Another: The Other
アナザー The Other -因果- (Another: The Other - Inga)
- Horror
- Mystery
- Suspense
- Episodes
- 1
- Duration
- 24 min
- Aired
- May 26, 2012
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
With a new semester approaching, Misaki Fujioka comes to Yomiyama City to spend the last stretch of summer with her twin sister, Mei Misaki. The two wander the sweltering town together—stopping by places like a shopping center and a shooting stall—until a quiet moment in the basement brings a darker note, as Mei admits she’s uneasy about the class she’s about to join, rumored to be cursed.
Looking for one more diversion, they head to the local amusement park. The languid holiday mood begins to fracture when Mei perceives the “color of death” on Misaki—an ominous sign that something terrible may be closing in.
Otaku Consensus
Another: The Other - Inga works best as a concentrated companion piece: P.A. Works’ polished visual control, Masayuki Yoshihara’s storyboarded restraint, and the franchise’s sharp sound-and-atmosphere discipline turn a single OVA into a small but effective tragic afterimage. Fans who prize Another for dread, art direction, and Japanese-horror unease tend to value it, while the recurring criticism is the same one aimed at the parent series: its horror can feel too heightened or hard to take completely seriously if you are not already tuned into its melodramatic fatalism.
Why You Should Watch
Watch The Other - Inga if you want Another’s curse-laden unease reframed as an intimate character miniature rather than another round of classroom escalation. It is especially rewarding for viewers who liked the main series’ cold visual elegance but wanted more emotional texture around Mei Misaki, whose kuudere distance becomes more legible when placed beside her twin. The appeal is closer to the quiet dread of Higurashi’s pre-disaster calm than to a nonstop gore reel: bright leisure spaces, summer heat, and cute-girl rhythms are made to feel contaminated by inevitability. If you want horror that weaponizes stillness, symmetry, and the knowledge that happiness is temporary, this OVA scratches that itch in under an episode-length dose.
Key Characters
- MMei Misaki
Mei’s appeal here is how the OVA lets her famous coolness read less like mystery-girl styling and more like a defensive calm shaped by what she can perceive.
- MMisaki Fujioka
Misaki gives the special its emotional charge, functioning as a rare point of warmth and ordinary sisterly ease inside a franchise defined by suspicion and fatalism.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
P.A. Works handles the special with the same clean, high-gloss character rendering associated with the 2012 Another anime, making the ordinary summer settings feel almost too pristine for a horror title.
- 2
The episode’s structure is unusually compact for the franchise: instead of building a long mystery chain, it uses one short side story to deepen the tragic context around Mei Misaki.
- 3
Masayuki Yoshihara is credited for the storyboard, a key role for an OVA that depends on controlled pauses, spatial unease, and the gradual contamination of relaxed scenes.
- 4
The staff lineage keeps the visual identity consistent: Noizi Itou is credited with the original character design, while Yuriko Ishii handles character design for animation.
- 5
AniList’s tag distribution captures the OVA’s unusual tonal mixture: Tragedy at 88%, Female Protagonist at 87%, Twins at 83%, and Cute Girls Doing Cute Things at 70% point to how it blends slice-of-life surface behavior with horror inevitability.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- The Other - Inga aired on May 26, 2012 as a single finished episode, making it a self-contained addendum rather than a second season or recap installment.
- Fun fact 2
- ALI PROJECT is credited with the opening theme performance, while Annabel performs the ending theme and is also credited for the ending lyrics.
- Fun fact 3
- myu is credited for both composition and arrangement of the ending theme, giving the ED a unified songcraft credit alongside Annabel’s performance and lyrics.
- Fun fact 4
- Chris Ayres is listed as the English ADR director, connecting the OVA’s localization to a veteran dub figure known across anime fandom.
- Fun fact 5
- Its reception sits in a narrow middle-high band across databases: MAL lists a 7.25 score from 119,940 votes, while AniList records a 68/100 score and 296 favourites.
Studios
- P.A. Works
