Introduction
In a special jurisdiction area built in Tokyo Bay commonly known as the 24th Ward, the population enjoys a very safe life thanks to the Hazard Cast—a surveillance system that predicts accidents and assists victims immediately. However, the system cannot foresee the exact nature of these accidents nor prevent them from happening.
Ran Akagi, Kouki Suidou, and Shuuta Aoi—a trio of friends nicknamed "RGB" due to their hair color—experienced the tragic nature of these limitations when Suidou's sister Asami passed away in a fire at her high school. A year later, Shuuta still blames himself for failing to save Asami, while Ran pursues his dream to become a famous street artist, and Kouki works in the Hazard Cast intervention unit.
After the RGB trio reunites at a commemoration for the victims of the school fire, each of them receives a mysterious phone call. Bewildered to hear Asami's voice, the three friends are shown images of the future and asked to choose between two grim alternatives. Refusing to be bound by predetermined outcomes, the three tackle this troubling event head-on, marking the beginning of a series of cruel dilemmas that they will have to overcome in order to protect the 24th Ward and its people.
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Audience reviews
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Drakestalker
It’s funny how we all have these things that we know, but we don’t really know them. That is to say we are in possession of the information – rattling around in our brains somewhere – and we understand it on an abstract intellectual level, but we have no genuine understanding of it, for we’ve never actually been brought face to face with the first-hand reality of it.
Slavery is a good example of this. We all understand the mechanics of slavery, consider it to be one of the greatest crimes against humanity, we get mighty agitated about it, and compete to see who is more fervently opposed to it whenever the subject comes up, but we’ve never actually seen a slave, so other than signaling our virtue, we don’t do much of anything else. Slaves exist in Saudi Arabia today. Open slave auctions ex…
Read at the sourcekdsekai
This is masterpiece for me…. Actually at first i thought it was just some kind of other animes ive seen but when i saw the last two episode i cried asf. The ending was so touching! Like tbh I don’t think they need to release season 2 because they ended it so well! Episode 9 was the ep where it revealed the history thatd make the first other eps makes sense. And still goosebumps for me seeing the connections of characters 😭 i still can’t get over with final ep. Others might get bored bec theres so much happening and could be overwhelming but just watch it till the end id say
Read at the sourceGuts-Valley
No good deed goes unpunished-Perfect way to some up this anime.
I rate it an 8 but could easily be a 9 or a 10 the only reason why I didnt rate it so because I didn't sign up for this very dark story. I'll try but most likely SPOILERS! We are introduce to an opening something out of a boy band and you are left thinking this is going to a happy anime of superheroes something like myhero or tiger bunny. We are quickly brought down to earth when we get a (spoiler) death scene. The anime goes back and fourth of being a happy anime to a dark tune it is very alarming. This anime has a lot of religious undertone which looks like i was the only one to catch it, I might do a question post asking who else sees it. This super hero doesn't have your typical villain, the villain believe it doing the ri…
Read at the sourceOmnicrom
Well that didn't work.
I open as such because it sort of sums up the whole experience of Tokyo 24th Ward: it just didn't work. And it's not for lack of trying, not for lack of ambition, not for lack of ideas, no it's for the completely opposite reason. The show tries really really hard, is overflowing with ambition, has tons and tons of ideas, and from that comes a hot mess. Hoo boy is this show a mess…
So, the show's basic pitch is that it is a coming-of-age story about three young men: Aoi Shuta, the supremely athletic son of a baker who aspires to become a hero, Akagi Ran, a brilliant street artist and computer genius who runs a hackivist group, and Suido Koki, the son of the mayor who aspires to use his power and privilege to make the world a better place. The three live on a man-mad…
Read at the sourcePegasus-LoD
Simple short review: Totally Spoiler free!
My thoughts are based on the anime only!
