Paranoia Agent (anime)

Paranoia Agent is an anime unlike any I've ever seen before. The only spoiler free summary I can give, is theres a mysterious entity (his existance is one of the mysteries the series explores) called Little Slugger/Shonen Bat who hits people with his bent golden baseball bat, and in some way ends up saving them. Our main characters are his victems, and the detectives trying to solve the case. Pretty basic premise, but the mysteries this series has are very high in number. The great thing about it, is aside from a few crucial pieces of information, you have to figure everything out yourself, or at least come to some debateable conclusion. This series explores very interesting concepts, like existance, paranoia, depression, escape; somewhat depressing concepts and how they affect life. Much symbolism is used, and the series definately has its weird moments. Also, I've found the suspence in this series to be great on a few levels. One of the things that makes it so great, is as I've said before, things are rarely told to you so you're waiting for a new part of the mystery to think about instead of waiting for that key thing to be said. Paranoia Agent can probably be enjoyed by a wider audiance than something like Helter Skelter of Believers, but still has it's uniqueness. Definately worth while.


Rating: 9.3/10