The first episodes are slow, they show us Saya's life in the village with his father, going to school with her friends by day and slaying monsters called furikimonos by night. She lives every otaku's dream. But when her two lives starts to stop of being separeted, many of the creatures she fights attack her beloved ones, and despite all her powers, she can't help their deaths. This is an interesting way to show us that this life is not that wonderful we believe it is, and give us a hard lesson: unfortunetly, you can't save everyone you want to.
Many people complain aout the lack f action(???????) and why Saya doesn't discover anything, but i think they should rewatch the story and pay more attention to the plot and don't skip the fight scenes cause the gorey stuff and less attention in where the hell is Haji.Saya started to wonder since the furikimonos started to talk to her, but she didn't trust them becuase they are supposed to be human flesh- eating monsters, her enemies. But then everything started to be more and more suspicious, and Saya didn't realize before for one simple reason: she doesn't wanna discover the truth.Despite is fake, is her life and she's happy with it.
The final twist is not the happy end we get used to, with the hero defeating the villain. The villain destroys Saya's life, the life he created for her, because she finally discover the truth after being forced to by people she trusted and thought they loved her, just for their own intterests and benefits. I must say it: Fumito is one of my favourite villains. Really nice, more complex that he looks, and with the psycho i love.
The show takes a lot of anime clichés, many of them own CLAMP's fault, like the love triangle, the mysterious dark-haired bishonen that loves secretly the heroine, the kawaii twins and , of course, the high school teenager with a secret life fighting the evil, and destroy all of them.
The gore, one of the points more commented of the shows, it didn't feel out of place to me: it's a story of monsters eating humans, there must be blood, of course.
The art is beautiful: the creatures, the landslides, the uniforms...one of the best CLAMP artworks. The soundrack is just brillaint, really matchs the scenes, and the animation by Productions I.G. is amazing as always.
