The grandfather states how this world can lead to people losing all sense of morality while they know there isn’t any consequence. Despite this, the show offers up some intriguing moral implications. It's so difficult to be immersed in this anime when the story is so unbelievable, no matter how maturely it presents itself. When a story wants to be mature and realistic it cannot have such glaring plot issues. Stasis is a very intriguing idea that thankfully does get some moral exploration, but from a logical perspective, Kokkoku rarely makes an effort to be more than nonsensical. Coincidentally, the criminal group is looking for the magical time-freezing rock so they can use it to commit crimes and what-not. The ridiculous setup at least quickly introduces us to the leader of the group and cruel antagonist Sagawa. Repeatedly it bends our suspension of disbelief, with no care if it breaks or not. They would go on to fight against the evil criminal group responsible for the kidnapping who also somehow accessed stasis and entered it at the very same moment as the Yukawa’s… Um… What? How? These plot issues crop up everywhere while watching Kokkoku, and the show doesn’t even acknowledge them. Once entering, the three of them find it won’t be as easy as they thought to retrieve their stolen family. Juri, her father, and grandfather enter the frozen time world of Stasis. This is only the first of many gripes I have with the woefully underdeveloped sci-fi setting and spotty world logic that plagues Kokkoku at every turn. The rock gets only one partial explanation at the end that handwaves away any need for logic and chalks it up to ’it just works that way’. Knowing they would have to take matters into their own hands, Juri’s grandfather reveals his magical time-freezing rock, hoping that they can use it to save their family members. After the two are kidnapped, the family receives an impossible ransom request and is unable to ask the police for help. Little did I know, there wouldn’t be any logical answers for the many questions that are continuously piled on top of one another all the way into the final episode.
What better of a catalyst to kick off all of their character arcs than a kidnapping? An unbelievable tragedy that happens to two of the family members, but I was intrigued by how Kokkoku would answer why this would happen to such a mundane family. Her living situation is well detailed early on and gave me enough to want to see her family grow and change, hopefully becoming tolerable enough for her to happily live with them. It's understandable why Juri's searching for jobs to move out, but sadly she has yet to be accepted after many interviews. She’s usually the one who has to take care of things like picking Makoto up from school, making dinner, and taking care of the family while her sister goes to work. In the first episode, we’re introduced to Juri's NEET older brother Tsubasa, slob father Takafumi, her nephew Makoto, and wise grandfather. older sister in the family Juri is the most put-together of them all. They hit, yell at, and curse at each other. It would be an understatement to say they don’t get along. The dysfunctional Yukawa family are our main characters. The many interesting themes it juggled are freezing time, a dysfunctional family, and psychic powers, but Kokkoku wastes them on mediocre execution. Its story is illogical, the art is ugly as sin, the characters are frustrating, and its glacial pacing makes it one of the most boring thrillers I've ever seen. It failed to understand the limits of its budget, taking on far more than it could handle. While all hope seems lost, a monstrous giant known as the Herald appears amidst the chaos, its intent and motivations as cryptic as the very nature of this timeless world.
Having arrived at their destination, their rescue efforts go awry when they are assailed by a surprising group of people who are somehow able to move around within Stasis. With only 30 minutes to deliver five million yen to the criminals, Juri's grandfather reveals a dangerously powerful secret to her and Takafumi.īy offering blood to her grandfather's mystical stone, the three enter the world of "Stasis," a version of their world where time stops for everyone but the users.
However, this struggling family's life takes a turn for the worse when Makoto and Tsubasa are violently kidnapped by a mysterious organization and held for ransom. Stuck living with her working mother Nobuko, NEET brother Tsubasa, laid-off father Takafumi, and single-parent sister Sanae, the only hope for this family to raise a decent adult is her little nephew Makoto. After presumably failing 19 job interviews in one day, Juri Yukawa's dreams of moving out of her parents' home are utterly dashed.
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