I kinda spoiled myself on this one this isn't the 1st series of the Higurashi but the Second Series through Rika's side of the story. This is one of the best animes out there right now and is a must watch for all animetards not just Higurashi Naku Koro Ni Kai but the whole entire series which I still have to watch.

 If your not familiar with Higurashi  it's about a village called Hinamizawa with the population of 2000 people. In this version of the story it follows a little girl named Rika that has been reincarnated several times to relive her summer up until the time she is murdered. She has tried many times in the past to live past the date in which she is murdered but has failed countless times. She has been murdered by different people each time but mostly by a strange group of people who she doesn't know anything about, or who they are affiliated with, or why they want her dead. Not only does she die but the whole village along with her best friends is wiped out by a mysterious "volcanic gas". Not only does she want to save herself but all of her friends but that proves to be harder in many ways then trying to save herself because her friends end up killing each other in very brutal ways.

 The story has you on the edge of your seat and delivers the thrills and chills you so yearn of a good mystery horror story. I was seriously impressed with this anime I don't think I have ever been into an anime like this since I watched Death Note. The murders are brutal lemme tell you torture, stabbed, bashed over the head all that stuff happens it may not be as graphic as Elfen Lied(If you haven't watched this anime it's probably the most gorey anime ever) but it's still pretty sick. You really get attached to these characters  you get a somewhat emotional attachment to them as the story builds them up but when they are killed off you can't help but to feel sad. I know my heart sank a couple times.

 The animation is decent nothing amazing. There were some mistakes I noticed in some scenes you hear the character talking but the lips weren't moving it only happened a couple times in the anime it wasn't a reoccurring problem .

 The soundtrack is sweet. The opening theme for this anime is awesome I loved it it's hard for me to like an opening video cause I hate every single one usually unless it's rock besides that I skip it but this is one of those I just had to watch before the anime check it out!



 IF you looking for a mystery in this month of October look no further then Higurashi it has an unbelievable amount of content not only the anime but the manga and the game which i'm trying to get my hands on at the moment.

In Fear

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                                              WHAT THE FUXORS!?!?

 So to start things off for this month of horror and weird let's start with Bakemonogatari. An anime that has come out over the summer of 2009 and has won a place my top 5 due to it's surrealism and originality. The story is very complex so it's kinda hard to describe it because there is so much behind the story making it as complex Death Note but I would consider that comparison a personal opinion.

 Bakemonogatari centers around Koyomi Araragi who was a Vampire but has been changed back to human due to his friends help Oshino a super badass who lives in a abandon school building who specializes in these things called Oddities and helps Araragi throughout the story. Even though changed back into a human he still has the power of a vampire to regenerate making you wonder how the author of the story is to put the story into good use in this somewhat normal school setting. In the first episode you meet the second antagonist Hitagi Senjōgahara falling down like 5 stories and Araragi manages to catch her and when he does he realizes her weight is close to nothing. Senjōgahara afterwards threatens him with a stapler and a knife which she sticks inside of his mouth to not tell anyone about her weightlessness. Even though threatened he decides to help her. Senjōgahara later becomes one of his close friends and is most of the time verbally abusing him with Wordplay's and Meta humor making her one of my favorite characters ever.

 The humor in it is great if you love to see people get verbally abused in a smart way. Some of the jokes are complicated and make a lot of references to the Japanese culture which is hard to understand at first but once you catch on and understand it is great.

 These so called Oddities are different after a series of 3-4 episodes 12 in all episodes right now. In each series they introduce a new heroine to add to the series each with very obscure problems of their own. All of these Oddities twist the story in so many ways you'll never lose interest.

  The animation is lushes I loved every little bit of it. The camera angles are just as strange as the anime as well as some of the animation. One of the angles that was always the strangest to me was the zooming in to one of the eyes which happens very often to express the look of the characters one eye. There are a lot of strange angles but it kept the anime more interesting and original.


 If your looking for a surreal anime this is one you just have to look into I loved every bit of it the series isn't complete yet there is supposedly 15 episodes coming out so far there are 12. Bakemonogatari has episode 13 premiering on the 28th of October and I simply cannot wait I saw the preview and it looks like its gonna be the most action packed episode yet. If you haven't watched it your really missing out.

 I love this amv the eerie tune just goes with the whole series this is a  must watch for a GITS fans!