Description:An elementary school kid dubbed with the title "shounen bat" or "lil slugger" has been going around attacking people with his bent, golden bat. Now, two detectives are investigating so they can stop this kid from making any more attacks, but they will find out soon enough... that this case is much more than they exAn elementary school kid dubbed with the title "shounen bat" or "lil slugger" has been going around attacking people with his bent, golden bat. Now, two detectives are investigating so they can stop this kid from making any more attacks, but they will find out soon enough... that this case is much more than they expected.
"This one is rather popular I believe, but if you don't know it yet, give it a go. "Paranoia Agent" is a short anime but it literally sums up all the "crazy" that the anime medium has in store. And "sums up" doesn't even do justice to how much of an ANIME - Paranoia Agent is."
martyrofevil added this to a list 3 months, 3 weeks ago
"Well... See the intro and you'll know what i mean.
I'm sorry, this just isn't my genre. The whole point of the show is that symbolizes fear and anxiety, but I seriously don't like these psychological horrors, same thing with Perfect Blue (the movie), just not my genre.
Paranoia Agent: Dub vs Sub
Recommended: Either
Genre: Mystery, Psychological horror, Satire, Thriller
Episodes: 13, Tier 2
16th anime I saw. Jap
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Mr. Saturn added this to a list 8 months, 1 week ago
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Paranoia Agent is a surreal psychological thriller with many seemingly disparate characters connected in a revealing way in the last episodes; the show is enjoyable without knowing until the end the events of the show are a"
"Satoshi Kan (I think that's his name) is just drunk on possibility here. Almost every episode is thematically separate from the last, but everyone is great. Dealing with a wide array of topics from escapism, insanity, repression, and the meaningless of existence, "Paranoia Agent" is thought provoking and likely to hold meaning to many teenagers. Probably most impressive is how it's all dealt with an underlined sense of black comedy, as to make it much less dreary."
jldestruct added this to a list 10 months, 2 weeks ago
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The Episode Happy Family Planning is a perfect episode about suicide. Anybody who experienced severe depression can relate. Paranoia Agent's is usually not as dark as this episode."