Kowabon
こわぼんIn today's world full of wondrous technological innovation, the unnatural and mysterious sometimes appear even more horrifying than usual. But despite how far society has advanced, the fear of the unknown always remains. The unfortunate participants in Kowabon find themselves in such a predicament, experiencing the supernatural through their everyday technology. From a frightening sight caught on a parking garage camera to a video chat that takes an unexpected turn, the victims struggle to escape that which haunts them. However, what awaits these doomed souls may be a fate even worse than death... [Written by MAL Rewrite]
Reviews
miller.zander - 2016-01-17 14:17:21
a Horror anime who are pretty short but don't have any story... this is more like showing a kind of artwork animation , this is about a strange entity who appear in the electronic objects and kill some peoples , this is interesting to just see this kind of animation who are make by real record and converted into some drawing but yeah that's can bother some people and i don't say this is that good too.. this is just nice to have some Horror in this kind of ambiance but i have highly hope to have a real story with this kind of concept... but that's only some different people not related to anything and the girl who kill just appear like that doing some Horror stuff but the Horror is really good but that's can have been even more cool with a real story so i will just say the Horror is good for this anime but that's not the big deal
there no characters in this anime and only have the strange entity who are important so this is really limited to only 1 character there some others but they are random and only seen one time
just watch it for the Design Style and the Horror in it , this is pretty cool
nbecker - 2015-10-14 03:48:01
An interesting look into how we use social media and survalliance influences us by incorporating horrifying incidents that were only captured on camera. It uses rotoscoping (and highly publicised this method behind the scenes) to film its actors and draw them into an anime. Infamously used in the Flowers of Evil anime, this show utilized the method to a successful degree, or at least so far. Rotoscoping, or at least what we've seen from Japanese animation recently, has been quiet substandard compared to other nations use of the technique. But Kowabon uses it well with minimal scenes to have characters move in, as well as keep the anime at 4 minutes, so it doesn't overstay its welcome.
The show uses found footage as the set up for its episodes, which the production has understood traits of a successful found footage show and used them here. The scenarios are taken from one source of film, giving no context to what happened to the characters. Sometimes no build up either. We don't know what attacked the characters, nor why, nor do we learn of their fates. All of these work in the show's favour as they used found footage.
We'll see how the rest of the episodes turn out but so far, its been a great pre-Halloween treat.