Concrete Revolutio: Superhuman Phantasmagoria (コンクリート・レボルティオ ~超人幻想~, Konkurīto Reborutio: Chōjin Gensō) is a Japanese superhero anime television series created and written by Shō Aikawa, directed by Seiji Mizushima, produced by Bones, and featuring character designs by Yoshiyuki Ito. It began airing in Japan in October 2015. A second season debuted on 3 April 2016.
Concrete Revolutio: Superhuman Phantasmagoria | |
コンクリート・レボルティオ ~超人幻想~ (Konkurīto Reborutio: Chōjin Gensō) | |
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Genre | Superhero[1] |
Created by | Bones Shō Aikawa |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Seiji Mizushima |
Produced by | Yoshihiro Ōyabu Minoru Takanashi Hirotaka Kaneko Hirotsugu Ogisu Ryōsuke Nakaji Tsutomu Yanagimura Takuya Hosaka |
Written by | Shō Aikawa Masaki Tsuji |
Music by | Kakeru Ishihama (Monaca) Keigo Hoashi (Monaca) Yōsuke Yamamoto |
Studio | Bones |
Licensed by | |
Original network | Tokyo MX |
English network | |
Original run | 4 October 2015 – 27 December 2015 |
Episodes | 13 |
Anime television series | |
The Last Song | |
Directed by | Seiji Mizushima |
Produced by | Yoshihiro Ōyabu Minoru Takanashi Hirotaka Kaneko Hirotsugu Ogisu Ryōsuke Nakaji Tsutomu Yanagimura Takuya Hosaka |
Written by | Shō Aikawa Masaki Tsuji Kazuki Nakashima Gen Urobuchi |
Music by | Kakeru Ishihama (Monaca) Keigo Hoashi (Monaca) Yōsuke Yamamoto |
Studio | Bones |
Licensed by | |
Original network | Tokyo MX |
Original run | 3 April 2016 – 17 June 2016 |
Episodes | 11 |
Manga | |
Written by | Nylon |
Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
English publisher | |
Magazine | Young Ace |
Demographic | Seinen |
Original run | September 2015 – July 2016 |
Volumes | 2 |
In the year Apotheosis 41 (AD 1962), Earth is currently home to superhumans and paranormal phenomena of all kinds, from aliens and magical girls to ghosts and transforming robots. However, official knowledge of these beings is officially kept under wraps by the governments of the world. The Japanese government has quietly set up the "Super Population Research Laboratory", a.k.a. the "Superhuman Bureau", to keep track of all superhuman beings in the country and eliminate them if they pose a threat to humanity. In the present, Bureau member Jiro Hitoyoshi finds himself recruiting new superhumans for the Bureau in the course of his job. However, five years later in Apotheosis 46, Jiro turns into a vigilante on the run from the Bureau while the rest of its members deal with the consequences of their earlier actions.
Bones first unveiled the project on 1 July 2015. The series is directed by Seiji Mizushima and written by Shō Aikawa.[1][7] Yoshiyuki Ito provides character designs and animation direction; Noizi Ito, Hekiru Hikawa, and Ryō Hirao are in charge of character creation and concept design; and Kanetake Ebikawa, Takayuki Yanase, Toshiaki Ihara, and Hideyuki Matsumoto are in charge of SF concept design. Ken Ohtsuka is the series mechanical animation director, and Hiroki Matsumoto provides the series art design.[3][4] Masafumi Mima is the series' sound director.[5] Anime Consortium Japan co-produced the series.[8]
The anime began airing on 4 October 2015, to run for two cours (half a year),[1][7] airing on Tokyo MX, Sun TV, KBS Kyoto, and BS11.[9] The series is streamed worldwide by Daisuki,[8] and in North America by Funimation.[10] Following Sony's acquisition of Crunchyroll, the series was moved to Crunchyroll.[11] The opening theme song, "Katararezu Tomo" (カタラレズトモ), is performed by ZAQ, and the closing theme song is performed by Yohske Yamamoto.[12]
The second season premiered in April 2016.[13][14]
No. overall | No. in season | Title [15][a] | Directed by [15] | Written by [15] | Storyboarded by [15] | Original air date [9] | |
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1 | 1 | "The Witch Girl of Tokyo" Transliteration: "Tōkyō no Majo" (Japanese: 東京の魔女) | Seiji Mizushima, Ken Ōtsuka, Yasushi Muraki | Tomoyuki Kurokawa | Shō Aikawa | 4 October 2015 | |
