Kita ze Inbou! - キタぜ陰謀!

[ Episode 12: Mission ]

The End is Super Special!

And so, CHAOS;HEAD has ended. That was a rather interesting fight. At more than one point I had no idea what the hell was going on. I didn’t know whether or not if Takumi was really getting skewered or not despite how the show loves to use illusions. I must admit though, that Harem ending he was having delusions of was pretty damn hilarious much in part to Sena confessing to Takumi and pissing off the rest of the girls. Speaking of the girls, their involvement in the finale was pretty indirect. Instead of sending power to Takumi I had thought they’d join him in the fight against Gen’ichi but I suppose that would’ve dragged the battle out longer. Still, I was expecting a more direct battle with a mixture of delusions but the way it was played out turned out to be okay. The last blow was pretty cool-looking as well.

As for the ending…it felt kind of odd. Sure, it ended the way it started and answered the question “Is she going to kill him?” but that was known already by the love confessions and such. Everything was restored back to normal and Sena, Kozupii, Yua, and Nanami all arrived to join up with Takumi and Rimi. Honestly, I thought that the ending felt rushed. They could have at least show some epilogue scenes during the ending sequence until the very end to show us how everyone went on to leave afterward. Perhaps an OVA is in the works? Who knows for sure aside from the studio itself. I just wished that the ending had more closure that what was given. Even so, I enjoyed watching CHAOS;HEAD from beginning to end. It was a pleasure having my mind messed with by the technobabble in the earlier episodes. Some of my favorite scenes were easily Yua’s constant and freaky synonym-repetition and FES’s concert and Yuki-like explanation of all that was going on behind the scenes. Takumi isn’t going to be an easy protagonist to forget about either given how he was pretty much useless and the near-ultimate hikikomori for most of the series. He’s been quite the interesting guy, that’s for sure.

So while CHAOS;HEAD was a nice ride I felt that it could have been much better had the build-up from previous episodes had been maintained, the villain more properly developed, and the final battle conclusion being more well-written and scripted (cliché!). It does a good job being what it is though and I can’t fault it for that. I’d recommend it to friends and others because I feel it is a show that, while nothing groundbreaking, is still something that should be experienced. It’s been real C;H!

When I said the last fight would be intense, it really turned out to be intense. Mentally, that is. Unsurprisingly, yet interestingly enough, delusions and mind games were all but absent and somehow Takumi was able to break through them all. Love is power? Firstly, I had to laugh my ass right off seeing Takumi getting pulled into the ground like quicksand, leaving only his eyeballs left. So I guess that explains one thing: those eyes… whose eyes are those? Takumi’s eyes, that’s whose!

Takumi took down Noah II pretty damn fast, so it felt, I dunno, anti-climatic? It certainly wasn’t not climatic… I think if Seira-tan was Takumi’s final obstacle, it would’ve turned out to be the greatest battle ever (not), but I was satisfied with the battle, even though the old idiot really didn’t do much. Though, those were some pretty strong delusions he used. That harem dream was whack, but I think what was really unsettling was right before that when Takumi was being skewered(?) and Rimi was watching with a grin on her face. Oh yeah, and… he opened up her shirt in the middle of a fight? Lawl. This guy’s bold. Right after everything returned to peace, Takumi was seen laying on the floor for some reason. Um… didn’t he just win? Why’s he so bent out of shape in the next scene? This particular scene is the exact one we saw at the beginning of the first episode. When the girls were talking about the Shibuya River, I immediately thought of TWEWY again. After all that’s said and done, Shibuya reconstructs itself back to normal and everyone’s happy, and then all of a sudden it ends like that. Areeeeee?!

I was expecting there to be some actual conclusion, heck even in the credits would’ve been fine, but it was the usual super special ending song Super Special. I still don’t get why they have angel wings. This filthy, defiler, disgrace of a show (BTW, nice insert during the final battle) was definitely all right by me, but a lot of shit that went down just wouldn’t fly to my standards. Spanning only twelve episodes based on a game seems rather short and would require cramming a lot of bits and pieces in. Had it been twice that amount like Higurashi, it would’ve been less confusing for me. I guess I have the game to look at whenever I feel up to it.

It was a fun ride following this to the end. Takumi changed dramatically, from an otaku recluse living inside some base storage house thing (WTF is that, anyway?) to now… I dunno, still living in there, but now with more value to his life? Now that Shogun’s gone I guess he can live out his life the way he wants, just like he had been doing in the beginning. So the only thing he really gained from this was a girl plus more girls, without even trying to trigger flags. Good show, Takumi! ‘Kay, guess I can change my mind about you, but try not to drink so much Coca Cola… Overall, anyone wanting to see weirdness and technological psychological warfare should check this out, especially Higurashi fanatics. C;H, thanks for the memories!