Charlotte (Key)
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Even if he forgets someone important, the monster continues to challenge his destiny.
Charlotte is an original anime project produced by both Aniplex and Key, original work and all the scripts written by Jun Maeda, character design by Na-Ga, and made by P.A.WORKS.
This work is the second original anime project by Key after Angel Beats!, which aired between July 5 and September 27, 2015.
Contents
Original production introduction
Key opened a mysterious countdown page on the Angel Beats! anime's official website[1] on December 8, 2014, and announced the following day that "Presentation of ANIPLEX×Key Presents New Works & Angel Beats!" on December 22, 2014, at 20:00 (Tokyo time).
At the press conference on December 22, 2014, Key announced that this is an original TV anime jointly planned with ANIPLEX. Like 2010's "Angel Beats!", Jun Maeda is the original writer and scriptwriter, Na-Ga is the original character designer, and P.A.Works is the producer.
Along with this, a promotional drawing of the work was also released, featuring a silver-haired double ponytail girl in a school uniform, a window showing a starry sky and a passing comet in the background, and a digital camera in the lower right.
The anime was aired from July 4 to September 26, 2015. It is licensed by Chinese video sites bilibili, Tencent Video, Youku.com, Tudou.com, and Akiyoshi agency.
STAFF
- Original Scenario・Script: Jun Maeda
- Original Character Design: Na-Ga
- Director: Asai Yoshiyuki
- Character Design: Kanami Sekiguchi
- Chief Animation Director:Noboru Sugimitsu, Kanami Sekiguchi
- Action Animation Director: Yūji Miyashita
- Art Director: Kazuki Higashiji
- Color design: Mika Sugawara
- Director of Photography: Katsufumi Sato
- 3D Director: Kōhei Ogawa
- Special Effects:Masahiro Murakami
- Editor: 高桥步
- Music: ANANT-GARDE EYES, Jun Maeda, Hikari Shūyō
- Audio supervision: Īda Satoki
- Key Animation:P.A.WORKS
ZHIEND (Band in the show)[2]- Music production and lyrics: Jun Maeda
- Music production: Hikari Shūyō
- Singer: marina
How-Low-Hello (Band in the show)[3]- Singer: Yusa Nishimori(CV:Maaya Uchida)
- Songwriting:Jun Maeda
CAST
Main character:
- Yū Otosaka: Kouki Uchiyama
- Nao Tomori: Ayane Sakura
- Jōjirō Takajō: Takahiro Mizushima
- Misa Nishimori: Maaya Uchida
- Yusa Nishimori: Maaya Uchida
- Ayumi Otosaka: Momo Asakura
Supporting roles for each story: |
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Episode list
No. | Japanese Title | English Title | Script | Storyboard | Director | Animation Director |
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1 | 我他人を思う | I Think About Others | Jun Maeda | Yoshiyuki Asai | Miyuki Nakamura Noboru Sugimitsu | |
2 | 絶望の旋律 | Melody of Despair | Yoshiyuki Asai | Tomoaki Ōta | Risa Suzuki Keiko Ichihara Noboru Sugimitsu | |
3 | 恋と炎 | Love and Flame | Fukuda Michio | Mitsutaka Noshitani | 向河原宪 | |
4 | 刹那の本気 | Moment of Earnest | Koyama Yoshitaka | Ken'ichi Imaizumi | ||
5 | いつか聴いた音 | Sound Heard Sometime in the Past | Anzai Takefumi | Tomoaki Ōta | 高木晴美 秋山有希 | |
6 | 気づかなかった幸せ | Happiness Never Noticed | Masayuki Kojima | Fumihiko Suganuma | 秋山有希 | |
7 | 逃避行の果てに | Beyond the Escape | Toshiya Shinohara | 大东百合惠 | ||
8 | 邂逅 | A Chance Meeting | Yoshiyuki Asai | Mitsutaka Noshitani | 向川原宪 服部益实 Asuka Kurokawa 安齐佳惠 桝井一平 铃木伸一 Sakurako Sagano | |
9 | ここにない世界 | A World That Does Not Exist Here | Fukuda Michio | Tomoaki Ōta | 宫下雄次 高木晴美 武田牧子 上村牧子 铃木伸一 | |
10 | 略奪 | Plunder | Yoshiyuki Asai | Tōru Yoshida | 上竹哲郎 | |
11 | シャーロット | Charlotte | Masayuki Kojima | Fumihiko Suganuma | 秋山有希 川面恒介 | |
12 | 約束 | Promise | Toshiya Shinohara | Kanami Sekiguchi Noboru Sugimitsu 川面恒介 宫下雄次 Risa Suzuki 高木晴美 | ||
13 | これからの記録 | Memories to Come | Yoshiyuki Asai | Kanami Sekiguchi Noboru Sugimitsu 宫下雄次 川面恒介 秋山有希 | ||
OVA | 強い者たち | The Strong Ones | Yoshiyuki Asai | Yoshiyuki Asai
Daisuke Tsukushi |
Kanami Sekiguchi 宫下雄次 松和歌子 Risa Suzuki |
Plot
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Plot of every episode
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Brief description
