Saturday, 1 June 2013

Another - anime

The Anime is called Another, as in the title of the anime is Another......

Hope that's cleared up, I have no idea what to say about the title apart from its a ball ache.
This is another dark anime, even I wanted to close my eyes at some death scenes.

In 1972, Misaki, a popular student of Yomiyama North Middle School's class 3-3, suddenly died partway through the school year. Devastated by the unexpected loss, the students and teachers behaved like Misaki was still alive, leading to a strange presence on the graduation photo. In Spring 1998, 15-year-old Kōichi Sakakibara transfers into Yomiyama's class 3-3, where he meets the peculiar Mei Misaki, who is seemingly ignored by her classmates. The class is soon caught up in a strange epidemic, where its students and their relatives are caught up in mysterious deaths. Learning these deaths have something to do with the Misaki of 1972, it is up to Kōichi and Mei to discover the cause of these mysterious deaths and figure out how to stop it before it puts an end to them.


It is very creepy, I think the atmosphere is fantastic and is kept through all of the show, I found the beginning a bit slow moving but it did build up the creepiness.
I just was willing the main character to find out more...how did he not find it frustrating that no-one would tell him anything, he seemed fine with the slow pace where I certainly wasn't.
So this is where it fell a bit short, I felt the main character was missing some part of his personality, if you went up to this guy kicked him it the balls he may just ask you why you did it, then when you shrug he would just walk away...slowly

We are flowing Kōichi Sakakibara


I did find him very bland and he just didn't seemed worried about the situation one bit. I think it did add to the "who is it" as a few of the characters where like this.

The next main character is Mei Misaki


Again same sort of character, didn't seem to care when her life was threatened or she was in any sort of danger, just no sense of urgency about her.
Then you have the rest of the class, most are just there to be killed but there are some other characters that get more screen time.


The end felt...I don't know rushed I guess, I get it but there was a touching moment with one of the characters and I felt it could of been more than what it was.

I did have fun with this anime, I would recommend it to anyone that likes horror/mystery.

I've only just started with my anime journey and so far its been great, I've been very lucky with my choices so far. Watching Clannad at the moment which is going to take me awhile but I'm enjoying it and Steins Gate is next on my list.

Please let me know if you have a favourite, I'm looking for more to add to my list.

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