List of Rewrite episodes
The Rewrite anime television series is based on the visual novel of the same name by the Japanese visual novel brand Key. The episodes are produced by the animation studio 8-Bit and are directed by Tensho.[1] The screenplay is written by Takashi Aoshima and Tatsuya Takahashi with Romeo Tanaka and Kai credited with collaborating on the composition and scripts.[2] The series features character design by Masayuki Nonaka who based the designs on Itaru Hinoue's original concepts.[1] The story follows the life of Kotarou Tennouji, a high school student with superhuman abilities who investigates supernatural mysteries with five girls from his school in the fictional city of Kazamatsuri. This ultimately leads him into the middle of a conflict between familiar summoners and superhumans with the fate of the world at stake.
The first 13 episodes of the 24-episode series aired between July 2 and September 24, 2016 on the BS-11, Gunma TV, Tochigi TV and Tokyo MX television networks in Japan.[3] It aired at later dates on MBS and AT-X.[4] The latter 11 episodes will premiere in January 2017, which will adapt the Moon and Terra routes from the visual novel.[5] The series was also streamed by Crunchyroll with English subtitles.[6] The series is being released on 13 DVD and Blu-ray compilation volumes between September 28, 2016 and September 27, 2017 by Aniplex.[7]
The anime series makes use of four main pieces of theme music: two openings themes and two ending themes. The first opening theme is "Philosophyz (TV animation ver.)" and the first ending theme is "Sasayaka na Hajimari (TV animation ver.)" (ささやかなはじまり 〜TV animation ver.〜), both sung by Runa Mizutani of NanosizeMir. Both songs are remixes of theme songs featured in the original Rewrite visual novel and its fan disc Rewrite Harvest festa!. The second opening theme is "End of the World" by Anri Kumaki and the second ending theme is "Word of Dawn" by Aoi Tada. Four additional ending themes include "Koibumi" (恋文) by Nagi Yanagi used in episode four, "Sunbright" (サンブライト) by Ayaka Kitazawa used in episode five, "Itsuwaranai Kimi e" (偽らない君へ) by Yanagi used in episode 10, and "Yami no Kanata e" (闇の彼方へ) by Mizutani used in episode 13. The rest of the soundtrack for the anime series is sampled from the Rewrite Original Soundtrack and Feast.
Episode list
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| 1 | "The World or Myself?" "Sekai ka, Jibun ka" (世界か、自分か) | July 2, 2016 |
| In a city known as Kazamatsuri, high school student Kotarou Tennouji dreams of a teenage-looking girl with long red ribbons tied around her wrists stabbing him in the chest or severing his arm. The girl then starts visiting him nightly when is in bed and even bites his wrist. One of his dreams include a particularly frightening one when he walks through the deserted and half-destroyed city filled with plants to a hill of daisies, where he gets stabbed. Traumatized, Kotarou seeks help from his childhood friend Kotori Kanbe, who suggests that he seek help from the renowned "School Witch" instead, a mysterious student who is rumored to have control over paranormal beings and is also the lone member and president of the Occult Research Society. Kotarou goes to the Occult Research Society club room, but finds no one there, so he fills out a questionnaire left for him and leaves. However, at night, he receives a text from the "School Witch" telling him to go to the club room at midnight, but finds the girl with the red ribbons there instead, whom he runs from, inadvertently stepping into a different dimension. There, he encounters two plant-like creatures named Gil and Pani who try to lead him out, but awaken a gigantic monster that attacks them. Thanks to the girl, however, the monster is killed, and Kotarou is sent back to the school. Resuming his task of finding the "School Witch", he goes to the club room, where she is waiting for him. | ||
| 2 | "Where Youth Begins" "Seishun ga Hajimaru Basho" (青春が始まる場所) | July 9, 2016 |
