Review of Shiki

Shiki was a real treat to watch but not in a good way. Spoiler warning The story 3/10 Shiki is meant to be a horror anime but it doesn’t deliver on that promise. It’s a really unique concept but it was executed really poorly. At the beginning, I thought it was going well and the town thinking it was a summer flu/epidemic did make the deaths and all weird behaviour of the sick townsfolk was a really believable concept to use. I also thought that using Megumi to haunt Kaori and her family, and using her, Natsuno and Akira (Her little brother) to find out if Megumiwas in her gave or not, was a really cool idea but that’s around the time when they started killing off the town instead of progressing the story. They really lost me when that happened; they relied on that for way too long.

Then they went to killing off the Shiki, which was the final straw for me. They pretty much went full on gore fest. Those parts of the story are really boring and were a pain to go through. I feel like they had rushed the ending and decided to make it as repetitive as possible so they wouldn’t have to do much to change scenes. It started off really well but sadly ended up being really repetitive.

Art 4/10.
The art of Shiki felt really out of date. If I didn’t knew that it came out in 2010, I would have thought that it came in the late 90s/early 00s. It wasn’t really ugly to look at, it was actually pleasant, but it definitely would benefit from being updated.

Sound 6/10.
Shiki had a really good soundtrack and the ambient noises, random sound and whatnot, fit really well with the animes atmosphere.

Characters 2/10
Most of the characters in Shiki were really annoying. Megumi was really annoying during the first episode. Kaoria, Akira were just boring most of the time. Natsuno, Ozaki and Muroi are the best characters in the anime. The Kirishiki family and their servants were really annoying, especially Chizuru. Her personality was really annoying and way too cocky in my opinion. All the others are just forgettable and I barely remember any of their names.

Entertainment 3/10
Shiki despite all the flaws and the annoying characters, it wasn’t really that enjoyable to watch and was really tiring during most of the episodes but it does have some really redeeming qualities, the voice acting was really good, the opening and ending songs were really good but other than that, it was not the best.

Overall I give Shiki a 3/10. I can get why so many people enjoyed this anime but it was not for me. I hope you enjoyed reading this.
Peace!