30 minSeason 1 • Episode 6
LatestIn the city of Shinjuku, a conflict between a rouge Karas by the name of Eko and the "will of the city" rage in a conflict for dominance. A Karas brought about to fight the rouge has fallen, leaving the city and its inhabitants defenseless. Soon after, Otoha, a comatose patient, is chosen to become a new Karas to face off the rouge Karas Eko to decide the fate of the city and its inhabitants.
Direction
Keiichi Sato's kinetic action choreography hits different.
Sound
Primal Scream meets orchestral chaos in the score.
Soko Wada
Otoha (voice)
Asuka Shibuya
Hinaru (voice)
Kasumi Suzuki
Yurine (voice)
Hitomi Nabatame
Homura (voice)
Takahiro Sakurai
Houshun'in Ekou (voice)
Tetsuo Goto
Minoru Sagisaka (voice)
Saeko Chiba
Sagizaka Yoshiko (voice)
Kiyoyuki Yanada
Suiko (voice)
Mai Nakahara
Chizuru (voice)
Rokuro Naya
Chief (voice)
Keiji Fujiwara
Nue (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Each episode cost roughly $300,000 to produce—Tatsunoko Productions bet the house on this.
The Karas concept draws heavily from Shinto guardian spirits (kami) merged with cyberpunk aesthetics—a distinctly post-bubble Japan anxiety.
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