| Main Title | Chaos;Head (a6088) |
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| Official Title | ja カオス；ヘッド |
| Synonym | C;H, Chäos;HEAd |
| Type | TV Series, 12 episodes |
| Year | 09.10.2008 till 25.12.2008 |
| Categories | Action, Angst, Comedy, Daily Life, Detective, Horror, School Life, SciFi, Seinen, Super Power, Tragedy, Violence – similar |
| Producers | 5pb, Nitroplus, MADHOUSE |
| Resources | Official page, ANN, AnimeNFO, Allcinema |
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Chaos;Head’s story is set in 2008 in Shibuya and is centered around Takumi Nishijō, a high school student at the private Suimei Academy, and the strange events that have recently occurred in the Shibuya area. The two main events being referenced by the media and the public at large are referred as the “New Generation” (ニュージェネレーション?) events. The first event, called the “Group Dive” (集団ダイブ?), occurred on September 7 when five high school students jumped to their deaths off of a high tower. The second event, called the “Pregnant Man” (妊娠男 Ninshin Otoko?), occurred on September 19 when a male university student was found dead with a thirty-two week old fetus incised within his abdomen.
The story begins on September 28 with Takumi talking to an online friend called Grim (グリム Gurimu?). Grim is trying to bring Takumi up to speed about the recent New Generation events since Takumi is not interested in local or international news. A person named Shōgun (将軍?) joins the chat room midway through Grim and Takumi’s conversation, but he does not respond despite being greeted by both Grim and Takumi. Grim sends Takumi a poorly drawn image of a person getting stabbed with several stakes, jokingly claiming that it’s an image of the murder before leaving the chat room.
After Grim leaves the chat room, Shōgun finally starts to talk. He sends Takumi a barrage of several realistic image links, with the stakes pinned as in Shōgun’s, depicting a murder. The next day, as Takumi was heading home after spending the afternoon at an internet cafe, he comes across the same scene that he witnessed yesterday in Shōgun’s pictures. He sees a male body nailed to the wall as well as a pink-haired girl dressed in a Suimei Academy uniform, covered in blood. Takumi runs away screaming as soon as he comes to his senses over the situation at hand. The story progresses from here with Takumi trying to avoid getting involved with Shōgun and other New Generation events as he is slowly caught in a grander scheme’s wheels of motion.
The pink-haired girl, Rimi Sakihata, appeared before him as Takumi’s classmate. Even though he doesn’t remember her, the rest of the school does. Takumi is then approached by Yua Kusunoki, who at first seemed as a friend, but actually wanted to confirm if Takumi was the New Generation criminal, which she later accidentally reveals, scaring Takumi away. Gathering from Yua’s comments, Takumi thinks he has precognition abilities and his search for related information leads him to a concert of the rock group “Phantasm.” Its main singer, FES, whose true name is Ayase Kishimoto, reveals that the songs’ lyrics predicted the New Gene incidents and also reveals to have a odd-shaped sword.
While trying to get away from Rimi and Yua, Takumi meets Sena Aoi in the streets of Shibuya, who seems to have the same sword as Ayase. She reveals that the weapon (invisible to anybody except Takumi and the wielders of this sword) is called a Di-Sword. Some time later, a new transfer student arrives at Takumi’s school, Kozue Orihara. She seems to not talk and be very childish. Ayase advices Takumi to find his sword to be “saved.” During this time, another New Gen incident occurs and an earthquake occurs of about 5.8 richter-scale strength whose epicentre is Shibuya.
Meanwhile, Takumi meets Sena and Ayase once again. When meeting Sena, she explains how people’s perceptions can be converted to electromagnetic waves and energy that can be used to transmit what the human body perceives, having the ability to channel to other people. In other words, to transmit somebody’s thoughts into other people. When meeting Ayase, she confirms this theory, adding that the manifestation of these thoughts to other people through waves and particles, are delusions, and Di-Swords are materialized interferences with the Sea of Dirac.
