A young girl with long red hair drifts slowly to the bottom of the ocean, and she points a finger towards the surface. On a small ship there is a team investigating the sudden disappearance of an entire submarine crew. Later a helicopter arrives to drop off a man called Kanzato Ryo. While traveling on plane to visit this man, Kanzato Shin wakes up with a start after having another nightmare. His younger brother, Jun, questions if his dream was about battling monsters again. Shin changes the subject by saying that if they had stayed back at auntie’s place; they would’ve just gotten in the way since she now has a boyfriend. However, this is hardly Jun’s concern.
After a while, the plane finally lands and the siblings wait inside the airport in hopes that their elder brother, Ryo, will come to pick them up. In this case, however, it seems very unlikely that he will arrive, so Shin and Jun go out to find something to eat. In the meantime, Ryo contacts another man via phone and informs him of the missing person’s case. He then gets a call from a woman who tells him that she is done with the report on the “Powers”. Next Ryo comes to see the woman and she shows him the body of a high school student who suffered autopsy. With the thought that it had been a high school student who had this illness, the woman asks how Ryo’s brothers are doing. Bluntly, he replies that they are well.
Shin and Jun finally come home, but the lock to the door had changed so they cannot go in. Jun wonders in the backyard and finds that the forest is still there. Shin follows his younger brother to the place, where he reminded of the many things that had happened in the past. Jun mentions their sister, Yuki, who had played with them at this time. He then tells Shin about how Ryo never played with them before, but Shin says that he had but Jun just can’t remember. Meanwhile, Ryo scans through a list of victims when he’s suddenly disturbed by a fellow co-worker, Kataima. On the other line, the man screams and so Ryo knows immediately that something bad has happened. He drives to meet the man and finds that he’s already dead, and the student he was supposed to protect is now gone. Another officer tells Ryo that he cannot connect to the other officers who are protecting the other students, and straight away Ryo gets in his car to find them. Shin and Jun are dining out at a café when Shin tells Jun about how worried he is when he will meet Ryo. He says that because they haven’t seen each other for ten years, he doesn’t know what to say. The conversation is interrupted by a near-by couple who are having an argument. The girl goes to slap the man, but she misses and stalks out the building. Jun then looks at what his brother and drawing and Shin tells him that it’s the monster that he had dreamt of that had killed him.
A little while later, Ryo finds the other officer and interferes a man who is about to eat a girl’s persona. Ryo’s own persona comes out and attacks the man and the man’s persona attacks back. A battle ensues but almost immediately ends when the man gets harmed. He retreats and so Ryo was able to save the girl. Two other officers arrive and Ryo tells them to take care of the other officer while he will take the girl to the hospital. The men demand for an explanation, but Ryo has no time so he just drives off. Shin and Jun walk by an eerie fortune teller on their way back home and just as they pass the fortune teller greets him by saying they have met again. He then goes on to tell Shin that he has already awakened. This occurrence is just another one of Shin’s dream and he wakes up to see Ryo standing before him. Shin and Jun had fallen into slumber at the entrance of their home, and Ryo asks Shin why he couldn’t remember the password to the house or that the key is always hidden under the hat of a gnome. The three enter their home and Jun keeps looking at Ryo, but once they have eye-contact, Jun looks away and walks upstairs to his room. In his bedroom, Shin begins taking out the statues he had packed in his bag. One of them turns out to be the fortune teller from his weird dream. Alone in his own room, Jun takes out a girl’s dress and lays it out neatly on the floor. Shin suddenly comes in and tells Jun that he is going out to the store because school starts tomorrow. Jun warns Shin to knock next time, and Shin thinks it is because his younger brother is finally growing up. On the way downstairs, Shin bumps into Ryo, who says that he wishes to talk to him and Jun. Shin refuses for the moment because he has to go to the store. Ryo is about to enter Jun’s room, but stops when he hears Jun talking to a girl.
Shin goes to find the fortune teller he had seen in his dream, but when he gets there, the place is absent. So Shin walks back home but halts in his steps when he hears a man moaning. He draws nearer to the sound and enters a building, where he sees the source. The man drops a bottle of pills and continues screaming in agony while clutching his head. Shin comes closer and asks what is wrong, but then all of a sudden the man’s persona appears. This man is actually the man Ryo had fought earlier and had tried to steal the girl’s persona. When the man’s persona attempts to attack Shin, without warning a transparent blade reveals itself within Shin’s stomach, and Shin’s persona awakens and easily kills the man’s one. The man is stunned, and all he can manage to say is that it was destroyed.
Thoughts: I must admit, for some reason I was really drawn into this anime. The first episode didn’t have much, but I still enjoyed it overall. I think I might continue blogging this since it really appeals to me. The music fits well with the things that are happening and the fact that high school students are being murdered and left “inside-out” is really gruesome, but in a way which I find just plain original. I love anime that involve brutal homicides, a lot of sweet action, characters with awesome traits, fantasy related creatures/happenings, some romance and of course, mystery. I’m really looking forward to the next episode! This anime is so totally worth blogging.
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