I finished Bakura no. In my mind the high point of the series were the first two episodes. The rest of it maintained a certain interest level, enough for me to finish, but never lived up to the potential. [my review (http://rashaka.livejournal.com/2007/12/26/)] The things they chose to be disturbing were often sexual in nature, and I was mostly disengaged by that. I couldn't feel tension because the very idea of how some of the issues are presented just blocked me from participating with the characters. And they didn't go far enough with the other aspects that could have made it more disturbing-- identity, murder, sanity, ethics, pragmatism. Those are more difficult moral dilemmas, at least from an audience participation standpoint. There's no moral dilemma about rape. I'd rather watch shocking moral dilemmas than watch shocking pedophilia. I gave it a C+ for its ambition and attempts at subverting the robot cliche, but it's still just a mediocre series.