7.024 minSeason 1 • Episode 17
LatestWe return to the world after August 32nd, where Makoto met Kadode's father. Makoto sees only one way out for Nobuo: he should restart the world once more and travel back to the point 12 years ago, to which the Shift Machine is anchored.
As the world is threatened by the sudden appearance of a mysterious alien mothership, best friends Koyama Kadode and Nakagawa “Ontan” Oran carry on about their high school life. But as they grow up, they face existential questions, learning adulthood’s complexities and that the true threat may not be from above.
Direction
Yamamura's patient framing makes mundane moments devastating.
Score
ano's theme song haunts long after credits roll.
Writing
Asano's dialogue captures how teens actually talk—messy, coded, heartbreaking.
Lilas Ikuta
Kadode Koyama (voice)
ano
Oran 'Ontan' Nakagawa (voice)
Atsumi Tanezaki
Kiho Kurihara (voice)
Miyuri Shimabukuro
Ai Demoto (voice)
Saeko Oki
Rin Hirama (voice)
Azumi Waki
Futaba Takemoto (voice)
Ryoko Shiraishi
Makoto Tainuma (voice)
Miyu Irino
Keita Ohba (voice)
Koki Uchiyama
Kenichi Kohiruimaki (voice)
Taito Ban
Naoki Watarase (voice)
Junichi Suwabe
Hiroshi Nakagawa (voice)
Kenjiro Tsuda
Nobuo Koyama (voice)
Tomokazu Sugita
Isobeyan (voice)
TARAKO
Debeko (voice)
Naoto Takenaka
Head of the invaders (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Inio Asano wrote the manga during actual Tokyo Olympics delays; the 'annoying normalcy' of invasion mirrors pandemic lockdown fatigue.
The repeated 'dededede' sound design was crafted from distorted emergency broadcast signals—listen for it during Kadode's dissociation scenes.
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