The following is the list of episodes of the Japanese anime Chaos;Head. The anime adaptation is produced by Madhouse Studios based on the Japanese visual novel of the same name by Nitroplus and The 5pb. The episodes are directed by Takaaki Ishiyama and composed by Toshiki Inoue. The anime characters are designed by Shuichi Shimamura based on the original design by Mutsumi Sasaki. Each episode has an official Japanese and English title.
The anime series was aired on various broadcasting stations, first on Chiba TV on October 9, 2008 and subsequently on the other stations. The anime contained twelve episodes, with two pieces of theme music being used, namely, one opening and one ending theme. The opening theme is titled "F.D.D." and is performed by Kanako Itō while the ending theme is titled "Super Special" and is performed by Seira Kagami.
| # | Episode title | Original air date |
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| 01 | "Boot Up" "Kidō" (起動) |
October 9, 2008 |
| Under an overcast, rainy sky, a blue-haired high school boy lies among the shattered ruins of a city, and a pink-haired high school girl appears, wielding a large bladed weapon, who kneels beside him and kisses him while resting the point of her weapon on his chest. Takumi is a very reclusive person who lives in a storage container; he is not interested in the real world and suffers from a delusion with Seira, his favorite anime character. His friend Misumi tells him about a series of incidents called the New Generation events. Takumi chats with a person named Shogun who shows him a barrage of image links depicting a murder of a man being hung by stakes. Horrified, he goes to an Internet cafe to ease his mind. After, he walks into a dark alley and is horrified to watch the murder he saw online; only it is real and happening in front in his eyes. He also sees a pink-hair schoolgirl covered in blood wearing his school's uniform standing right next to the bloody scene. She then calls out his name "Taku". He runs away while unintentionally carrying one of the stakes. The next day, he feels someone is stalking him and finds it was a girl named Yua. She tells him that she too is a fan of Seira. After some initial reluctance, he finally agrees to accompany her to pre order the latest Seira figurine. The next day, he is shocked to find the pink haired girl sitting next to him. | ||
| 02 | "Ego" "Jiga" (自我) |
October 17, 2008 |
| Takumi believes the girl is here to kill him, but the girl laughs it off having no idea what he is talking about. After looking into her eyes, he remembers her name as Rimi Sakihata. At first he is confused, but then Misumi says that the three of them have been friends since the first year. While at home he is surprised to find Rimi checking up on him. Takumi freaks out and orders her to get out. At the same time, the police have found surveillance footage who they believe is a suspect of the murdered staked man. Takumi accompanies Yua to pre-order the latest Seira figurine. As they interact more with each other, Takumi takes a liking to Yua as she accepts him for who he is. Yua accidentally spills out the contents of her bag. Takumi then realizes that she has been conducting a lot of research on the New Generation murder incidents all along. Takumi, who is frightened with delusional thoughts, attempts to run. She confronts him about what he’s hiding by pulling out one of the cross-shaped stakes he had taken from the murder scene. Despite her suddenly threatening nature, she claims that she only wanted to ascertain if he knew about it. She also states that she is curious about whether or not Takumi has the power of precognition. Her reasoning behind this are the images of the third incident that were sent to Takumi. Takumi claims that he got them from someone called Shogun and wonders if Yua is that person. Yua, however, explains that the images were found on the computer he was using at the internet cafe. Yua concludes that Takumi is Shogun. Nevertheless, she lets him go, and Takumi returns home playing his MMORPG. | ||
| 03 | "Contact" "Sesshoku" (接触) |
October 24, 2008 |
