Housing Complex C

One of the biggest problems with horror anime is they just don't have the darkness or the atmosphere to really do it. There is something with digital animation that just destroyed horror.

The story is just so wordy there's constant dialogue. It does become interesting in the last episode, little fun.

The horror is just not really there and it's becomes funny. I think maybe if it was life action it could work. But the is just something about anime horror that doesn't work.

The character designer is Yoshitoshi Abe, the man that did Serial Experiments Lain and Texhnolyze.

These character designs look so bland I was in disbelief. Neither he's character designs have gotten worse lately or the animators could not transfer it.

It does become so bad, It's good. After all that talking something finally happens and then it's over at least it's only 4 episodes, so it's not totally worthless.

I was truly excited for this anime, as horror is a major part of my life. As someone stated before the voices are squeaky but atleast they are young girls. What kills me is the over all concept for this anime is amazing and I wanted to enjoy it. But it all feels rushed, there is no suspense build up and after a slow first episode the rest are so fast paced it leaves a lot of holes in the story. If they would have taken their time and built up the suspense and story it would have probably been a favorite of mine but it's lack luster and quiet unsatisfying. Like how you don't get much back ground on any character, you don't have time to create an attachment to anyone. The gore is somewhat decent but the random events that occur makes no sense. Oh we are going to show this first clip in the beginning and flash back to it once or twice but never tell you the point of it, of yea you wonder about this person well they are this with no context or reasoning. I feel like as mentioned before if they would have actually made this a series of 12 episodes instead of 4 they could have made a killer horror anime, heck I have seen several that's only 6 episodes and they was still better than this one and I rated them horrible.

Well it's anime, it's every bit as nauseating, childish and lame as you would expect it to be. I had some hope for it because I have seen decent horror series from Japan in the 90's and 2000's (think Pet Shop of Horrors, Blood the Last Vampire). I personally believe over dramatized reactions and squeaky girl voices have ruined anime, sadly this series is no exception. And no, I don't think a Japanese dub would have improved upon this, it is fundamentally flawed in the story and the characters themselves. A whiny Japanese girl is just as bad as an English one. The horror elements fail to impress, they're crudely drawn and actually make me laugh, there's no suspense, just a lot of little girls squealing and being obnoxious. Similar to Korean dramas the tone is literally all over the place and ruins the mood completely. If you're not an anime fan this is definitely a hard pass, there's nothing of substance here.

First off this is a Cartoon Network exclusive, which probably explains why it isnt available in Japanese with English subs. It's also a 4 episode miniseries, which in itself isnt really bad but should be a red flag that CN cheaped out on this. There's also some preachy nonsense about race relations that really clues you in that an idiot Westerner had this commissioned to serve as a vehicle for their precious MESSAGE.

Because of the brevity the final episode feels incredibly rushed, with the majority of it being two long, nonsensical diatribes of exposition that would have been better served spread out across the earlier episodes. Instead we get an Abrams-style mystery box that only opens in the unsatisfying finale. At least there's some pretty wild gore in the last few minutes. Not a recommend.

Look, this isn't groundbreaking, it isn't terrifying, I wouldn't even consider it all that scary.

But it's short, to the point, and honestly I enjoyed it. The animation is great, the plot isn't over complicated, I enjoyed many of the characters, and I'm actually glad this was only 4 episodes Im thankful I watched before reading the reviews on here. Is it perfect? No. Is it scary? No. But is it "the worst anime ever?" As some have said, hell no.

Again, I enjoyed it, it was like a visual short story with horror elements. It feels right at home in the many short horror story books I read and collect. The fact people gave this 1 star when there are actually terrible animes that exist is genuinely confusing to me.

If you're curious, give it a watch. And if you hate it? Well you've only wasted the time it would take to watch a movie and you can move on.