The main character, Yū Otosaka, is a not-so-ordinary high school student who has the ability to possess another person for five seconds. Using this ability, Yū Otosaka is a great success in the school. He has become the legendary "god of learning" of his generation by possessing other people's bodies during exams and obtaining the answers to the exams, thus repeatedly winning first place overall in the school. In addition, Yū Otosaka uses this "possession" power to gain the affection of the girl he has always wanted. Just when he is having a good time in love and career, he is suddenly named by the student council. The student president accuses him of cheating on his exams and asks him to retake the exam to prove his innocence. When Yū Otosaka is at his wits' end, he decides to possess the student president to get the answers to the exam. At the end of his possession, a young girl suddenly appears out of nowhere next to him, claiming to be Nao Tomori, the student president of Hoshinoumi Academy, who tells Yū Otosaka that he was a "superpower" who briefly possessed special abilities as a student. "superpowered person". Such transient superpowers can be topped by some mad scientists for human experiments, so such students need to be protected. Therefore, Nao Tomori invited Yū Otosaka to join the student council of Hoshinoumi Academy, which was basically composed of superpowered people, to protect other students. Yū Otosaka then transferred to Hoshinoumi Academy and joined the student council, while, to protect his family, his sister Ayumi Otosaka also transferred to this school. With the addition of Yū Otosaka, the student council of Hoshinoumi Academy has three members: Nao Tomori (whose ability is "invisibility", i.e., the ability to disappear from a person's view), Jōjirō Takajō (whose ability is (the ability of "super speed", i.e., the ability to accelerate in an instant, but cannot control this ability well and is often injured as a result) and Yū Otosaka (the ability of "possession"). In addition, there is also a mysterious "mysterious man" who is soaked to the skin and has long hair covering his eyes (the ability to point out the location of a superpowered person and to tell the ability of that person). Since Nao Tomori mentioned that she had a brother, Yū Otosaka asked to meet her brother. Upon arriving at the hospital, Yū Otosaka discovered that her brother was a mental marketer, and Nao Tomori introduced him to her heartbreaking past. Her brother Kazuki Tomori, a former guitarist, has the superpower to make the air vibrate, but the family is too poor and the government pressure, so the two siblings are sold by their mother to scientists for research. As Nao Tomori was suspected of possessing superpowers, he was forced to undergo daily "health checks" and grew up in a false environment constructed by scientists, thus becoming less trusting of anyone. After a year, Nao Tomori escapes from the lab and meets the "only person she trusts", which leads to her entry into the Hoshinoumi Academy and the transfer of her brother, who has become mentally ill as a result of the scientists' experiments. Although her brother Kazuki Tomori receives various treatments, he is still mentally insane and cannot recover. After gradually integrating into the student council, Yū Otosaka is given the task of protecting a "clairvoyant". The "mystery man" points out a person in a remote area who has the power of "invocation" (i.e., he can attract a spirit to possess him, but it is similar to a passive skill that he cannot control and does not know about). When they arrive, they discover that the superpowered person is the popular student singer idol, Yusa Nishimori and that the spirit attached to her is Yusa Nishimori's sister, Misa Nishimori. It is a coincidence that Misa Nishimori has the ability to "control fire", so whenever Yusa Nishimori is possessed by Misa Nishimori, she also has the ability to "control fire". With the help of the student council trio, the conflict between Yusa Nishimori and the TV station is reconciled. At the same time, Yusa Nishimori agrees to transfer to Hoshinoumi Academy and join the student council at the invitation of Nao Tomori. After recruiting Yusa Nishimori and Misa Nishimori, the "mystery man" tells the student council about the location of a "nimble" superpower. According to Nao Tomori's investigation, this psychic is a student baseball player who is known for throwing "devil balls" that do not conform to scientific rules. To protect this student, the Hoshinoumi Academy student council challenged the baseball team (And so, the Charlotte series completed the essential Jun Maeda series of playing baseball.