| A flashback shows when Takumi was a little boy. He couldn't go on a field trip so he wished that no one could go. He drew a picture of a school bus and then he ripped it in half. His mother then receives a call informing her that on the way to the field trip the bus got in an accident and was ripped in half. Takumi thought his wish came true. For days he didn't talk so his mom took him to the doctor. (The flashback now ends.) Takumi goes to the hospital to see the doctor he saw before. He claims that he is sleepwalking so they have him sleep for three hours to see if he gets up. The nurse says that he was not sleepwalking and so Takumi goes home. Rimi goes to the library and meets a strange student. Back at home, Takumi receives an image of him running from the murder while holding a stake. He believes that Shogun took a picture of the future. Misumi brings Takumi to a live concert to see the band Phantasm and their lead singer FES. Takumi notices that FES is looking at him and hallucinates that she is walking towards him with a sword. Takumi leaves the concert early and the scene goes to a girl and her mother preparing to move to a new house. Nanami takes Takumi to go buy him a cell phone and then they go eat. There, Takumi notices a girl with a sword similar to that of FES. At home Takumi goes on the chat room and clicks on a link saying "fourth incident". When he clicks on it, it leads to an auction called Vampire. | ||
| 04 | "Commencing" "Shodō" (初動) |
October 31, 2008 |
| While walking on the street Takumi bumps into a strange girl carrying a sword that others can't see but Takumi can see it. FES transfers into Takumi's school. On the way home two police officers ask Takumi about the recent murder cases. Takumi buys a new figurine of Seira so Rimi comes by to visit. FES tells Takumi that something called a Di-Sword can save him so he goes to find and buy one. Nanami stops by for a visit but leaves angrily. The Di-Sword breaks. The girl who was moving to Tokyo from the last episode is now a transfer student at Takumi's school. Her last name is introduced as Orihara. Takumi wanders the streets of Shibuya and has a delusion that he and an old man in a wheelchair are the only ones left in the world. The man claims he is Shogun and tells Takumi to hurry up and awaken, or else more people will die. Rimi snaps him out of it and Takumi heads home, thanking her. | ||
| 05 | "Guidance" "Sendō" (先導) |
November 6, 2008 |
| Takumi finds out from Rimi and Daisuke that the police are investigating the school. Yua catches Takumi in his attempt to hide from her after she requests to meet with him again. She tells him he has multiple personalities and that he should stop killing people. Takumi runs, but he is pursued and eventually runs into Ayase who helps him escape. Ayase takes him to the subway. There Ayase shows Takumi her Di-Sword by pulling it out of empty space. She tells Takumi the swords come from parallel worlds existing in the same dimension as the real world, which she refers to as delusions, delusions projected into the real world by people with certain powers. When Takumi gets home he finds an e-mail from Grim with a link to a video of the first New Gen case, the Group Dive, and Takumi realizes the video was filmed by Shogun. | ||
| 06 | "Embracement" "Hōyō" (抱擁) |
November 13, 2008 |
| Yua comes to Takumi's class and he runs away screaming. He is found by Rimi near the courtyard and finally agrees to allow Rimi to support him and he begins walking to and from school with her. After school Rimi and Takumi go to a café and he begins to fill her in on his encounter with Shogun. At this time a protest against the New Gen events passes by the café. Back at his place Takumi tries to call upon his real Di-Sword while holding the fake one, but Rimi stops him. Rimi leaves to get more soda, and while she is gone Takumi finds out that his old psychiatrist has been killed as the victim of the 5th New Gen incident. Meanwhile Sena destroys a device made by Nozomi Tech in someone's backpack. The next day Takumi learns more about finding his Di-Sword from Ayase. After school Rimi walks Takumi home and he tries to tell her about his possible power to make delusions real but she doesn't believe him. Ban goes to see Katsuko Momose to learn more about the New Gen events. Meanwhile Takumi apparently gets a call from Shogun, but when he answers it all he hears is a strange tune, the one from the pedestrian scramble and street crossings, and then suddenly a strange earthquake hits Shibuya with a very loud alarm-like noise and causes the sky to momentarily turn white. | ||
| 07 | "Realization" "Jikaku" (自覚) |
November 20, 2008 |