| The "School Witch" introduces herself as Akane Senri, a third-year student and also the president of the Occult Research Society, a disbanded club that solves the mysteries of Kazamatsuri. After listening to his descriptions, she presents him mockingly with a paperclip that is supposedly some charm, and a few shikigami to protect him. She also has Kotarou join the Occult Research Society as thanks. When Kotarou goes back to bed, the shikigami manifests as a girl named Tomoko in Kotarou's dreams, and amazingly works at keeping the girl with the red ribbons at bay. As Akane continues to mock him, Kotarou challenges her to a contest to prove if paranormal phenomenon exists. If Kotarou succeeds in doing so, he is permitted to touch Akane's breasts. Kotarou then enlists the help of Kotori, a clumsy but strong transfer student named Chihaya Ohtori (who is actually already in the club), and an underclassman named Sizuru Nakatsu from the disciplinary committee that Kotarou is friendly with. In a bid to look after Sizuru, Sizuru's close friend, the strict class representative Lucia Konohana, also joins the Occult Research Society. | ||
| 3 | "Welcome, Supernatural Phenomena" "Werukamu, Chōjō Genshō" (ウェルカム、超常現象) | July 16, 2016 |
| Kotarou meets Chihaya's butler, Sakuya Ohtori, who poses as her brother at school and immediately dislikes him. The Occult Research Society searches for a tsuchinoko reportedly spotted on campus, but it turns out to be a hoax. During lunch, Sizuru tells Kotarou that she has heterochromia, and thus she wears an eyepatch to cover her golden-colored right eye. After lunch, Lucia scolds Kotarou for not properly throwing away a coffee can, and as both of them work together to crush and wash the other cans too, Kotarou cannot help but wonder if a hypochondriac like Lucia would really clean cans. As he teases her about, Kotarou gets beaten up by Lucia, and when he is released from the infirmary, it is already night. While walking home, Kotarou sees the girl with the red ribbons being chased by a large dog. He uses his Rewrite ability to make himself faster, but loses sight of them only to meet a hooded man who summons another large dog to chase after Kotarou. He glimpses a man resembling Sakuya killing the dog before passing out and later wakes up at a ramen stand thanks to two men who found him in the park. There, he meets Sizuru who is a regular at the stand. Kotarou tells her what happened and even shows her a scar on his hand from the incident, but Sizuru, after taking his hand in hers, points out that he does not have a scar, and she is right. | ||
| 4 | "Until We Return to Those Days" "Itsuka Ano Hi ni Kaeru Made" (いつかあの日に帰るまで) | July 23, 2016 |
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The next day, Kotarou tracks down Sougen Esaka, one of the men he met at the ramen stand who owns an antique shop. During his search, he bumps into an orange-haired man who seems to know him. At the antique shop, Kotarou finds Sizuru there having tea, and Esaka gives Kotarou some blurry photos of UMAs (unidentified mysterious animals), but Akane is not impressed by them. On their way back, Kotarou buys Sizuru a CD, but since she does not own a CD player, he gives her his old MP3 player, sharing with her how he used to block out his parents' scoldings with it. The next day, the girl with the red ribbons shows up during school, but only Kotarou can see her, and she bites his wrist. After school, Sizuru wants to show Kotarou one of her secrets as well, and takes him to see where her parents live, but they do not recognize her. Sizuru then explains that several years earlier, a monster set fire to Sizuru's home and destroyed it, but her parents survived as Sizuru displayed a remarkable healing ability. Shortly after, her parents accepted a monetary offer to hand her over to a certain institution in exchange for a lot of money. However, when Sizuru returned a few days later, she found her parents quarreling over their wealth, and unable to control her power and emotions, accidentally erased several years worth of her parents' memories. The next day at school, Chihaya and Lucia get in a fight over Chihaya criticizing Lucia for being too much of a clean freak. | ||
| 5 | "Asahi Haruka" "Asahi Haruka" (アサヒハルカ) | July 30, 2016 |
