Man, this show was creepy.
Where do I start.
Shimizu Megumi is the one fashionable citizen in Sotoba, a quiet town snuggled in the mountains with only a population of 1300 people. She longs for the city, and has a terrible hatred for the town and it's people.
One day, just overnight, a strange family moves into the large castle on the hill, and after Megumi goes to visit them, she goes missing and becomes the first victim in a series of strange deaths. One by one, the towns people start falling ill and the doctor grows frantic to find the solution.
This was so, so creepy. I overall enjoyed it, but there was one thing I didn't like about the show.
I'm not a huge fan of the shows that tell you everything before hand, and then the show is just about the characters trying to figure it out. A few episodes in, it was pretty obvious who was responsible and what they were doing. However, it took the characters almost up to episode 20 to completely figure out what was going on. It was so obvious, you're sitting there pulling your hair like "JUST FIGURE IT OUT ALREADY." If they had figured it out sooner, the show might have been half it's length.
However, both the individual character designs and the music was great. There was only one character that really got on my nerves, but he was mostly a side character and you didn't see him that much anyways.
The OVERALL character design wasn't great, however. No two characters had a similar style, and it looked like every character was done by a different artist, almost. I liked all the individual designs. I liked the creepy family's design, Megumi's design, the doctor's design... however they overall didn't give off the feeling that they belonged in the same show.
Overall, though, I really liked the show, and I would recommend it to anyone who's into the paranormal and creepy.
You can watch it for free, subbed, here.
