The art direction is beautiful and the artists clearly had a lot of fun animating Dusk Maiden. Both of them are likeable and add a lot of colour and life to the show, and Yuuko’s interactions with them are both humourous and interesting. Yuuko and Niiya open up a Paranormal Investigations club, although Niiya is the official leader for obvious reasons, and two girls join for different reasons including the bubbly and cheerful Momoe Okonogi, who has an intense interest in the paranormal, and the confident Kirie Kanoe, who can also see Yuuko due to being related by blood but also has a fear of ghosts. It also has some horror elements which upped the tension, but it’s not a genuinely frightening anime in fact, it’s packed with laughs and light-hearted elements that you can’t help but enjoy. There are plenty of twists and turns to keep you guessing, and as there’s only one season with twelve episodes (and an OVA which takes place after the twelfth episode), it ends conclusively and on a note I was personally satisfied with you won’t be kept hanging like with some other anime! I was emotionally invested in Yuuko’s plight as she learns more about her past and what that means for her, and Niiya who’s helping her as he’s one of the sole people who’s able to see and touch her it quickly blossoms into love which, along with the mystery, is the main meat of the story.
#Dusk maiden of amnesia series
There’s plenty of fan-service included due to Yuuko’s endowments, but it’s all in good humour around halfway through the series there’s a lot less to see though as the main plot picks up. Yuuko has a reputation of being behind the schools many ghost stories, which are mostly her entertaining herself rather than for malice, but she doesn’t remember how she died 60 years ago or anything about her past life, and so she and Niiya team up to get to the truth of everything. I’m a sucker for a good love story, and I was utterly entranced by the story between deceased girl Yuuko Kanoe and highschool student Teiichi Niiya. It’s wonderful that something can make me behave the way I did though, and I’ll remember it better due to it. It doesn’t take a lot to make me cry, but I usually only tear up at anime (sheer force of will stops me crying!) but I couldn’t contain my emotions and just ended up being a huddled mess in my bed by the end of it. I just didn’t expect loving this show this much going in or, at the very least, to be bawling my eyes out around 5 am.
I’ve watched quite a lot of anime this year and in the years before, but I’ve only ever given out five perfect scores in that time which I usually base on personal enjoyment, and I loved Dusk Maiden and the emotional rollercoaster it took me on of course, this is in my top 5 list on My Anime List.
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