2007 - 13 episodes
Skull Man main anime characters :
Hayato Mikogami - a 23 years journalist that comes in Otomo City to get a sensational information and find out who is the legendary Skull man that killed a famous actres and many other people .
Kiriko Mamiya - a young girl that wants to become a newspaper photographer and becomes Hayato partner after he helps her to get in Otomo City without a permision.
Kiriko Mamiya
Skull Man - mysterious man that wears a skull mask and is killing members of a local cult.
The Skull Man
Plot :
The skull man anime starts as a detective anime , one journalist Hayato Mikogami comes in his old town to find out about the legendary Skull man , a unknown man that killed a lot of people lately . Everybody is wondering who is this mysterious killer. Wandering at night on deserted streets journalist finaly finds what he was looking for , he see the skelleton man killing other man .
In next 2 episodes you can see a series of actions and transformation of a young girl in a angel like beast , after thet it is being killed by the skelleton man and two other , one is a women and a young man , they both transform in dog shaped beasts . In this period of time you can;t understand yet who is the real villain .
It seems that a biochemical company is involved in all this , there is also a legend about ghost train that is somehow related to this events . During next episodes in anime apears the second skull man , he is a fake copy that is used by the biochemical company to kill the oponents of their cause , noboy knows yet the true identiy of the real skull man, some of them say that he is an unfinished experiment that run away .
In this anime is not only detective and horror part there is also romance , in the eight episode you can see the Maya ( daughter of biochemical company president) feelings for Yoshiho Kanzaki ( local priest ), she tell a sad story about Kay and Ho love to Kiriko Mamiya , jouralist Hayato helper . Latter is revealed that Skull Man never kills inocent people , and his power comes from the mask he wears, he was eliminating just the people that transformed in monsters from Kagou project.
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If you want to know the true identy of Skull man and more details about this story watch the anime till the end.
List of Skull Man episodes :
1 - The Town Where the Mask Dances
2 - The Man Who Comes from the Past
3 - Crimson Rain Falls in the Afternoon
4 - Wandering Ghost
5 - Fabricated Blindspot
6 - Shinigami's Banquet
7 - Master of the Human-Beasts
8 - Maiden Whispers in the Moonlight
9 - Blessings on the Unclean Thing
10 - The Circus Laughs at Midnight
11 - O Darkness, Take My Hand
12 - Sainty Night of Blood
13 - Black Allegory: Everything I Love Has Gone Away
The anime characters are interesting , but the graphics is
for old anime lovers . The plot is classic even the main hero is not the
perfection of goodness , it has his own way of justice . In one of the episodes
he say that “ to destroy the something evil you must become even more evil than
that “ .
It has nice opening : Hikari no Machi – TOKIO
Director : Takeshi Mori
Skull Man : Hiroshi Tsuchida
Hayato Mikogami : Makoto Yasumura