While working as a waitress at a cafe, Kikko Hoshino is asked by a man named Jiro Hitoyoshi to do a job for him, preventing a top Japanese scientist named Professor Onda from selling research secrets to a corporate spy. Strangely enough, the supposed spy is seen giving Onda a package instead of taking one from him. Even so, Kikko stops Onda from leaving, as the spy reveals himself to be an alien from Planet S. Kikko reveals herself to be a magical girl, and teleports outside with the package. However, the alien follows and grows giant-sized until the giant superhuman Grosse Augen appears and vanishes with the alien. With Kikko and Jiro's help, Grosse Augen defeats the alien, but Jiro tracks down his alter-ego anyway and confronts him. Grosse Augen turns out to be an alien borrowing a Japanese policeman's body as it would have died otherwise, but the strain is supposedly killing them both. Jiro appears to take Grosse Augen into an alleyway and vaporize him. The scene flashes to a point five years later, when it is revealed to Kikko that Jiro freed Grosse Augen reach his home planet while reviving the policeman in the body of the defeated S Planetarian. As a result, the Superhuman Bureau made Jiro a target, and he refuses to go with Kikko as he escapes with the policeman. | |||||||
2 | 2 | "Inside the "Black Fog"" Transliteration: ""Kuroi Kiri" no Naka de" (Japanese: 『黒い霧』の中で) | Hideyo Yamamoto | Hiroyuki Ōshima | Shō Aikawa | 11 October 2015 | |
A ghost named Fuurouta plays a prank on a class trip, freeing a prized green beetle from its cage while a mysterious black fog rolls through the area. Shortly after the incident, the black fog settles on the Japanese Diet building as the Superhuman Bureau restrains Fuurouta, unsure of what to do with him. While escaping from captivity, Fuurouta runs into a strange girl named Campe and offers to be friends with her. Meanwhile, Jiro finds the corpses of Japanese Public Security superhumans who were defeated by the Tartaros Bugmen from inside the black fog. Fuurouta overhears Professor Hitoyoshi describe how he has revived an ancient virus to kill the Tartaros Bugmen, and the next day Fuurouta offers to help the Bureau kill them in exchange for letting him join. After taking the virus, Fuurouta shelters the green bug from before, then tosses the virus container like a bug bomb, killing the Tartaros Bugmen and dissipating the black fog. Later, Jiro casts the deciding vote to let Fuurouta join the Bureau. Five years later, Fuurouta is attacked by a grown-up Campe, who turned out to be the green bug he rescued from before. However, after his actions she became the last of the Tartaros Bugmen alive while the politicians who destroyed their forest habitat went unpunished. Jiro appears and talks Campe down from attacking a remorseful Fuurouta. As she leaves, Fuurouta cries that the black-and-white world he thought he knew became more complicated. | |||||||
3 | 3 | "An Iron Couple" Transliteration: "Tekkotsu no Hito" (Japanese: 鉄骨のひと) | Yūdai Kubota | Osamu Kamei | Shō Aikawa | 18 October 2015 | |
Haneda Airport recovers from what seems like a terrorist bomb attack, though no threat or demand was sent. Detective Shiba suspects superhuman involvement, but all the evidence is taken from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police by the Superhuman Bureau, so Shiba tries following a lead to Yatsuka Heavy Industries. Along the way, Shiba meets a girl named Mieko, but quickly discovers that she is a robot as the Superhuman Bureau intervenes and Shiba is caught in an explosion. While Shiba recovers at the Bureau, Professor Hitoyoshi mentions that Mieko was the "female" half of a human-looking robot pair, programmed to seek out a "male" counterpart to form a large explosive in enemy territory. Jiro wants to capture Mieko alive, but Shiba and others at the Bureau want the robot destroyed to prevent an explosion in a populated area. Despite Jiro's efforts, Shiba takes matters into his own