Recent Anime: ChäoS;HEAd

ChäoS;HEAd title screen

ChäoS;HEAd's main character, Nishijou Takumi, isn't concerned with the three-dimensional world. He much prefers the two-dimensional world. He is somewhat of a hikikomori, but he does go to school on occasion. In fact, he's planned out the exact minimum number of days he has to go to school so he can graduate. His waifu, Seira-tan (a character from an anime he's watching called Blood Tune), shows up when he's alone in his shipping container on the roof of a building (that strangely enough, has power and internet). He mostly sits there and plays his favorite MMORPG, Empire Sweeper.

The anime opens with a short scene in a post-apocalyptic setting. After the opening we go to the present time, where a series of strange deaths has been occuring. These events are being called New Generation Madness, or New Gen for short. Three have occurred already.

Takumi's perfect world changes when someone named Shogun sends him some images of the fourth New Gen, showing a person pinned to a wall with cross-shaped needles. Later that night he happens upon the scene and ends up with one of the cross-shaped needles.

Other characters introduced in the first episode are his sister Nanami and Kusunoki Yua (a third-year at his school). You also see a short clip of another character who's introduced later on, and a fourth character shows up in his class at the end of the first episode who gets introduced in the second.

The plot is as follows. Some people are Gigalomaniacs, and have the power to manifest their delusions into reality. Naturally, someone is out to obtain this power and use it for their own purposes. This entity is Nozomi Group. They've created a machine that can essentially do the same thing that Gigalomaniacs can, called Noah II. There's a Noah I. Don't worry. Though it's just referred to as the prototype to Noah II.

At this point, it's unclear how Shogun and the New Gen events fit into the plot, though there's a small bit I'm leaving out about variances in gravity (GE-Rate) because I don't really feel like getting deep into it. Basically, the GE-Rate has been abnormal at each of the New Gen locations.

ChäoS;HEAd is based off of a visual novel of the same name. I guess that's why it's only going to be 12 episodes? The music for the game is good, and the opening/closing for the anime are pretty good as well. Specifically the closing. It's almost entirely in English, and m.3.3.w got one of the lines wrong in their karaoke. It almost sounds like what they have, so I can't really blame them, but still, it's kind of bad when a fansub group that subs in English messes up English lyrics.

m.3.3.w lyrics	Actual lyrics
You're always super special That's why you are here with me Miracle baby, born now blessing superstar	You're always super special That's why you are here with me Miracle baby, born on the same super star

Overall, it's pretty good, and m.3.3.w's releasing it in 720p encoded in h264 (with Matroska chapters, so you can just hit Next to bypass the opening), so visually it looks awesome. It's currently at 8 of 12 episodes, so catch up now if you haven't been watching it.