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Review contains Minor Spoilers.

Even if you just want a trashy b-movie horror anime this show will still disappoint you. 3/4 EPs are basically just a SoL drama about elderly japanese people coming to terms with their new foreign neighbors with the only "horror" element being a bunch of random dead animals. There is a subplot about some past conflict that happened at a religious site near the apartment complex that might tie into the main characters current life as well as a few characters randomly disappearing but it's never actually the focus of the show because obviously you would much rather see the elderly japanese ... people come together with the foreign workers to eat some ice cream (dead animal included!).

I cannot stress enough how even with a 4 episode runtime this anime will STILL waste your time if you are looking for creepy atmosphere or something, anything, scary to happen. Like yeah ok we all know horror anime are usually trash but this anime for the most part doesn't even try to do anything, its just about elderly japanese people and their new foreign neighbors.

And if you are sick of reading that same phrase again and again than you'd better skip this anime because sitting through ~80min of exactly that is incredibly mind numbing, the happy children trying to get everybody to be friends really don't help the show in that regard either.

The singular positive thing i can say about the show is that there is a somewhat neat scene near the end of the last episode, nothing that will keep you up at night but a decently executed gore scene with somewhat disturbing context is still better than the whole "guys i think we should overcome our differences and be friends :)" thing that was going on in the earlier episodes. Sadly that scene happens to somebody that you will not care about in the slightest and therefore has 0 emotional impact + it's relatively short and following one of the most room temperature IQ plot twists i've seen in anime in a while buuuut its an ok scene so credit where credit is due.

Art wise the first 3 episodes also are pretty much the most 5/10 possible. They tried to do their best with facial expressions and the the gore scene in EP 4 but it really doesn't change much when you've fallen asleep due to boredom already.

Show is also (at the time of writing this) only available in english. Personally not a fan of it at all, the grown up characters sound fine but the two kids are incredibly annoying to listen to. Not that their VAs did a horrible job or anything but the english-child-voice thing they got going on is just grating to me. In all honesty though, it really doesn't affect the quality of the show as a whole all that much, even with the best dub humanly possible this would be a snooze fest.

TL;DR: If you want anything that isn't social commentary on culture clash, dead animals for sp00ky, annoying kids and the adventures of the elderly do yourself a favor and watch anything else.