With this anime I feel like the author said "You know I want to write a mystery". Then after a little while, he or she said "Yeah lets add some violence". While writing the graphic death scenes the next thought came, "You know this could be during school life". Then another thought plagued him or her "Oh man, I wish there was ghosts or something. Let me put that in as well. Those were all the genres that I could think of that I saw in this anime. I swear if Mei suddenly did a magical transforming scene I would have quit. Then I like how the overarching mystery of is the dead person gets pushed off the the side. It must have been lost in all the details of the various genres that were popping in and out.

I am fine with animes that fall into a few categories. However, I feel this anime pushed the limit, because it did not have a main one. At first the anime was a mystery. In the beginning of it the mystery was good and well written so that even if you were there in person you would not have been able to figure it out. Then all of the sudden the focus shifts over to the killing. I am all for scenes of death. However, I do not really feel that it was needed in this anime. Granted it did clarify some ways the kids died. All the blood and violence was not needed. There was plenty of events preceding the death to give you a good idea of how someone would die. Of course I think this was to draw away from the mystery.

One reason I like mystery animes is because most of them you can solve the crime before the end. I will admit there are very few which are actually balanced. However, that is not really an excuse to be honest. I mean in most all the unbalanced animes there is either a supernatural component or lost framing that makes it impossible to solve the mystery. My main problem with this one was how all of the clues as to who the dead person is are done by about halfway through the series. I mean I am fine with there being very few very subtle clues. That makes the anime more fun to watch. However, all the clues had been given out too soon. One is also context based... but.. eh I can let that one slide. I also did not understand the supernatural part.

So spoilers ahead do not read if you do not want too. So I did not understand how people tracked who the dead person was. I mean, if all records were erased and all memories are altered. How do you remember who the dead person was and how you came to that conclusion? It makes no sense that all written records could be erased. Yet the hand written ones are not. How everyone in a city could forget certain incidents. That did not make sense to me. What did the people in the prevention group just forget they wrote down the clues? Uhhh oh well, it does not ruin the anime.. still.. you have to wonder.

All in all if this anime were to pick a genre. That would make it easier to watch. If the clues to the main mystery were more spread out, again easier to watch. If it did not rely so much on the super natural overpowering the humans... again easier to watch. I guess with great joy comes great pain right?