History Anime / TerrorInResonance

* ChainReactionDestruction: [[spoiler:The thermite bomb Kururi dolls trigger the fire alarms, the water from which triggers an even ''stronger'' explosion. In the process, the building is evacuated before the second explosion.]]

From Studio Creator/{{MAPPA}}, ''Terror in Resonance'' (''Zankyou no Terror'') is a Summer2014Anime directed by Creator/ShinichiroWatanabe with music composed by Music/YokoKanno. In the English-speaking world, the anime is licensed by Creator/{{Funimation}} in the USA and Canada, by Creator/AnimeLimited in the UK and Ireland, and by Creator/MadmanEntertainment in Australia and New Zealand. Viewers in the US can watch the series legally on [[http://www.funimation.com/shows/terror-in-resonance Funimation's site]] while Australian viewers can watch the series on [[http://www.animelab.com/shows/terror-in-resonance Anime Lab]].

** The cover poster is [[TheWarOnTerror two towers spewing smoke and flames,]] just in case you were wondering what theme the show's about.

* BlandNameProduct: Applied inconsistently. The ever-ubiquitous "[[UsefulNotes/{{Mcdonalds}} [=Wcdonald's=]]]" is present, as well as other knock-offs like "[[Website/{{GOOGLE}} Goodgle]]" and "[[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} Wikipedio]]", and several unnamed smartphone apps are clearly meant to resemble real-world apps like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_(application) LINE]] and ''VideoGame/PuzzleAndDragons''. Some real names, like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOR_(onion_network) Tor]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com Amazon]] and YouTube, also appear, however.

UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}} has been struck by a shocking terrorist attack, and the only hint to the identity of the culprit is a bizarre video uploaded to the Internet. The police, baffled by this cryptic clue, are powerless to stop the paranoia spreading across the population. While the world searches for a criminal mastermind to blame for this tragedy, two mysterious children—children who shouldn't even exist—masterfully carry out their heinous plan.

* [[spoiler: TheBadGuyWins:]] The VillainProtagonist duo [[spoiler: accomplishes their objective, and also sets off a nuclear weapon over Japan.]]

* BilingualBonus: the song '''von''', which plays during the Ferris Wheel scene, makes sense if you know Icelandic.

* ChainReactionDestruction: [[spoiler:The thermite bomb Kururi dolls trigger the fire alarms, the water from which trigger an even ''stronger'' explosion. In the process, the building is evacuated before the second explosion.]]

* NoEndorHolocaust: Even with a few hours to prepare for it, it's doubtful that [[spoiler:an EMP blast over Japan would not result in at least a few causalities; like everyone on hospitalized life support, such as premature infants, and countless people trampled under the inevitably ensuing wave of panicked civil unrest, just to name a few... ''thousand''.]]

* SecretlyDying: [[spoiler:All the children from the institution have their days numbered because of the drugs they took while being raised/trained there. Five hides it well at the beginning, but it becomes quickly clear that her physical state is worse than Nine and Twelve, and she bites the dust first by commiting suicide. Nine's body fails him in the last episode. As for Twelve, he would probably have died the same way as Nine had he not been shot.]]

* [[spoiler: TheBadGuyWins:]] The VillainProtagonist duo [[spoiler: accomplishes their objective, and also sets off a nuclear weapon over Japan.]]

* GratuitousEnglish: Episode 6 has a part where Five and her team [[spoiler:are watching Twelve and Nine at the airport]]. Five is speaking in English, but her pronunciation is extremely stilted and unnatural. Her cohort Clarence, on the other hand, has an actor who is fluent in English as well as Japanese... and a thick brattish accent [[note]]He is meant to be an American[[/note]].

The show had a stage play that went from March 2-6, 2015 with Megumi Han and Mitsuaki Kanuka retained as Five and Mukasa.

The show had a stage play that went from March 2-6, 2015 with Megumi Han retained as Five.

* BlandNameProduct: Applied inconsistently. The ever-ubiquitous "[[UsefulNotes/{{Mcdonalds}} [=Wcdonald's=]]]" is present, as well as other knock-offs like "[[Website/{{GOOGLE}} Goodgle]]" and "[[TheOtherWiki Wikipedio]]", and several unnamed smartphone apps are clearly meant to resemble real-world apps like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_(application) LINE]] and ''VideoGame/PuzzleAndDragons''. Some real names, like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOR_(onion_network) Tor]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com Amazon]] and YouTube, also appear, however.

From Studio MAPPA, ''Terror in Resonance'' (''Zankyou no Terror'') is a Summer2014Anime directed by Creator/ShinichiroWatanabe with music composed by Music/YokoKanno. In the English-speaking world, the anime is licensed by Creator/{{Funimation}} in the USA and Canada, by Creator/AnimeLimited in the UK and Ireland, and by Creator/MadmanEntertainment in Australia and New Zealand. Viewers in the US can watch the series legally on [[http://www.funimation.com/shows/terror-in-resonance Funimation's site]] while Australian viewers can watch the series on [[http://www.animelab.com/shows/terror-in-resonance Anime Lab]].

