Chaos Head

[Demon_Skeith]

Chaos;Head, with a ';' in the title is rather odd of an anime. Finished watching it today and must say it was different.

Best way to describe the anime is that it deals with the human mind and people with mental disorders which can leave a person very confused if they don't pay careful attention or get what they are talking about. But I will say the character designs are cute and the show has alright ost music. It has 13 episodes though I feel it could have used more to expand on the ending which was cut short and the fact they didn't spend much time developing characters.

Description:

Chaos;Head's story is set in 2009 in Shibuya and is centered around Takumi Nishijō, a high school student at the private Suimei Academy, and the strange and brutal murders that have recently occurred in the Shibuya area, known as the "New Generation" Madness. The story begins on September 28 with Takumi talking to an online friend called Grim. Grim is trying to bring Takumi up to speed about the recent New Generation events since Takumi is not interested in local or international news. A person named Shogun joins the chat room midway through Grim and Takumi's conversation. After Grim leaves the chat room, Shōgun begins to talk. He speaks in a very cryptic and confusing manner, leaving Takumi nervous. He then sends Takumi a barrage of image links, one of which appears to be of a brutal murder of a man being pinned by stakes to a wall.

The next day, Takumi comes across a real life murder scene. Witnessing a mysterious pink-haired girl pinning a man up by stakes in an alleyway, he immediately realizes he is witnessing the very murder detailed in the pictures he received the day before. Convinced Shogun is targeting him and the girl he saw committing the murder is somehow connected to him, Takumi tries to avoid getting involved with other New Generation events. However, as Takumi begins attempting to distance himself from the crime he witnessed, he soon catches interest of the police.

With the police suspecting him, and himself convinced that he is being targeted by Shogun, Takumi finds himself caught in a spiral of delusions and paranoia, as he desperately tries to keep himself safe and figure out why he is apparently being targeted.

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BntJqehtiQQ


I really like the main character's little house, a little small but I say it works. The anime is available in sub and dub and seems to come from a video game and a light novel. I recommend watching this if you have the time.

 

[Lleyn]

Check out Steins;Gate, its takes place in the same world but with an entirely different story and different characters. The main theme is time travel though its mostly the characters sending messages to their past selves to change their present but the story develops into much more than that. Much better than Chaos Head in my opinion.