May 14, 2023
I don't understand why everyone is staying this show is bad, it's a pretty solid show. I'll try won't go into a full summery and then explain why I think that is like an essay.
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The story takes place in a world where there are armed detectives called Butei created by the Intergovernmental Armed Detective Alliance(IADA) to combat the worsening crime rate around the globe. It's an interesting concept and it makes for interesting action scenes of crime and how the cast would deal with it. We would also see more elements thrown in to build the world of the story.
Our main characters are Tohyama
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Kinji and Kanzaki H. Aria, Kinji has a special inherit ability he called hysteria mode which activites the amount of neural transmitters 30 times more than an average person. What this means is that it makes the function of his central nervous system such as his ability to think, judge, his reflex, increase exponentially, hysteria mode only activates when he's sexually excited. It's not like he gets a erection or anything, hysteria mode's true nature is explained as the impulse to leave children behind, as a result Kinji becomes totally different than what he normally is personality wise and will always help women. He doesn't like to use hysteria mode because it's "embarrassing" but it's actually because the girls exploitered Kinji's condition and made him do what they wanted.
Aria is a typical tsundere but is also a strong butei, she's the 4th generation of Sherlock Holmes, and it's not like they just plugged it in out of nowhere it was explained relatively early on when Kinji hired Riko to do a background check on Aria. it ties into what's to come in the future which the anime isn't at. Her goal during the season is to free her mother from police custody because she was accused of doing crime as the butei killer which went into hiding. People say that she is pretty annoying and stuff, in all honesty I don't think she was that annoying since she had the right to be angry with Kinji at the start and even though she acts like a child sometimes it wasn't at the level where you would be so annoyed and infuriated at. Yes, she's kind of selfish, who isn't, she's not at the level which other reviews are expressing.
The story starts with Kinji rushing to school on a bike that was planted with a bomb but he doesn't know that, he got threaten by the butei killer that planted the bomb. This wasn't the only bomb threat coming from the butei killer, a bus was planted with a bomb and a plane was hijacked by the butei killer who was revealed as their classmate Riko during the plane hijack. Riko turns out to be the 4th generation of Lupin and by proving she is better than Aria who is the 4th generation of Holmes she can earn her family's approval who has always looked down on her. Everything that happened to this point was all because of Riko manipulating them behind the scenes so she could have a showdown between Aria and her Watson which was Kinji. She reveals about an organization named IU which becomes the main antagonist for the rest of the season. There was Riko and then there was Jeanne d'Arc who tried to take Shirayuki to IU, and finally Vlad, he is responsible for a long year of crimes under Aria mother's name and he has a cross that was a keepsake of Riko's mother, the trio steals the cross and defeats Vlad, this is a little something I disagree with in the anime because in the manga it was Riko who told Kinji about the hidden weak spot which made more sense to me, even though Kinji explained why he thought it was Vlad's weak spot it was more of a gamble than anything.
The story is actually interesting and most of the questions can be answered through anime alone. People seem to expect that a 12 episode season can express all the plot of a series that has been running for a long time, just looking at the manga alone the anime only went through 44 chapters and a few more pages from 45. The story is greater than you would think.
Now, I've seen too many not recommended reviews and from reading, well probably all of the negative reviews from this page there were a lot of them who kept nitpicking on small things and completely disregarding what it's actually trying to show. I've seen the them disliking the story and characters and whatnot, how there was unnecessary fanservice, and pretty much a lot of people saying that the story is poor and the characters and their gimmicks are trash. I've seen 2 accounts of people saying that Aria does nothing in the show which I can understand since she didn't do anything major in the show, she was acting as a support in the majority of it. I've also seen others say it's a cliche harem, there was only Shirayuki and Aria next to Kinji, and yes there was fan service of Shirayuki tempting Kinji, Riko's clothes turning into a parachute was clever in my opinion, and the scene where the girls were stripping in the locker room is also fanservice. Each of them shouldn't be taken too seriously and the anime does explain why Kinji was at the locker room and why Shirayuki was tempting Kinji. Compared to other ecchi show's like Highschool Dxd and To Love Ru Hidan no Aria is tame in comparison. Aria's tsundere attitude is there but her seriousness in her work as a butei is also shown. People say it's a romantic comedy and there are instances of generic ecchi scene's, it's a troupe in ecchi romance it'll do you good to expect it. If you are numb to it, it shouldn't affect you and it doesn't really affect the story either.
So that's it from me, I hope you can give this anime a chance.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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