![]() Shion is working as a park administrator taking care of the cleaning robots, and lo! One of the cleaning robots has discovered a dead body! Shion and his coworker go investigate, but it looks like the man might have died of old age. He goes home and goes to bed, then goes to work the next day per usual. For some reason a mouse shows up and makes fun of him for getting all flustered, and Shion concludes that the talking mouse must be connected to Nezumi and chases after it except it’s a mouse and there was no way he was going to catch it. He never saw her that way, though, so they don’t do the sex. She’s going to study abroad, and to say goodbye, she propositions him in the train station. Shion has to explain this to Safu, who wants to know why he didn’t stay in the honors program with her (though he doesn’t tell her about Nezumi because he figures talking about criminals is bad). In the anime, though, he kind of stumbles naively through life and it’s adorable if not entirely believable. It’s one of the things the light novels do a bit better because his inner monologue makes it more obvious when he’s deliberately withholding information and that he at least knows he can’t afford to be completely honest with the police. This is the first and last thing I agree with the government on because Shion seriously has a negative Wisdom stat like wow. Skip forward four years, Shion and his mother have been kicked out of Chronos to the slightly-less-prosperous-but-still-pretty-classy Lost Town because they figured out he harbored Nezumi, and that this lapse in judgement meant he wasn’t actually a genius so he got kicked out of his honors program. Here have some cuties kissing to send you on your way.įor those of you that are left, on with the summary. In all seriousness though, they are definitely a couple they kiss twice, so if you don’t like gay couples a) fuck you, and b) this probably isn’t the anime for you. Nezumi sneaks back out in the middle of the night and Shion stares forlornly out the window because this is actually the beginning of a romance anime SURPRISE Nezumi points out how dumb sheltering him is, to which Shion goes “Yeah maybe” and Nezumi concludes that’s he’s weird. This serves to establish Shion as a pretty nice guy, but pretty much undermines what we’ve been told about him being smart - in fact, I’m not sure we see Shion being particularly smart at all during the anime, though he does tell us on occasion the things he could do given proper equipment. ![]() In another stroke of pure genius, Shion decides to let the obvious criminal stay in his room and even stitches his wound for him and shares his dinner. ![]() In any case, the open door allows Nezumi, on the run and bleeding from a bullet wound, to sneak inside. But Shion seems a little discontent compared to his friend, Safu, and this discontent manifests itself when he decides to open his balcony window in the middle of a typhoon and scream into the wind because that is a shining example of what genius children do in their free time. Shion, age 12, is one of the smartest children of his age, and his honors program in Ecology has earned him and his mother a place in Chronos. No one in Chronos has to work, because everything is provided. 6 shows a picture of a very interesting world filled with real and curious characters that are well worth getting to know.ĭetailed summary (read: spoilers) below the cut.Īt the center of No. The end result is still cohesive and compelling, but I’d be lying if I said the plot was perfectly fluid. The plot feels a little stilted at times, in part due to the fact that most of the exposition in the light novels happened through the narrative and the anime often wasn’t sure how to translate that effectively to dialogue, so it ends up with a weird combination of over-explaining some things while forgetting to mention others. ![]() The show handles character interactions beautifully and is really interesting to watch. 6, and Nezumi (meaning Rat or Mouse the subs translate his name as Rat), from the impoverished West District that the city tries to pretend doesn’t exist. The story focuses on two boys: Shion, from the walled off “utopia” called No. 6 is a dystopian drama based on a series of light novels of the same name (translated here if you’re interested I talk about some of the differences in the summary). Okay, this time going to talk about a show I liked. ![]()
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