Another review — A gruesome anime with a mysterious buildup.

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Another is an anime that was released in 2012 and may have been produced by PA Works. The story follows a boy named Kouichi Sakakibara, who is your usual anime transfer student, who meets a girl named Mei Misaki, who appears to have a mysterious eyepatch. Through the anime, clues are dropped about the mystery hidden behind the school. This becomes more of a problem when it is revealed that there is a curse and students start being killed randomly. The starting point that gripped me while starting to watch the anime was the mystery, as the show carefully builds up the mystery of the school over each episode, with the murders getting more and more creative.

When it comes to the characters, Kouichi isn’t much of what you’d find in many male main characters that populate anime shows of the modern day, with him being a curious and friendly character who is curious to learn about the curse along with the history of the school. The intrigue, however, lays on the character of Mei, who holds a lot of mysteries along with her, not just involving her eyepatch. She is quiet and avoidant at first, which could make an audience member think that she is just shy; however, it is later revealed that she does this to stop her curse from spreading to others.