Thread:Glitch Wolf/@comment-397235-20140704212235/@comment-397235-20140706135111

Oh, it's both, and it's often hilariously bad (Kuboder and Yukari's deaths have some of the worst acting of anything I've ever seen).

Here's a brief recap of everything wrong with Another:

1. Reiko tells Kouichi within ten minutes of the film starting she'll be his homeroom teacher.

2. As she's bleeding to death, Yukari tells Kouichi her death is his fault.

3. Naoya. He's a jerk to Kouichi and later tries to kill Yuuya.

4. They changed Tomohiko's last name to being spelled with a Y (why?). On the positive, he's actually a really nice guy in the film.

5. Izumi. She's absolutely nuts in this movie. She tries to kill Takako in their room because they lights went out, and then, when that doesn't make things better, shrugs and goes after Mei.

6. Kirika. She's not the best mom in the world in the anime, but she takes on Disney villain levels in the film, constantly telling Mei not to make friends and that she's all Mei ever needs. Also, Mei openly refers to her as "Aunt Kirika."

7. Takako. When they felt the need to make her a composite (in name only) of herself and Daisuke (!) I'll never understand. She, like Tomohiko, is a much nicer person in the film, but it's still weird.

8. Yuuya. He doesn't look like a girl, and abandons one of his friends to death midway through the film.

9. Kouichi's only friend is Mei.

10. Katsumi. He cuts his fingers off in remorse for killing a classmate, and breaks into the old school looking for the tape. Why he does this is never explained.

11. Chibiki. While I like the guy playing him, his character is really creep and suicidal (and also not especially bright).

12. Death. It's not "the color of death" (even though Mei calls it that); it's literally Death, in the form of tentacles. Kouichi can see these radiating off Yukari's body when he looks at Mei's eye, and later on everyone can see them coming off Reiko, which makes no sense at all.

The gore is extremely fake, and I felt the anime did a better job with the characters (with the exceptions of Tomohiko and Takako, and Chibiki's absurd hair). And the music is nowhere near as good as Ko Otani's score for the anime.