Another, Another Failure in many aspects. We got gore though! Great Music. 5.5/10

1. Introduction

Name: Another, Another Failure in many aspects. We got gore though! Great Music. 5.5/10
Item: Another
Rating: 55
Author: ThatDamnAnime

I'll start off by saying, this is NOT a SPOILER FREE review, by NO MEANS.
However, I'll mark major spoilers ((BASICALLY THE ENTIRE GOING INTO DETAIL SECTION ON THE PLOT)).
Also some gifs were taken from the @TheGrumblingGoblin review.
+First review on this site
+First time bothering to write a review for an anime
+Haven't watched many anime's of this genre
+I hope the formatting is fine
A small word before I begin as well, at first I thought this was honestly an 8/10 anime, until I re-watched a few episodes fully awake mentally...
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The actual review
I'll rate it in sections, the at the going into detail part on the plot, I'll talk more "freely"
Anyway, let's start with

---2. Music--- An OP, which was choosen nicely and honestly one of the better OP's I've heard, has a good tone to it, and fits to the series. The ED is also quite fitting. Most of the time, the right tracks for the right situation were choosen as well, and honestly, good job on building suspense with music. Here give the OP a listen:

Yea, not a bad choice. Also, cheap jump-scares that..,were cheap..but hey..they did their job 7/10 for solid on this section--3. Art, THE GORE-- Fucking amazing ~~but that's about all the amazing for this series ha!~~ The gore, it's honestly, well yea. It had me shocked, and honestly represented the deaths, in a way that made me feel bad for the characters, i.eg Elevator Girl and of course, for everyone who has watched the series, the most favorite. Umbrella Girl

I continue..., 2 more sections and one sub-section

--Characters-- THIS IS WHERE SHIT BEGINS TO HIT THE FAN. OK OK LET ME CALM THE FUCK DOWN Let me start off by saying, all characters in this Anime are generic the anime doesn't give the characters enough time, well to truly show us their depth so keep your expectation low for individual characters, also my favorites are Eye-Patch Girl, and honestly. The friend of the MC. For one reason, they were slightly more realistic and less retarded. Oh I take that back, I like the Eye-Patch Girl because of the insane irony, and honestly...what the fuck Anyway, this is our dear MC, his name is Kouichi Sakakibara, sound familiar? Well he'll seem familiar to you.

Let me start off by saying, this MC is generic in most ways "Tough, reasonable, understanding blabla???", and a few things annoy me about him. Only to the start of the series, does he react in a way I'd call realistic. After that, did he suddenly acquires insane mental toughness? Also, he scrubs off the death of his classmates one by one, even when they're dying right in front of him, it feels nearly like he doesn't care. Next!Eye-patch girl! Yay!

Open loner, not particularly trusting, acts a bit weird, interest in dolls...,,YEA YOU SEE WHERE THIS IS GOING! --The Rest of the Class/+Teachers and side characters-- SPEED TIME! The rest of the class is your standard generic school-area-setup in terms of personality, they are honestly nothing special. Same for the teachers, well I guess aside from that one...warning gore there, and a death spoiler so

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But I'll mention Izumi Akazawa

, as she sparked my interest.., and also bears a special role, as the "Supernatural Counter-force" blab-la enforcement head council or whatever. Anyway, she's the "Leader-Type", and the "Group above all type of person!!!" anyway, I'll call her communist girl, if I ever refer to her again in here.

__As you can read here, all of the characters are basically generic, the anime doesn't give us a lot of time to relate to them, not enough screen-time for a lot of them as well, there's 0 bonding going on here, oh and some of them are retarded, and a small...contradiction in my personal opinion, you'll see what I mean once I get into the plot
4/10 for...at least we have characters? Sure depressing though__

Edit Note: >continued after 1 week, I might have mentioned stuff double from here on.

