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"It's like... it's the same place, but only we are in a different world." |
| The information below contains information exclusive to The World Ends with You The Animation and may be non-canonical to the original game. |
"Turf" (テリトリー Territory) is the sixth episode in The World Ends with You: The Animation.
Plot[]
Neku grabs Joshua by the collar, making his phone fall out and crack on the ground. He accuses Joshua of killing him, and Joshua argues that they need to work together if they want to win. Neku asks what he's after. Joshua says he wants to properly guide Shibuya and asks Neku for help. Around the corner, they spot Sho Minamimoto reciting an incantation as he draws a strange sigil that Joshua's phone was responding to, then flies off. Kariya from a rooftop recognizes it as an unfinished Taboo Noise Refinery sigil.
On the fifth day, Joshua asks Neku to come with him to Cat Street to fix his phone. At Miyashita Park Underpass, Beat tackles Neku out of the way, and challenges him to a fight. Neku refuses, and Uzuki and Kariya arrive to remind him its against the rules for Reapers to attack Players outside of day 7. Beat declares he's doing a special operation for the Conductor, and yells at them to get lost. Uzuki is angry, but then gets a phone call from Mitsuki Konishi alerting her to Taboo Noise. Kariya telekinetically forces Beat to come along with them and leave. Neku notices that Beat dropped Rhyme's bell pendant
At WildKat, Hanekoma takes Joshua's phone to fix. Neku waits outside. He's approached by Sota and Nao, who observe they seem to be the only Players left. Sota tells Neku his thoughts about how only a fixed amount of people come back, and Neku's last partner being his Entry Fee. They decide that it means he must care a lot about his partner and it isn't something to be guilty about. Neku wonders about the people in Shibuya and their issues while staring at Joshua with his fixed phone.
Neku comments on a closed business and says he spent his time exploring Shibuya after school. When Joshua asks if he did it with friends and Neku says no, Joshua compares Neku to the Underground: each area of the Underground have their own rules and can't be moved between. Neku and Joshua philosophize about CAT's work, people, and communication. At Miyashita Park, Neku excitedly notices a new CAT graffiti. Joshua remarks that he's surprised that CAT can run a café in the middle of it. When Joshua reveals CAT is Mr. Hanekoma, Neku starts obsessing over meeting CAT to the point of screaming out in the streets when he realizes telling Hanekoma about CAT is rude.
Later in the day, Joshua gets a high energy signature towards Station Underpass. Neku declares he'll stop helping Joshua find the Shibuya River as it is too risky, but will guide him there. After finding it's locked, Joshua and Neku begin leaving before they get attacked by a Trance Rhino. The Rhino is powerful and Neku suggests running, but they find they're surrounded. Joshua reluctantly fires a series of powerful beams of light. After the battle, Kariya arrives and outs Joshua as being an alive Player. While it is a severe crime that can be punished by erasure, Kariya forgives them for erasing the troublesome Trance Rhinos and gives them lollipops. Joshua defends himself as being as valid as any other Player, but Neku argues that others didn't choose to come to the Underground and have suffered for it, and Joshua killed him. Joshua socratically asks if he did kill Neku, if Neku would kill him like Shiki. Joshua cryptically states that he's been watching Neku for a long time, and that the Game is for Neku's salvation too.
Joshua reveals his true power.
At the Dead God's Pad, Uzuki and Kariya report the alive player and the Taboo Noise Refinery to Konishi. They suggest Minamimoto is behind it due to drawing an unactivated sigil, but Konishi rejects it as insufficient evidence. Uzuki admits she doesn't know if she could've survived the Taboo Noise on her own, and she is terrified of losing more Reapers. Konishi acquiesces to the investigation. Minamimoto stands at the top of a skyscraper, under the remains of erased Reapers and his Taboo Noise.
Characters (English, Japanese)[]
- Neku Sakuraba - Ben Balmaceda, Kōki Uchiyama
- Yoshiya "Joshua" Kiryu - Clifford Chapin, Ryōhei Kimura
- Sho Minamimoto - Brent Mukai, Takayuki Fujimoto
- Koki Kariya - Andrew Kishino, Anri Katsu
- Daisukenojo "Beat" Bito - Van Barr Jr., Subaru Kimura
- Uzuki Yashiro - Jessica Peterson, Satomi Arai
- Sanae Hanekoma - Brandon Potter, Kenjirō Tsuda
- Sota Honjo - Matt Shipman, Yûsuke Suda
- Nao - Brittany Lauda, Mami Fujita
- Mina (no lines)
- Ai (no lines)
- Eri (no lines)
- Shiki Misaki (no lines)
- Mitsuki Konishi - Marisa Duran, Hitomi Nabatame
- Tenho - Grant Paulsen, Yukiya Hayashi
- BJ - Unknown, Shōhei Kajikawa
Differences from the Game[]
- When Neku confronts Joshua, Joshua's smartphone falls to the floor and has its screen cracked. Joshua does not seem to mind as he never complains about it. This never appears in the game.
- In the game, Beat attacks Neku and Joshua after they reach Cat Street, but in the anime, he attacks them before. In both versions, Kariya and Uzuki remind Beat that Reapers are not allowed to attack Players, but Beat tells them he's running a special op for the Conductor so they let it slide. However, in the anime, Uzuki gets a call from Konishi about Taboo Noise, and they telekinetically force Beat to come along to take care of it.
- In the anime, Sota and Nao comfort a lone Neku at Cat Street about how he shouldn't feel guilty about Shiki being his entry fee. In the game, this happened on the previous day with Joshua at Molco. This is likely done so Sota and Nao could have more presence and for the viewer to become attached to them more.
- Neku's reaction to finding out Hanekoma is CAT is much more enthusiastic and intense in the anime.
- Joshua invokes Neku's attempted killing of Shiki when he asks Neku what he will do if Joshua did kill him.
- In the scene where Kariya confronts Neku and Joshua over Joshua being alive, the anime adds Kariya rewarding them with lollipops.
- The anime includes a scene of Kariya and Uzuki discussing the recent Taboo Noise problem with Konishi.
- Tenho and BJ are revealed to have been erased by Taboo Noise. This also makes the game make more sense, where later, 777 requests he be erased, as with this knowledge from The Animation, 777 would have less to live for. The next and final appearance 777 makes in the anime, Emergency Call, he wears the hoodies of Tenho and BJ tied around his waist.
- The anime includes a scene of Minamimoto on a rooftop, enjoying himself on a roof at night.
Trivia[]
- When drawing the sigil, Minamimoto recites a goroawase to 30 digits beginning with "an obstetrician goes to a foreign country". The English subtitles translate this as a pi poem, meaning each word has the same amount of letters of the digits of pi. His pi poem goes to the 15th digit.
Gallery[]
| The Animation episodes |
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| The Reapers' Game • Shiki • Erased • Reapers • CAT • Turf (Episode) • Joshua (Episode) • Emergency Call • Rhyme and Beat • The Countless Wrongs of Our Day • The Hour of Reckoning • It's a Wonderful World |