Apology...

Okay sorry sorry sorry, can't get that Samurai Flamenco  rant out today. Unfortunately, I have not edited it yet, and without editing, my rant really will be the ravings of a crazy guy. Sooooo, sorry for saying I'd update yesterday, and going back on it.

Go Watch!

Strike the Blood- Okay I know, I know, vampires and whatnot are as old as Call of Duty's game-play, but don't overlook this one. Okay if you're for the whole action thing, this definitely has it. There are some really impressive battle scenes here believe me. Also, if you're like me and you like the whole romance thing, this is along the lines of something like Shakugan no Shana. Serious plot, little slice of life, love triangle stuff (without Yoshida, thank god), a good, interesting setting, and amazing action sequences.

White Album 2--I haven't seen the first one, but from what I gather, it wasn't that good. its equal however is really good, and i can wholeheartedly recommend it. It actually isn't tied to the first one so you can jump in with no previous knowledge of the series. 

Susei no Gargantia Season 2 confirmed! This is good, really damn good, now all Santa has to do is get Haruhi to do another season, and we've got a freaking Christmas miracle! http://animephproject.wordpress.com/2013/10/11/suisei-no-gargantia-series-gets-second-season/

Oh and I just watched Samurai Flamenco episode 9, and well let's just say that tomorrow, There will be a page of rage for you guys. Anyhow thanks for reading!

Who are you and what have you done with valvrave?

So last week I watched the seventh episode of Samurai Flamenco, and if you've read any of the stuff pertaining to that you know i was absolutely amazed by it. I mean it went from a kick-ass the anime, with complex ideas, interesting characters that lived in a believable world, to motorcycle snake! Screw realism! We have a motorcycle snake.

Okay okay this is actually about Valvrave, and i promise that sooner or later I will actaully get over the whole Samurai Flamenco thing. A while back a show appeared on crunchyroll. Now I'm a huge mech fan, so I was interested to say the least. Then I actually watched the show. It's problem was that it took itself waaaay to seriously. I think it was around the time that a bunch of high-schoolers tried to make their own nation that it lost all credibility. It looked fantastic, and now we know what Hoshino has been doing instead of putting out another volume of D-Grayman. The main character is on level with Shinji Ikari. He's an annoying little prick. He's got a really good voice actor, who voices three of my favorite characters from three of my favorite anime this season (Eita from Oreshura, Staz from Blood Lad, and Sadao Maō from The Devil is a Part Timer), but combined with the script it's just.... Anyhow, going into my opinion of the first season is a whole other story, and will take up all of the space here if I write it.  I wasn't planning on watching Valvrave, because of my impression of the first season. Fortunently the whole left by attack on titan was too great for Kill La Kill to fill, so I began watching this show once again. Thank god I did. The second season is sooooo much better from the first. I mean first of all, there is a lot less 'character development' A.K.A whinny teenager fun. It felt forced. How do I put it? It's like someone tried to dress-up as batman to fight crime, but ended up f***ing it up for everyone. Second the plot actually moves away from bunch-of-highschool-assholes-running-a-country, and into more of the supernatural stuff, the interesting stuff. Next there is a ton less political stuff. Before you start saying "hey wait wait wait, you praised political intrigue in Gundam 00 didn't you?" Well That's because the keyword is intrigue. Valvrave's political stuff was not interesting, I didn't care at all who the hell Dorssia was or the United--You know what? It's Sunrise, let's just call them Zeon 2.0 and Earth Federation 2.0. In the end there was no complexity in the nations and the politics between them, because in the end, they were just two super-powers on the brink war. There were no conflicts of interest or whatever, it was simply a power trip. On the other hand the scenery shifted from space, to a more diverse and interesting background then black with a bunch of white holes poked through. The opening is better, the ending theme not so much. On the whole of things the second season is so much better than the first. Granted it is not perfect, in fact far from it. When I review this anime I'll get into that. However even the fact that it's not perfect didn't change my opinion of the twenty-first episode. So head's up spoilers ahead.

You do not know how much I hate her now.