hands, but Mieko decides to jump into a reservoir and self-destruct without killing anyone. Five years later, Shiba attacks a military truck escorting a male prisoner and frees him. He discovered that the man was the male robot of the pair, and that Mieko did not actually self-destruct but merely slept at the bottom of the reservoir before it was drained for urban development. Shiba commands the male robot to merge with Mieko for the sake of his terrorist plot, until Jiro appears and inserts a chip into her frame. As the male and female robots merge, they decide not to follow Shiba's command. Enraged, Shiba beats up the merged robot, and then turns his anger on Jiro. | |||||||
4 | 4 | "Japan "Beast" History, Part 1" Transliteration: "Nippon "Kaijū"-shi Zenpen" (Japanese: 日本『怪獣』史 前篇) | Tomoyuki Kurokawa | Son Seung-heui | Shō Aikawa | 25 October 2015 | |
Shortly after the incident with Grosse Augen, beast (kaiju) attacks are on the rise across Japan, though there are ample numbers of superhumans to deal with them. Fuurouta discovers that one of his friends is secretly feeding a tiny beast called GaGon, and through him the Superhuman Bureau meet up with "Beastly Radio Wave", a small group of peaceful beast enthusiasts. However, Jiro soon discovers that the radio group is actually using GaGon to clone several giant beasts for their own purposes. One of the beasts grabs Jiro, forcing him to unleash the locks holding in his own superhuman power as he burns the radio station to a crisp. | |||||||
5 | 5 | "Japan "Beast" History, Part 2" Transliteration: "Nippon "Kaijū"-shi Gohen" (Japanese: 日本『怪獣』史 後篇) | Tomoyuki Kurokawa, Hitoshi Nanba[b], Ken Ōtsuka, Seiji Mizushima | Tomoyuki Kurokawa | Shō Aikawa | 1 November 2015 | |
The Superhuman Bureau infiltrates a nearby college as students plan to march in support of the beasts and against what they see as their cruel use as weapons by the bigger countries. However, the protesters are manipulated by beast fanatics. While reviving an American-sent beast using GaGon's cells, one of them injects Jiro with a similar drug that causes him to go on a violent rampage in Equus, later stopped by the revived beast, MegaGon. As MegaGon leads the protesters through the streets, the heads of the Superhuman Bureau devise a plan to use a fuel train derailment to incinerate the beast. Kikko, afraid of the possible collateral damage, tries to stop MegaGon before the train crashes, but Daishi possesses the oil-filled cars himself and crashes them into MegaGon, sending him into a mindless rage. As Jiro faces him with Equus, he starts questioning the true nature of the beasts. | |||||||
6 | 6 | "They are Always Laughing" Transliteration: "Yatsura wa Itsu demo Waratteru" (Japanese: やつらはいつでも笑ってる) | Tōru Yoshida | Tōru Yoshida | Shō Aikawa | 8 November 2015 | |
A quartet of comedic rock stars called "Mountain Horse" unexpectedly gain superhuman powers after listening to a rock concert they opened for. The powers themselves are not very strong, but enough that they get noticed by Fuurouta of the Superhuman Bureau, and a publicity agent named Fugimoto. After overhearing Fugimoto's plan to sell chocolate with an experimental anti-superhuman chemical inside, the group decides to infiltrate the warehouse and destroy the chocolate before its distribution, though they have to fight against a giant security robot and a rival superhuman rock band. After one of them gets killed in the fight, the band successfully destroys the chocolate, and keeps one sample as insurance against Fugimoto. Despite Fuurouta and Jiro's offer the remaining band members decide not to join the Superhuman Bureau, and instead continue going on stage as a comedy group. | |||||||
7 | 7 | "Go Beyond the Sky and Stars" Transliteration: "Sora mo Hoshi mo Koeteikō" (Japanese: 空も星も越えていこう) | Susumu Kudō | Takanori Yano | Shō Aikawa | 15 November 2015 | |
