Ookami Kakushi

Oh lord, where should I begin….

Ookami Kakushi is an anime about mysterious town where strange disappearances occurs every now and then. A young boy called Hiroshi moves to Jouga town with his family – dad and younger sister (go for it, lolicons). Story revolves around that boy and his three female classmates. One is a diligent type girl interested in occult, the other one is a tomboy that always clings on the boy and the third one is quiet, dangerous looking girl that causes terror in class.

Mysteries of the town are being really slowly revealed to us as more strange things happen around Hiroshi. When he meets masked girl with a GIANT SCYTHE FTW!?, he slowly takes interest in what's going on around him – though it looks more like he's being pushed into that by his friends.

I have to admit that I can’t write more about the setting of the anime without going into spoils, so let's stop at that and jump to the point now:

The beginning tries to look like some kind of romance story with a girl pestering Hiroshi and creating ecchi situations, like showing off in swimsuit and such, but there are hidden things happening in the city that takes over whole airing time later on – unfortunately we're not let to see Isuzu's lolicious body long enough (and I guess that was where that series should've end to be honest).

What really pissed me off throughout whole serial was guy's seijuu – it's a rare talent to find such annoying voice, it was like scratching a blackboard to me, seriously, so you may want to consider watching this anime on the mute.

There is one big mystery in the anime that is being revealed during eleven episodes – for me it was way too long and boring, seems like creators didn't have an idea for this serial and just went with what looked ok to them. Audience gets to know everything almost from the beginning and we're made to look how everyone hectically try to clear out the smoke or escape their fate written into the story – well, they don't even try to escape that, at least not those with dramatic fates, they just jump on the trees and wait for what is to come – which is usually a disappearance.

Anime, despite being from the “mystery” genre, is REALLY slow and not appealing for me – I mean, how long can you watch Hiroshi being chased and hear his screams…? He's like a protagonist from (cheap) harem anime – he has no looks, no personality and always runs away from something, not even being funny. There is no thrill throughout most of the series – only at the end there shows up a scheme, but it's being cleared out really quickly (though with a dramatic scene where a beautiful woman dies and friendship wins, as always~).

Looks like authors had completely no idea how they should end the season. After eleven episodes that were moderately interesting, there comes the grand finale, the only episode I found worth watching. A story completely unrelated to the rest of the season, full of laughs and win – an episode that looks like it was created only because they've bought twelve episode-long airing time and ran out of original story. Chapter is purely comedic, with little funny histories that occurred after all the mysteries were solved and peace and pink elephants and whatnots triumphed over the bad wolves, lol. We see Hiroshi and his friends sitting in the café and reminiscing some crazy adventures, like Hiroshi being dressed as a waitress and thugs or scary girl cosplaying as a big pink rabbit (don't ask me >_<). Even if you're not going to watch whole series, I advise you see the twelfth episode just for laughs　ガガガ――∑(°Д°ǁ|)――ン！！

To be honest, I fail to recognize the target audience for this series – it's nothing for comedy-lovers and I really doubt that mystery-lovers will be satisfied with Ookami Kakushi, but hey, it's only my opinion, so who knows, maybe you're one of those people that will like this series.

Sub Group: gg and Nekomimi

Episodes: 12

My Score: 6/10 for the lolis and pink bunny~