This anime is a horror and a mystery. It has multiple arcs in it that eventually intertwine with each other. You will get multiple perspectives as each arc goes to a different loli and boy. The story goes that the town has a curse and that curse is enacted once a year during the festival. I mainly want to talk about the characters because thats the best part, but I'll do this review in order anyway.
STORY 7/10
The story is a great setting for the arcs. The story in general is not all that creepy on the outside, but the more in-depth that you get, the more you want to wet your pants.
ART 7/10
The humor in this show is mainly done by the art. The funny faces along with the voices really make this show hilarious (when it is not being creepy loli mode) The fact that the girls change from funny loli to I'm going to kill everyone loli is quite breathtaking.
SOUND 10/10
I can't think of a single bad thing about the sound. The opening really sets the mood. All the other music helps establish the atmosphere well. It would not be a very good anime without this ost. The sound effects and the voices are well done as well: from laughing to laughing dementedly as you slash into someones arm.
(Oh boy here it comes!)
THE CHARACTERS!!! 10/10!!!!!!!
Ok where to I begin, I suppose I will list them in the order in which this site has them listed in the "Characters & Staff" tab.
Rika Furude
-Probably the youngest loli (idk they all seem the same age minus body type)
She cries niipah! When she is about to kill. Its a battle cry that causes you to lower your defences so she can attack. She is subtle in her approaches though because she doesn't have secret torture chambers, or hidden baseball bats to kill with.
Satoko Houjou!
-Perhaps the most annoying loli?
-She cries on her freetime when she isn't trying to kill. She enjoys trapping humans and eating them for breakfast and then using the bones from them to make more traps and then eat them again. Its a never ending process.
Pranking is another hobby of hers where she likes to taunt poor Keiichi until he comes at her with a baseball bat. She also likes to make Shion angry, she gets off when she is kicked alot. She has a special relationship with her brother that borders on the erotic. (just like all the other lolis apparently.)
Keiichi Maebara
-You can consider him the pimp of this loli town.
-He spends his time prancing around in a maid costume and on some days he wears makeup. Usually in the form of cat whiskers, and eye shadow, but when he uses eye shadow he often gets confused and it becomes a mess. (watch first episode around 18:20 to 19:25)
-Hes got some balls too. Keiichi is just something else. I think there is something wrong with him since it fails to realize the dangers that he puts himself in until its to late. Moving on:
Rena Ryuuguu
-Rena stands on telephone polls looking for something cute. When she shes something cute she screams KAWAIIIIIIIIII as she swoops down and picks it up, taking it home to her bus with her.
-The creepiest thing about this girl is the way she views things that are cute, she automatically thinks she owns them and starts screaming, I'M GOING TO TAKE YOU HOME. Whenever I see this I'm like "Can't you see shes a crazy loli!! run you stupid idiot! don't let her get you!!!" But anyway, Rena is amazing because she lives in a bus in the dump. There she collects kawaii things that she gathers and puts them on display in her bus. In her bus she rocks back and forth in the fetal position screaming KAWAIIIIII while looking at her cute stolen objects. She is also very skilled with sharp blades. Moving on.
Shion Sonozaki
-She the one without the ponytail!
-I figured that out about halfway in the show and it cleared alot of things up xD. Only to make it more confusing though, since the twins like to switch position with each other, anyway.
-As far as hobbies go, she enjoys extreme manicures and torturing. By extreme I mean she polishes those things until they are gone (if you have seen the anime.... you know) By torturing I mean torturing herself and others. She is not very good with the elderly since she tends to "accidentally" kill them every time she gets her hands on them. This is a hard character to describe without spoiling things, but she might be the craziest loli.
Mion Sonozaki
-She is the other twin.
Mamoru Akasaka
-He is a legend since he is one of the few people to actually meet the lolis and live. He spends his days talking to little girls.
Chie Rumiko
-Who knows how many blind eyes this teacher has turned.
Satoshi Houjou
-The Nii-Nii of satoko. This young man hates his relatives and goes out of his way to either kill them or drive them crazy. He has a baseball bat license, which means he can buy various types of baseball bats to either crush, smash, or clobber people with. Its ok, hes licensed. He keeps this baseball bat at the school since he needs loli insurance.
Teppei Houjou
-He has good fashion sense
Toshiki Inukai
-He is in episode 14
Irie Kyousuke
-The doctor of the village. He has a crazy loli fetish for Satoko and takes pictures of her. Him and Rena would get along if they tried.
Kasai Tatsuyoshi
-This action hero is the James Bond of the village. He creeps around at night in his black suit and wear-all-the-time sunglasses to spy on the little girls. This would explain his extensive knowledge of each loli's lifestyle. He spends his free time watching Shion sleep.
Kimiyoshi Kiishirou
-He is actually asleep for the entirety of the anime. He fools people because he sleep talks and walks. You never see him open his eyes.
Rina Mamiya
-Poor lady gets herself involved with lolis
Ooishi Kuraudo
-This overweight police officer spends most of his time in the car eating. Since he is the oldest male that is not a geezer, it is safe to assume that his diet consists of the secret ingredient found in the people that are killed by lolis that keep you from reaching an age in which you start losing your fat.
-The only reason he is named Ooishi is because he makes an Ooooo noise when he moves outside his car because he hates leaving his car (his food is in the car) and he hates the heat (because he has to much insulation).
-His hobbies include talking to little girls and little boys, eating, introducing himself to Keiichi, and looking at dead bodies.
Oryou Sonozaki
-Gravity has been cruel to this poor woman's face. She worships demons at night and earth's gravity during the day. This why she is called Oni-baba (demon hag)
Sonozaki Mom
-She is the mother of the twins and perhaps the least interesting character in the show.
Miyo Takano
-She lights herself on fire on her free time. She also has a conspiracy complex in which she believes irrational theories are being plot against her. She lists them in her journal.
Last but definitely not least there is Jirou Tomitake
-This guy is my favorite character of all time. He has more deaths than Krillin and Yamcha combined. The first thing he does when he gets to the village is die.
-As soon as I see him come on screen theres in a voice in my head screaming, run Jirou! you're going to be first!
-Half way through the anime I find him quite comical, his lack of screentime and immediate death I think were meant to replace the lack of comedy later in the series, as things got really serious.
-No one cares when he dies except for Keiichi, but Keiichi is paranoid and wears makeup and sometimes dresses as a maid, who cares what he thinks.
-He dies alot.
-He is listed in my favorite characters list because he is such a trooper. No matter how many times he dies, he will come back and try to take pictures again, making is feeble existence seem even more pathetic. He is also Ooishi's main diet since he dies first and Ooish needs food.
ENJOYMENT 9/10
It was crazy loli fun.
OVERALL 8/10
If you like a good horror, but do not mind the switching of arcs (because it can get kind of uninteresting seeing things repeated) this is an amazing anime for you. You do not know the definition of crazy loli until you watch this.
