Next, I'll be looking at Kokkoku: Moment by Moment, or simply Kokkoku. The premise is about the Yukawa family, which consists of three siblings, their father, grandfather and one of the daughter's nephew. When the brother and nephew are kidnapped for ransom, and with no time to make to meet the kidnappers' demands, the grandfather uses a stone that allows them to enter Stasis, a world where time does not move.
Juri, one of the sisters, is our lead. The show starts with her having just graduated college and looking for jobs. Once back home she tells her grandfather she is sure that she'll get none of the jobs she applied. She seems overly critical of her brother and father, this is understandable and she does blame herself for what happens to her brother and nephew later. The tone in this scene comes off as a bit comical, and that continues into the next one.
After being asked by her sister, Sanae, to put up her nephew, Makoto, she tries to gets her brother to do it. Her brother is Tsubasa, who is in his thirties and still has no job, if this were a different anime then he would likely have been the protagonist. It doesn't seem like Tsubasa gets out much so it would be understandable if he's a bit hesitant. But while it is made out that he isn't going to, he does goes to pick Makoto up afterall but I've already told you what happened.
Takafumi is the father, he has a pretty bad attitude and has recently lost his job.
Jiisan is the grandfather, he is retired. He can be stern at times but it's not hard to tell that he cares about the rest of them. After Tsubasa and Makoto are kidnapped, he is the one who reveals the power of the stone, which has been passed down through their family for generations. The lack of information makes it seem like nothing more than a plot device. As they head to where the kidnappers are holding their family members while time remains frozen, Jiisan also says that other people who entered this world have all fallen for the temptation to use it to commit crimes, though he has never confirmed this for himself.
As the they are rescuing their family members, what appears to be a phantom briefly appears and fades from the air, Jiisan dodges the questions Juri asks about it, clearly hiding something. While they're taking their family away and back home, another bunch of thugs shows up, some of them seem very capable while others seem less adept, though the capable ones don't seem at all concerned with the others when a giant creature appears, which paints them as two-dimensional. These ones want to take Jiisan for some reason but while it doesn't seem to be the same one as the other thugs, that's still two peoples kidnapping the same family on the same day.
There is no fanservice in the episode itself, but apparently no one informed the ending animation team, since there is a considerable amount in the ending sequence. If there's no fanservice in the rest of the show then this is a pretty odd choice, it wouldn't be the first anime to do something like this but still.
All in all, it failed to sell me on the concept it presented which I already had doubts about, with the tone being comical towards the beginning, it doesn't set the proper atmosphere that a supernatural show should have, even if it changes to a more serious one later on. The show does have some interesting ideas but the first episode should of been played out differently. From what I can tell, this show won't focus too much on character development and will have several supernatural elements for it to explain. I can't say I'm too interested in where this will head, so I  can't say I recommend this title. That is all for this post, but be sure to check out my take on Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san and Ryuuou no Oshigoto if you haven't previously, and I will return on thursday to give some more first impressions. Thank you for reading, have a wonderful day.