When he was younger Ryouta was unable to save the life of his friend Kuroneko; then one day he meets Neko Kuroha; a girl who looks just like Kuroneko. She has no knowledge of who he is though. It soon emerges that Neko is no ordinary girl; she has certain magical powers and she isn't the only one. A group of such girls have escaped from a local laboratory and are being hunted; Ryouta decides to help them. They can't just run away though as they must take a special pill every day or they will die and they only have a limited supply. If they are to survive they must either find where more pills are stored or find a way to make more. Over the course of the series we see just how much danger they are in as those responsible for their creation hunt then down with other witches
not everybody will survive.
Coming from Studio Arms it is hard not to expect something similar to the infamous 'Elfen Lied' as both feature girls with dangerous powers who have fled a sinister laboratory; it turns out this is quite different though. There is some bloody violence but it is nowhere near as gory or as frequent here and it isn't full of gratuitous nudity. There may be more gore when it makes it to DVD as some of the deaths appeared to be hidden by large amounts of 'censor steam' on the TV version. The story was enjoyable and the main characters were likable; even some of the apparently bad characters weren't entirely unsympathetic. The series looked good with decent character designs and backgrounds and the animation was good enough. Overall this was an enjoyable series which wasn't as dark as I expected but managed to keep me keen to watch each successive episode.
These comments are based on watching the series in Japanese with English subtitles.
Coming from Studio Arms it is hard not to expect something similar to the infamous 'Elfen Lied' as both feature girls with dangerous powers who have fled a sinister laboratory; it turns out this is quite different though. There is some bloody violence but it is nowhere near as gory or as frequent here and it isn't full of gratuitous nudity. There may be more gore when it makes it to DVD as some of the deaths appeared to be hidden by large amounts of 'censor steam' on the TV version. The story was enjoyable and the main characters were likable; even some of the apparently bad characters weren't entirely unsympathetic. The series looked good with decent character designs and backgrounds and the animation was good enough. Overall this was an enjoyable series which wasn't as dark as I expected but managed to keep me keen to watch each successive episode.
These comments are based on watching the series in Japanese with English subtitles.