Review of Shiki

MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD There was barely anything good about this one. The ending and the fact that it ended were the best parts. The last 3 episodes brought it from a 4 to a 6. The art was nothing to write home about. I liked the second op, but an anime's likability comes from bias. Frankly this is not my cup of tea. This is a recurring complaint, but I gotta say it: the anime starts off super slow. It took what felt like forever for the characters to get with the program. I understand it is a supposed mystery, but still it was like thecharacters would not get a clue at all. There was basically no characters to like. The horror only kicked in in the last few episodes when we finally got to see some killings.

There were a lot of characters, but little to no development. The only character who got any type of real development was Natsuno and it felt a bit forced. Megumi was a bitch to the end. Muroi sucks. Felt trapped by the villages expectations and did not want to disappoint them, so he didn't care if they were killed. Nice. Great character. Real intelligent. Definitely won't forgive him for what he did in the end. Oogawa was that badass old guy. He did mess up in the end by talking rather than doing what he should have. Ozaki was a pretty good character. There was only one thing I did not agree with him that he did and if you watch you may figure it out. I think the character I hated the most was Tatsumi. He was way too cocky. Did he think he was invincible. 1 v 1 my man Oogawa.

I gave this a 6 because while I did not enjoy 80% of it, the brutality in the end was marvelous. Humans are so nasty when they feel threatened and it is truly a glorious thing. Plus most of it was self defense. Human's do not drink blood to live, that is why we kill what we eat. These things had no real reason to kill the humans they drank from. Create more shiki? Why? To fight for food? To have companions? That's just too dumb. If I were to kill something, I would expect something to kill me. "We kill to survive". What garbage. Any vampire anime says if you wanna survive you keep your food healthy too. The shiki got what they deserve. My advice is go into this knowing everyone is brain-dead, but the shiki are ultimately the bad guys.