This series could have gone wrong so easily. Seriously, from the outside it looks like your average show with a bishie and a cute girl, but it’s just consistently interesting. What this show is really good at is playing with the motivations of its characters: everyone here has this interesting backstory. And it just keeps getting better.
What this show is very bad at is making its action scenes believable. I mean I know she got help and all at the end of that third episode, but a 12-year old should not be able to smash through a bunch of well-muscled adults so easily. Even if they are zombies. But yeah, I can’t really stay critical at that scene, because everything else really had me charmed like no other. I did not expect that turn of events, let alone that that guy died!
And then there was episode four. I mean, at first it was a bid dodgy what the creators were trying to do there with the characters traveling around and all, but they really wasted no time to further explore the setting. This episode was most likely unrelated to the plot and all (aside from perhaps the last part), but it continues to use its setting really well, with that huge city full of dead people, showing how the walking corpses try to deal with the fact that they’re not alive anymore.
But yeah, this is a great mystery-series: it makes you hungry, it brings the kinds of twists you don’t expect, and the revelations are predictable, yet they are brought in a fresh way that you still don’t see coming when they do.
Rating: 5,5/8 (Excellent)
Supposedly the source material was intended as a one-shot and had the first volume end where episode 3 does. Or something like that. I’m glad that the show hasn’t seemed to have lost its imagination after playing so many of its cards already.
I’m not sure how much is the pacing and how much is just the writing, but a lot of the events and scenarios just don’t seem to add up: Dmitriyevich suddenly being an ally, taking out the goons, whoops-there’s-a-dude-in-the-back-seat, etc. But the atmosphere, ideas, and such are definitely better than having same-old, same-old.
“What this show is very bad at is making its action scenes believable. I mean I know she got help and all at the end of that third episode, but a 12-year old should not be able to smash through a bunch of well-muscled adults so easily.”
Aren’t we forgetting that Ai is a half-gravekeeper and, as seen with Scar, they possess inhuman abilities? We even can see that weird energy flowing more intensely right before she starts to fight.
This story reminds me of Letter Bee. It has the same suggestive background…I really like it.
Another show with anti-Christian context, fascination for death and tormenting of children’s feelings.
Many teenagers will love it, and rave on the web about how it is the greatest anime of all times, and how those who don’t like it don’t even deserve to have an opinion.
Seriously? You might as well call it anti-atheist as well. It’s fine to have an opinion, but try not to shoehorn a fantasy into your worldview just to take offense at it. That’s something a teenager would do.
Someone is having their own little tanty meltdown on the interwebs.