} With the use of various superpowers, the Hoshinoumi Academy student council defeated the baseball team and warned the star baseball player to use his powers sparingly in the future. When the student council was about to leave, Nao Tomori asked Yū Otosaka to try to possess the body of a "superpower", so Yū Otosaka possessed the body of the star baseball player. After the baseball mission, the "mystery man" tells the student body quartet that there is a "floater" in the mountains. The four of them go to live in the mountains and prepare to "wait for the rabbit". During the camping trip, Nao Tomori tells Yū Otosaka that she and her brother are fans of the post-rock band "ZHIEND" and listen to their songs with headphones on every day. After a few days, the floating power appeared as expected, and although he refused to admit that he had superpowers, he fell into Nao Tomori's trap and was forced to use his superpowers. When he was about to use his superpowers to float away, Nao Tomori quickly instructed Yū Otosaka to use his "possession" superpowers to possess the floater, who fell from the sky and left after being warned not to use his powers at will. After taking care of his sister, Yū Otosaka goes to school. However, in the student council, a "mysterious person" tells the group that a "crash" power is in the student dormitory, and Yū Otosaka presumes that it is his sister, Ayumi Otosaka, so the group prepares to visit Ayumi Otosaka in the student dormitory. In the end, the group decided that Nao Tomori, Yū Otosaka and Yusa Nishimori would go to the dormitory to visit Ayumi Otosaka, who was sick with a cold. The next day, Yū Otosaka was in the hospital. The next day, Yū Otosaka's condition improved, but Yū Otosaka told her not to go to school for safety reasons, but she did not heed her brother's advice and escaped from her apartment to school. In school, she was chased by a rival with a utility knife, and in a critical situation, she used her superpower "collapse", causing the whole building to collapse, and she was killed in the accident. Yū Otosaka, who was devastated by the death of his sister, became silent and did not want to go out. In short, he lived a self-destructive life after his sister's death because he couldn't accept it and became self-absorbed. After eating all the leftover instant noodles in the house, Yū Otosaka decides to go out and becomes a real "thug" in society, robbing and bullying. He lived in cheap hotels and ate junk food every day to survive, but he always found salads that he had never ordered before on the menu. After muddling along like this day after day, Yū Otosaka meets a man in possession of drugs. He decides to take drugs to ease his inner grief, and just then, Nao Tomori appears out of nowhere to stop Yū Otosaka from continuing his downward spiral. She brought Yū Otosaka to his senses with a human correction kick. It turns out that Nao Tomori had been using her powers to follow Yū Otosaka around during his descent and indulgence. Seeing that Yū had been eating unhealthy food, she had been very considerate and had quietly brought him salads to keep him healthy, hoping that he would come back when he had had enough. When she saw that Yū Otosaka had almost fallen into drug addiction, she appeared and kicked him in the face to break his chaotic fall, and finally cheered him up with the pizza sauce omelette that Ayumi Otosaka had been making before she died. After finally pulling himself together, Yū Otosaka resumes his school life. After a day of classes, he accidentally met Sara Shane, the blind lead singer of ZHIEND, who came to perform at a concert, and after introducing her to her city, Sara agreed to grant Yū Otosaka a request, and Yū Otosaka thought of Kazuki Tomori, Nao Tomori's brother. With the help of Yū Otosaka and Sara Shane, Kazuki Tomori began to recover and was able to recognize Nao Tomori. However, Nao Tomori is surprisingly indifferent and emotionless to Yū Otosaka for acting so thoughtfully. The next day, Nao Tomori invited Yū Otosaka to see the ZHIEND concert with her and inadvertently asked for a "couple's" phone case. During the concert, the audience was very enthusiastic, but the songs seemed to make Yū Otosaka think of something, and Yū Otosaka entered the world of dreams and reality. In that world, Yū Otosaka and his sister Ayumi Otosaka are in an experimental facility, and Yū Otosaka's best friend Kumagami tells him the location of the "Demolition" powers. Just after Yū Otosaka returns to his room, he suddenly feels the whole building shake, and it turns out that Ayumi Otosaka's superpower "Collapse" has been triggered by the scientists' means. In the nick of time, Yū Otosaka is saved by a scientist. He then found the "Blast" ability and successfully possessed it. At this point, we learn that Yū Otosaka's superpower is not "possession" but "plunder" (i.e., he acquires the superpower of the other person by possessing them for five seconds). Eventually, with the various superpowers he had plundered, he met Kazuki Tomori, his brother, who was imprisoned in the deepest