Light Hi-Fi - Another is a 2012 horror anime TV series produced by P.A.Works and directed by Tsutomu Mizushima, based on the novel of t...
The series aired 12 episodes in Japan between January 10 and March 27, 2012. The screenplay was written by Ryō Higaki, and the chief animation director Yuriko Ishii based the character design used in the anime on Noizi Ito's original concept. The music was produced by Kow Otani, and the sound director is Yoshikazu Iwanami. The anime has two theme songs: the opening theme "Kyōmu Densen" (凶夢伝染 Nightmare Contagion) by the band Ali Project, and the ending theme "Anamnesis" by Annabel. Sentai Filmworks has licensed the anime series for digital and home video release in 2012. An original video animation episode set before the beginning of the series was released on May 26, 2012 with a "0th" volume of the manga.
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- Eoisode 1 Rough sketch - Sobyō
- Because his father is working abroad, Kōichi Sakakibara moves to his birth town of Yomiyama to live with his grandparents and his aunt Reiko Mikami, where he spends the first month hospitalized due to a pneumothorax.
- Episode 2 Blueprint - Omowaku
- At school, Kōichi's classmate Naoya Teshigawara lets slip that Class 3-3 is cursed. Troubled by Mei but drawn to her, Kōichi asks Sanae Mizuno, a nurse at the hospital, about a girl who may have died on the night of his discharge.
- Episode 3 Bone work - Honegumi
- Mei reveals that one of her eyes is a doll's eye that can see strange things. She tells Kōichi the haunted legend of the town: a student from Class 3-3 of 1972 also named Misaki died but the class continued acting like Misaki was alive, thus inviting death.
- Episode 4 Put flesh - Rinkaku
- Kōichi encounters classmate Aya, whom he manages to save when they are nearly hit by a falling sheet of glass. At the doll shop, Mei tells Kōichi that "it has already begun".
- Episode 5 Build limbs - Kakusan
- Ikuo Takabayashi dies next, and Kōichi's classmates start ignoring him. Mei explains that she does exist. After the 1972 Class 3-3 incident, there was always an extra student in the class.
- Episode 6 Face to face - Futari
- Now that Kōichi knows everything, he is okay with being ignored along with Mei, as Class 3-3 believes this "charm" will prevent the calamity. He and Mei begin spending time together and develop a good friendship.
- Episode 7 Sphere joint - Henchō
- Shōji Kubodera, homeroom teacher of Class 3-3, commits suicide in front of the class. The class realizes that the "charm" has not stopped the curse, and begin acknowledging Kōichi and Mei again.
- Episode 8 Hair stand - Konpeki
- Kōichi, Izumi, Naoya and Yūya, along with fellow classmates Takako Sugiura and Junta Nakao, go to a beach resort to meet Katsumi. They relax when they leave Yomiyama, convinced the curse is ineffective outside town.
- Episode 9 Body paint - Rensa
- Chibiki reveals that Junta's death stemmed from a head trauma he received while still in Yomiyama. Kōichi finds Katsumi's clue: a cassette tape, in which Katsumi explains what happened on the school trip to the Yomiyama Shrine fifteen years ago.
- Episode 10 Glass eye - Shikkoku
- Class 3-3 goes on a trip to the Yomiyama Shrine, where the group listens to the repaired tape. Katsumi had accidentally killed one of the students, and when he discovered no one remembered the student, he realized he had killed the "extra", and thus stopped the curse.
- Episode 11 Makeup - Sangeki
- Kōichi finds that the manager has been killed, the dining hall is on fire, and the tape has gone missing. Naoya and Yūya are attacked by the hotel mistress, who has gone insane.
- Episode 12 Stand by oneself - Shisha
- Tomohiko is randomly killing students to find the "extra" but is killed by Izumi. Izumi is the next to die, in which she remembers meeting Kōichi in Yomiyama in 1996.
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