The Twenty First episode was, in my opinion, the best episode of Valvrave so far. Okay, so on one hand it made no sense. The reactions of the leaders were to rapid to be believable, and the actions they took were too quick and things. i could see the soldiers killing them out of fear, but when they killed one person and found out they were not in fact immortal, it might've just might've been a sign to stop. Nevertheless, the episode was well done, to the point were I actually have feelings toward characters. I feel bad for Haruto, hate Shoko, Feel guilty that I don't know the name of the guy who died. I actually care about the characters, which is somethign I never thought this anime would accomplish. Furthermore, the anime is taking an interesting direction. In other words the plot may very well be interesting from here. Haruto will have to win the rest of the student's trust back, and I dunno. Basically the episode changed the plot direction, made me care about the characters, and made me excited to see what happens next. 

Sooooo, that's it! I know that there is actually an anime that I can review at this point, but considering i have a research paper, and a essay on Human Nature to complete, I'm not sure if I'll be updating again this week. As always, likes, follows and other positive stuff is always welcome! 

Be warned the following image may induce feels

Samurai Girls...it's actually really good.

Okay so I finished the first episode of Samurai Girls, cause I have nothing better to do. Well okay I do have homework, but that's not the point! The point is that I was not expecting this show to be good at all. In fact the only reason I started watching it was because it had 'Samurai' in the title. Okay first of, the art style. It's so freaking good. You know those old Japanese paintings? This anime (characters aside) is rendered with this art style. It takes me back to the days of my PS2 and Okami, something else you need to take a look at. Anyhow, aside from the amazing art style, which really did make me look like Schwarzenegger from Total Recall, the episode really drew me in with it's fantastic exposition. This anime could get a lot worse, in fact most of my positivity here is because I'm blown away by the art, but still! I love alternate histories, and I hope this anime will not disappoint!

LOOKITLOOKITLOOKITLOOKIT

Soooo, This is totally filler I know, but I'm working on a look at Valvrave season 2/ the latest episode. That should be out tomorrow, assuming nothing comes up. Anyway sorry for the short segment, but seriously if you haven't already, go watch this now, and  I'll siya next time!

Mushibugyo Anime review

Oh Mushibugyo, it's sorta like attack on titan with bugs. Oh alright that last sentence was really just so i could tag attack on titan in this post, but my analogy is...wrong, it's wrong. Okay Let's try again Mushibugyo is a 2013 shonen anime where a hundred years ago bugs appeared and killed everyone, who the hell cares, we all know what we came here for!  



Mushibugyo is...well hmmm. After trashing Freezing for its explicit idiotic and godamn annoying fan-service, I can't exactly go in here singing this anime's praises now can I? Except I can! As far as shonen anime go I gotta say, i enjoyed my time with Mushibugyo. It's not deep, it's not tactical, but it is plain, dumb fun.

Story- Story? In a shonen Anime?! You crack me up! Really though, plot in shonens is a rare beast. You have to go hunting in the wilds of obscure anime, and believe me it's a place that few venture. the other thing is that even if a shonnen anime has a good plot, the chances of it keeping it interesting to have the viewer keep watching the show are like hitting jackpot in a slot-machine, okay maybe not that bad, but still! this is because if any kind of shonen anime gets popular they become a 100+ affair. This may get a little of topic, but hear me out. Like a lot of anime fans, i don't have a lot of time to watch anime every week. So therefore, if I'm going to spend my time staring at a bright little screen watching something, it has to firstly, keep me entertained, and more importantly, not waste my time. Even in slice of life anime, more happens than in a shonen. Most shonen are 80% talking about an awesome super move, 5% actually doing it, and the rest being the characters acting surprised as metal clashing sounds appear as shocked faces fill the screen like bunch of sharks in a feeding frenzy. Many other anime do what these anime do in a much shorter time. Take Naruto for example. In the eight episodes it took for Sakura to defeat doll-face or whatever his name was, Attack on titan had already established characters, developed them, and finished two consecutive plot arcs, with another one half-way through. Not to say that Naruto's the exception. The same can be said about Bleach, Gintama, Reborn, definitely one-peice, and totally Case-Closed, which isn't even a shonen and has enough episodes to make an opera marathon look short.  So here we go with the actual review. The plot in a nutshell. Bugs fight humans. No-one knows where they came from. Humans fight back. The end. 

It's like jaws the anime!

When i say that this is only a flesh wound I really mean it.