Superhuman Judas, or Hikaru Misumi, was part of the armed robbery group Diamond Eater, but had a change of heart after being defeated by Human Satellite Earth-chan. After being released from prison, Hikaru is registered in the Superhuman Bureau, and decides to protect the activities of young people like him. However, the extreme actions of Earth-chan, who reacts to the brain waves of people calling for help, become recognized by society as absolute justice. During the student protest at Haneda Airport against Japan's participation in the Earth Defense Corps, Earth-chan appears while she is guarding the Prime Minister. | |||||||
8 | 8 | "Nobody knows about the Rainbow Knight" Transliteration: "Tenkyū Naito o Dare mo Shiranai" (Japanese: 天弓ナイトをだれもしらない) | Ken Ōtsuka | Tomo Ōkubo | Shō Aikawa | 22 November 2015 | |
The Secret Detective Team BL led by Yumihiko Otonashi refuses superhuman registration and has continued to act on their own with a massive robot named Gigander Seven. Then, Yumihiko receives a notice saying the evil superhuman Lucifer's Eyes will steal superhuman Rainbow Knight's "Crescent Gun" from a collector. Rainbow Knight is a popular superhuman who gave hope to Japan after the war, and Jiro too holds dearly an experience where he was saved by Rainbow Knight. However, Rainbow Knight, the hero of justice, has been labeled as the culprit of the "Otetsu Kidnapping," and there was a conspiracy theory regarding the death involved... | |||||||
9 | 9 | "End of the Endless Family" Transliteration: "Hateshinaki Kazoku no Hate" (Japanese: 果てしなき家族の果て) | Tōru Yoshida | Son Seung-heui | Masaki Tsuji | 29 November 2015 | |
Housewife Sanae Hatakeyama and her family of six live in the antique shop "Mori-no-ya." Her husband Minoru was the first Japanese prisoner when war broke out with the U.S., and close to 30 years had passed without his return. The seemingly ordinary Hatakeyama family had survived a great disaster that occurred at a nearby chemical plant, and had also been witnessed several times over the years with the exact same family members. Therefore, there were suspicions that they were immortal superhumans. After the Superhuman Bureau gets curious about the family, Fuurouta and the others start on a secret investigation. But then, Sanae receives word that Minoru is returning. | |||||||
10 | 10 | "Mirage of Destiny" Transliteration: "Unmei no Gen'ei" (Japanese: 運命の幻影) | Osamu Kamei | Osamu Kamei | Shō Aikawa | 6 December 2015 | |
Infernal Queen is a fanatical organization that ruthlessly kills everyone from politicians to criminals if deemed evil by the organization. Their scientifically almighty mothership IQ has flown from the American continent to Japan, where the Superhuman Bureau is, and started executing criminals. Suspicion is placed on Hyouma as he looks like the leader of IQ, and the masked Public Security Force Chief Shakko comes to the Superhuman Bureau. Are the same two people existing at the same time? Hidden behind the mystery was the secret of Jaguar, or Hyouma, that absolutely cannot be shared with others. | |||||||
11 | 11 | "Justice / Freedom / Peace" Transliteration: "Masayoshi/ Jiyū/ Heiwa" (Japanese: 正義/自由/平和) | Tomoyuki Kurokawa, Seiji Mizushima, Hitoshi Nanba | Shō Ōmachi | Shō Aikawa | 13 December 2015 | |
Along with the return of the Ogasawara Islands, the U.S. Navy's state-of-the-art submarine Antares will be coming to Yokosuka. Students flock to the port in order to see the show by the popular group "Angel Stars." Then radical superhumans hiding amongst the crowd start to protest, and there is chaos after musical notes materialize in sync with the performance. And then, a superhuman calling himself Wonder Sword Claude slices the submarine in half and starts to uncover the terrifying secret hidden inside Antares. | |||||||
12 | 12 | "Hakko Superhuman Crash Incident" Transliteration: "Yakou Choujin Tsuiraku Jiken" (Japanese: 八高超人墜落事件) | Satomi Nakamura | Takanori Yano | Shō Aikawa | 20 December 2015 | |
