Karneval 1

Haru from My Little Monster stars in this action packed series. He plays Gareki, a hard-boiled, fashion-forward house robber (I think). In our first installment he interrupts the sexy time of a spider-zombie lady, rescues a kid that looks like the result of K fanfiction starring Shiro and his cat. Is it hair? are they ears? I kept thinking about it the whole episode

In my defense some old dude in the anime thought they were ears too.

 Apparently Nai (Shiro and cat's son) wandered through  an ocean of blood and ended up in spider-zombie's house when he was looking for some fellow named Kuroku to have lunch or something, with a bracelet as his only clue. So Gareki kicks some spider-zombie butt and they haul ass and become friends along the way. Unfortunately the train they end up taking is hijacked, and that's where they meet Tsukumo, a girl who can kick butt and wear granny panties at the same hat, and some hot guy in a top hat. They are members of the National Defense Organization or Circus (not the NDO, go figure)
They work together to save the train with every one's awesome powers (Gareki can disarm bombs, Nai can see or feel the future or something, Hot Top Hat Man has a whip named vacuum, Tsukumo can move the hostages to a safer place). And they part ways. Hot Top Hat Man says Nai is special, and so does a bad guy, so we know who our damsel in distress is.

This episode is kind of all over the place , I can only guess what it's about and has some awkward transitions, but overall it's pretty effective in getting you hooked. We get snippets of each of the character's back stories and it doesn't feel like the info dump a lot of other first episodes do
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Will Nai get his lunch with Kuroku? How did Nai really end up as Spider-Zombies hooker? who is the nice lady in Gareki's flashbacks? Will there ever be a circus? how about a Carnival?  I want my questions answered! so I'll most definitely tune in again. And if that wasn't reason enough the ending song promises even more hot men in top hats so I am in.

So in......