Another (Movie Review)

Hi everyone, today I'll quickly talk about Another, the live action movie version, and compare it to the anime I just reviewed yesterday.

So the plot is basically the same as the anime, though to shorten it down, less people died, I think that's the main plot difference. It's been a while since I watched the anime so I can't remember it all, but I couldn't help getting a bit annoyed at the main character portrayed in the film. The writers made it seem like the boy Kōichi was a bit nosy and caused the death of basically everyone(making you hate the lead character).

I think that because it's harder to portray death scenes in such a gruesome way like the anime without it being R18 or banned, but still some of the deaths were a bit hard to watch. My favourite was the spoon??? being pressed inside the eyeball, ooh that's just almost unwatchable!!

The ending is really spooky too. I won't spoil it too much, but a character basically appears out from the dead at the school and looks all fine and stuff, with the movie ending with a freaky cassette message, eeek!!!

Like I said, less people died, and it also meant people died in different ways to the anime too(I keep talking about the anime because I haven't read the novel or manga before so sorry!!) There's actually one person who decided to die in the end, I think that was very heroic, different in the anime where the character just gets murdered.

That's all I guess, overall it's a pretty average film, but I would have not enjoyed it as much if I had never watched the anime before so if you haven't watched both before then I suggest watching the anime first. Overall I'd give it a 6/10