Animation-Well if you're wearing sunglasses just so you can rip the off, while spouting something to do with mother and god, well you've come to the wrong place. Don't get me wrong Mushibugyo looks good, but not where it should excel, the fight scenes. Some are pretty awesome, where i really feel engaged with what is going on while others are just a bunch of streaked line clinging to a character's fist/katana/kamehameha, like it was a freaking magnet or something. Killing the first few insects was about as easy as beating Contra without losing a single life. Oh and yes, I am also talking about playing with your dick friend, who loves to jump on ahead of you. Later though, the protagonists are like freaking janitors, sweeping insects up left and right. Oh and really there is absolutely no need to worry when Tsukishima, the main character, takes a hit. More often then not he lies down surprised for a few minutes, takes a nap for a few minutes, keeps his eyes closed for a effect and then stands up again, like an asshole. Thanks for worrying about me guys! Though it seems as though taking katanas through the gut has become something of a regular routine, so I'm good. Now we get to the fanservice,  ho ho ho, I don't think it's that bad. No, i really don't. After seeing something like freezing, this looks like Mr. Smith goes to Washington. No, in all seriousness, the anime isn't that bad in terms of fanservice. Yes it has it, but believe me when I say that the manga is much, much worse. The fact of the matter, is that the fan-service is always lighthearted, and never detracts from the battle scenes or tense moments. Now some positive things. Yes i have positive things to say about this anime, my username is Posi for a reason. the backgrounds look stunning, and the alternate Edo is well realized. Oh and if i hadn't mentioned it before, not all the fight-scenes are bad. In fact, I gotta say, at some points I was tempted to run to the store buy some sunglasses and rip them off. One in particular was when a gigantic insect marched into town, leading to a battle of such scale, that my eyes were glued to the screen the entire time. Another plus for the animation is the character designs, they're all really interesting. They look cool. I mean the art style in general is unique, even with said flaws.

Try to argue with me I dare you

Sound-in terms of sound, the anime has a lot going for it. For one thing it mixes rock, standard OST, with traditional Japanese music! What a shock! I would show you said soundtrack, but apparently the anime is too unknown for anyone to upload it! The Openings are pretty good, and props given to them for an amazing second ending. Voice acting is good around the board, but standouts are Tsukishima and Koikawa.  Tsukishima how to describe him...Well hmm Picture the most polite hyperactive six-year old with the energy supply of a fusion reactor. I mean the guy's so freaking polite, you could forclose his house, punch him in the face, and maybe chop a few onions for good measure and his smile will continue to be as big the Grand Canyon. It seems like nowadays it's cool to have the cool detached antisocial types, who can't seem to get over the fact that their parents died, like twenty years ago. So to see a character that is a walking mexican jumping bean is a good change of pace. yes at first it seems he's going to be pretty damn annoying, but he grows on you. He's always so polite, always giving people the benefit of the doubt. Sorta like a certain another overpowered spiky haired individual.

Those eye-brows...

Characters-- Okay so i just realized that part of the paragraph above should've been here, but whatever. Anyhow, Tsukishima is so much fun. I mean i really enjoyed all of the scenes he was in, simply because he was so energetic. Something else that is really unique about him is that he's weak. He gets his ass kicked multiple times throughout the series. I mean I mean i'd call him punching bag except that somewhere along the line he becomes what every shonen character ever always becomes: Chuck Norris. It is fun to see his progression throughout the series, as he gradually becomes stronger and stronger, to the point where he can hold his own. Oh and he doesn't use the super shonen power-up that often, only about two times during the series. In fact unlike a lot of anime which hint at a character's latent BFG abilities, Tsukishima goes through most of the series without such hints. There are other characters, such as the girl with big breasts, the guy who likes disipline, the guy who cuts stuff up, and many more. Character development is present in this show, which was kind of surprising. I can't say more because of spoilers, but it's there.

So, it seemed like I criticized this anime a lot. That is true. However, I can't help but say that i enjoyed my time with this anime. I had a lot of fun. Though I can don my spectacles, top hat, and start swirling brandy while spouting things like "What an incredulous piece of garbage, i have absolutely no clue where this industry is headed, Plot hole Plot hole Plot hole" I don't want to. In the end anime is supposed to entertain, and Mushibugyo did. So this gets a recommendation from me!

As always likes, follows and stuff is always much appreciated! Thanks for reading and I'll see ya next time!

Should you watch Samurai Flamenco?

Samurai Flamenco! One of the most engaging series to come out of the fall series. It's mature, it's got almost no fan service and most importantly it's realistic.

