Chaos;Head

Year: Fall 2008


Dubbed


Episodes: 12


Cat.: Mystery, Psychological, Thriller, Supernatural, Suspense


Summary:


Takumi is a reclusive otaku who wants nothing more than to be left alone to play online games and watch anime. He only attends the minimum necessary to pass his classes, and rarely leaves his cramped room except to purchase the newest figurines. One evening, while Takumi is chatting online with his friend "Grim," a stranger called "Shogun" joins the channel and, after "Grim" leaves, posts a series of disturbing photographs depicting a man impaled to a wall with metal stakes. The following day, Takumi is horrified when he wanders into an alley and once again sees Shogun’s images – but this time, the gruesome scene is reality. From then on, Takumi sees the world through a new set of eyes; imaginary delusions meld with reality, and he isn't sure who he can trust. With suspicions and confusion at every turn, Takumi must struggle to determine what's going on - but most importantly, whose eyes are those eyes?


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This anime is one that likes to mess with your mind. Just when think you know what's going on they prove you wrong. I would compare the mind play to the movie Inception.The way they explained things was confusing sometimes, so I had to rewatch parts. They even went as far as explain what is real and what isn't. Just because you see something doesn't make it real, but if everyone else around you sees it and claims its real, having a shared awareness, only then is something real.


Wheather something is real or not circles the show, delusions vs reality. Takumi was somewhat delusional to begin with and just got crazy trying to handle all the stuff going around him.


When I watched this anime I realized that I had reached the point of no return, I had become a full blown otaku (not the type to prefer 2-d people over real ones, but still). For every character in this show I could reconize each voice actor from at least two different shows. That partly has something to do with Funimation pretty much ruling the English dubs, but still.


I give it a 3.5 out of 5.


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