Mature (May contain sex, drugs, and extreme graphic violence)
Vintage:
October 5, 2008
Status:
Completed
Summary:
The Japanese Ministry of Defense has an anti-paranormal special forces group called the Paranormal Disaster Countermeasure Headquarters. They're the ones responsible to protect Japanese soil and its people from supernatural and paranormal events. However, things didn't go so well in one of their missions, which leads to intervention by the Ministry of Enviroment's Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Division after the PDCH has sustained large numbers of casualties battling demons.
Written by Anubis22 on February 5, 2012 at 4:28 PM
Overall Rating
Excellent
Story: 5
Dialogue: 4
Animation: 5
Entertainment: 5
This anime is in itself near flawless. A stunning and tragic story of humans' deepest emotions and feelings, as well as an incredible narrative of the bond between people. I have never heard of the manga before and never read it, so I have no opinion regarding the series as a whole, but this anime is best watched without any information. It has so many twists, and the plot, as well as, the character development are carefully constructed. It is short, yet it is packed since it comes with no useless nor stupid parts that add nothing to the story. Among all the popular garbage that has plagued the "most popular" lists, this is a gem. It has very good action and is touching and sad too, but it is specially the latter that gave this anime its power. I do not want to spoil the story in here, so I won't say much about it other than it is not just about this special people fighting these evil spirits. Even if the story would have turned out like that, I guess it still won't be a bad watch at all since the first episode did have flavor, yet the story between the protagonists and the deeper message it tries to convey makes it quite special. And it is good not because it has new stuff or explores something really new, it is just that it does it in a way that is so much better than the monotonous dialogue and cliche in most other anime. I have watched so many anime out there and I rarely acclaim one as this one, in fact I decry most of them as trash; only a few anime have made it to my top list ever, and this is one of them. I highly recommend this and feel bad that there is so few anime of the same quality as this one.
