Kiznaiver
2016 · Miniseries · TV-14 · 25 min · ★ 7.6
In a shrinking reclaimed-land city, a quiet student is chosen for an experiment meant to promote peace by linking classmates through shared pain. As the group’s injuries are spread among them, their clashing personalities and hidden feelings collide, forcing them to confront what it really means to connect with others.
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5 hours to watch · 12 episodes.
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Details
- Original title
- キズナイーバー
- Years
- 2016
- Release date
- 2016-04-09
- Network
- Tokyo MX, Gunma TV, BS11, Tochigi TV
- Language
- Japanese
- Rated
- TV-14
- Runtime
- 25 min
- Max quality
- HD
- TMDB rating
- 7.6/10 (160 votes)
About
If you enjoy emotional, character-driven anime with an unusual sci-fi hook and shifting tones between humor and heaviness, this may click; Not for you if you want nonstop action or clear explanations like Tower of God.
Pros: unique shared-pain premise; memorable varied classmates; emotional character bonds | Cons: slow stretches; vague experiment details; occasional clichés
Themes
- amnesia
- secret organization
- friendship
- high school
- romance
- unrequited love
- psychic
- anti war
- school life
- angst
- seinen
- anime
- +8 more
Cast & crew
Yuki Kaji
as Katsuhira Agata (voice)
Koutaro Nishiyama
as Yoshiharu Hisomu (voice)
Rina Sato
as Honoka Maki (voice)
Misaki Kuno
as Niko Niiyama (voice)
Hibiku Yamamura
as Noriko Sonozaki (voice)
Yuka Terasaki
as Chidori Takashiro (voice)
Tomoaki Maeno
as Hajime Tenga (voice)
Nobunaga Shimazaki
as Tsuguhito Yuta (voice)
Directed by Keisuke Shinohara, Hisao Dendo, Yoshihiro Miyajima +3 more
Created by Mari Okada
Episodes1 season · 12 episodes
Season 112 episodes
- S1E1Sometimes, a Bond Can Bloom from the First Day Eye Contact Is Made24mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime Video
- S1E2If You Can Swallow a Bizarre Situation Like This So Easily, Two Buckets of Barium Shouldn't Be a Problem24mCrunchyrollAmazon Prime Video
- S1E3Depending on How You Look At It, I Think We Could Get Through Anything... Right?24mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E4Now That We're All Connected, Let's All Get to Know Each Other Better, 'Kay?24mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E5Wahoo! It's a Training Camp! Let's Step in Deer Poop and Have Pillow Fights! Go! Go!24mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E6Nothing Good Comes From Being Around All Of You24mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E7A Battle Touching Upon the Identity of the Pain that's Seven Times the Pain of One-Seventh of a Pain24mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E8Happy Times Don't Tend to Last Very Long24mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E9It's All Over......I Think24mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E10You Knew Very Well That Your Romantic Feelings Might Be Unrequited, Right?24mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E11We Have To Contact Each Other And Confirm Our Feelings. Because We're Friends!24mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E12If The Kizna System Spread Throughout The World24mAmazon Prime Video