As promised, this is my review on the anime, Another. But before I do, I should say that I really love this anime. This kind of anime is rare to find. Well, here goes:
Are you a blood-splatting, horror-loving, gore-lover and mystery-seeker kind of guy? Well, this anime's for you. It hall the essence of blood, horror, and mystery in packed without losing that must to watch essence. Although I have to say that some things are still a bit unclear regarding some parts of this anime.
This anime is about a class in ninth grade who experiences a weird calamity of unusual death occurrences. They tried and tried to find out why are they the only ones experiencing it and only them are the ones suffering. Misaki Mei, a student of this class sees things no one can see with her glass doll eyes. She then befriends Kouchi Sakakibara and ends the calamity. Deaths will be encountered and no one is safe, not until the dead person comes back to death. You would be questioning a lot of things but don't worry, the anime would fill those questions in the end.
Here's my rating for this:
Story: 9.9 / 10
Cinematography/Graphics: 10 / 10
Consistency: 10 / 10
Genre: 10 / 10
Sounds: 10 / 10
Opening/Closing: 10 / 10
Remarks: All in all, its great, even thought there a 9.9, its a 10.
So that you could further understand my rating here's how I rated it:
The story is awesome and how they divided it into twelve (12) episodes. The people who made this perfect anime was surely took everything on consideration and the right choice of sound effects made the intensity more intense that the previous episodes. Also, the background music theme "Kyomu Densen(Nightmare Contagion)" from Ali Project and Anamnesis by Annabel made everything even more perfect. It catches the interests already and the opening matches the greatness of the whole anime.
This anime would make you even more creative, moreover, on causes of death like Final Destination. Although Final Destination is sometimes predictable while this anime isn't. I was happy that I was always wrong whenever I try to visualize their deaths. Somehow, it's funny in ways that only people like me would understand. But you should be aware that in watching this, you are in effect will be afraid of certain occurrences and items that you will be seeing in this anime.
The story, somehow, I do have to commend and comment on. I still don't get some bits of information from it. Like, why did Kouchi never asked her sister about her advisory class before theirs and only showed him asking about her class 15 years ago. But all in all, the from the beginning until the ending, as a whole, this anime is a 10. It should definitely have another season, or a live action.
"This feeling of reality, of humanity. The senseless crave for contentment yet we're never satisfied. After the other comes another, and after that, another one. The cycle of life never ends. The endless search for salvation. Is it all just vanity or plain hysteria? Is this what is takes to be human? If so, then I'd rather not be." - Keneshi
I have to admit, Akazawa Izumi's death nearly to-, oh wait, it did tore me to pieces. Seeing someone who tried protecting everyone, spending her days thinking of ending the calamity, die in a very cruel way. WHY DOES SHE HAVE TO DIE? Why didn't those other girls die instead? But still, this picture, this scene is the best part of this episode. Atleast, we'll know she'll not comeback to life and become the Another on the coming class 3, or if what I am thinking is right.
This anime is about a class in ninth grade who experiences a weird calamity of unusual death occurrences. They tried and tried to find out why are they the only ones experiencing it and only them are the ones suffering. Misaki Mei, a student of this class sees things no one can see with her glass doll eyes. She then befriends Kouchi Sakakibara and ends the calamity. Deaths will be encountered and no one is safe, not until the dead person comes back to death. You would be questioning a lot of things but don't worry, the anime would fill those questions in the end.
Story: 9.9 / 10
Cinematography/Graphics: 10 / 10
Consistency: 10 / 10
Genre: 10 / 10
Sounds: 10 / 10
Opening/Closing: 10 / 10
Remarks: All in all, its great, even thought there a 9.9, its a 10.
So that you could further understand my rating here's how I rated it:
- The Story is rated based on how it was resolved or whether or not, there are no questions left unanswered.
- The Cinematography/Graphics is rated accordingly on how it was created, was is realistic? Appealing and something new?
- The Consistency is rated according to it's sense of interests.
- The Genre is rated based on how it stuck to its genre.
- The Sounds, well based on the sound effects used.
- Opening/Closing is based on my first time of watching this. It is whether or not I like the opening already and how the closing somehow lifted the intensity of the episode.
The story, somehow, I do have to commend and comment on. I still don't get some bits of information from it. Like, why did Kouchi never asked her sister about her advisory class before theirs and only showed him asking about her class 15 years ago. But all in all, the from the beginning until the ending, as a whole, this anime is a 10. It should definitely have another season, or a live action.
"This feeling of reality, of humanity. The senseless crave for contentment yet we're never satisfied. After the other comes another, and after that, another one. The cycle of life never ends. The endless search for salvation. Is it all just vanity or plain hysteria? Is this what is takes to be human? If so, then I'd rather not be." - Keneshi
