This is my first review and the first review of this absolute masterpiece that deserves a more significant spot in animation history. This review will go indepth on the complex multilayered and astonishing 40 seconds that is Kokuhaku. THE BEGINNING OF THE END The start of Kokuhaku remains drilled into my brain to this day. The very first frame brings a dark and heavy green carpet most likely made by the senseis atop the highest Nepalise mountains. The absolute aura that this ground gives off reminds oneself of the infamous backrooms where only the sound of lights buzzing and yellowbeige walls are rampant. Immediately you are present in the fact that there is most likely no escape from this world and accepting it is the only way you can attempt to find inner piece. Mind you I along with many others were able to grasp the entirety of this information from the first frame. INTRODUCTIONS The sound of crows or perhaps ravens squawking at the endless void enacts the feelings similar to works of Itachi Uchiha or Edgar Allen Poe. The darkness ever so present with these vibrations of air are interrupted by the crimson platypuslike rectangle feet of our main character. A goddess and demon simultaneously who herself has struck the hearts of many watchers figuratively and literally. Her burgundy kneehigh socks seem to prepare you for the loli of your dreams but lest you forget the carpet has already warned you nothing here is what it seems. As our first person POV camera angle moves up we ever so graciously pass the sliver of skin that is her knee onto the beigegray skirt and hourglass figure IMMEDIATELY to our Queen/enemys face. THE ACTION Not even a NANOSECOND after the camera is centered on the ever so symmetrical face of our one and only her ultrainstinct activates faster than time itself as she thoroughly examines every square millimetre of your eternally vulnerable and helpless excuse for a body. The salmon and textured brown walls in the background only add to her ominous movements and as you ponder the existence of anything and reasoning behind why god made it this way you realize the universes creator is standing right in front of you. Her perfectly cut dark ginger hair waves in the wind as the crows squawk once again at her command of course. She inhales breathing in enough oxygen to asphyxiate a large group of cattle and exhales the exact same amount. This cattle you have pictured probably from a far away camera angle is nothing in comparison to the cattle she has imagined and manifested. YOU are the cattle in HER field. Each steer constantly waiting for anything to happen to keep itself going. CLIMAX Most definitely my most favorable and treasured seconds of my entire life come to pass in this section of the holy manuscript. Her highness herself demon devil god and goddess ALLof her with the absolute sliver of generosity she hands out to you gives you more than enough time to react as she lifts her arm but alas you have already prepared to accept the dreadful morbid and distorted fate that awaits you. Her smile shines as bright as a thousand suns as the knife forged from the volcanic ashes of mars sears into the veins of your neck and leads to your death by bleeding out. THE END OF THE BEGINNING Her satisfied look of satisfaction satisfies you as well as you tumble to the ground the geyser of blood spewing out into the area you once knew as home. The tears have already reached the carpet at this point and falling to the ground as the red fills up your screen you have but one final thought as your mind wonders around humanity and ethereal alike: Anything for Her CONCLUSION Not once did I have to refer back to the original masterpiece when writing this detailed review and neither shall any of you who wish to be graced by her highness. But whether or not it is your desire she always finds a way to get to you.