SF is a new fall anime that is currently being simulcast on crunchyroll. The best way to describe it was kick-ass the anime, but in case you haven't noticed from above image, it doesn't exactly stick to that. So let's get started.

First thing you notice right off the bat is the characters; they aren't in high-school. While you pick your jaws off of the floor, let me assure of something else: this also has minimal fanservice, and doesn't have any kind of romance. So what does it have? Well to start, it has Tomokazu Sugita, who voices Kyon, Gintoki from Gintama, and Joeseph Joestar from you-know-what. So he has experience to say the least. In fact the whole anime has a solid cast, hell for star power, the voice actress for Asuna from SAO is here too. In the visual department, things are solid. You are not going to be having eyegasms, throughout the anime, though as far as lighting goes, it's pretty impressive. For the first few episodes the whole thing is pretty slow, and watching the main character go out to fight crime, and get beat up over and over again is pretty painful. In the long run, this is okay, seeing as how the character progresses throughout the series. I mean at first he's like a new fallout player, visiting every little location that he can, until he inevitably walks in deathclaw nest and stuff happens with shit and fans, and yeah...  Later however he starts swinging across buildings with...measuring tape? Okay as much as I like this anime, it is still anime, so I guess it lost a bit of credibility when he became batman with a budget. The pacing of this is sorta weird. On the one hand it is interesting to see him progress, but there are massive leaps in his training. Like episode 4, where despite being a wimp the episode before, is now freaking Bruce Lee. Another example is when he gets the new  utility belt, he adapts to it rather fast, the very next episode being able to use said weapons like a pro. As much as I hate training episodes in anime like Bleach, I would've appreciated at least one.  However this anime does have some entertaining characters. First of Goto, the aforementioned voice actor who does Kyon, is amazing. I mean I guess the cool thing about him is that he acts sort of the same as he does in haruhi. Meaning he is a sarcastic asshole, and yes that is a good thing. He's the straight guy, the one caught up in this crazy world, who is always getting dragged into messes by the other protagonist Masayoshi. Masayoshi is the amateur superhero. He's your typical nice guy, who wants to do everything right, like not smoking in the no smoking zone. Now while in real life, he would be a pain-in the ass, for the beginning episodes, its actually pretty funny. The anime uses a blend of serious and comical ways to portray its message. One episode has Masayoshi running down a stolen umbrella. Now as cheesy as it sounds, they managed to make this feel epic without adding a choir to the OST. Speaking of which, the action, when it happens is pretty well executed. With the boring stuff out of the way, I get to the meat of this Should you watch.

The seventh episode. be warned from this point on THIS WILL BE SPOILER HEAVY, so read at your own risk. HOWEVER! I DO FEEL THAT TO GIVE YOU THE RIGHT IMPRESSION, YOU SHOULD STILL READ THIS! Anyway while I'm waiting for my caps meter to recharge, the seventh episode is, shit. Screw Death Note, Screw Steins gate, Screw Code Geass, in terms of plot twists, this takes the cake. Now when I say plot twist, what i mean is not a cool revelation, but more of the developer taking the plot and turning it from and interesting kick-ass style anime, with interesting ideas, and characters, to what resembles a silly straw. Remember the shock when you got to the third episode of Madoka Magical Girl? It's like that only instead of  commenting "Woah that was amazingly unexpected" You will be shouting "WTF?! WTF?! WTF?!" Over and over at you monitor. Okay okay let me say exactly what is wrong with this episode. The first ten minutes or so are okay, regular Samurai Flamenco affair, but during the next ten minutes, SF goes to work with a Police brigade on a drug bust, and then...there's a gorilla...with a guillotine for a stomach...a functioning guillotine I might add... This...this was the most amazing this I had ever watched. This series then progresses to introduce a new villain named King Torture, who says he will send monster of the week style monsters to fight SF. Seems legit. WHAT?! Oh my god what the hell just happened to this anime?! ARGGHH The best part of this episode isn't even when the gorilla appears. it's when the gorilla beheads a police officer with the guillotine in its stomach. The rest of the characters don't even blink an eye. Because you know it's an everyday occurrence that a gorilla with a guillotine comes in and chops off a person's head. The two main characters just roll with it, really i mean SF even still shouts the name of his attack, which is punching with inflatable fists. I mean for all the character development that has happened over the past seven episodes, you would at least expect him to be shocked, but he just strolls up and starts whaling on him with punches. i could even accept it if this anime had done this from the beginning, but not in the freaking middle. Some say that the series has switched from the kick-ass arc and gone to the Kamen Rider arc, but i couldn't give a shit. I don't care if it's parodying/referencing other fiction, this still makes no sense! Oh and I'm sticking by the idea that Samurai Flamenco is sooooo much better in its 'kick-ass' arc. Maybe in time I will grow to like this arc, but the chances of that are about the same as haruhi coming out with another goddamn season.

