![]() It front-loaded a lot of its core concepts into the first episode, where it had to handle introducing all of the main characters and the villains, as well as setting up several different elements of Stasis. ![]() As a result, it gave me the impression that it had a lot of things to tell, but not enough time to tell them. While it has some fascinating concepts, I often found it to be a bit messy and confusing in its execution, showing a lack of focus and jumping around between its different plot threads a lot. All the while, the mystery around what Stasis is, how it works and how it came to be unravels in the background. This is certainly one bizarre plot that combines a range of time-related science fiction concepts with a cat-and-mouse drama that sees Juri and her grandfather trying to rescue her family. While they think it will be an easy rescue, they end up falling into a trap set up for them by the Genuine Love Society where their leader, Junji Sagawa, plans to steal the stone and utilise the power of Stasis to fulfil his dream of achieving immortality. With only 30 minutes to save them and no car available, things look hopeless – until their grandfather pulls out this mystical stone and stops time, pulling Juri, her father Takafumi, and himself into the world of Stasis. With her family being pretty close to rock bottom, her father just having lost his job, her brother being a NEET and her sister being a rushed-off-her-feet single mother trying to support her son, Makoto, Juri is shocked when her brother and nephew are kidnapped and held to a 5-million-yen ransom in an abandoned apartment block. Kokkoku: Moment by Moment tells the story of Juri Yukawa and her family’s run-in with the Genuine Love Society, a religious cult attached to a miraculous stone which, when fed someone’s blood, can stop time for them and anyone else touching the stone. These attempts seem incredibly common in Japan, so it’s a surprise they aren’t used more often in anime yet here we have a series which combines a religious cult with ideas on time travel and immortality. One story that I always hear from people who live, or have lived in Japan, is that they have survived an attempt from a religious cult to indoctrinate them.
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