I am going to try and keep this as Laymen friendly as possible, but it'll be tough, so sorry if you can't keep up.
Interestingly enough the series might actually work for non-supernatural fans better. The show is rather based in mysteries and the animation keeps that up well. Give it a try for sure.
Now for fans, the first two episodes are adaptations of two classic Supernatural(SPN) episodes, Skinwalker and Road Kill. On first glance, both of these episodes seem a bit out of place. Certainly not the introductions we all were familiar with. But if you were to pick out the best ghost episode, would it not be Road Kill? It tells an incredibly somber and unique story within the context of supernatural. And Skinwalker of course plays on many fears that the brothers have and really establishes certain themes of the series early.
Both episodes, plot wise, are good half-hour adaptations of otherwise hour long stories. But it'll be a later post where I discuss the story and the choices therein regarding adaptations and episode selection(and should it come up, the strength of original stories). The animation is very pretty. They certainly keep up with the visual style of the show, while still taking advantage of the format. The major improvements we get is that limited view of the monsters are a style choice instead of a limitation of the budget and due to completely different standards of decency, the blood level is upped considerably.
I haven't had a chance to hear the Japanese voice actors, but i'll edit that in as an update later once I've had that chance. With that said, the american voice actors are mostly competent. There are two exceptions. One is Jared Padalicki who is at the same quality as his Live Action counter part. On the flip side Jensen Ackles voicing Dean comes off as cheesy and sounds wrong. Now the wrong portion is likely because over the course of six seasons his voice has changed and Jensen is now giving him a more youthful voice. After two episodes its starting to grow on me, but we'll see if that lasts. But it just feels a bit off. This is one of the grey areas I think non-spn fans will be able to look past because for what he is doing, Jensen is quite good.
My biggest complaint is I don't feel like I know that much about the brothers in the anime universe. I know that Dean is older and stayed with his father as Sam went off to college, but that's about it.
And finally, having seen what the third episode is, I must say, Home as episode three? That's...special. On the brightside, this means we will never ever have to see the anime version of Racist truck, Houses of Holy, or Bugs so we the fans, win.
I recommend this for fans, of course. But I'd even say that without being a fan of the original this show holds up and would rank a solid B and is certainly worth your time.
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