No words can describe this

So sure go ahead, watch this anime, it's certainly entertaining, at least for the first six and a half episodes. It's also one of the more unique even with the Kamen Rider arc. Unfortunately, I'm not recommending this right now, though i will do a full review once the anime ends.

As always, subs, comments, likes, all that good stuff is always appreciated!

Samurai flamenco ep 7 AKA WTF?!

What?! What the hell just happened to this anime? OK major spoilers ahead, but WTF?! a fucking gorilla really?! It has a fucking guillotine in its stomach! No-no-no-no-no-no-no! What are you doing?! This anime was so good, and then this episode! The worst part is that it isn't a dream sequence! Now don't get me wrong i hate that as a plot twist, but here it would have been better than this! This was kick-ass the anime! Now it's...I don't even...Dammit! this was one of the best anime to come out this year! Why the hell did you just ruin it like this?! Holy shit, you fucked it up! Now if this is a dream sequence,  I will eat every one of these words here. If not, however...

It was so realistic, it was so inspiring. I mean the whole idea that anyone can become a hero, fighting off even the most minor of evils. That this in turn could lead to something greater was cool. The realism this show had was good. The characters were interesting. It was cool to see Masayoshi go from being a weak strong willed guy in a suit, to being fucking Bruce Lee! WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY?! I have to publish this before I have a stroke.

Please Please Please Go watch Noucome!

Go watch Noucome or My mental choices are completely ruining my school romantic comedy!
It's so damn funny! It's 2 in the morning so I can't write a real review or impressions thing, but please watch it! 

Sorry for not coming out with anything lately I have just been really lazy. Although I dare you: you try playing Fallout New Vegas and then stopping! Anyhow Happy late Thanksgiving, Hanukkah!

Should you be watching beyond the boundary?

Well I don't really have a lot to review these days, seeing I'm savoring the endings to all the good series I'm watching. So I'd thought I'd try to do some sort of first impressions thing. This thing is basically taking a look at anime I'll probably do a review of later, but to get an impression of them while they're still out. This may contain some spoilers.


Beyond the boundary is a new 2013 anime that is developed by Kyoto animation.  it is a departure from the studio's usual Moe fest stuff. Though that isn't to say that it isn't there.

Note to self, this is how to pick up girls.

The basic premise is that there is a supernatural underworld unbeknownst to most people, where guys called Spirit warriors run around slicing up Yomu and gaining rocks that can be traded in for money. The premise isn't bad, just overused. The characters include, Ganta in female form, a guy who doesn't believe that women should be judged by how they look, but rather on how they look with glasses on,  little sister fetish guy, and said little sister kuudere. There, the cast in a nutshell. Now it's worth noting that this anime takes its sweet time to get going. This being said I was pretty bored with the first two episodes of this anime. All I heard was one guy having repeated fangasms over glasses, with the phrase "that is unpleasant" being repeated like a broken record. Humor at the start is mediocre at best. In this light, since most of the first two episodes revolve around said humor and character interactions, the series is damn boring. It isn't until the end of the third episode that it actually realizes that it should pick up the damn pace. It was around this point that I initially dropped this show. While it was getting interesting, it still wasn't enough to hold my attention. So about three weeks later, i decided to pick it up once more. I am not disappointed. Here is where the action starts to shine as does the humor. By the sixth episode it's apparent to me the Little sister fetish guy and glasses fetish guy duo is best character of the entire anime. Their interactions are way better than one of them by himself. As for the action, well let me say that Kyoto Animation can do more than draw high-school girls in short skirts. They can draw High-school girls in short skirts with blood swords. In case you didn't get the Deadman Wonderland reference back there, one of the characters has to ability to weaponize her blood. This leads to some pretty interesting looking fight scenes. I mean from what I've seen the anime has some pretty damn interesting set pieces. In all seriousness this anime is one of the best looking anime of the fall season. It may not be as distinct as Kill La Kill, but it's the old KyoAni charm. In terms of sound assets, they're pretty good as far as I've seen. I mean on the one hand, there haven't been any OSTs that have really stood out to me, but they were never distracting enough for me to not pay attention to the anime and instead to them. They fit, so that's something. the voice actors are solid, but that may be because they haven't really had a chance to really shine. Romance can't be judged until the end. Ummmm I think that's it. 

