Although I could call my self somewhere close to an anime freak, I do not particularly like to watch anime anywhere near the genre horror. I could digest psychological and thriller a lot, but strictly no horror. I am a coward yes—but only when it comes to horror anime.
Seriously, has anyone ever seen how gore a horror anime could be? I mean, if Japanese horror films are gore, then Japanese anime takes it all to a whole new level. They are able to fuck with imagination because they are animations, thus they manage to come out with all those creep and shit that still scare the hell out of me.
It seems I could be easily influence by this local magazine I buy monthly—that covers on anime and things that sorts of branch out from that it self—and I come across the review on the horror sans thriller and drama altogether, Another.
I have come across this title some months earlier while I am searching through the list of winter anime for some good anime to fill my time. But when I see the genre of Another to be horror, I practically skip it over as if I never even know it in the first place. It is actually intriguing at first. I contemplate on whether I should follow this series or not, a lot. But then I realize no way I am going to spend my nights watching something horror.
But that damn magazine makes me want to watch it—to at least give it a chance, somehow—and yes, I download the first episode, because with my current internet connection, the buffering of online videos takes almost the same time as the period to download it.
Only one thing I would really want to say upon the first episode of Another—the fuck with the scary high school ambience?
I love how the death that occurs many years ago in the junior high school becomes something close to an urban legend. All schools have at least one urban legend—I know my high school has a shit ton load of urban legends of which I rather not talk about here or else I would not even want to walk pass its gate anymore near future. Another is basically dark and, well all I could actually say after the first episode is very dark.
It may just be me but throughout the twenty-four minutes of the first episode of Another, all I could say to my self is literally the fuck is this. I come with all this possible ideas to match and link all the dots together but come on; I am only at the first episode. I think I am going to enjoy this horror train ride more than I actually want to.
This is somewhere along the same line as Future Diary—or as I would refer to it as Mirai Nikki—but not as mind-fuck as how the latter actually is, or perhaps it is but I could not tell yet since I am still on its first episode. I like the hints that make me point out to various characters in the anime series, to what they are talking about to all the minor details that make the whole situation scarier than how it looks.
The idea of a transfer student to be the one who become awfully stuck in this scary situation is not quite a new one—I think Shiki has the same idea but I may be wrong since I only watch several episodes of Shiki and could not finish it due to circumstances, of course. I learn on not to bother on the typically cliché parts of anime a long time ago but I love the character Misaki though it might chance if she gets anymore scarier after the first episode. But most of the time, I could not get it out from my head on how she almost seems like the female counterpart of Ciel Phantomhive from Kuroshitsuji, but this is a joke.
I am sorry to say but the opening and ending theme do not leave any permanent and significant marks on me. I usually tend to listen to how thriller and horror anime fair in the soundtrack department and I still do think that the first opening theme song for Mirai Nikki is amazing. But for Another, I do not quite feel the impact.
I am going to stick through this horror train ride for a couple of episodes, to consider that Another is only seven episodes in and I already have seven anime I am currently following diligently for this season and Another makes it a successful eight altogether. If it does not click during the fifth episode, I am sorry to say that this anime is permanently out.
It is time for me to download the remaining six episodes of Another before I leave for Electronic Publishing class later.
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