulent era full of FantasticRacism, paranoia and very GreyAndGreyMorality that very much clashes with the very BlackAndWhiteMorality present in the time period.
* GreyAndGreyMorality: Even going as far back as the ''second episode'', the heroes are questioning whose side they're supposed to be on and why things aren't as simple as they initially made things out to be.
** In particular, since the Superhuman Bureau's job is to protect superheroes, [[spoiler: part of what they do is fund the creation of monsters and villains, to bolster public support for superhumans. Though Jirou and Fuurouta are in the dark, a good half of the group only care about civilian casualties if they result in negative publicity.]]

* ShoutOut

** [[spoiler:Episode 7's post-credits scene involves Jirou and Judas breaking into a safe to restore Earth-chan.]]
** [[spoiler:The season one finale shows Doctor Hitoyoshi finding a baby Jirou in a crater, only for the camera to zoom out to show a massive kaiju shadow coming from the child. The date line then appears: [[WhamLine Shinka Year 20,]] ''[[WhamLine Hiroshima]]''. ]]

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: With new character introduced nearly every episode, the cast for the series gets pretty huge.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Jirou and Emi have some sort of pink hair. Kikko has purple, but turns a lighter shade when transforming.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Many episodes, especially early on, focus specifically on a certain character. Over the first cour alone, we have Episode 1 (Kikko), Episode 2 (Fuurouta), Episode 3 (Shiba), Episode 4 (Emi), Episode 5 and to a degree Episode 8 (Jirou) and Episode 10 (Hyouma).

* In episode 6, Freeze shocks a customer at a restaurant Mountain Horse is eating at while two other members of Mountain Horse are talking.

* FiveManBand: The Superhuman Bureau.
** TheLeader: Jirou
** TheLancer: Emi
** TheSmartGuy: Daishi
** TheBigGuy: Hyouma
** TheChick: Kikko
** TagalongKid: Fuurouta

''Concrete Revolutio: Choujin Gensou'' (the subtitle meaning "Superhuman Fantasy"), is an AnimeFirst Fall2015Anime by Creator/StudioBones, directed by Seiji Mizushima and with a script done by Shou Aikawa. The second season aired as part of the Spring2016Anime lineup, titled ''Concrete Revolutio: The Last Song''. It has a manga running in Young Ace as of the September 2015 edition, and its official website is [[http://concreterevolutio.com/en here]].

* InfantImmortality: Subverted, it's stated that all but one of the children Rainbow Knight took hostage were killed in the incident. [[spoiler: It's actually even worse than that, the children survived, but were instead experimented on and died in captivity.]]

The [[Characters/ConcreteRevolutioChoujinGensou Characters page]] is a work in progress, feel free to help out. NeedsWikiMagicLove for the main page due to the sheer amount of plot and timeskips in every episode.

''Concrete Revolutio: Choujin Gensou'' (the subtitle meaning "Superhuman Fantasy"), is an AnimeFirst Fall2015Anime by Creator/StudioBones, directed by Seiji Mizushima and with a script done by Shou Hikawa. The second season aired as part of the Spring2016Anime lineup, titled ''Concrete Revolutio: The Last Song''. It has a manga running in Young Ace as of the September 2015 edition, and its official website is [[http://concreterevolutio.com/en here]].

** As a whole the series is basically a love letter to [[ImperialJapan Shouwa Era Japan]], and thus many characters of the week are based off pre-existing characters. This even extends to real-life events, with pretty much every major event in the show having some kind of historical basis. [[spoiler: Makes sense, since this is an AlternateHistory set twenty years after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.]]

''Concrete Revolutio: Choujin Gensou'' (the subtitle meaning "Superhuman Fantasy"), is an AnimeFirst Fall2015Anime by StudioBones, directed by Seiji Mizushima and with a script done by Shou Hikawa. The second season aired as part of the Spring2016Anime lineup, titled ''Concrete Revolutio: The Last Song''. It has a manga running in Young Ace as of the September 2015 edition, and its official website is [[http://concreterevolutio.com/en here]].