| After the earthquake Takumi searches for Rimi at school. Ayase jumps off the school roof, but Takumi unwittingly creates a flowerbed to save her from the fall. Later, nasty rumors begin to circulate around the school that it was Takumi's relationship with Ayase that caused her to jump. As his class is teasing him, a voice who identifies itself as Kozu-pii begins speaking to Takumi in his head. After school Takumi gets beat up by a group of paid thugs, but is saved by Kozue who is apparently able to communicate telepathically and alls herself Kozu-pii. Kozue is revealed to be another Di-Sword wielder and after running into Sena is shown to be Sena's friend. Sena explains that people who are able to see and obtain Di-Swords are called Gigalomaniacs, and that they are capable of projecting their delusions to other people, with the help of their Di-Swords. The Nozomi Group have a meeting and it is revealed that they are using a machine called Noah II to synthetically use the powers of the Gigalomaniacs for their own purpose. To this end, they have recruited several people, called "Porters" who carry special devices in backpacks to allow Noah II's signal to reach people. The backpack device destroyed by Sena in the previous episode is revealed to be one such mobile transmitter port for Noah II's signals. Takumi learns that he, Sena and Kozue are all Gigalomaniacs with the power to project delusions into reality, using a process called Real-Booting. Takumi is said to be special in that he is unknowingly capable of Real-Booting delusions even without a Di-Sword. When a Noah II created delusion of a runaway digger appears and cause people to panic, Kozue and Sena jump into action to destroy the mobile transmitters carried in backpacks by the Porters nearby. Nozomi vows to remove all obstacles to their plans. Kozue, Sena and Takumi form a group to stop Nozomi and at Kozue's urging they take a commemorative picture in a nearby photo booth. | ||
| 08 | "Linkage" "Rendō" (連動) |
November 27, 2008 |
| Takumi is still waiting for Rimi to show up in school. She has not appeared in school since the day of the earthquake. Kozue comes to ask Takumi to accompany them to attack Nozomi Technology's headquarters to destroy Noah II. Takumi refuses so Kozue starts crying to force him to join them. He then took her outside the school avoid troublesome rumors. Sena was waiting for them outside and convinces him to join them. They entered through the front of the building and reached the underground research facility with the help of Sena who projected a delusion that caused the people around them to see the trio as corporate executives. Meanwhile, Rimi is shown in a hospital room talking to an old man in a wheelchair, Shogun, who Takumi saw previously in the streets of Shibuya. The trio apparently finds Noah II but Genichi Norose, Nozomi Technology's president appears to stop them. Takumi sees visions of Sena's past and that her real name is Sena Hatano and not Sena Aoi. When they were about to lose, Ayase suddenly appears and helps them. She then collapses after the fight. Norose was frozen due to Ayase's projection of her delusion but he makes Sena and Kozue fight each other by causing them to see delusions that made them think the other is Norose. Takumi unconsciously cancels the delusions Sena and Kozue were seeing. Sena apparently defeats Norose and Kozue destroys Noah II. They then find out that it was not Noah II, but just a prototype machine and that the Norose they defeated was simply a delusion real-booted by that machine. Takumi goes to school the next day and is overjoyed to see Rimi. Norose is shown in a dark office in a high building talking to someone, apparently another Gigalomaniac, who is trapped and held up in his massive Di-Sword. | ||
| 09 | "Rejection" "Kyozetsu" (拒絶) |
December 4, 2008 |
| Yua Kusunoki is shown in Katsuko Momose's private investigator office talking to detective Yasuji Ban about the New Gen incidents and Takumi, while Ban asks her if she is the twin sister of Mia Kusunoki, who is one of the five victims of the first New Gen incident, the "Group Dive". Ban receives a call from his junior partner Mamoru Suwa saying the 6th New Gen incident has occurred. Takumi also finds out about the 6th incident from the internet through his online friend Grim; The victims were the ones who attacked Takumi previously. He believes that Shogun is deliberately targeting him. Going through old stuff stored in boxes to find clues he comes across an old essay of his entitled "Whose Eyes Are Those Eyes?" with a scribbling written in the back including a formula, "Ir2" on it. He then receives a cryptic call from Nanami asking for his help. Meanwhile, Yua tells the detective about Ayase's sword. Ban replies with him seeing Sena Aoi in a security camera video pull a sword out of nowhere. Momose, sitting next to Ban, changes the topic and asks about the Gero-frogs hanging from Yua's bag, while Yua tells them they are currently trendy and that new designs come out on Fridays with long lines of people waiting to buy them. Takumi, Daisuke and Rimi goes to visit Ayase in the hospital. Rimi tells the two of them