part of the base and had the ability to "travel through time" (which can only be used when the holder's eyes see light). Otosaka helps his brother remove the blindfold and escape from the facility. After a brief negotiation, Kazuki Tomori understands the critical nature of the situation and uses his superpowers to go back in time. --This is the end of the world that seems to be a dream world. Yū Otosaka suddenly wakes up and finds himself in a hospital bed with Nao Tomori sitting next to him, when Kumagami suddenly appears and turns out to be the "mysterious man" who is passing on information about the superhuman. When Kumagami mentions that Yū Otosaka is Kazuki Tomori's brother, Nao Tomori looks surprised and tells Yū Otosaka that his brother Kazuki Tomori is the "only one she trusts". The three of them decided to go together to meet Kazuki Tomori. After the meeting, Yū Otosaka is told that the source of his powers is a comet named "Charlotte", and that such powers will disappear at the end of puberty. Afterwards, they meet Kazuki Tomori, who is blind, and tells Yū Otosaka that he has the most powerful superpower, "Plunder", and asks him to use his "Plunder" superpower to gain his own "Yū Otosaka agrees. At the same time, Kazuki Tomori tells Yū Otosaka the reason for his blindness. In a previous alternate timeline, he was imprisoned in a research facility for scientists along with Yū Otosaka, Ayumi Otosaka, and other abilities. He was detained due to the special nature of his powers. With the help of Yū Otosaka and the others, he regains his freedom and uses his ability to "time travel" to change the world. After numerous failed attempts, he succeeded in protecting the power users by establishing the Star Ocean Academy at the cost of losing his eyesight (the side effect of the "time travel" ability is that his eyesight decreases with each use, and he eventually becomes blind and can no longer use his ability). After learning all this, Yū Otosaka uses his superpowers to plunder his brother's ability to travel through time and unleash it to travel to the time before Ayumi Otosaka's death. This time, when the student council pointed out that there was a "broken" superpower in the dormitory, he took the initiative to invite Nao Tomori to visit with him. After the visit, Yū Otosaka told Nao Tomori that he had travelled from the future and that Nao Tomori had been kind to him, and that Nao Tomori had shown unconditional trust in Yū Otosaka. After sending Nao Tomori away, Yū Otosaka uses his "Plunder" ability to obtain his sister's "Disintegration" ability and in the following scenario uses force to intimidate his sister's love interest who is holding a paper cutter. After saving his sister and returning to the base, Yū Otosaka is told not to leave the base because Kazuki Tomori wants to protect his brother and sister. However, the overseas terrorist forces kidnapped Nao Tomori and Kumagami to get Yū Otosaka and said that they needed Yū Otosaka to go alone, or else they would "rip off" him. Although Yū Otosaka plans to use his time travel ability to escape at the critical moment, his right eye is blinded by a surprise attack from an enemy power user, making it impossible to activate his time jumping ability (the condition for activation is that both eyes see light at the same time). In the nick of time, Yū Otosaka passively unleashes his collapse ability, destroying the entire building. Although the collapse ability solved all the enemies but led to the death of Kumagami, Kumagami when Nao Tomori was about to be pierced by the steel bar, using his body to block the steel bar, saving Nao Tomori, he was killed. After things settled down, Yū Otosaka took Nao Tomori's advice and decided to set out to plunder the abilities of all the Abilities in the world, thereby saving the Abilities and confessing his love to Nao Tomori. He told Kazuki Tomori about his plan and entrusted the local Ability Users to Kazuki Tomori's organization. As the first step of the plan, Yū Otosaka plundered all the abilities of his friends around him. Before his departure, Yū Otosaka and Nao Tomori exchanged items: Nao Tomori gave Yū Otosaka a notebook of English words, while Yū Otosaka returned the player Nao Tomori had given him earlier to Nao Tomori for safekeeping. Subsequently, Yū Otosaka left for overseas alone. Yū Otosaka travels around the world, capturing superpowers and getting stronger as he continues to figure out what to do, and is known as the "one-eyed Shinigami". At one point, he collapsed due to excessive superpowers, overuse of his powers, and the emptiness and numbness of a long