Chaos; child

Chaos; Child (spelling: CHAOS; CHILD) is a visual novel by the Japanese company 5pb. from the year 2014. Based on the game was also a Manga and Anime - television series . The story continues that of the 2008 Chaos; Head game .

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The story takes place in Shibuya in 2015 , six years after the events of Chaos; Head , in which an earthquake wreaked havoc in the district. An equally mysterious series of murders preceded the mysterious earthquake, which was only restricted to this location.

The protagonist is Takuru Miyashiro, high school student and member of the school newspaper. When another mysterious series of murders occurs, he notices the parallels to what happened six years ago. He and his colleagues are feeling this and so he and his constant companion Serika Onoe are the first to get to the next crime scene. There they also meet a girl who turns out to be their classmate Hinae. Now Takeru wants to continue researching and writing about the murders, although Nono Kurusu wants to stop him. Both of them live with foster parents as orphans who survived the 2009 earthquake. And although Hinae doesn't want to testify to the police, she is more open to Takeru. In addition, he soon finds out that the same stickers were to be found at all crime scenes. Now he wants to use the knowledge of the past murders to predict the next scene, but puts his classmates in danger.

Game mechanics

The visual novel is divided into several narrative threads. The player is first forced to relive the story of Takuru, which focuses on his relationship with Serika and Nono. After completing this main thread, the stories of other characters become accessible: those of Nono, Hana, Hinae, and Uki. In these, the player learns more about the individual characters and their relationships as well as the background to the murders - but they always revolve around Takuru's fate. The play of Takuru's story also influences that of the other characters.

Production and publication

The game was created by the developer 5pb. who also published it in Japan. Directed by Matsumoto Yūsuke , the authors were Hayashi Naotaka, Takimoto Masashi, Tanizaki Ōka, Toru Yasumoto and Umehara Eiji. The character design was created by Sasaki Mutsumi , with Matsuo Yukihiro assisting and designing the school uniforms and Wakabayashi Kanji creating the monster designs. The music was composed by Abo Takeshi and Shikura Chiyomaru . In the game, the songs Hijitsuzai Seishōnen , Singularity , silent wind bell , sung by Itō Kanako, and Gesshoku no Vanitas , sung by Sakakibara Yui, were used.

The game first came out on September 4, 2014 for Xbox One . Other versions for the same console followed and finally in June 2015 versions for the PlayStation 3 , PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita . The game was released for Windows on April 28, 2016, for iOS on January 31, 2017 and for Android on May 28, 2017 .

A Chinese version for the PlayStation 3 was released in July 2015, and also for Windows in January 2017.

Anime adaptation

Directed and based on a script by Masato Jinbo , Silver Link created an anime adaptation of the game for Japanese television. The character design was created by Kazuyuki Yamayoshi and the artistic directors were Daiki Kuribayashi and Yūki Hatakeyama .

The twelve episodes, each with a running time of 25 minutes, were broadcast by AT-X from January 11 to March 29, 2017 , as well as on Tokyo MX , Sun Television , Chiba TV , TV Kanagawa , TV Saitama , Kyoto Broadcasting System with an offset of up to one week and BS11 in Japan. The online platform Crunchyroll published the anime with German subtitles via streaming, among other things. Funimation Entertainment streamed the series with English subtitles and Animax aired it in Asia with English dubbing.

On January 11, 2017, an episode 0 was also published, which summarizes the events of Chaos; Head . The special Chaos; Child: Silent Sky was released on June 17, 2017 .

synchronization

role	Japanese speaker ( seiyū )
Nono Kurusu	Sarah Emi Bridcutt
Serika Onoe	Sumire Uesaka
Takuru Miyashiro	Yoshitsugu Matsuoka

music

The music for the series was composed by Onoken and Takeshi Abo . For the opening credits the song Uncontrollable by Kanako Itō was used and the credits were underlaid with Chaos Syndrome by Konomi Suzuki . In addition, the song Singularity by Takeshi Abo appears in the 12th episode .

Web links

Official Website (Japanese)
official website for the television series (Japanese)
Entry in the Visual Novel Database (English)
Anime News Network about the anime (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Richard Eisenbeis: Chaos; Child is a Murder Mystery with Delusions and Superpowers. January 29, 2016. Retrieved May 17, 2017 .

[1] Richard Eisenbeis: Chaos; Child is a Murder Mystery with Delusions and Superpowers. January 29, 2016. Retrieved May 17, 2017 .