Anime Review: Another: Hair Stand(1.08)

                                                Another: Hair Stand(1.08)Review

In this episode Koichi, his aunt and quite a few of his classmates go to the beach in which the class 3 from 15 years ago went when the calamity stopped in order to contact Matsunaga and asking him what he remembers about stopping the calamity. On this trip Koichi learns that Akazawa actually volunteered to be the head of countermeasures because she believed in the calamity and wanted to make sure that she did everything in her power to prevent it.

At the beach for most of the episode everyone seems to have fun playing in the water and then having a fishing competition and then eating some grilled food on the beach. There's a moment between Koichi and Mei in which Mei tells him that her father is always away on business and when he comes back her family acts like a family she then tells him that her family isn't connected. Later on while making a tunnel in the sand Koichi and Mei's hands touch and he tells her sometimes it's good to be connected. Towards the end of the episode Matsunaga arrives on the beach and remembers that he left a message in the school about how he stopped the calamity but doesn't remember what it was. The episode end with Nakao drowning and getting ran over by a boat.

I overall enjoyed this episode that was lighter than most other episodes but end on a dark note like the rest of the episodes. Please tell me your thoughts on this episode.