Concrete Revolutio: Choujin Gensou - The Last Song Episode 1 Discussion

Kuma said:
@Stark700 is the timeline still a shifting like first season or not?

BGMaxie said:
So to understand it well did Shiba return to his original self or he is now a mix of himself with that space cyborg?

And the smoke aliens i.e. the Fumers are with Jiro trying to use him eh? This is gonna get messy quick.

Fai said:
Its interesting to see Raito's conflict of morality. And it emphasizes quite well the main theme of the show, the fluidity of right and wrong and how propaganda and ideologies represent and manifest in our world too.

This episode nicely connects to the episodes about androids and machines in first season - the robots are supposed to have clearcut sense of right and wrong for themselves. They were built that way. TO have a black and white morality.

Yet both cases, both Raito and Earth-chan broke in different ways after realizing it. One broke from his humanity, the other broke by longing for humanity. Because what they were built for is impossible - true "right and wrong" can't exist. It can't be calculated. There are only interests and agendas everywhere for everyone.

And yet every single person longs to know they are right. That they are correct. Even if it is nothing but illusion, because of how "fluid" the idea of right and wrong is.

Fai said:

Neither. He used the space cyborg's materials to reassert a new version of justice. Instead of serving the government's justice or majority justice, he is serving his own justice, even if it means going against the whole country or resorting to terrorism.


That is speculation by space guy. WE don't know it exactly or how it works, chances are the other three decided to ally with Jiro in order to stop the green one that was Chief.

m-i-c-h-a-e-l said:
wot the timeslot changed again.

Zahylon said:
Playing like a mix between Watchmen and Civil War.
So far, Concrete Revolutio has been my favorite superhero Anime.

L-Ryoshi said:
whilst Emi, being more mature and all, leaves him to his own devices, convinced that once he goes and finished doing his thing that he'll come back to her eventually.

It makes me wonder why Kikko didn't defect with Jirou, since that would probably have been the most ideal course of action if she really wanted to be near him.

DerMond said:
It's back, and it's as classy as ever.

I think this episode is really interesting as it echoes strongly with what is currently happening in reality: people are becoming more rigid in their convictions, and logically, it gives rise to those kind of situations.

Jonesy974 said:
Fuck yea. This show came back with a bang.

Still a bit of time-skipping, but all of it takes place after the first half where Jirou has officially gone rogue.

The beginning takes place in March of the 47th after Jirou has been rogue a while and after Shiba became his own brand of justice, AND after him and Jirou already fought over Megasshin (which they teased in the first 12 episodes).

The bulk of it takes place in October of the 46th. The government has now decided that superhumans are dangerous and need to be arrested/killed to be controlled. All of this due to the young protesters/superhumans being manipulated into escalating violence so that the public doesn't side with them. Jirou has left because now the Bureau attacks superhumans rather than save them. This particular series of events takes place not long after Jirou has gone rogue, because it happens shortly after the train incident from episode 1.

A lot of interesting stuff went down too. Shiba basically had his paradoxical mental breakdown as a superhuman robot trying to be human while hating superhumans. Jirou showed himself completely rogue for the first time, and now has control of his powers with the help of Formers. We got to see Emi being a manipulative yandere-esque bitch again, but this time Jirou was basically having none of it; straight up calling her out on her games. Jirou's piece of shit adoptive father was just like "yep hes a traitor", while everyone else was at least slightly worried about him facing the giant robot.

Also interesting to see how that Marketing Company who was secretly helping the protesters is now seemingly allied with the Bureau with stopping superhumans; though theres a good chance they have ulterior motives...especially since it looked like some other character has a mask similar to Claude/Jin.

I'm honestly hyped to see where this is going to go. I cant wait to see how they touch base on all of the future events they teased in the first half (Furrouta meeting the bug queen after killing her entire race, Jirou and the lighting kid recusing Earth-chan, etc). Plus the OP video teased stuff like Jirou's dad looking super evil by being highlighted with shadows, and Jirou facing another Claude-looking person on the train.

My other big question is: Is chief Akita one of the Formers who's helping Jirou control his powers, or are all 3 of them separate Formers who are against Akita? They way I see it:
1. Akita is the one who intentionally fucked up the government bill and peace talks on purpose by possessing the one politician. Perhaps he doesn't like the way the things are going with superhumans getting abused, so he teams up with Jirou to help try to fix things back to how he kind of wanted it. Jirou now may or may not know about Akita's involvement with ruining the peace plan. *the characters also mentioned that they're unsure if Jirou is getting help from Akita
2. Akita is actually the ultimate bad guy who pit Jirou/superhumans/protesters against the Bureau/government to begin with. Perhaps his antics are a bit out of control, and 3 other Formers stepped in to intervene and help Jirou fight the Bureau and ultimately stop Akita.

We also know that Akita wasn't the only Former around. Those other politicians he met up with a few times were also all Formers who were all different colors. So the Formers helping Jirou could be Akita + the others, just the others, or 3 other entirely different ones.

Shit, this has me genuinely excited since there are so many different theories and possibilities with how this show can proceed.

Madlib said:
Glad this is back. The op and the ending were nice, but the ending from season 1 tops both imo. Enjoyed this first episode a lot.

bastek66 said:
I'm surprised that simulcast is two days before Japanese tv.

Fai said:


Japan generally hates this show A LOT, because of "wrong interpretation of history" - as in because the show does not whitewash the WW2-postWW2 Japan.It got especially bad when the show dealt with unit 731 references and most of reactions were basically "the authors of this need to die" and stuff. Some people call this "american propaganda" and stuff like that.

Its hilarious:
- In the west a lot of people are too confused at the setting and the show themes so they hate it.
- In Japan a lot of people outright despise the show because they know what the show is referencing, yet are completely tone-deaf when it comes to that time period in Japan.

Fai said:
Japan generally hates this show A LOT, because of "wrong interpretation of history" - as in because the show does not whitewash the WW2-postWW2 Japan.It got especially bad when the show dealt with unit 731 references and most of reactions were basically "the authors of this need to die" and stuff. Some people call this "american propaganda" and stuff like that.

Its hilarious:
- In the west a lot of people are too confused at the setting and the show themes so they hate it.
- In Japan a lot of people outright despise the show because they know what the show is referencing, yet are completely tone-deaf when it comes to that time period in Japan.

bastek66 said:
Like American say: "Two nukes weren't enough" ( ͡º ͜ʖ͡º)

Tylaen said:
I do miss the days when people who were more skeptical about this anime roamed the subforum.

Fai said:

Japan generally hates this show A LOT, because of "wrong interpretation of history" - as in because the show does not whitewash the WW2-postWW2 Japan.It got especially bad when the show dealt with unit 731 references and most of reactions were basically "the authors of this need to die" and stuff. Some people call this "american propaganda" and stuff like that.
In Japan a lot of people outright despise the show because they know what the show is referencing, yet are completely tone-deaf when it comes to that time period in Japan.