| The Occult Research Society receives a tip about a supposedly cursed girl named Haruka Asahi and Kotarou decides to investigate the urban legend. Shortly after, odd things begin happening around Kotarou. Wherever he goes, glass would mysteriously shatter. Kotarou soon discovers that similar things have happened to others connected to Haruka and those who have investigated the urban legend before. Undeterred, Kotarou questions Haruhiko Yoshino, the class delinquent, who was in the same class as a boy who died from investigating, and receives the class roster. Working together with Lucia, they call the people on the class roster, and every one of them then experienced their windows or mirrors breaking. Lucia is also haunted by visions of Haruka. After collapsing on the street, Kotarou takes her home, where she shows him that she can cause any living thing she touches to die with a special poison in her body. As Kotarou reaches out to comfort her, she bats his hand away, and the poison is now on his hand. The next morning, Kotarou goes to the orphanage where Haruka once lived, but Lucia is there waiting for him. Kotarou realizes that Lucia is actually Haruka, and Lucia explains that she has the power to poison anything by touch and to break glass at a distance. Just then, the poison begins to take effect, eating away at Kotarou's body, but he uses his Rewrite ability to immunize himself. Kotarou later learns from Lucia and a teacher, Touka Nishikujou, that they and Sizuru are members of an organization called Guardian whose aim is to protect the world. To do so, they are in pursuit of someone known as the Key who could determine the fate of the world's survival. There is also an opposing organization called Gaia that are likewise looking for the Key. In exchange for keeping this a secret, Kotarou asks Lucia to make him lunch while wearing a maid's uniform. | ||
| 6 | "Occult Club Activity Log" "Okaken Katsudō Kiroku" (オカ研活動記録) | August 6, 2016 |
| Lucia wears a maid's uniform as Kotarou requested, much to her embarrassment. Lucia and Chihaya apologize to each other, prompting Kotarou to suggest the club investigate some more of Kazamatsuri's mysteries, but all of them end up as hoaxes. Their next investigation involves uncovering a "rainbow utopia" in the woods, and Kotori brings along her extremely strong dog Chibi-Moth for protection as the girls plan to have a picnic there. Deep in the woods, they discover a polluted portion of the river covered in rainbow sludge, killing off and causing birth defects in animals. Shocked by their discovery, the members prepare to leave. On the way back, Kotarou espies the girl with the red ribbons again and chases her to a clearing, but he is suddenly struck by several violent visions involving the girl's red ribbons severing his arm off and stabbing him through the heart. The other club members find him on his hands and knees, but the girl is gone. That night, as Kotarou goes back to the club room to type out today's findings, him and Akane, who is perched on a desk eating crackers, talk about the adverse effect humans have on the environment, and Akane suggests the easiest way to solve the problem would be to exterminate humanity. The next morning on Sunday, Inoue from the newspaper club calls Kotarou and tells him she is going into the woods to investigate the rainbow swamp to get a better scoop for the newspaper, but a few days later, a girl at school tells him that Inoue has been missing since Sunday. | ||
| 7 | "A Lost Place" "Ushinawareta Basho" (失われた場所) | August 13, 2016 |
| The Occult Research Society is forced to suspend activities following Inoue's disappearance, and in an effort to save the club, Kotarou proposes that they try to find her. While in the forest, Kotarou gets separated from the girls, but when he goes to find them, he gets chased by three large dog-like creatures which eventually attack him, pinning him down. While trying to fend them off, claw-like blades emerge from his wrist, killing one of the creatures, and prompting the other two to flee. Kotarou then resumes his mission of finding the girls and stumble upon Lucia and Sizuru fighting a pack of dinosaur-like creatures, which are controlled by Gaia according to Sizuru. Upon their insistence, Kotarou goes to find the others, but once they meet up, a gigantic flying creature appears and pierces Kotarou's arm with a tendril. Kotarou tells the girls to leave and go to Lucia and Sizuru at the hilltop, and after they do so reluctantly, the girl with the red ribbons appears and kills the creature. Injured and frightened, Kotarou backs away from her, but Kotori returns, telling the girl to go away, and takes Kotarou back to the others. It turns out that Akane and Chihaya are members of Gaia, but Sakuya quickly appears and takes them away with him. The next day, none of the girls are in school, including Touka, and Kotarou cannot get in touch with any of the girls. | ||
