Half met expectations
The fans of this show oversell it. Yeah, it's a good show but tbh it's nothing ground breaking, scary or masterpiece. Go into it knowing that it's adapted from seinen manga. So it will have both the sense and sensibility of a seinen manga. Though the acting is not anime-esque; a plus in my dictionary.
The show does it's atmosphere well. Everything makes you queasy. I especially found the teeth of everyone but the protagonist, his family and the villagers to be disgusting. Even the pdf who claimed to 'love' Mashiro had disgusting teeth.
The setting is a village with open, lush fields but I felt claustrophobic along with the characters. You really do wonder whom to trust. That just tells you that they've done the settings really well.
I also liked that the ML was competent. He's all brawn but not stupid.
There were certain things that left me annoyed though. Like one of the villagers made a comment about ML's wife and he does nothing. He's shown as a family man and yet he let's it go? Erm okay. I guess I could rationalize that. I do like that while Mashiro's traumatized by the pdf incident, she doesn't hate her father. She's kind to a fault but hopefully as we go into season 2, she discovers why her father did what he did and comes to accept it. And that not everyone deserves kindness.
That being said, I'll certainly recommend this to anyone into thriller. The episodes are not long and there aren't many. Plus it is a nice watch.
The show does it's atmosphere well. Everything makes you queasy. I especially found the teeth of everyone but the protagonist, his family and the villagers to be disgusting. Even the pdf who claimed to 'love' Mashiro had disgusting teeth.
The setting is a village with open, lush fields but I felt claustrophobic along with the characters. You really do wonder whom to trust. That just tells you that they've done the settings really well.
I also liked that the ML was competent. He's all brawn but not stupid.
There were certain things that left me annoyed though. Like one of the villagers made a comment about ML's wife and he does nothing. He's shown as a family man and yet he let's it go? Erm okay. I guess I could rationalize that. I do like that while Mashiro's traumatized by the pdf incident, she doesn't hate her father. She's kind to a fault but hopefully as we go into season 2, she discovers why her father did what he did and comes to accept it. And that not everyone deserves kindness.
That being said, I'll certainly recommend this to anyone into thriller. The episodes are not long and there aren't many. Plus it is a nice watch.
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