9.524 minSeason 1 • Episode 12
LatestNoriko attempts suicide by jumping off a bridge while black Gomorin share her pain with the entire city, in an effort to unite its citizens.
The anime's setting is a fictional Japanese city named Sugomori City. One day, Noriko Sonosaki tells her classmate Katsuhira Agata, "You have been selected to be a Kiznaiver." The Kizuna System, which allows Katsuhira to share his wounds, connects him to the classmates whose lives and personalities completely differ from his. The Kizuna System is an incomplete system for the implementation of world peace that connects people through wounds. All those who are connected to this system are called Kiznaivers. When one Kiznaiver is wounded, the system divides and transmits the wound among the other Kiznaivers. Sugomori City is built on reclaimed land, but as the years go by, the city's population is decreasing. The story is set in this town where Katsuhira and the others live.
Direction
Mari Okada weaponizes melodrama with surgical precision
Cinematography
Trigger's visual maximalism makes emotional damage look gorgeous
Writing
Dialogue that stings—teenagers philosophizing like their lives depend on it
Creator
Mari Okada
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mari Okada wrote this while processing her own struggles with emotional expression; Katsuhira's numbness mirrors her childhood experiences.
The seven deadly sins character mapping isn't subtle—each Kiznaiver embodies a sin that becomes their emotional wound when forced to share.
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