| 8 | "My Name is Kagari-chan" "Waga Na wa Kagari-chan" (我が名は篝ちゃん) | August 20, 2016 |
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Three days have passed and Kotarou still cannot get in touch with the other Occult Research Society members. The good news is that Inoue was found and hospitalized several days earlier, but she is now suffering form amnesia. The shock of the incident lead her and her family to move away from Kazamatsuri. During lunch, Sizuru shows up at school to say goodbye to Kotarou before disappearing. At night, the girl with the red ribbons comes to Kotarou's house and introduces herself as Kagari. However, she has amnesia and enlists his help to find herself. As Kotarou insists on going to school first the next day, leaving Kagari behind, she shows up at school, but draws unwanted attention. After school, Kotarou drags Kagari home but instead runs into Inoue who gives him a memory card. On it, he finds pictures of various creatures and hooded figures found in the forest. Kotarou then receives a text from Kotori lying about herself being sick, but she does not tell him that she is now living in the forest with some tree-like creatures. Meanwhile, Gaia continues their search for the Key while Akane is being groomed to succeed Sakura Kashima as the group's next Saint. Members of Guardian, including Sizuru and Lucia, continue to defeat monsters in the forest and city. | ||
| 9 | "Fate Begins to Turn" "Mawari Hajimeru Unmei" (回り始める運命) | August 27, 2016 |
| Kagari gets Kotarou to show her around the city to help her in finding herself, but they are followed around by Arata Imamiya from Guardian on Sizuru's orders, Kotori's dog Chibi-Moth, and Pani and Gil per Sakuya's request. When Kagari points out that they are being followed, Kotarou loses them by going through some alleyways. Kotarou runs into Lucia by chance, but she tells him to just forget about her and lead an ordinary life. Kotarou later finds himself face-to-face with the hooded man he met before, summoning another large dog to kill them, but thanks to Kagari's ribbons, the dog is sliced to pieces, and Kotarou's Rewrite ability allow them to run away together safely in a tow.. They return to Kotarou's home to find it ransacked, but it turns out it was just Pani and Gil making a mess. Kotori then calls Kotarou and tells him to take Kagari and follow Chibi-Moth, which was amazingly on the balcony, into the woods. When they get there, Kotori takes them into a sealed-off area of the woods filled with various monsters she created. Kotori explains that she is a Druid and that she got her powers from a piece of mistletoe containing the memories of a long-dead Druid. As a Druid, her duty is to protect the long-sought-after Key, which is actually Kagari, and in return her wishes get granted and she does not use up her life force when she controls and create monsters, unlike that of other monster users such as the hooded man. Kotori takes them to a special place in the woods, in which she shows them a pool filled with the Earth's energy, where Kagari was moulded and born. She also explains that the 'rainbow utopia' that they sighted is also due to the Earth's energy, and not pollution. Gil and Pani then report this all to Sakuya. Meanwhile, Akane has been put on wheelchair duty for the old Sakura and listening to a strange song conducted by her, making poor Akane prone to headaches. Arata also returns to Guardian, where he is reprimanded by Touka. | ||
| 10 | "Simply, As Friends" "Tada, Tomo Toshite" (ただ、友として) | September 3, 2016 |
