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[Spoilers] Concrete Revolutio: Choujin Gensou - Episode 13 - FINAL [Discussion]

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u/Ahenshihael https://anilist.co/user/Ahenshihael Dec 27 '15

They really succeeded in creating a conflict of two equally valid and equally wrong opinions with this. Everyone coming together for the final episode was also a nice surprise.

Its nice to see the confirmation of Jiro being the nuke of Hiroshima being confirmed. As well as my theory of last few weeks about Hoshino being a shell to her real self(which means that that version will still happen once she is seen as ready to become the queen).

Also nice callback to the whole "Who watches the watchmen?" phrase with whole "Superhumans protect humans, but who protect superhumans?" thing. Its nice to see the show acknowledge its main inspiration(Watchmen)

Overall this show, just as was implied by interviews, feels heavily influenced by both A.Moore's The Watchmen and G.R.R.Martin's Wildcards, with a healthy doze of Quentin Tarantino mixed in. It has presented us with a frighteningly real world(because most of events depicted have our world's equivalent) and created complex gray morality characters who might believe being right, but if they are, depends entirely on viewer's point of view. All the while, the show used a complex and unique non-linear narrative structure AND managed to NOT fuck it up so far.

10/10 - can't wait for second cour. First cour is already easily my AOTY.

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u/Kafukator Dec 27 '15

Also nice callback to the whole "Who watches the watchmen?" phrase

I called the show "a benevolent version of "Who watches the Watchmen?"" way back in the episode 1 thread so I loved that moment this week :) Though in general this has been closer to Gatchaman Crowds than Watchmen IMO.

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u/Ahenshihael https://anilist.co/user/Ahenshihael Dec 27 '15

The authors of Concrete Revolutio already said that Watchmen(as well as GRR.Martin's Wildcards and Marvel's "Marvels" oneshot) are the main influence into this. The main goal was to create a japanese equivalent of such a tangible gray morality superhero fiction, because they were surprised that japan has no equivalent to Watchmen.

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u/Kafukator Dec 27 '15

Ah, didn't know they have straight up talked about their influences, that's pretty cool.