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This took me by surprise...literally, this is my first horror anime show and I'm not a big horror freak so this worked really well for me. It was does a really good job at blending mystery, tension and supernatural elements altogether to weave a rather horrific storyline that will probably traumatize for the rest of my life. Yes this might not be true for everyone but I am so weak when it comes to characters dying left and right, specially kids and women...and there are so many school girls here 😭. Don't take it the wrong way smh. Also I dont think that's a spoiler ... it's a horror anime in a school premise tf do you expect.

Anyway, I absolutely LOVED the premise of the show, it was dark unsettling, set in a small village and the story basically revolves around a curse, the whole setting of the show with that eerie atmosphere and the ost completely sold it for me. it creates such an ominous environment, the background amplifies that further with detail and the use of sound was peak. The characters perfectly with the setting but I do feel like some times the deaths of the characters were just shrugged off too early, like they are school students aren't they suppose to go nuts? It does eventually happen but it's far too late in the series for it to have a big impact on me, but I still loved the characters like I said earlier curse me for getting emotionally attracted to them.

While I do agree that the show despite it's good plot and story has some pretty downs too, it'll definitely linger around my head for quiet sometime, it does have consistency issues, while I did like the ending I would've loved for a better conclusion...as in if the characters found a way to stop the curse once and for all or even the twist at the end of who the real dead one was? it was cool but was still a bit underwhelming.

A show with a lot of flaws and lows but I love the highs it had...sometimes the show peaks like you're in a rooftop but then in the middle the show gets quiet weak like a falling elevator...

Yeah I had high expectations for this, specially after the masterpiece that is Perfect Blue by Satoshi Kon, I went in expecting another great character study but ended getting a very averagely executed movie of what could've been a thousand times better. To kick things off I had such a hard time connecting with any of the characters everyone seemed not even mildly interesting to me. Don't get me wrong the idea behind this and the premise was so smart, but I feel like it didn't get the runtime it deserves and especially after seeing multiple brain fucks this didn't hit as hard, I won't ... be surprised if this inspired Nolan to make Inception because the concept is very similar but Nolan just executed it perfectly.

The animation is really good, it was smooth and fluid all around and the plot direction was one of the few strengths of the movie, but the lack of a cohesive narrative and the storytelling being rather weak didn't help the case, I can totally see what Satoshi Kon was trying to do here, I am just convinced he is just a superior being when it comes to ideas such as this, but with the end product I think I was more confused than I was satisfied if that makes sense? I've seen many movies that made me say "Woah WTF", same thing here but I just didn't care enough to look into it more and had a much more neutral reaction.

Alright where do I begin, this show was something I didn't think I'd watch as soon as I did, before going into this I wanted some heavy mystery suspense and big detective shit. And this had almost none of any of those 😭.

It's like a combination of Code Geass in terms of the conclusion, Death Note for characters dynamics and also had the FMAB's brotherly dynamic. And yes if you've watched those 3 anime you know this has to be peak right? Well not exactly, there are tons of stuff they did really well in this but at the same a lot were miss.

The positives: ... loved the premise and the atmosphere of the whole show, I've always adored modern shows that took place in the 1800s and 1900s so this was a treat, and the characters were really great. The production was top notch, animation was beautiful and the score? Brilliant, probably the only time I've watched the opening intro for more than one episode.

The negatives: with the positives out the way I'm gonna be a bit more detailed about the negatives, first of all I think the show suffered from being too smart...as in the characters being too smart, there was never a moment in the whole despite being a mystery show that I felt like "oh how are they gonna get out of this", cuz I just knew they were going to and I expected some crazy reveal, and half the time the main character is an over powered bloke with a thousand IQ, which became a bit too repetitive for my liking. The first part (1st 11 episodes) were great I think the overall execution and the direction of those episodes were handled really, I loved the backstories and the flashbacks they did even in part 2. I felt that if the show were to minimize a bit on the side stories and focus mainly on developing the side characters and had them all worked on the grand ending it would've been more rewarding though that would definitely take up more than 24 episode.

Overall I am satisfied with what they could achieve in a smaller time limit, I do wish the apart from the 2 great main characters we could've gotten little more invested on the side cast as well because there was no emotional reaction from me for the ending. Still a solid watch if you're looking for a simple mystery tales because the plot is not too good or not too bad it's just in the middle. Currently debating on whether to rate this 7 or 8 so imma meet in the middle at 7.4999999