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Revisions | |
リヴィジョンズ (Ribijonzu) | |
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Genre | Science Fiction, Action, Mecha |
Created by | SFS |
Manga | |
Written by | SFS |
Illustrated by | Kuro |
Published by | Kodansha |
Magazine | Monthly Shōnen Sirius |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | November 26, 2018 – June 26, 2019[1] |
Volumes | 2 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Gorō Taniguchi |
Produced by |
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Written by |
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Music by | Azusa Kikuchi |
Studio | Shirogumi |
Licensed by | Netflix (streaming)
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Original network | Fuji TV (+Ultra) |
Original run | January 10, 2019 – March 28, 2019 |
Episodes | 12 |
Revisions (Japanese: リヴィジョンズ, Hepburn: Rivijonzu) is an anime television series directed by Gorō Taniguchi and animated by Shirogumi. The series aired from January to March 2019 on Fuji TV's +Ultra programming block.
Daisuke Dojima is a student who was kidnapped when he was a child. Now he and his friends are involved in one of the "Shibuya Drift" strange events, travelling 300 years into the future. There, the enemy known as "Revisions" fight using giant mechanical monsters. Daisuke and his friends are fighting to defeat the enemy and recover their present.[2]
Fuji TV announced the series during a livestream event in March 2018. The series is directed by Gorō Taniguchi and written by Makoto Fukami and Taichi Hashimoto, with animation by studio Shirogumi.[9] Character designs for the series are provided by Sunao Chikaoka and adapted for CG animation by Jun Shirai.[9] Kazuhiko Takahashi serves as director of photography, Takamitsu Hirakawa is the CG director for the series, Jin Aketagawa is the sound director, Akari Saitō is the editor, and Azusa Kikuchi composes the series' music.[9] Other staff includes Yōhei Arai (mecha design), Makoto Shirata (BG concept artist), Yutaka Ōnishi (matte paint director), Ryū Sakamoto (art, setting), and Akemi Nagao (color design).[9] The opening theme is "Wagamama de Gomakasanaide" by The Oral Cigarettes.[7] The ending theme is "Curtain Call" by Weaver.[10] The series premiered on Fuji TV's +Ultra timeslot from January 10 to March 28, 2019.[7][9] The series was streamed on Netflix worldwide.[3]
No. | Title | Written by | Original air date | |
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1 | "Shibuya Transfer" "Shibutani Tensou" (渋谷転送) | Makoto Fukami | January 10, 2019 | |
As a child Daisuke was abducted; his four friends saved him with the help of a strange woman, Milo, who tells him he will one day save his friends from a great disaster. Now in second year of high school he is obsessed with his alleged heroic destiny, alienating his friends. One day, his hometown of Shibuya, Tokyo is shifted to a post-apocalyptic future and his school is attacked by a mechanical monster, slaughtering some, capturing others. Milo appears and temporarily incapacitates the monster. Apparently, she does not know Daisuke yet, but grasps the situation and leads him to a mecha [Milo calls a String Puppet) to fight the monster (a Revision). | ||||
2 | "Heroic Desire" "Yuusha Ganbou" (勇者願望) | Makoto Fukami, Asaura | January 17, 2019 | |
Daisuke saves the captives from the Revision's bio-cage and destroys the enemy. He and his friends and Milo are arrested and brought to the newly established provisional government, while Shibuya descends into chaos and panic. Milo explains they are stranded in the year 2388 and that she is from an organization called AHRV that has a plan to get Shibuya back to their time. Daisuke and his friends' help is required as they are the only ones able to pilot the three String Puppets she can provide. | ||||
3 | "Guardians" "Shugosha-tachi" (守護者たち) | Asaura | January 24, 2019 | |
4 | "First Return Plan" "Daiichiji Kikan Keikaku" (第1次帰還計画) | Asaura, Kou Kimura | January 31, 2019 | |
5 | "Appearance of the Future" "Mirai no Sugata" (未来の姿) | Makoto Fukami | February 7, 2019 | |
6 | "Because They're Humans..." "Datte, Hito Dakara..." (だって, 人だから...) | Makoto Fukami | February 14, 2019 | |
7 | "Midnight Rhapsody" "Mayonaka no Kyoushikyoku" (真夜中の狂詩曲) | Kou Kimura | February 21, 2019 | |
8 | "Operation Nephilim" "Operation Nephilim" (オペレーション・ネフィリム) | Asaura | February 28, 2019 | |
9 | "Loss of Destiny" "Soushitsu no Unmei" (消失の運命) | Kou Kimura | March 7, 2019 | |
10 | "Everyone's City" "Minna no Machi" (みんなの街) | Makoto Fukami | March 14, 2019 | |
11 | "The Last Hope" "Saigo no Kibou" (最後の希望) | Asaura, Kou Kimura | March 21, 2019 | |
12 | "Revert" | Makoto Fukami | March 28, 2019 |
Writing for Monsters and Critics, writer Patrick Frye compared the science fiction anime to the isekai genre "except that an entire city is thrown into a new world via time travel." Although the character development, plot twists, and CGI animation were praised, it's claimed the "biggest negatives centered around the protagonist Daisuke who suffers from an obsessive hero complex for most of the first season ... which made watching the first eight episodes feel grating or insufferable." In May 2019, Anime News Network listed Daisuke one of the most, "scrubbiest scrublord protagonists”.[11]