journey day after day, and his brain was overloaded and he forgot who commissioned him and what he was doing in the first place. The only thing he remembers is that he made an appointment with someone to take over the world's powers and return, so he insists as much as possible on not killing innocent people or abusing his powers (although he slaughtered an entire town in his dream). The only thing he carried with him was this book of words. After plundering the last of the supernaturals in Beijing (whose power was "courage"), Yū Otosaka boarded a helicopter sent by his brother and returned home. After waking up in the hospital, Nao Tomori is welcomed back with tears, but Yū Otosaka has forgotten who Nao Tomori is. When faced with Yū Otosaka, who had suffered from significant amnesia, Nao Tomori said, "You are my lover". From now on, the student council does not need to deal with superpowers, and Nao Tomori's camera no longer needs to record unhappy events, but can instead record the happy scenes of her friends' lives. [4] |
Related Songs
Opening Theme(OP)
- Bravely You(ep 1~9,12~13, OVA)
- Lyrics・Composer: Jun Maeda
- Singer: Lia
Ending Songs(ED)
- 灼け落ちない翼(ep 2,5,7~12, OVA)
- Lyrics・Composer: Jun Maeda
- Singer: Aoi Tada
- 楽園まで(ep 3~4)
- Lyrics・Composer: Jun Maeda
- Arranger: Takeshita Tomohiro
- Singer: Yusa Nishimori(CV.Maaya Uchida)
- 君の文字(ep 13)
- Lyrics・Composer: Jun Maeda
- Arranger: ANANT-GARDE EYES
- Singer: Anri Kumaki
Interlude(IN)
- Feverish Days[5](ep 8)
- Lyrics・Composer: Jun Maeda
- Arranger: Takeshita Tomohiro
- Singer: Yusa Nishimori(CV.Maaya Uchida)
- Band: How-Low-Hello
- Trigger(ep 9)
- Lyrics: Jun Maeda
- Composer・Arranger: Hikari Shūyō
- Singer: marina
- Band: ZHIEND
- Blood Colour(ep 9)
- Lyrics: Jun Maeda
- Composer・Arranger: Hikari Shūyō
- Singer: marina
- Band: ZHIEND
- Scar on Face(ep 9)
- Lyrics: Jun Maeda
- Composer・Arranger: Hikari Shūyō
- Singer: marina
- Band: ZHIEND
- Adore(ep 9)
- Lyrics: Jun Maeda
- Composer・Arranger: Hikari Shūyō
- Singer: marina
- Band: ZHIEND
- Sinking Ships(ep 13)
- Lyrics: Jun Maeda
- Composer・Arranger: Hikari Shūyō
- Singer: marina
- Band: ZHIEND
CD Message
Title | Cover | Released date | Aerotwin | Songs | ||||
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Single | ||||||||
Bravely you/灼け落ちない翼 (CharlotteOP/ED) |
August 26, 2015 | KSLA-0103(Special edition) KSLA-0104(Normal edition) |
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楽園まで/発熱デイズ (How-Low-Hello ED&IN) |
September 2, 2015 | KSLA-0105 |
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Trigger (ZHIEND IN) |
September 9, 2015 | KSLA-0106 |
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Album | ||||||||
Smells Like Tea,Espresso (How-Low-Hello Album) |
September 30, 2015 | KSLA-0107 |
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ECHO (ZHIEND Album) |
October 14, 2015 | KSLA-0108/9 |
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Charlotte Original Soundtrack | November 4, 2015 | KSLA-0110/1 |
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BD/DVD
Derivative works
Comic
original story
Original story comic is drawn by Chibimaru and Yu Tsurusaki, it was serialised inDengeki G's Magazine from October 2015 to February 2019。
Volume | Cover | Released date |
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1 | August 26, 2015 | |
2 | May 26, 2016 | |
3 | March 10, 2017 | |
4 | September 27, 2017 | |
5 | April 27, 2018 | |
6 | January 26, 2019 |
Outreach
『Charlotte The 4koma Se ̄ Shun o Kakenukero!』[6]
The easy and cute daily four-frame serialization started by the partners of Hoshinoumi Academy! ! ! 『Charlotte The 4koma Se ̄ Shun o Kakenukero!』has been serialized since G’s コミック Vol.12 (released on March 30)! It's over now.
- Painting: こもわた遥华
- Original: Jun Maeda (Key)
- Original case: Na-Ga (Key)
Volume | Cover | Release date |
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1 | September 25, 2015 | |
2 | July 26, 2016 | |
3 | May 26, 2017 |
Webcast
Charlotte Radio ~Nao Tomori's Student Council Activity Log~ broadcasted on Niconico every Monday since July 6, 2015, the media presenter is Ayane Sakura(Nao Tomori).[7]
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Notes and external links
- ↑ Angel Beats! anime official website
- ↑ OP・ED楽曲&ZHIEND情報公開!
- ↑ OP/ED楽曲タイトル公開!ハロハロ情報も解禁!
- ↑ Fan Review of ‘’Charlotte’’: A Rhythmic Epic of Interwoven Emotions https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv10920590
- ↑ 「Charlotte(シャーロット)」MUSIC SPECIAL SITE, the name of the official music page shall prevail.
- ↑ 『Charlotte The 4コマ せーしゅんを駆け抜けろ!』連載開始!
- ↑ ニコ生ラジオ番組の配信が決定!
- (Japanese)Animation official website