to go ahead and excuses herself. She is later spotted by the two having an argument with Ayase. Ayase, back in her room tells Takumi that overcoming his "divine punishment" trial would enable him to obtain his Di-Sword. Ayase then tells him about her own ordeal. Later, Takumi receives another call from Nanami asking for his help. He returns to his container house with Rimi and finds Sena and Kozue waiting for him on top of it. Sena asks him if he was the one who drew the scribble with the equation "Ir2" on it, and when Takumi confirms, Sena jumps down to attack him with her Di-Sword. Rimi pulls him away and summons her own Di-Sword to block Sena's attacks. Sena goes past Rimi using a feint attack and moves to attack Takumi, then Rimi stops her by forcing her to see a delusion involving a certain homeless man from her past. After Sena stops attacking, Takumi asks her about "Ir2". Sena blames him because that equation is what led to the destruction of her family. She tells him that the chaos in Shibuya right now originated from that equation. Kozue, who was simply watching from the sidelines, mentions seeing a homeless man telling her that the boy who started "Whose eyes are those eyes?" is the most important. Sena then leaves to find that man. Takumi thanks Rimi for saving his life. On the way to Takumi's parents' house, Rimi warns him that things won’t remain the same if he goes and tries to discourage him from going. Takumi tells her that he has to see Nanami. When Takumi reaches the place where his childhood home was supposed to be, he is shocked to see unfamiliar scenery instead, and Rimi tells him that he has nowhere in the world to go home to. Elsewhere, Shogun is shown entering a hidden hospital room. The name of the patient written outside the room is Takumi Nishijou. | ||
| 10 | "Purification" "Senrei" (洗礼) |
December 11, 2008 |
| Takumi is told by Rimi that his memories are actually fabricated. Rimi explains to Takumi that he wasn't supposed to exist. She tells him that he is actually a delusional existence created by the real Takumi Nishijou. He is shocked by all of the revelations and begins to think Rimi betrayed him. She apologizes to Taku for hiding everything from him, then embraces him. Rimi tells him she has to go to rescue Nanami from her kidnappers and leaves, telling Taku to wait for her in his house. She made him promise to not have anymore delusions, since it shortens the life of the real Takumi. Back in Momose's office, Ban and Momose discuss the connections between the GE Rate, Nozomi Tech and the Meiwa political party. Ban receives a call from Suwa who is apparently in trouble and is being held at Tokyo AH General Hospital. He tells Yua and Momose to hide in the meantime and then leaves to find Suwa. Distraught after having his existence denied, Takumi calls Daisuke to affirm his existence, but hangs up on him after receiving an ambiguous answer. Rimi is shown on an overpass talking to the real Takumi on her cellphone. Ban meets nurse Hazuki in the hospital, who tells him a suspicious man went up the stairs to the roof. Yua is shown to have followed Ban to the hospital where she apparently confronts a delusion of her deceased twin sister Mia, who almost succeeds in leading her to her death. In the ensuing struggle Yua awakens as a Gigalomaniac and obtains her Di-Sword. Suwa betrays Ban on the roof and shoots him. Meanwhile, Takumi is apparently visited by Nanami in his house, who turns out to be just a delusion when he tries to hug her and confirm his existence. Rimi goes to rescue Takumi's sister, Nanami, who is being held in the true location of Noah II. She encounters Norose and witnesses Nanami awaken as a Gigalomaniac as a result of physical injury and psychological torture where she obtains her Di-Sword. Rimi fails to rescue her due to a delusional psychological attack from Norose and is captured instead. Takumi goes to Shibuya's pedestrian scramble where he finds agitated crowds of people running amok. In the chaos, Shogun comes to tell Takumi that only he can stop Noah II. | ||
| 11 | "Independence" "Jiritsu" (自立) |
December 18, 2008 |
