Another

 

The atmosphere was the thing that I liked the most about this one. The curse looming over the students in Yomiyama North Middle School and their families affect everything, including the colors, the rain and the doll shop, my favorite spot in town. Misaki also has an interesting character design and appeal to her. No wonder she's on the cover.

There wasn't much to try to follow here, as far as a mystery goes. The culprit could be anyone, as everybody in this has its own red herring going to keep us guessing. Except that you quickly realize this and stop guessing right the way. There's no point. Then people start dying. A lot. There's quite a body count here. I wasn't expecting this. Many of those deaths are quite nasty too. I felt there wasn't much of a transition from mystery part to the body horror part. Once the curse is sufficiently explained to us people start dying and there's no stop to it.

Except Misaki could have stopped before anyone got killed. It's hard to understand why she didn't do anything earlier, give she has quite an advantage when it comes to identify spirts and things "that suppose to remain hidden." It's alright though, you don't want the whole show to last only 10 minutes, do you? Eitherway, I felt sorry for the characters, that curse really meant business.

The most interesting part of Another for me was when I woke up next day after finishing watching it and my mind was under the impression to be close to some outlandish sadness or melancholy that didn't seem to affect me directly, but still looming over like I had taken too large of other world glum the day before without realizing it.