The story line is psychologically really good, the arts and musics are realistic to the theme, the animation could have been improved if more time was given on it and character development was done well too. Don't judge something just by seeing other's point of view and seeing covers only. After seeing full anime I can say Tokyo 24-ku is worth the time I spent watching it. If anime quality was more realistic and good, then I would give it 9/10 score. But everything has it's own worth!
Read at the sourceSheklon
Should you ever watch Tokyo 24th Ward?
It depends on whether you're expecting something particularly good out of it or not. It should be noted that this show had severe time constraints which lead to many serious production issues, to the point that even the key animation director manifested his pessimism towards the series on a personal Twitter account. Considering this context, the reader is invited to investigate the matter and I will not add another negative comment about the production to the existing pile.
Regardless, I will say I had fun watching this series and was genuinely surprised at the amount of interesting concepts and characters they managed to include despite the aforementioned problems (though I'm a little biased towards the sci-fi genre). However, these same characters…
Read at the sourceWosee
Story structure is a continuous plot about the overlapping paths of our 3 main characters and the different decisions they take to reach the path they believe the best.
As our characters go they are fleshed in an okay manner, even the majority of side characters.
The artstyle is on the good side and the animation is simple okay in the few scenes there is action.
As you can see i cannot say much more without spoillers but overall this show has been pretty meh to okay, not solid or anything but just okay with an also okayish ending.
It could be much more you could say but this is the kind of show you forget it exists, not because it is bad but because it took the middle option many times to be neither bad, so bad its good or good in general.
Read at the sourcePyraXadon
You know when you watch something because you think the concept is cool? But it ends up flopping because it’s trying too hard/too much? Yeah.
Story:
In an artificial and isolated island in the middle of Tokyo lies the ’24th ward’. The people who govern this island for better or worse have a desire to officially join the city of Tokyo as an official district. But are required to pass a certain threshold of ‘safety’ in order to do so. As such, the system known as the ‘Kanae System’ monitors the threat potential of its citizens in order to take out any potential outliers that threaten the safety of society. It’s here where we meet our three protagonists, affectionally called the ‘RGB boys’, who’ve drifted as a result of an incident several years back. Now in their young adult years, the cit…
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Ahhhh, what a mess.
Apart trying to be preachy with its contrived messages, it's pretty clear that this show was more of an afterthought compared to the other two shows that aired from Cloverworks in the Winter 2022 season. Not even the talented, well-known seiyuus in the cast could save how bland the show became.
I can imagine a conversation in the office like this: you have one week to give me a decent show we can air just because. And someone just happen to have a book for every character you would need for the current social landscape. And there you go (I really don't have much more to say...I'm just trying to fill up space to post the review...)
This show is the worst show of the Winter 2022 season. Or among the worst.
Read at the sourceZNoteTaku
SPOILER-FREE!
It’s important to remember that anime is not made by studios, but people. They may be released and financed under the company name, but it is men and women, sometimes from around the world, who are the ones that actually put pen to paper (or stylus and mouse to screen, rather) to produce the content we care about. The studios’ management is involved as well, but the current landscape of the anime industry is often not friendly to its staff, sometimes dumping projects on them with no time to get them finished or rushing them out the door despite their lacking quality. More and more stories like these are becoming documented, and it’s important to acknowledge them.
"Tokyo 24th Ward" was a Winter 2022 anime that regrettably got this problem. One month before the show started a…
Read at the sourceKANLen09
Note: There will be little spoilers in this review, though it'd be best to put it all together like a fine douche portrait of an intellectual philisophical research paper of a work.
Overly exuberant ambition, undermined by problems from behind-the-scenes pre-production woes to wistfully "grand" exposition and storytelling, that only begrdudgingly concocts as a servitude to hide the fact that you don't actually need to be a "big brain" of a fool to even understand a conch of this work. This is the story of Tokyo 24-ku a.k.a Tokyo 24th Ward, brought to you by CloverWorks, the studio now infamous for the "3 shows per season lineup" moniker that the Black Sheep of the season has to suffer inherent problems, and this show is that Black Sheep of blame.
Let's start by laying the groundwork for…
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