--4. The Plot, the shit--

So here's a quick summary..,
Ehem, after some event, which involved a student dying, some phenomenon caused a supernatural being we call the "Another", to create/immitiate a dead person, which then infiltrates the class, this dead person is usually someone who died in something, caused by some other.."supernatural being?",
This being basically doesn't like this "Another" person, and can't pinpoint this "Another" and thus starts randomly killing people in the class and or, people associated with people in the class or people who try to escape dun dun. Sounds interesting? But wait! They are major issues, in this here.
So here we go to the next section,

this below here, is no longer spoiler free, well major spoiler free, be warned

--5. THE FINAL, THE PLOT IN DETAIL AND SOME OF IT'S FLAWS--

The last of us oh shit here we go again, this quote is from me by the way deal with it
Where do I begin, let me being with...

--5.1, did we suddenly forget to not make a story with no contradictions? Suddenly kill buildup and mystery?-- Gonna start straightaway on episode 4 (I think it was).. So the anime creators had the awesome idea to reveal LITERALLY ALL secrets like, after the first third. Congratulations, you just killed of most of the mystery aspect this ANIME had going, and are now leaving it to the "Wait, what will they do to stop it" ~~(To bad that went terribly)~~ Anyway, into the contradictions to the revealed story, well this is more like a serious bother to me. So, this "Another" being can NOT be stopped by means which don't involve "killing the another" once the "Another phenomenon" has started. However, the students which found the initial way to stop it (To ignore another student), stopped it while it was happening? Seems legit.--5.2, so, h-hello your friends are dying? Yo you just tried to kill each other? Ah well I don't care, the dude literally had 1 line--

It's like the writers were just like "Hm, let's have them react realistically to a single death scene and we're done here".
They're just acting like they don't care at all. Especially at the ending, like what the fuck, you just tried to kill each other, and now you're just gonna believe the MC's word that they killed the "Another" and suddenly "Let's be friends again"!, +Minimal character buildup really takes away the effect the death's of the students COULD have had, honestly disappointing.
Seriously all this anime has going for it are it's sound tracks, and let me say.., mad positions ;)

Spoiler, click to viewclick to hide

--5.3, The ending unsatisfying-- Gonna mark this entire section as a spoiler

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The Anime ends with the MC killing the Another, which just happens to be the Teacher, in the most..well..let me say boring unfolding. There was no way for us to even guess who the Another is. He just kills the Another... And then in the prologue(Sorry if that's not the correct word), we see him leave a tape for the next Class 3. PAUSE So basically 1) They don't solve or find out anything more about the Another phenomenon. 2) They're 0 clues for us to figure out the "Another" ourselves. 3) The reveal is boring, and honestly doesn't live up to the build up. 4) The Mystery element ends disappointingly way before the ending. 5) One more funny thing, they leave their new tape in the exact SAME SPOT they found THE TAPE and DO NOT GIVE ANY EXTRA CLUES AS TO WHERE TO FIND IT, AND OR HOW TO FIND OUT THE ANOTHER. The ONLY THING THEY ADD is "Hey, be careful, you might regret it blabla", so, are you that pissed about your friends dying bro at least give the next class 3 a more helping hand?

OH BTW

Spoiler, click to viewclick to hide

This entire series was unnecessary because the eye-patch girl has/had an ability that let's her see who this "Another" is. Oh? You ask why she didn't do it at the start? because she doesn't like to show her "glass" eye, and thus wears an eye-patch blocking her ability. Hm, she didn't have the idea to put it down to CHECK WHO THE "ANOTHER" IS AFTER HER CLASSMATES START DYING one by one? Btw, this may have not been relevant but.. Hey, this is a LIFE OR DEATH situation. WHY DO THE CLASS MATES CARE OR HESITATE; ABOUT HOW THEY LOOK LIKE, when they're trying to EXPLAIN the SITUATION to the MC, bitch please.

----- 6. To summarize...----- Another is an anime, with potential, but bites itself in the back with minimal character development, and an honestly, "holey story".
Here's my generous rating.
5.5/10, slightly above what I rate meh, this is due to the great art, decent sound track, fitting OP and ED, and the music does a decent job at generating that suspense. Also, some cheap jump scares, but honestly, well performed jump scares
Anyway, I'll say right now, they fucked up the series after the first third of it, started strong, ended disappointingly.

P.S Thanks for reading my first review, (I know my formatting is probably terrible, some feedback would be cool though, (dont even know if you can give me direct feedback lol))