They don't come uninvited but if THEY do come, they come during the night and if you are done in then you'll become addicted to it so much that you won't be able to talk about it.
And one more thing DO NOT GOOGLE the word 'Shiki' before you watch the series because it will spoil the fun.
In the course of the series, i couldn't even guess why the serial deaths were happening nor could i even get a gist of it. Who would've thought that IT would be used in this way. This is a medicore type of horror, mystery series so do not expect that you'll get scaerd(not that you would get scared because this is just an anime, or so some people think) and also this will not get you thinking about what the cause of the deaths is so much that you'll end up losing any sleep.
Can you guess who the protagonist is from the cast of people who drop like flies?
With a shonen type of art, i just couldn't get serious about the story at first. I would've liked to see this in seinen type of art(another, aku no hana) with a bit of reality so that the story would feel heavier. But with any series, you either get used to it by 2-3 episodes or you drop that series.
The story starts with a pink hair girl(guess what, she has the same voice as Lala from To Love-ru) who likes this boy called Yuuki(yes, Yuuki as in To Love-ru's Yuuki Rito. Damn, could this get any more similar than this!) and she's a stalker(oh, stalkers are scary). The only similar thing between them is that both of them wish to get away from the village as soon as possible, as the village is in the middle of nowhere. As for their fate let's leave that 'to the one who dwells above'. If you are wishing to see some romance, please look for another series.
The rest of the review you are by all means to skip it as it will just be me ranting.
The rest of the show touches part of human ethics and asks(the viewer) again and again what is right or wrong? Would you take the life of a fellow human being you knew knowing you wouldn't be judged because the chains of society no longer binds you? Would you be drunk in power knowing that there is no law to punish you for the wrongdoings that you do? Would you lose self-restraint when the shackles of society no longer binds you? Would you cease to be human when you are no longer bound by society?
What would you do if the lives of all the people in the village rests on you shoulder? Would you reveal the truth or wait until the time is right so that you can make everybody move based on their emotion and control them so that you can win? Win, but against whom? Would taking lives to save lives be even human? Would humans no longer be humans after they get used to killing each other?
The answers of these questions is shown throughout the series in a gruesome way, in the way that humans act based on their emotion, when they stop asking the question to themself "Is what I'm doing right?".
A quote from Rentarou from Black Bullet, "What I'm afraid the most is that I'll get used to killing someone".
Watch throughout the series where the ethics of people is put into test and people struggle to find the correct answer in a story circling around life and death and re;birth.