| Ordered by Akane to keep an eye on Kotarou, Sakuya breaks through the barrier into Kotori's secret base and begins training Kotarou per his request. Sakuya is knowledgeable of Kotarou's power, which will cause him to cease to be human if used too excessively. When they run out of supplies, Kotarou and Kagari go out to buy more while the Harvest Festa is in full swing. Afterwards, Sakuya takes them to see Akane, who says she will do what she can to help them while still in Gaia. Guardian then discovers that Kotori has been seen in the forest lately, but when Sizuru attempts to leave to help Kotori and Kotarou, Lucia offers to go instead. Lucia runs into three Gaia monster users and manages to knock out two of them. However, while in the middle of her battle with the third, the very same hooded man that confronted Kotarou and Kagari, a man named Midou, summons a lava-type monster named Fogo, causing Lucia to get blown away by an explosion and stabbed by a spear before collapsing. Meanwhile, Akane tells Chihaya to go to be with Sakuya and leave Gaia permanently. She also gives Chihaya a letter to give to Kotarou. | ||
| 11 | "Countdown" "Kauntodaun" (カウントダウン) | September 10, 2016 |
| The next morning, Chihaya successfully finds Kotori's secret base, stumbling upon an injured Lucia on the way, whom she then carries back to Kotori's secret base. Kotori, with Kagari's help, manages to heal Lucia. As Lucia recovers, the girls catch up on each other, and Lucia reveals to them her poisonous abilities that polluted the forest. They also exchange views over how Kagari is going to be used for each organization. However, at Gaia, Sakura collapses due to old age, and Akane then inherits all her memories, acting as the new Saint thus causing her to become nihilistic and apathetic, granting the reckless Midou a new power: the control over the Earth Monster, Gaia's greatest weapon, to find the Key. When he questions her about her friends whom he tracked, Akane is willing to let them be killed, but not the Key. That night, as Kagari watches the Moon, Kotarou asks her about her views on humans, which she admits are foolhardy and reckless, but they too possess good attributes that if put to good use, could stop the destruction of the Earth. As Kotarou tries to ask her more, Kagari's eyes suddenly go blank, and murmurs something about good memories, slapping away Kotarou's raised hand with her ribbons. When everyone goes to bed, Kagari is still standing there, as Sakura's strange song reverberates in her mind, the song that will prompt Kagari to bring about the Earth's destruction. | ||
| 12 | "The Song of Destruction" "Horobi no Uta" (滅びの歌) | September 17, 2016 |
| Midou successfully infiltrates Kotori's secret base, and as Sakuya is out patrolling the forest, Kotarou and him begin to fight. Midou sets everything on fire thanks to Fogo, and uses the Earth Monster to try and crush Kotarou. Kotori uses her monsters to distract Midou while they run away, and while doing so, Kotori's parents come and fight. Peppered with questions from Kotarou, Kotori explains to all of them that she found the Mistletoe in the forest after a car crash that killed her parents. Using the new powers given to her, Kotori revives her parents to become monsters under her control. However, they are actually still alive, and they call out to Kotori before they are killed by Midou's flames. However, Midou catches up with them, and him and Kotarou begin to fight. Sakuya then encounters other monster users in the forest, and he is victorious as he tries to make his way back to Chihaya. Meanwhile, Guardian also dispatches troops into the forest to fight, leaving Sizuru at headquarters. The two organizations then clash and battle in the forest, but Midou uses up his life force in the end, and dies, allowing Kotarou to drag Kagari away from harm to meet up with the others. As Kotarou collapses, Sizuru comes to his aid and heals him. When Kotarou wakes up, all of the members of the Occult Research Society are once again reunited, all except for the president, Akane. Chihaya had managed to transport them to Gaia's monster storage place, also known as the City of Stone. As the members catch up with one another, Kotori explains to Kotarou that Kagari has stayed quiet the whole day because she is not a living creature, but a phenomenon, and nothing more. Suddenly, Kagari starts crying as she did not find any good memories involving humankind. Meanwhile, at Gaia, Akane, now back to her senses, questions Sakura about her mission to destroy humankind, and Sakura explains that this is due to all of the Saints memories, which only involved bad ones of humankind. As Sakura uses the song of destruction to summon Kagari out, she starts screaming in the City of Stone, as the song reverberates in the air, but only Chihaya and Kagari can hear it. The group is then transported back to Kazamatsuri, where monsters have been deployed in the area to devour and kill humans. | ||