Murders targeting doctors and nurses have taken place in Sapporo. During the investigation of SPR children who manipulate magic and science, it is revealed that superhumans are used as guinea pigs for a horrible experiment. What is the goal of Wonder Sword Claude who is suspected as the mastermind? Kikko visits the Municipal Hakko High School when the heroic superhuman Galboi Riker who flew from the Soviet comes falling down in a horrid state. The students get a testimony saying he was shot down by the Self-Defense Force and the American superhuman Master Ultima, and rise up against the tyranny of the government. | |||||||
13 | 13 | "Riots in Shinjuku" Transliteration: "Shinjuku Jōran" (Japanese: 新宿擾乱) | Tomoki Kyoda, Hitoshi Nanba, Tomoyuki Kurokawa, Seiji Mizushima | Tomo Ōkubo, Seiji Mizushima (3D) | Shō Aikawa | 27 December 2015 | |
The youth who had awakened to superhuman powers have shifted their sense of justice towards anti-war, anti-America, and anti-establishment, leading them to be called "Superhumanists." Human experimentation and at the Ogasawara Islands and governmental use of superhuman powers come to light. The enraged students rise up for a large-scale protest in Shinjuku, Tokyo in order to realize a "Superhuman Revolution." Jiro gets into action as well, to make Kikko back to normal after she transforms into the queen of the demon world. While Wonder Sword Claude works in stealth, will Jiro be able to follow through with his ideal of "Protect all superhumans"? |
No. overall | No. in season | Title [15][a] | Directed by [15] | Written by [15] | Storyboarded by [15] | Original air date [9] |
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14 | 1 | "The Superhumans of November" Transliteration: "11Gatsu no Chō Hitotachi" (Japanese: 十一月の超人達) | Hitoshi Nanba | Naoki Hishikawa | Shō Aikawa | 3 April 2016 |
15 | 2 | "The Ones Who Look Into Space" Transliteration: "Uchū o Nozomu Mono" (Japanese: 宇宙を臨むもの) | Ken Ōtsuka | Tomo Ōkubo | Shō Aikawa | 10 April 2016 |
16 | 3 | "Calling Your Name in the Town of Flowers" Transliteration: "Hanasaku Machi ni Kiminonawoyobu" (Japanese: 花咲く町に君の名を呼ぶ) | Shinji Ishihira | Fumio Maezono | Kazuki Nakashima | 17 April 2016 |
17 | 4 | "Devila and Devilo" Transliteration: "Debira to Debiro" (Japanese: デビラとデビロ) | Yoshiharu Ashino | Takanori Yano | Masaki Tsuji | 24 April 2016 |
18 | 5 | "Canada Goldenrod" Transliteration: "Seitakāwadachisō" (Japanese: セイタカアワダチソウ) | Tomoyuki Kurokawa | Kazuo Miyake | Shō Aikawa | 1 May 2016 |
19 | 6 | "Iron Mask Arrives" Transliteration: "Suizan Nari Tekkamen" (Japanese: 推参なり鐵假面) | Hitoshi Nanba | Son Seung-heui | Shō Aikawa | 8 May 2016 |
20 | 7 | "The Never-Ending Battle" Transliteration: "Owari Naki Tatakai" (Japanese: 終わりなき戦い) | Tomo Ōkubo | Tomo Ōkubo | Gen Urobuchi | 15 May 2016 |
21 | 8 | "Steel Ogre" Transliteration: "Kōtetsu no Oni" (Japanese: 鋼鉄の鬼) | Ken Ōtsuka | Naoki Hishikawa | Shō Aikawa | 22 May 2016 |
22 | 9 | "The Age of Giant Gods" Transliteration: "Kyoshin-tachi no Jidai" (Japanese: 巨神たちの時代) | Seiji Mizushima, Tomoyuki Kurokawa, Yasushi Muraki | Tomoyuki Kurokawa | Shō Aikawa | 29 May 2016 |
23 | 10 | "Beast and Maiden" Transliteration: "Kaijū to Shojo" (Japanese: 怪獣と処女) | Shinji Ishihira | Kazuo Miyake, Takanori Yano | Shō Aikawa | 10 June 2016 |
24 | 11 | "Can you still sing?" Transliteration: "Kimi wa Mada Utaeru Ka" (Japanese: 君はまだ歌えるか) | Tomoyuki Kurokawa, Ken Ōtsuka, Shinji Ishihira, Kō Matsuo, Seiji Mizushima | Tomo Ōkubo, Naoki Hishikawa | Shō Aikawa | 17 June 2016 |
A manga adaptation with art by Nylon began serialization in the September 2015 issue of Kadokawa Shoten's Young Ace magazine.[3] An omnibus edition was published in North America by Seven Seas Entertainment on 27 June 2017. [16]
No. | Japanese release date | Japanese ISBN |
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1 | 26 October 2015[17] | 978-4-04-103670-9 [17] |
2 | 6 August 2016[18] | 978-4-04-103934-2 [18] |
Nick Creamer of Anime News Network praised the show for its "rousing exploration of the nature of justice in the context of post-war Japan", but criticised the narrative for being confusing at times.[19]