Hitori no šita: The Outcast - Season 1

This could have been a quite good anime series, because Under One Person has some potential for mystery in places, although there are a lot of things that trip the show up. For example, there is the main male protagonist. He hovers somewhere between being boring and being a douchebag in my book, and throughout the entire twelve episodes, he seriously had very few memorable scenes or any kind of redeeming moments. The main female protagonist Houhou was a bit better, she is kind of the quiet, mysterious, unemotional type that I mostly have no problem with, and occasionally find intriguing. Houhou actually turns out to be quite a good character, which is helped a lot by her interesting and mysterious past. The rest of the cast are quite forgettable and hardly impressed me in any way... It is supposedly supposed to be part horror, although please do forget about that, because apart from a couple of rather awkward zombies in the opening, there is nothing really horror-like, so I would definitely remove that genre tag from the description. Add to that the fact that some of the scenes are also very problematic in terms of their underlying logic, and the fact that the fight scenes could have had a lot more momentum, these are the negative aspects. Anyway, enough with the niggles, what do I think is actually good about "The Outcast"? I have already mentioned there is some amount of mystery in the narrative, the main female protagonist is good too, the fact that the animation and soundtrack are not that bad has already been mentioned by someone else, and unfortunately I have nothing else worth mentioning at the moment. So I guess it is more or less evident that I was not extremely excited about this anime series, however, it also did not manage to piss me off to the point where I wanted to just quit watching it. That said, I am definitely sure - 4/10. (03/10/2021)