This guy must play a lot of Skyrim

So to sum it up, this anime is fairly worth watching if you like KyoAni, Moe, action, and supernatural stuff. Hell even if you're looking for some eye-candy, this thing's got you covered. As long as you can get past the first two episodes, this anime should be worth watching. 

                                                                                                       

Another Anime Review

This is not another anime review, this is an anime review of Another. Was that punny? Another is a horror anime adapted from a popular Japanese novel. I am trying to keep this review as spoiler-free as possible, but some things are going to be needed to be spoiled, such as People die in this anime. Anyway, welcome to my review! The purpose of this review is to promote the popularity of a particular anime or something like that. That being said I guess Another is already pretty damn popular...ummmmm then this is to promote the horror-anime genre in general! That works.

Another is a horror anime adaptation of a popular horror novel of the same name. it follows Sakakibara, and his investigation into the ominous class of 3-3.

Animation-- How to describe the animation, well let's see..okay Half Life three running on Source engine 20 on the PS5000 being played on a theater screen with enough pixels to make Legend of Zelda: The Faces of Evil look good. You think I'm exaggerating, and I totally am, but it's still damn impressive. The whole time i was watching this show i was having eyegasms while still pissing my pants. First off character models look amazing, and every character is paid enough attention so that they don't look like cardboard cutouts, with microphones attached to their mouths. In other words, the world that the anime lives in is living. It's not as though one character is running around in a freaking Fuzetsu. Everything, and I mean everything gets more than enough detail for it to be on the cover of Glamor girl, this is especially true for the dolls. You see the guys who did the animation came up with a brilliant idea:maybe if we constantly switch to random pictures of porcelain dolls, it'll make things scary. In the very least we get to see some pretty dolls, I guess? This is sorta explained latter on, but for the first part of the series I thought I was watching Chucky the anime. Props given to the sky. Can't think of a joke for that, but it looks amazing. The environments are dark enough to invoke that primordial fear of saying 'I'll be right back' at a party, but colorful enough so that it doesn't look darker than black. Each frame of this anime has a ton of detail packed in. The probability of you appreciating it in the few seconds its there is about as likely as D-grayman getting another volume, but its there. The studio responsible is for anime such as Angel beats, Nagi no Asu Kara, so their a pretty well established studio. What haven't I mentioned? Ummmm it's really good? Ah, there's little to no fan-service in this anime, aside from the obligatory beach scene.

Interpret this however you like, but just look at the sky! Look at it!

 Sound--Well first the bad stuff. The opening, while it may be a nice song, kinda ruins the mood. Okay how to get you guys to understand...You're in the middle of a boss battle. You have been fighting this boss for the past week, and continue to fail it each and every time. this time is different. you can feel it. As you step out into the arena, glorious rays of light rain down upon you, seeping through your crimson visor, coloring your vision a bloody hue. Ahead of you it rears it's head bellowing a roar that shakes the very earth itself. Countless times have you laid petrified in fear of the impending massacre, but not this time. The creature lunges, its gigantic form filling the vast expanse of the arena. It brings its hammer down upon you, and death, cavalierly grasps your hand, bringing with it two words, eight letters everyone knows by heart...except this doesn't happen. You know its tricks, you've done this before. You will not lose. You will win. Your battle cry shakes the Earth itself, you sword glimmers with the light of countless hours never to be regained. You heave your sword, this is it, the time is now! Strike! Now your mom tells you dinner is ready. Your immersion is broken, your avatar frozen in mid-swing. That is Another's opening. It's really jarring, and it fits as well as Jar Jar Binks. As for the OST, well think about it this way. It's like this. Think Hannibal Lector. He's an awesome character, and a joy to see on-screen, but let's be honest, no-one wants to invite him over for dinner. Same thing goes with Another's OST. They set the mood perfectly, creating tension, when there seemingly is nothing happening on-screen, and furthering the atmosphere set by both the voice actors and the animation. And yet they aren't really elevator music material. The voice acting in this anime is phenomenal, with each character working well with the atmosphere. They further the mood, giving a melancholic feel to the series. They aren't monotone, but every character sounds like they're putting up a facade, like every clown that ever existed. While i would normally give props for this, the only exception to the stellar voice acting is Misaki. Now before I get pelted with the rotten tomatoes of hardcore another fans, let me explain why. For most of the series she does an amazing job, however, and this is down to animation as well, in the finale, she maintained her monotone voice to the very end. It would be nice for her to show a bit more emotion than a rock with a high-school uniform. 

