K. The one anime this season that grabbed my attention from the very first episode. The soundtrack and animation for this series is by far the best of what I've watched so far this season, and you can't help but end up holding very high hopes for the show from the first second you set eyes on the thing. Now, as it stood after watching the first two episodes I was intrigued by the characters and everything that was happening around them; in love with the music and animation, and generally really enjoying the show, but (and it's a big but), I needed one more thing from this show to make it perfect - It had to explain the plot. It's all well and good being thrown into the action and just giving us a few small comments to explain why certain things are happening, but if a show continues like that you end up with the viewers being lost and struggling to keep up.
Thankfully K doesn't fall to this problem and spent the majority of the episode explaining the main details we were missing, and anything not explained fully is the kind of thing we can pick up as we go along. Although we are left with a few questions, like for example; who the heck is Neko and why does she suddenly transform from a cat into a human? But these are the sort of things we can have fun learning as we go along. For now we finally understand that there are many different gangs working throughout Japan, and Shiro's lookalike killed one of the leaders leading to people coming after him. For now though Shiro has managed to talk himself out of being killed (after a friendly breakfast with the guy who wanted to kill him, yes, you did read that correctly).
I think I'm just happy the show stepped up to the mark and gave us what we needed. So many times a show throws you into the action, but doesn't take the time to slow down and bother to explain things properly. I loved K before, but it always played on my mind that it wouldn't explain itself and I'm glad it finally did. Now I can watch this show completely content that it's doing everything right, so far at least.
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