BOY WAS I WRONG!
Another is about a group of school kids who are the victims in a ancient curse and BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH I STOPPED CARING BY THE FOURTH EPISODE. You see that was one of the first things that threw me off. You have this curse that goes around killing all the kids in the High School, but the thing is they never "Really" explain it. I mean yes it is explained but in dialogue that's uninteresting and dialogue you will fall asleep during. Then once I stopped caring, I started not liking the show...until I saw the way they handled their death scenes.
I'm not going to lie to you, as time went by the show just got more silly with all the people dying and the way they were dying was just absolutely ridiculous. It was then Another turned from being disappointing to hysterically entertaining. I mean it. Another made me laugh so hard that I was in tears from the amount of ridiculous. Instead hoping for all these characters to survive, you instead were awaiting their deaths just wondering how ridiculous could possibly get. I might as well tell you: People just randomly get struck by lightning, people that you think will survive die out of sheer convenience, and...well just click this youtube link replace one of the words with bulldoser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=616WIdWwuLM
Do you honestly do care about the characters? No, not really. Without spoiling to best of my ability, one of the characters who ends up being the cause, you don't even know that much about other than they were there as a supporting character and somehow is the cause of the what happens. Characters that were meant to be liked, but then suffer a demise ended up a getting a cheer for the fact that no one cared by the end. Not to mention, there's a beach party episode and the show ends a light hearted note as if nothing really happened.
Now I know that there are people out there that actually liked this show and I like it too...but for the wrong reasons. Honestly, I don't how to recommend Another to people. On the one hand, it's a poorly done show where at first glance looks promising, but then spirals into something completely absurd. On the other hand, that absurdity could be looked at from an angle were you just don't care and have fun with it. I say if you choose the latter, then I promise you will have a blast. If anything I recommend watching Another with a group of friends and just riff on it. Tear it to shreds, drink to it, just don't give two shits about what happens. Honestly, if you're going to think hard about the show then you're going to hate it. If you don't, then you're going to love it for bad it is. If you were expecting a horror anime, then let me recommend two for you: Higurashi (which is 10x scarier) and Paranoia Agent which is more of a thriller than horror. Basically, if I were summarize Another in one phrase it would be this: It's Final Destination: The Anime.
