Another アナザー : Rating & Ranting Review

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Genre: Mystery, Gore, death , horror, graphical content/ life lesson
Lesson: friendship, trust (yeah, despite the countless killings and deaths)
Episodes: 12
Recommendation: To all gore horror anime lovers, but on the side note, this is still light compare to some animes.

Plot:
Based on the novel& manga, Another, its a story about a boy named Koichi who recently moved to his maternal hometown and shits just get real. Apparently there's a curse where chair and desk number has always have to have extra or pupils or anyone related to the students of class 3 of Yomiyama middle school will end up dead. So I dont want to state any form of spoiler (then it wouldnt be mysterious) this is as far as I can say about the plot.

Main Characters:

The boy who 's lack of adrenaline and facial expression while still can't figure obvious things out, Koichi Sakakibara:

He's always confused and does thing what others dont. He doesn't find anything surreal creepy, yet he can go all panicked when in trouble. He's a bit nosy which is why he was the easy target of what his classmates thought as the root of the problem.

The I don't like talking and I don't have any expression nor depression one eyed Misaki Mei:

She's the real root of all confusion her classmates been through. Though blessed with a trump card, this girl just keep things to herself, thinking "its for the best" eventhough her choice took more lives than it is for the best. I don't hate her though, I just that speechless at how cool she is when everything is messed up.

My perspective ( WARNING: THIS PART IS A SPOILER)

Personally, i like the idea of this story. I don't know how its written in the novel or in manga but for the anime, there are a lot of cowshitties things that I do not agree about. If we are in their place, what I could change would be:

1. TELL MY WHOLE CLASS THAT MISAKI HAS A SPECIAL EYE TO SEE THE DEAD. I mean, fuked(censored :P) Koichi's feelings if he found out..whats important is the human lives. We would have not go through all the trouble to kill randomly.
2. I know what you are thinking..Misaki didn't know that they should kill the extra and didn't have the chance to tell them. FFFFF... even so, a normal freaked out girl would have been either scattered away or at least try to solve the mystery when her own twin sister died and oh by the way ..realising that it has to do with the curse of the class. 
3. WHy the f would anyone still go to that school if they already know about the curse??? WHY? would you go still go there even if you knew you would be dead? WHY THE F the formal homeroom teacher didnt warn the entire town about it? 
4. That school shouldnt be exist anyway. Should be abandoned, and they should build another school not based on that school. 
5. How the f Koichi didnt realise his aunt is a ghost??????? seriously dude... 

Nevertheless, the positive side of this anime:

1. The sound effect is really good. Graphic is also ample enough to be in a gore category.

The annoying side of this anime:

1. Well of course, the anime tend to have the "frozen" segment where the anime stand still for a couple of seconds to either giving us time to ponder or giving the characters to ponder. I think this is common in horror anime, the more quiet the scene, the better the effect of sudden suprise to the watcher.
2. The opening song is in between too cliche or too bad to even be a song. 
3. I wished the ending was prolong a bit, letting the anime watchers see how the characters finally resolve things. Its a bit too short.

Rating:

1. For horror anime lover, I'd say 6/10
2. For normal anime lover, I'd say its 7/10

Sources:

1. http://another.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_(novel)