Anime Review: Another (SPOILER ALERT)

Breaking away from all the funny things and harem, my cousin offered me to watch this anime called "Another". Curious, I told him to make a copy on my flash drive as I'm gonna watch it. Fortunately, it didn't take much space. But there was something else. He told me to watch it at night.

I was very impressed with the art. It had well-drawn characters and the best CGI rendering yet. The anime was just published recently, it started in January and ended in March. All in all, it has twelve episodes and has an OVA currently in production. And so, yes. I watched it at night. I started at six sharp in the evening and finished it all at twelve.

The anime will make you use your brains as it will test how much you can do as a detective. The plot is very complex, as it was always present during the anime. As I told you, I broke away from the harem and funny scenes to much more dark ones like this. Oh, by the way, it's also gore.

This anime shows a strange phenomenon known as the "Curse of Class 3", where every school year, students in Class 3 die month by month.  It's generally a sci-fi anime, but also shows horror. The anime took place in 1998, 26 years after the first tragedy that seemed to start the curse. It all started as Misaki Yomiyama, honors student of the Batch 1972 Class 3, died in a house fire, including his family members. 

His classmates was so shocked that they continued to believe that Misaki was alive, as they still left his desk at their class room. Shortly after they took a class picture, they saw the dead Misaki in the class picture with his deathly pale skin and was smiling with them.

Going on to the current timeline in this anime, Koichi Sakakibara had just transferred from Tokyo to Yomiyama. He transferred to the school of Yomiyama North. Unknown to him, his class is the very class that was cursed. Class 3. He befriends a pale girl, whose name is Mei Misaki.

As deaths piled up, they try to unravel the mystery and finally put an end to the meaningless curse that took their friends' life. The only solution was to send the dead back to the dead. In the end, they had stopped the curse, but it will continue for the next school year.