Shuangsheng Lingtan

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Synonyms: Twin Spirit Detectives, Twins Spirit Investigators, Tsuin Seishin Tantei

Japanese: 双生灵探

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Type: ONA

Episodes: 20

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Aug 25, 2016 to Jan 5, 2017

Producers: Tencent Animation & Comics

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: B.CMAY PICTURES

Source: Manga

Genres: Mystery, Psychological

Duration: 14 min. per ep.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 7.30¹ (scored by 1,995 users)

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Ranked: #2358²

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Popularity: #4555

Members: 10,994

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Synopsis

There is always more to the world than meets the eye. This is the motto that twin brothers Sun Xiaotu and Sun Xiaohu follow in their lives as paranormal investigators, where what may be terrifying to some is just another day at work. Normally, it is simple for them to separate their daily lives from their job, but when they go to investigate a seemingly typical haunting of a pair of twins, a series of bizarre events throw their perception of the supernatural world into question as they become a target of the hauntings themselves.

The further the brothers search for answers to the paranormal mysteries thrown at them, the hazier the lines between truth and fiction become. Through the challenging and sometimes dangerous adventures ahead, one question remains: what kind of secrets are the ghosts trying to hide from them, and are they already more connected to the spirits than they originally thought?

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Sun, Xiaotu

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Sun, Xiaohu

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Xiong, Ke

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Opening Theme

"Shuang Sheng Ling Tan (双生灵探)" by Li Ding Ding (李丁丁)

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Ending Theme

"Jiu Shu (救赎)"

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Nov 6, 2018

20 of 20 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

mimicchan (All reviews)

29 people found this review helpful

As someone who has finished reading the original comic version, I think the animation studio did a pretty good job of the animated version. Not too much of the plot and characters were changed compared to a lot of other Chinese shows. The story is interesting and different, with cool and funny twin brothers being the main characters who are solving mysteries. It was nice to watch as the story is unique. There could be some improvements but it's pretty decent in my opinion. I'd recommend for others to give it a go too if they are interested in genres like supernatural and mystery.

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Apr 3, 2018

20 of 20 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

AkiraShinren (All reviews)

3 people found this review helpful

This anime, called Twin spirit Detectives in english, caught my attention for a very simple reason: The main Characters' appereance resembled one of an anime I really enjoyed, and thus my interest was piqued

It was worth it.

I can give this anime an overall score of 8/10.

This series did a good job of giving a solid plot without any of it's other components taking away from it.
While following the story of our two twin main characters, you will be confused, you will be interested and you will most likely be a detective yourself.

The story revolves around two brothers born as identical twins and following read more

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Nov 28, 2018

20 of 20 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 6

ThorNN-heim7 (All reviews)

1 people found this review helpful

- This review contains spoilers -

The first thing I will say about Twin Spirit Detectives is that it held a lot of promise.
Story: The show is about Xiaotu, a kind of detective for hire, who works with his brother solving mysteries. The plot was interesting at first, with everything supernatural having a natural explanation somehow, but quickly leaves the original plot behind in favor of increasingly paranormal and strange events that just didn't make sense. In the end, it was all because of some doctor who had found the physical manifestation of the "human spirit" as a small, insect shaped piece of tissue in read more

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Dec 27, 2016

17 of 20 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

Lypse (All reviews)

25 people found this review helpful

Preliminary

Let's start off with saying I was really tempted to give these series a 10.

"Is there any evidence to prove your existence?"
It was something that was briefly mentioned earlier in the series, yet it wraps up the feeling I get from this series. Saying a series is confusing, can be positive and negative, as it can point out to a badly written plot or something with a lot of surprises. In the case of Shuangsheng Lingtan, I'm talking about the last one of course. I just couldn't predict where the series was going. It feels really refreshing, yet not too complicated.
But first let's wrap up the story a lil' (there will be some spoilers of the first episodes).

Story 9/10
So the story is about the twin detectives Xiao Tu and Xiao Hu, who hold a business that specializes in supernatural events. What makes this series interesting, is that Xiao Hu died a while ago. However, Xiao Tu is still able to see and communicate with his dead brother and they're always together. As a viewer, you start to get questions about the situation, as the series drops hints that there's more to it than just a guy that happened to see the ghost of his dead brother. As Youzi said: "Since you don't believe you have any psychological issues, how do you view your current situation?"
What if there aren't any ghosts but this series is about hallucinating and PTSD's?
These are all questions fired at the viewer in only the first half hour.
The series hasn't finished airing yet, but as where we are now in the story, I can confirm a lot of questions get a satisfying ending. The individual stories tie together nicely, without becoming predictable and a few jumpscares every now and then (that creepy baby... just... that baby...).
Yes, it's by far the most tightly written series I have ever seen, with obvious clues and kind of simplistic interrogations, but nevertheless it's enjoyable and good when it has to be. The best way to call this series is: 'Refreshing', even though I can't really tell you why.

Art 8/10
Hmm, maybe I was slightly too generous with my points over here, but I just really love this art-style? Yes, you could say the character designs are too plain, but the animation and art-style itself is really beautiful. I might be biased because it slightly (just SLIGHTLY) reminds me of the art in Kakumeiki Valvrave (mainly the eyes). Shout-out to Bing btw, she's gorgeous without being your average my-boobs-don't-understand-gravity-Miss-Fanservice.

Sound 7/10
The opening is beautiful and really reminds me of the typical detective series I used to watch on TV. Other than that I can't say a lot about the sound. It wasn't outstanding, but not disturbing either.
Compared to some other Chinese anime (including some done by Haoliners) the voice acting is better, by the way. A lot of people often shit on the Chinese voice cast, but I think they sound good in Shuangshen Lingtan.

Character 8/10
Nothing too special or unique, yet it doesn't feel like they lack character development. They're simple, likable and nice.

Enjoyment 10/10
When I watch a show, all I want is to be surprised. Shuangshen Lingtan didn't fail on me on this one. I couldn't predict where the story was going for, yet it didn't follow some kind of illogical path in order to be unique or creative. It was just fine.

Thanks for surviving my bad English, and I hope you give this series a shot!

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