From Studio MAPPA, ''Terror in Resonance'' (''Zankyou no Terror'') is a Summer2014Anime directed by Creator/ShinichiroWatanabe with music composed by Music/YokoKanno. The anime is licensed by Creator/{{Funimation}} in the U.S. and by Creator/MadmanEntertainment in Australia. Viewers in the U.S. can watch the series legally on [[http://www.funimation.com/shows/terror-in-resonance Funimation's site]] while Australian viewers can watch the series on [[http://www.animelab.com/shows/terror-in-resonance Anime Lab]].

In an alternate version of the present, Tokyo has been struck by a shocking terrorist attack, and the only hint to the identity of the culprit is a bizarre video uploaded to the Internet. The police, baffled by this cryptic clue, are powerless to stop the paranoia spreading across the population. While the world searches for a criminal mastermind to blame for this tragedy, two mysterious children—children who shouldn't even exist—masterfully carry out their heinous plan.

!!Tropes:

* NoEndorHolocaust: Even with a few hours to prepare for it, it's doubtful that [[spoiler:an EMP blast over Japan would not result in at least a few causalities; like everyone on hospitalized life support, such as premature infants, and countless people trampled under the inevitably ensuing wave of panicked civil unrest, just to name a few (thousand).]]

* JumpIllCatchYou: Twelve catches Lisa after jumping out of a partially destroyed building in Episode 1.

* BlandNameProduct: Applied inconsistently. The ever-ubiquitous "[[UsefulNotes/{{Mcdonalds}} [=Wcdonald's=]]]" is present, as well as other knock-offs like "[[{{GOOGLE}} Goodgle]]" and "[[TheOtherWiki Wikipedio]]", and several unnamed smartphone apps are clearly meant to resemble real-world apps like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_(application) LINE]] and ''VideoGame/PuzzleAndDragons''. Some real names, like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOR_(onion_network) Tor]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com Amazon]] and YouTube, also appear, however.

* GratuitousEnglish: Episode 6 has a part where Five and her team [[spoiler:are watching Twelve and Nine at the airport]]. Five is speaking in English, but her pronunciation is extremely stilted and unnatural. Her cohort Clarence, on the other hand, has an actor who is fluent in English as well as Japanese, making it very jarring.

* VillainProtagonist: Two of the protagonists are terrorists who are planting bombs all over Tokyo. [[spoiler: Granted they aren't trying to actually kill anyone.]]

* WhamEpisode: Episode 10. Just Episode 10. [[spoiler:Five defeats Nine and kills herself, but the real wham moment is Nine deciding to go and set off an atomic bomb on Japan because his press conference was stopped.]]

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In an alternate version of the present, Tokyo has been decimated by a shocking terrorist attack, and the only hint to the identity of the culprit is a bizarre video uploaded to the internet. The police, baffled by this cryptic clue, are powerless to stop the paranoia spreading across the population. While the world searches for a criminal mastermind to blame for this tragedy, two mysterious children—children who shouldn't even exist—masterfully carry out their heinous plan.

* BatmanGambit: Sphinx's bomb plots rely on predicting how people and public services will act after various diversions or threats, usually with the result being that [[ThouShaltNotKill no one is killed.]]
* BilingualBonus: ''Von'', which plays during the Ferris Wheel scene, makes sense if you know Icelandic.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Nine and Twelve both die, but they manage to reveal the truth about their past to the world through Shibazaki. Lisa also lives and moves on with her life. Also, Japan most likely has to rebuild after having their entire country lose all technology for a while. So far, progress has been made with Tokyo being the first city to have electricity back while the conspirators of the Athena Plan are arrested by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police.]]

(''phone rings'')
* BombThrowingAnarchists: Nine and Twelve as their [=MO=].

* ChainReactionDestruction: [[spoiler:The thermite bomb Kururis trigger the fire alarms, the water from which trigger an even ''stronger'' explosion.]]

** The cover poster is [[TheWarOnTerror two towers spewing smoke and flames,]] just in case you were wondering what the show's about.
** The names of the VillainProtagonist[=s=], 9 and 12, may be another reference to 9/11.

** Sphinx's plots are structured so that, despite their destructiveness, nobody is killed. [[spoiler:Subverted in that Twelve has ''zero'' qualms about blowing Lisa to bits if she decides not to join Sphinx.]]

* NoPartyGiven: Averted, the politician Shibazaki interviews in Episode 8 is clearly stated on a campaign poster to be part of the Liberal Democratic Party, the main powerhouse party of Japanese politics.

** In Episode 9 Five gives Twelve one: [[spoiler:Disclose the location of the nuke they stole and thus betray Nine, or die together with Lisa]].
* SceneryGorn: Scenes of destruction get just as much attention as scenes of beauty.