What is the work?[]
Housing Complex C is a four-episode miniseries that premiered on Toonami as part of an original series of anime being produced by adult swim. The show at first glance seems to simply be about a young girl named Kimi Shirokado who lived on the island of Kurosaki in the titular apartment complex.
However, things start getting weird when a family moves in bringing several foreigners with them. This causes some tension between the elderly tenants and the foreigners per of course, but then people start going missing and dead animals like fish are being placed on the premises. And then there's Kimi herself. Why do the people adore her so much when they never see her mother leaving? And what secrets does she have tucked away?
It becomes a Lovecraftian-inspired cosmic horror series thanks to the actions of these individuals.
Who are they? What have they done?[]
Seichi (the father), Keiko (the mother), and Yuri all move to Kurosaki due to Seichi having to connect Middle Eastern interns with the larger company Tsurie fisheries. While they appear to be a nice family, with Yuri befriending Kimi Shirokado, they actually move to Housing Complex C with a sinister purpose. Seichi actually worships a fallen god known as Kuzululu (likely Cthulhu himself) and had arranged to bring the Middle Eastern interns with them so they could kill them all in an act of human sacrifice to appease a god named Iyoyoloki Soyohosu who has the supernatural power of time, resurrection, and invokes natural disasters.
Episode 4 has Seichi and his wife killing almost all the residents of Housing Complex C with a sacred dagger which he initially thought would aid him in reviving Kuzululu unaware that it was drawing the fishlike humanoids to the complex and they would leave dead fish out of the belief their god was returning.
The only one that they were unable to immediately kill is the large Middle Eastern Kanchan "Kan" Mia who uses a relic to stun them. Meanwhile, Yuri accompanies Kimi into the cave and tries to kill her only for Kimi to reveal that she was Iyoyoloki all along. She kills Yuri's parents first dropping their arms and legs before drenching Yuri with the blood of her parents.
Yuri, realizing the truth, prostrates herself before Kimi begging her for her blessings...even saying that she'd do whatever heinous act or kill as many people she could despite Kimi outright telling her that she had kept Kurosaki in the year 2000 around twenty times because she wanted to create a utopia where everyone treated each other peacefully until Yuri and her family ruined her plan. After 20,000 years, Kimi decides that mankind did not deserve a chance to join the infinite universes in eternity.
She makes Yuri vomit moss (whenever the family would kill a tenant, Kimi would transform the bodies into moss to keep the others from panicking) until she inflates like a balloon and bursts into meaty chunks.
Mitigating factors? Freudian Excuse?[]
So, the thing is whether or not the Koshides care for each other. There is a moment where Keiko hugs Yuri when she tells her that Kimi was depressed that Momo went missing. It would be touching...if not for the fact that they were the ones who killed Momo and her son when Yuri and Kimi discovered his drawings of eldritch beings in the cave. When Keiko gets her arm broken by Kan when she tried to kill him, she goes to her husband to complain to which he says "Oh, did someone break your arm?" The way he says it is in such a matter-of-fact tone that it amounts to him saying "Hm. How interesting." He then tells his wife that she would have to hit him back ten-fold outright asking her if her refusal was her being more scared of Kan than him and their god.
As for Yuri, she does react shocked when Kimi revealed she killed her parents when she threatened to being her parents to help her torture Kimi to death. However, even when she found out, instead of mourning them, she instead tries to beg Kimi for her blessings. Looks like she didn't care too much about them being butchered.
It looks like Keiko does follow her husband stating that if she doesn't assist her husband in resurrecting their god she would not receive her husband's approval. Whenever they interact with the rest of the tenants, though, they are putting on an act to not make them any wiser. With her wanting her husband to praise her, I can't honestly see that as mitigating especially with how he seemed to lack concern that her arm was broken. It appears that she is motivated largely by the promise of living in the new world order Kuzululu would create.
With Yuri, while you could argue that Keiko was motivated by pleasing her husband, Yuri admits that she does what she does because she liked bleeding nicey-nices like Kimi dry and falsely befriended Kimi likely to lull her into a false sense of security so she could kill her, and, disturbingly, she threatens to decapitate her head and preserve it in formaldehyde so she could look at it whenever she felt depressed and rip out Kimi's fingernails one by one. All that talk about protecting Kimi because she was older? Just ploys.
When she realizes that Kimi was a god, she selfishly begs her for her blessings and promising that she would do whatever immoral act to achieve it again when Kimi made it clear that she wanted everyone to live in peace.
Heinous standard[]
They set it what with being a family of serial killers who brought Middle Eastern interns over just so they could slaughter them all to revive their god.