Chaos: Head

Funimation recently released the anime adaptation of the popular video game Chaos: Head.

The anime centers around high school Takumi Nishijo who feels more at home in the 2D world of computers than he does in the real world.  His social intervention consists almost entirely of on-line chat rooms, games and other social media outlets available on the internet.

But, things are about to change when he is joined by first Grim and then Shogun, who shows him images of a brutal murder.

As it so happens a serious of grim and bloody murders have occurred around the neighborhood Takumi live in.

The next day Takumi witnesses a murder identical to the images sent to him by Shogun the day before- a murder committed by a pink-haired girl.

As event progress Takumi becomes more and more entangled in strange occurrences.  Unsure if they are real or imagined Takumi's actions attract the attention of the police.

Takumi is left with no one to trust and is forced to face the possibility that he is targeted for murder and that a much larger conspiracy is at work.

Chaos: Head is an unsettling anime.  The story jumps from illusion to reality suddenly and one is never quite sure what is real or imagined.  The paranoia of Takumi builds and builds with each episode revealing truths and half-truths and disturbing and sometimes cryptic images that are vital to story but not always immediately so.

Once you start watching Chaos: Head it's difficult to stop watching it.  It draws you in and provides just enough clues and bits of images to lock you in and keep you interested.