ANOTHER (Anime)

A 12-episode anime that aired on 2012 with an OVA that was released on the same year.

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A Manga version was published 2010 to 2012, Serial Novel on 2009 and a novel on 2013

A Live Action film on 2012.

This is one heck of a series that got my jaw dropping in almost every episode. I am not mostly into horror suspense anime specially in live action films due to my crazy imagination stuff get stuck.

In this series the story follows Koichi Sakakibara a transfer student at Yomiyama North Middle School Class 3-3 from Tokyo, but he was hospitalized due to Pnuemothorax just as school was about to begin and Mei Misaki a girl in the same class and wears an eye-patch on her left eye.

This series is basically a story of a lone girl n one class being singled out as if being bullied by everyone including the teachers because of her appearance and personality. A boy appears after being absent since the first day of class and begins to befriend her regardless of the countless warnings given to him by his other classmates. Thus, after befriending the girl he gets the same treatment as the girl. Both of them were ignored whatever they do in class no one would care.

This is where everything gets interesting. One by one their classmates died at random at the same time the cause of the deaths was being blamed on Koichi befriending Mei saying that the “curse” of class 3-3 has been triggered because Koichi did not listen to the warnings given to him when he started joining the class.

This series barely had any censorship except for the dark shadows covering the blood and maimed body parts. Considering this anime came out in a generation where censorships has become a part of the animation itself and viewers who wish to see everything will have too wait for the release of the uncut version DVD or the Blu-ray release where censorships has been removed.

This series got me hooked from episode one up to the end of the series. Watching the two main characters solving the mysterious deaths of their classmates to clear themselves from all accusations and solving how to stop the chain of the curse in their class for the next set of students that will take over their class and too stop the deaths of innocent students of class 3-3.

This series is another one that I will recommend to those seeking mystery, horror, suspense and blood gore in an anime series. Also, to take note this series barely has any censorships just adjust the color and you get to see what you want to see in this series. For me I must have watched this series twice already and planning to watch it again this coming Halloween or I might watch another series with a similar genre if I feel like it.

For those who cannot take bloody anime series you might as well remove this from your list of anime to watch unless you wish to test if you can take it since it is not that too bloody or has any guts spilling out of the bodies of those dying. That is included in other anime that I have not watched yet but planning to watch as well.

THIS ANIME IS NOT RECOMMENDED FOR VERY YOUNG VIEWERS AND THOSE WHO CANNOT STAND BLOODY, HORROR and SUSPENSE ANIME

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