Yet Another Horror Anime: Another
Salutations ladies and gents! You know what time it is! And in continuation with this month’s Halloween
theme, I’ll be doing Another horror
anime review-should this not be a clue?
Now last week I know I said that Hellsing
Ultimate was one of the goriest animes I had ever seen. Well… I kinda lied. Now, this
week’s anime is one of the goriest I’ve seen. Why? I’ll get to that in a minute. In the meantime, let’s get to the review on
this week’s horror anime, Another.
Another
centers around Koichi Sakakibara, who transfers to Yomiyama Middle School in his hometown of Yomiyama. While he’s there, he meets a girl named Mei
Misaka, who wears an eye patch on one eye and seems to appear and disappear
without warning. After this encounter, a
number of strange and horrific deaths start to happen among Koichi’s classmates
and teachers. Koichi and his classmates
learn that a curse plaguing the class for nearly thirty years is responsible
for the deaths. This becomes the central
plot as Koichi and his friends try to solve the mystery of this curse.
Now like I said, this anime was one
of the most violent and goriest animes I’ve seen, mostly because of the
numerous deaths. But despite that, I
give the series a four out of a five-star rating. With violence aside, the story is actually
very interesting and very intriguing. It
certainly makes for a great suspense thriller.
Also, animation is pretty well done.
Everything is pretty well drawn, even the violence. And in general, horror fans will love this
anime! It’s got all the thrills, chills,
and kills that the genre has to offer.
Now that I’ve said all of the good things about the series, I now have
to go onto the bad things about it.
The biggest downside to Another, and I’ve mentioned it numerous
times already, is the violence. I’m not
lying to you when I say that the deaths in this series are some of the most
terrible things I’ve seen in a show.
Among the many deaths that we do see include a girl getting stabbed through
the neck with the end of her umbrella after falling down some stairs, another
girl getting hung by electrical wires, and among the worst deaths, a teacher
committing suicide in front of his students.
Yeah, having seen this series already, I can testify, it’s really
bad. And this may be a turn off for a
lot of people. Though I do sympathize
with those people- I’m no horror fanatic myself-, I will defend this show on its behalf and say
that there are good things happening.
Like I said earlier, it has a great story and the animation is pretty
good. And besides, there’s a happy
ending. Who doesn’t love a happy ending?
So to conclude, Another is a gory and violent anime, but
when you look past it, it’s actually not that bad. And again, happy ending- well, in actuality,
it’s a bittersweet ending. Now, to watch
Another, you can watch it online at
site like Crunchyroll and Hulu. The series
is also in English, so you can buy it in stores wherever anime is sold. Now, usually, I say that I’m done for this
week and to stay tuned for more, and I’m also aware that this was a short post. But I do have some
announcements that I would
like to make before I do that. 
First off, I know that about two
months ago now, I made a post about Hanime on Anime getting its own Pinterest
account. It’s still going to happen, but
it’s been going a little slow. This past
semester has been pretty hectic for me, so I’ve been so busy with school lately. However, things are starting to slow down a little-
in fact I will be getting a break here pretty soon-, so hopefully I’ll be able
to get that going. My goal is to have
the Pinterest account up and running between the end of next week and the end
of November.
And lastly, you may have noticed
that I have been adding more videos to my posts. This is a matter of improving and enhancing
my posts. Just thought you would like to
know. I may also do more with the sight
by creating an actual About page on the Hanime on Anime site; if you haven’t
noticed already, the about page that’s currently on the site doesn’t work. Again, all of this is just to make the site
more interesting.
So now that I have that much said,
now I’m really done. So, until next
time, and as always, stay tuned for more!
And I will create a more formal post with this and any other related
news later on this week.
-Hanime on Anime
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