''Concrete Revolutio'', subtitled ''Choujin Gensou'' (''Superhuman Fantasy''), is an AnimeFirst Fall2015Anime by StudioBones, directed by Seiji Mizushima and with a script done by Shou Hikawa. The series has received a second season for the Spring2016Anime lineup, titled ''Concrete Revolutio: The Last Song''. It has a manga running in Young Ace as of the September 2015 edition, and its official website is [[http://concreterevolutio.com/en here]].

It centers on Jirou Hitoyoshi and the Superhuman Bureau as they strive to protect superhumans for the sake of the government. However, wherever there are superheroes, there are supervillains...and there are those in the sliding scale of morality between them...

** InSpiteOfANail: [[spoiler: They still had a Vietnam analogue, a bit one fought against {{Youkai}}.]]

''Concrete Revolutio'', subtitled ''Choujin Gensou'' (''Superhuman Fantasy''), is an AnimeFirst Fall2015Anime by StudioBones, directed by Seiji Mizushima and with a script done by Shou Hikawa. It will run for two seasons, the second cour airing during the [[Spring2016Anime spring 2016 season]]. It has a manga running in Young Ace as of the September 2015 edition, and its official website is [[http://concreterevolutio.com/en here]].

The series received a second season for the Spring2016Anime lineup, titled ''Concrete Revolutio: The Last Song''.

** InSpiteOfANail: [[spoiler: They still had a Vietnam analogue, a bit one fought against Youkai.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Lots of it.

** Episode 4 has Jirou use the term "[[Film/PacificRim kaiju groupie]]" (subtitled as 'beast groupie')

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Justified, superhumans are common in the series universe to the point that many incidents are treated as normal by civilians.

* TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed: Because there are so many superheroes and villains running around the place, Japan is always is in some form of peril. [[spoiler: America, Russia and Vietnam also are part of the equation, as shown by the nationality of some of the side characters.]]

It centers on Jirou Hitoyoshi and the Superhuman Bureau as they strive to protect superhumans for the sake of the government. However, wherever there are superheroes, there are supervillains...and there are those in the sliding scale of mortality between them...

** Episode 9 ends with the U.S. vehicles combining into a single robot that bears a striking resemblance to [[Franchise/{{Transformers Optimus Prime]]. This is made all the better when Kikko magically assembles another robot from scrap to fight it, and this one looks exactly like Megatron.

** ForWantOfANail: [[spoiler: Although it looks like a lot of other changes happened before it, the biggest one is that instead of destorying Hiroshima, the atomic bomb became a baby Jiro.]]

* CompleteImmortality: The family of seven (the Hatakeyamas) in episode 9 have this. They've been alive since the beginning of the earth and nothing can kill them. Not even destroying them on a molecular level. [[spoiler: Then along came the Bio Destroyer...]]

It centers on Jirou Hitoyoshi and the Superhuman Bureau as they strive to protect superhumans for the sake of the government. However, wherever there are superheroes, there are supervillains...

The [[Characters/ConcreteRevolutioChoujinGensou Characters page]] is a work in progress, feel free to help out. NeedsWikiMagicLove for the main page.

* CompleteImmortality: The family of seven (the Hatakeyamas) in episode 9 have this. They've been alive since the beginning of the earth and nothing can kill them. Not even destroying them on a molecular level.

* FantasyKitchenSink: Pretty much any Shouwa era trope is happily used to the shows content.

** [[spoiler:The season one finale shows Doctor Hitoyoshi finding a baby Jirou in a crater, only for the camera to zoom out to show a massive kaiju shadow coming from the child. The date line then appears: [[WhamLine Shinka Year 20,]] ''[[WhamLine Hiroshima]]'' ]]

* TimeSkip: ''Lots of them''. The events of seperate episodes tend to occur months apart. The entire first half of the anime takes place over a little over two years, and about three years subsequently pass after that.

* TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed: Because there are so many superheroes and villains running around the place, Japan is always is in some form of peril.