Kaze no Youjinbou

Well, let me first say this is my first review so bear with me!

I found this anime i this site and after looking all over the Internet and not finding it I spent 20 bucks and bought it.I found it to be a great buy! I really enjoyed the story and the main character.

Story:10
It kept me wondering what really happened in the small town 15 years ago. Then just when I thought I figured it out something new would show up and keep me guessing.It had several "small pieces" you could pick up along the way and fit together.


Art:7
Sadly its art was a great ... disappointment.There were a few "still scenes".The characters did not blink as often as they should have. Dont get me wrong the fight scenes were very good and realistic.It was just when they were sitting and talking.So overall even though I hate to I can only give it a 7 for art.

Sound:8
I enjoyed the op song and watched it every time instead of skipping it.The dramatic music they would play when someone was killed or a new "piece" was found I thought fit in well with the anime.

Character:9
Almost of of the characters are great. Just one character did I want to kill.The fact I can't remember her names shows how much I hate her. She has a crush on George and I guess you could say is the average "stupid teenage woman" you see in anime.Other than her I enjoyed the steady development of the characters and each ones secrets and personality.

Enjoyment:10
If you can get past the animation which is not hard to do for such a great anime and the "stupid teenage woman" you can really enjoys putting the pieces together and all the twists that come with this anime.


I truly recommend this anime to all lovers of mystery anime. Trust me and spent 20 bucks on it!

Neither the art style, nor the animation (which is good for the few action scenes and quite frugal otherwise), nor the soundtrack (which is not memorable but fits the setting and mood nicely) make or break this anime. This is the kind of series that is defined by the plot and characters.

The first half of this series was very enjoyable. There were well-written, interesting, multi-layered characters, and slowly an intriguing, plausible mystery was given shape. The show got more and more interesting all the way up until episode 13. In episode 13 the series makes a U turn and goes to hell in a handbasket ... very rapidly. Rin Shirogane is introduced, he is the central figure for the latter half of the series, and he is an antithesis to the quality writing in the first half. His literally only dimension is "I am a psycho and I've got a gun", and that is also the sole content of his every scene in every episode. The logic and consequences of actions disappear. While in the first half of the series the only weapons available to both sides were knives, in the last episodes the other side has military grade weapons and a helicopter. And the great down-to-earth mystery story we had in the beginning boils down into a dime-a-dozen "plot of a Secret Organisation" bullsh*t.

In the end nothing really made sense. Apparently the whole town was behind the robbery, succeeded, knew where the treasure freight car ended up in, had means to get to it -- and then did nothing with it. What?! And there was a large fake corporation looking for that treasure carriage for over ten years -- in a tiny town that had two possible places where it could be. OK! And the Secret Organization needed to keep things very hush hush to avoid any unwanted attention (because the treasure would be worthless to them if they could not get it unnoticed), so in the latter part of the series the Ginzame gang kept low profile by threatening the police, multiple shooting incidents, collecting dozens of criminals from other areas into the tiny town, arsoning the Tanokura mansion, and kidnapping people, one with a helicopter. Splendid! And the loving mother of Miyuki decides to make up for all her bad deeds by making her daughter motherless via suicide. Good for the character! And after "George" finally realizes who Mr Konishi is, he of course reveals it to him when Mr Konishi is holding a gun and they're in the middle of nowhere. Brilliant! And Mr Konishi's motivations for his actions (apart from returning to Kimujuku) make zero sense, he had nothing to gain with any of them. I could go on, but why bother. Just disappointed that the promise of sublime writing did not deliver in the end.

BORING !!! Story gets dragged out after only a few episodes and there is very little action. The action consists of mainly still pictures with sound. Opening song is annoying as hell. Animation was good and sound was fine. I just lost interest because it was like watching Columbo, but instead of Peter Falk, it's David Schwimmer as Columbo. 26 ep collection can be found for less than $10.00. What does that tell you?