Ouri (main protagonist)'s voice sound pretty unique and has a good touch of innocence and tonelessness, befitting his strange attitude towards death (a key element in the plot) The music is very catchy and the voice acting is not bad. Nice fighting music and nice insert songs, opening songs and ending song by angela. The colors are all in the range of grey, dark red, black and deep blue, blending into a nice gloomy atmosphere befit of a horror action series. The characters' design are sometimes too simplistic.But you may argue that it was done intentionally as a more 'stylish' way of animation. Sometimes, the actions are animated in a pretty sloppy way. But keep in mind that there is a second season that follows up directly, so this whole first season gave me the feeling of PREQUEL to the actual story (which turned out decent) And the last four episodes or so does have enough plot to build up decent cliffhangers that forced me to watch the raws and chinese subs (instead of waiting for the english subs because of my impatience). The truth is, this series does provide a reasonable and interesting plot development in the SECOND half of the season only. The real plot and story has really nothing to do with it. Even the sypnosis that a Shikabane Hime must kill 108 corpses to go to Heaven is misleading. This series started on the 'monster-of-the-week' formula, so it may be very misleading.
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