A lot of people go into Chaos;Head expecting the second coming of Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni. Those people had better brace themselves for major disappointment.
The story centers around Takumi Nishijou, a teenage shut in who basicly spends all of his time playing RPG games, watching anime, and chatting online. He has heard through the grapevine about a series of murders, known as "New Gen," occurring in his town. However, he dismisses this, as it does not apply to the "two dimensional world" he lives in…that is, until he witnesses an awful murder at the hands of a pink-haired girl, who then becomes his classmate and claims they are best friends.
The thing that pisses me off the most about Chaos;Head is that they actually had a really great idea for what could have been a very successful anime. All of the supernatural elements are based on the theory that if the majority of people can perceive something, it is reality. They introduce a secret organization that plans to bend reality by sending images into the "blind spots" in people's brains, and "giglomaniacs," who use the same power to try and stop them. It started out as an amazing mystery, but quickly took a turn for the worse when they started bringing in all of these stupid sci-fi elements. Also, the back stories of the characters made absolutely no sense. Basicly, they just didn’t give reason for any of the events. So your mother was tortured…okay…can you tell us why? No, you just needed a back story to add more trauma to the life of your already generically angsty character.
Speaking of the characters, the only one who seemed to have thoughts of any kind was the main character, Takumi. The rest of the characters were so flat, it almost seemed that Takumi was the only character in the entire series. They all had very generic and uninteresting personalities, and barely any presence at all. Also, there was almost no development. The characters were pretty much exactly the same from the beginning to the end. Nobody grew, nobody learned, nobody seemed to gain anything from this journey. These characters were clearly only around to be looked at.
That’s really all that needs to be said about the disappointment that was Chaos; Head. Avoid this series at all costs. Believe me, it is NOT worth your time. It took a brilliant idea, and made it into a sloppy, generic, and overall terrible series.