Those dolls

Plot--So here is the first flaw in the series: IT NEVER EXPLAINS WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON! As intriguing as the plot was, there was no conclusion. It never explains why the events that happened, happened. Overall, this does little to hurt the series, but it still feels like either sequel baiting or shoddy writing. While the plot wasn't as good as it could've been, it was intriguing. I always wanted to know more, and the anime did a good job of making me want to know more. This made the ending all the more frustrating. Something else is that the anime seems to have a good amount of differences from the source material. This is especially aparant during the episode where they go to the beach, becasue it is only there for the fanservice. This was not in the novel at all. One thing this anime does have is pacing. Each episode left me wanting for more, and though yes this is due to a large amount of cliff-hangers, it was also just because the plot was so intriguing and well paced.

Characters--The cast of Another is large to say the least. Though this can mean that some characters are more detailed than others it also gives the writers a lot more people to kill. Oh and for some reason, the main character of this anime looks like Yuuta from Chūnibyō Demo Koi ga Shitai! and Misaki looks like Rikka from the same series. I haven't read the novels, but in the anime, there seems to be a tad of romance between Misaki and Sakakibara. Is this just for the fans? Who knows, but from someone who loves the romance genre, it's much appreciated. I don't want to get into the characters, becasue of spoilers, but there pretty solid all around. Here comes the second flaw with the series: the death. Deaths in this anime are well done, but the reactions to them are not. Characters seem to get over the fact that people are dying around them really damn fast. in one scene, Sakakibara views someone dying right in front of him, and then proceeds to shake someone's shoulder the next day asking what is wrong. I wish it showed a little more psychological breakdown on the part of Sakakibara as everyone around him is dying. As such there isn't really any character development throughout the series. There is relationship development, especially between Misaki and Sakakibara, but no character development.
 

No, this is just a coincidence, there's nothing implied here at all...

Characters--The cast of Another is large to say the least. Though this can mean that some characters are more detailed than others it also gives the writers a lot more people to kill. Oh and for some reason, the main character of this anime looks like Yuuta from Chūnibyō Demo Koi ga Shitai! and Misaki looks like Rikka from the same series. I haven't read the novels, but in the anime, there seems to be a tad of romance between Misaki and Sakakibara. Is this just for the fans? Who knows, but from someone who loves the romance genre, it's much appreciated. I don't want to get into the characters, becasue of spoilers, but there pretty solid all around. Here comes the second flaw with the series: the death. Deaths in this anime are well done, but the reactions to them are not. Characters seem to get over the fact that people are dying around them really damn fast. in one scene, Sakakibara views someone dying right in front of him, and then proceeds to shake someone's shoulder the next day asking what is wrong. I wish it showed a little more psychological breakdown on the part of Sakakibara as everyone around him is dying. As such there isn't really any character development throughout the series. There is relationship development, especially between Misaki and Sakakibara, but no character development.

Horror--The final item, and the most important, the horror aspect though I think I've already said a lot on the topic. Well as horror anime it's really good, as i think you've gotten from what I've said so far. Everything reflects the idea that everything is not what it seems. From the environment, to the soundtrack, to the voice acting. It immerses you in a creepy world. However I was never truly terrified in this anime, just creeped out. Maybe I've developed a tolerance for these things, but Another never truly scared me. 


Overall I really enjoyed my time with Another, regardless of some of the flaws it had. In truth this anime is really really good. The OST fills its role very well, the amin characters are interesting, the plot is intruiging, animation is spot on and the atmosphere is impressive. This recieves a strong reccomendation from me. 



Thanks for reading, and sorry for the delay in writing. I had a lot of stuff this week, and was sick on top of it. Anyhow if you enjoyed this, please drop a like, a follow or a recommendation. Oh and comment! Please comment!