It's hard to evaluate Gregory Horror Show as an anime production when it completely defies all preconceptions about what anime is. If defined strictly as "animation from Japan," then it certainly falls into that category, but with its blocky, all-CGI look, a principal character that's never seen or named, and English-only audio in this release, it could very well be an entrant to the Spike and Mike Animation Festival. If your idea of anime is shiny hair, vibrantly colored worlds and epic storylines, then prepare to have those ideas assaulted when you watch this show.
Not that the reader is going to be able to figure any of this out until NISIOISIN is good and ready to let the cat out of the bag. The logic chain is simply too obscure; this whodunit is not, alas, well-written enough to invite active reader participation. And then there is the final twist, about how Misora solves the crime, which is exactly the opposite those already familiar with the franchise now reading the novel have been led to expect. I won't spoil it, but suffice it to say that it raises some interesting questions about the origins of some of L's aliases. By contrast, the origins of L's capoeira-like fighting style are definitively revealed. Other oddities of the novel go blithely unexplained.
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