| 13 | "The Promise I Made With You" "Kimi to Kawashita Yakusoku" (君とかわした約束) | September 24, 2016 |
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Kotarou manages to read the letter from Akane, who tells him to make the choice to preserve mankind or secure the planet's future, explaining Gaia's plan in the process, but Kotarou cannot decide. Apart from monsters, a huge tree has sprouted up in the heart of Kazamatsuri, its roots and branches destroying the city along with some humans. As they run, the group is separated. Chihaya is left defenseless and injured, Lucia and Sizuru fights with Touka, and Kotarou and Kotori carry an unconscious Kagari up to the rooftop of an uncollapsed building, along with Chibi-Moth, Gil and Pani. There, Kagari reverts back to normal when the song of destruction stops but Esaka arrives to kill Kagari. Kotarou pushes himself to the limit with his Rewrite abilities, but is slashed on the chest by Esaka. Luckily, Sizuru comes to save him, crashing Esaka with a motorcycle, and the two begin to fight. As Kotori and Kagari fret over Kotarou's wound, he is knocked out cold, and his wound begins to turn green and sprout leaves due to the overuse of his Rewrite powers. Lying on his chest, Kagari realises why she was drawn to Kotarou, as he had a piece of her ribbon inside him, resulting in him to have superhuman abilities and stay alive. Kotori, crying, then explains that it was her fault instead, as right after she became a Druid, she found Kagari and an injured Kotarou whose arm had been severed. Kotori didn't want everyone around her to be monsters under her control, so she begged Kagari for help, and Kagari offered up her ribbons. To stop the transformation, Kagari then removes the ribbon inside Kotarou and Gil and Pani willingly give up their lives to save him. When he wakes up however, the song of destruction begins to resound through the air again, and Kagari lets out a piercing scream of agony while Kotarou then starts transforming again. Meanwhile, on the rooftop of the Martel Group building, Sakura is dead, and Akane has taken her place as the next Saint, once more turning nihilistic and apathetic. Kagari then sprouts into a tree as Akane commands the Salvation to occur in the form of destruction, and as Kotarou tries to reach her, accidentally gropes her again, prompting her to revert back to her normal self. She then tells Kotarou to kill her to stop the Salvation that Gaia has brought about but Kotarou refuses. All the humans around the world then begin to disappear, including the Occult Research Society members, but Akane reverts back to her normal self before doing so thanks to her younger sister, Shimako. Kotarou then thanks Kagari and gets swallowed up into the tree. In an epilogue, Kagari is seen standing on a hill of daisies, watching the Moon while shedding tears. | ||
References
- 1 2 "Rewrite TV Anime Slated for Summer 2016". Anime News Network. December 24, 2015. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
- ↑ "Staff・Cast | TVアニメ「Rewrite」公式サイト" (in Japanese). Aniplex. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
- ↑ "Rewrite Anime to Have 13 Episodes, 4th Home Video Release to Include PC Game". Anime News Network. June 25, 2016. Retrieved June 25, 2016.
- ↑ "Onair | TVアニメ「Rewrite」公式サイト" (in Japanese). Aniplex. Archived from the original on June 22, 2016. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
- ↑ "Rewrite TV Anime Gets 2nd Season Next January". Anime News Network. September 24, 2016. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
- ↑ "Crunchyroll to Stream Rewrite TV Anime". Anime News Network. June 28, 2016. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
- ↑ "Blu-ray/DVD" (in Japanese). Aniplex. Retrieved June 25, 2016.
External links
- Rewrite anime official website (Japanese)
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