Vatican Kiseki Chousakan

Hands down the best comedy of the season.

Do you like the davinci code? Would you like to see what it would be like if mashed up with scooby-doo? Then this is just the show for you!

Story (1/10)

two priest hve to check wether reported miracles are actually true, yet all they find are drugs and evil secret societys. It's very ofer the top, each case ending in a conspiracy theory that makes the x-files seem like a research paper.
And they play everything straight. Always serious. The characters just accept everything that's thrown at them. Not that they would have any time to process it; the show ... is incredibly fast-paced, in the worst way possible. It's awful and absolutly hilarious.

Art (1/10)

Generic style, even though the LN it'as based on has illustrations from Thores. Wierd textures, very little movement, bad eyeshadows instead of eyes and no regards for perspective are very common in this show. Also; a shitton of innapropriate dutch-angles and a constanly moving camera. It's hard to look at, but the incompetence is fun to witness.

Sound (3/10)

the OP is very early-2000ish, wich i liked, and they voice actors are pretty good. The background music is very dramatic and often used inaporpietly or too loud.

Characters (2/10)

The two MCs are a pretty generic Sherlock/Watson team, though their abilitys are way more balanced, so neither of them exsists to show how smart the other one is. They're also both always furthring the plot; you get the impression that they actualy need each other for their investigations. Both are man of science first and man of god second,one of them naive but cautious, the other sceptical and practical.
That's about everything good i can say about them.

Both have generic tragic Backstorys and someone in the production propably had some kind of care taking fetish.... There is also a lot of queer baiting, so their dynamic ranges from wierd to boring.

The main Villain is obvious, generic and doesn't make much sense. All other minor charcters are not really worth mentioning.

Enjoyment (10/10)

The mysteries turn to be increasingly stupid, and the explanations unpredictable. You don't wonder who did it and how, but how far the author went this time. It rarely dissapoints. Most episodes had me laughing pretty hard. Also; the science in this show ranges from "slightly wrong" too "complete opposite of the truth, please check Wkipedia at least". The fast pacing is in so far good that it helps to move a long the boring stuff.

Overall

I would highly recommend this show. It's about as competend and entertaining as Tommy Wieso's "The Room". Watch it just too hear good, seasoned Voice actors say the most redicious lines full of honesty and passion. It's a beautiful mess, and i really hope we get a second season.

Propably really good when watched drunk/high.

I thought about breaking this down, but let me leave it at this.

This series was supposed to be about vatican miracle inspectors, right? So I went in with the assumption that maybe there'd be 4-5 cases with some over arching theme to build up the suspense and tension for a season two. I was so wrong. There were TWO cases, and episode 13 was some awful filler that had no relevance to the series or story line, plus only served to confuse the viewer. Plus, it felt like there were a lot of 'OH! How convenient, I'm already here to figure this out, or witness ... it! Hurr durr so lucky!' in the season.

I started out absolutely entranced with the series. The art was pretty good, the concept was kinda interesting, and I genuinely wanted to see where this story would go. However, after finishing the series, I felt like the second case wasn't really resolved, and episode 13 was just a confusing, hastily added place holder because the studio had no clue as to how they wanted to end the series.

Plot holes were abundant in this series, as well as the lack of character growth. In fact, it felt very stagnant, despite all of these 'exciting' events happening around them. By the end, it felt like a chore to finish this series. Stagnant characters, confusing plot lines, unresolved plot lines, plot holes and situations that were just too dang convenient to make the story enjoyable pretty much describes this series for me. There is no nuance or intricacy to it. It's all just... stagnant.

An anime about people uncovering the truth behind allegedly miracles with science? Well, sign me up; that was my first thought. Now that I finished it, I wish I just hadn't signed up for this at all.

The first problem to point out is the opening and ending, I don't why someone thought that mixing animation with real footage would be a good ideia because it turned out so bad that I'm not even sure how to say anything about this, so let's move on to another problem: how the miracles are solved. They're supposed to use science to solve them and they kinda do ... use it but at the same time they don't? At least it doesn't fell like it because in the end the main reason is always "evil people are doing it for Satan" or something along those lines.

The characters are really boring and Hiraga is specially annoying and the most dumb of the duo despite being the one who actually uses the science, and yet both of them are smarter than cops and well, almost everyone else. I'm not really sure of what the antagonist, if it's possible to considere him one, was supposed to do.

Despite all of that, what really killed the story was the effort to try to create a bigger plot to link all of the elements of the last two arcs because it failed, terribly. Instead of just focusing on the main task that was uncovering those so called miracles, they ended up solving murders and all sort of things that didn't have anything to do with their purpose and the worse is that they tried to make it seem like all of the events were connected, and personally I hate when the interests get so dispersed like this and at this point the focus was completely lost.

To say this one was a disappointment for me is an understatement, because the first arc is decent but after that everything went downhill and it just got worse and worse.