| Shogun explains to Taku that he intended to stop Nozomi from abusing his "Ir2" equation using Noah II and taking over humanity, but since his aged body is incapable of doing so, he had no choice but to create Taku from a delusion to do it in his stead. He goes on to inform Taku that Rimi was captured in the process of rescuing Nanami. In a flashback, it is shown that Rimi and the real Takumi had met in the past in the hospital, and had become close friends. Taku, remembering all that Rimi had done for him, realizes his true feelings for her. After this realization, Taku obtains his Di-Sword. Shogun asks him to destroy Noah II for humanity. He decides to destroy Noah II for his own reasons: to save Rimi. Shogun directs Taku to find and destroy the devices carried by Porters that are causing the chaos in the pedestrian scramble. The last Porter is revealed to be nurse Hazuki, who is exposed as the real New Gen perpetrator after Taku reads her memories and projects it to the screens on the buildings around them. Hazuki, who is a follower of the Church of Divine Light cult and Suwa's lover, then kills herself. Shortly after, another strange earthquake happens, this time much stronger than the last and destroys much of Shibuya. Ayase and Yua roam the ruined streets looking for other Gigalomaniacs, and encounter Nanami who mentions Rimi was captured. The street they walk on caves in and they fall. Taku regains consciousness and takes Shogun with him while looking for other Gigalomaniacs. He hears Ayase singing and rescues the three of them from the collapsed pit. Nanami remembers her true brother after Taku tells her he isn't her real brother. Taku goes alone while the three girls cover his advance. Meanwhile, Sena and Kozue, while walking in a subway tunnel encounter the homeless man, Hatano, her father who Sena wanted take revenge on. Before she could do so, she is saved by him and he gets shot by Suwa, who intended to kill both father and daughter. Using the porter device he carries, Suwa proceeds to subdue Sena and Kozue with delusions, who are saved by the timely arrival of Taku. Suwa attempts to kill Taku with stakes but is instead killed when Taku manages to switch their places using a delusion. Taku continues onward to save Rimi and destroy Noah II. | ||
| 12 | "Mission" "Shimei" (使命) |
December 25, 2008 |
| In a dreamlike inner monologue sequence, Shogun/Takumi explains that he is suffering from an illness that caused his body to stop developing at 10 years old and age rapidly after, and that he will die soon. When Taku asks him what will happen to him after the real Takumi dies, Shogun tells Taku that he won't disappear because he became a real human when he was Real-Booted. On the other hand, if Taku dies, Takumi's life span will be extended, albeit for only a few days or weeks. Along the way to the building that houses Noah II, Taku is attacked by several Seira-tans that were Real-Booted by Noah II with the objective of stopping him. Elsewhere, the real Takumi, Shogun, tells Yua, Ayase and Nanami to catch up and assist Taku in destroying Noah II. The three of them meet up with Kozue and Sena at the underground subway station and they all go together to help Taku. Inside the old planetarium that houses Noah II, Taku discovers Rimi being held up on Norose's Di-Sword. Rimi is surprised by his arrival, and Taku responds by declaring his love for her and that he has come to save her. Norose explains his philosophy then removes Rimi from his sword to fight Taku. Noah II activates its defense mechanism to protect itself. Taku is then overwhelmed by a series of delusions that causes him to stop moving in reality. Rimi snaps him out of the delusions and he continues to fight Norose in a losing battle. Nanami, Yua, Ayase, Kozue and Sena arrive at a spot below the building where they decide to assist Taku by sending him their powers via Ayase's Cocytus delusion using the water from Shibuya's underground river. With the help of Takumi's final power and encouragement from all six girls, Taku confirms his existence and defeats another delusion. Taku becomes impervious to physical attacks by Norose. Ayase's Cocytus arrives and freezes Norose in place while Taku receives power from the girls, and obtains the last one from Rimi. He then creates a special attack with his Di-Sword and throws it at Norose as the target with Noah II behind him. The scene returns to the very first scene of the story, where under a rainy, overcast sky, Taku lies among the ruins of Shibuya with Rimi kneeling beside him, kissing him before she goes to plunge her Di-Sword into his chest. She is unable to bring herself to kill him, however, because of her strong feelings for him. The real Takumi tells Taku just before he dies that it is alright for him to live on in his place. Taku, inheriting Takumi's memories, consoles Rimi with the exact words with which the real Takumi used to comfort her. Holding hands, Taku and Rimi then apparently return the sky to its original color, and with the appearance of Ayase, Nanami, Yua, Kozue and Sena, it appears they restored Shibuya to its original form. | ||
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