When i first started ZnT, I was instantly hooked by the beautiful artwork and the interesting plot line with the concept of teenagers being terrorists. The story is layered out much like a cop drama, almost like Death Note in a way, with Detective Shibazaki figuring out the mysteries that the boys lay out for him while all the way trying to claw himself back up from his disdained past, giving the story almost two plot lines, and a view from both sides. However, the anime is fundamentally flawed because the author(s) try much too hard to portray the boys as heroes. When Nine agrees to let Twelve take Lisa, the female main, along with them, Twelve says that they could kill her at anytime anyways, giving them an almost sinister feeling. This however, is taken away as soon as episode 5 rolls around and all of the sudden the boys are doing all they can to protect Lisa, shying away from their original objective. In addition, the suspense of the whole "solve the mystery or people are going to die" thing is taken away as soon as we find out the boys are purposefully activating the bombs specifically so that nobody will die, although this propels the plot forward and leads Shibazaki to find out the boys true motives. The clearest example of the trying to make Nine and Twelve seem like "good guys but still terrorists" appears in the last episode, where it is actually messed up the most. The authors want the effect of a nuclear bomb explosion, but at the same time want the boys hands to stay clean. Their solution is to blow it up in the air, creating an EMP effect. Although the boys have seemingly planned out that the airplanes were going to be able to be grounded in time, there is no regard at all given to people on life support, or in operations, who all probably would die because of the loss of electricity. All in all, the anime had a very strong start, but a very bad finish. I wouldn't consider the ZnT anything special.
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