Purple Eyes in the Dark
闇のパープル・アイ
“Shoujo manga about a girl becoming a leopard lycanthrope, battling predatory instincts; adapted into 1987 animated music video.”
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Synopsis
Shoujo manga about a girl becoming a leopard lycanthrope, battling predatory instincts; adapted into 1987 animated music video.
Based on a shoujo manga written and illustrated by Shinohara Chie serialised in Shoujo Comic. The original story follows the struggles of a teenage girl after she finds herself turning into a lycanthropy-leopard and having to battle her newly found predatory instincts. In 1987 an animated music video of 30 minutes length was made based on the award winning manga. (Source: AniDB)
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Community consensus
Derived from 5 sampled reviews
4.4/10
What 5
viewers
settled on.
25% recommend
Score distribution
Agreement
SplitPolarized
σ 2.80 · split reception
The polarity gap
6.7 ptsRecommenders 9.0 · others 2.3
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9.0
No
2.3
Score over time
1.40Verbosity
Short · 40%
Medium · 60%
Long · 0%
Snap verdicts · shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9/10 “If you can watch this with an open mind and appreciate it for it's artistic and experimental approach, you can enjoy this 30 minute OVA. Not much of it is animated, but it does have some very...”
- 6/10 “The music is undeniably a bop and serves as a genuinely enjoyable, niche experience. However, the animation is poor and the plot is boring, lacking any real development or substance. Overall, this...”
- 3/10 “It's very clear that Yami no Purple Eye is a low-budget advertisement for the manga. The majority of the first half of the music video can be summed up as a manga panel slideshow with some special...”
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A self-contained story.
No sequels, spin-offs or alternate tellings — Purple Eyes in the Dark begins and ends here.
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Reel · 01 Cat. №BS-5781
- Format
- 1 × 31′
- eps × min
- Total runtime
- 0h 31m
- all episodes
- Aired
- Jan 1987 – Jan 1987
- Source
- Music
- media type
- Rated
- PG
- 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref.
- BS-5781
- catalog