Shiki: Corpse Demon

[Yukimura]

Finally managed to catch up with this and it is just plain excellent. The drama and emotional tension when the doc was testing his wife felt so real to me and the situation had me completely drawn in. I have no clue how this will all end but I can't wait for the ride to continue.

The thing that has drawn me most strongly into this show is the sense of seeming realism in the characters' behaviors. I can imagine almost all the characters as real people behaving the way that they do and responding as they have to the things they have seen. Even the way the doctor fell apart into apparent apathetic insanity feels within the realm of possibility given his drive to understand and solve the problem and the stress he's been under. But what really shines are the little things like the two young kids' mom hating on their dad or the chubby flabby tub of fat nurse answering the phone in her sheer night gown and panties (worth the brain bleach session for the realism). Stuff like that really helps to humanize the characters a lot more than I'm used to seeing.