Meitantei Conan: Hannin no Hanzawa-san

A beautiful parody of the original

First, let me explain my camp. The original Detective Conan is THE series of my childhood (besides with One Piece), and to this day is one of my favorites of the medium (as is readily apparent). Detective Conan is a masterpiece for me and ever since I heard about an anime adaptation of the manga "Detective Conan: The Culprit Hanazawa" coming out, I've been hyped.

The anime is a parody of Detective Conan through and through and never takes itself too seriously. This is evident right from the opening "Tsukamaete, Konya." Our protagonist Hanazawa doesn't dance in the opening by accident. ... The entire dance, as well as Hanazawa's final pose, is a parody of Detective Conan's eighth opening, "Koi wa Suriru, Shokku, Sasupensu." And the series is also full of such self-referential parodies. For example, the anime addresses the question of what it's like for the citizens of Beika to live in such a district with so many murders. Also, the character design of Ran Mori or Hanazawa are obvious parodies. But that's all I want to anticipate in this review.

To watch this spin-off, you should know Detective Conan, otherwise almost all the jokes won't work. But that's exactly what I like about this spin-off. It's precisely because this series is so self-referential that the spin-off parodies Detective Conan so well. And that's all the series wants. That's why I give it a complete recommendation for every fan of Detective Conan.

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If you love the Meitantei Conan series yet not really in the mood to watch the serious plot and just wanna have some good laugh, this series is just perfect. As much as the series itself was pretty short, it really managed to include a list of the random funny gags about the main series in general. Like really, with so many murder cases encountered by Conan and every one in the series... at one point you might even wonder how do the normal background people of Beika City think about the place in general. Calling it a death trap would be an understatement.

I ... seriously cracked up over a lot of the gags in the series. Like how Agasa was portrayed as to be this mad scientists figure that offered really shady one-off jobs, or how many of the amateur detectives were like a menace to normal people, and how the crime rates affect the city in general. It's really a fun show to watch on the side.

This short series (just a few minutes each episode) is a parody of the main anime Meitantei Conan and features the shenanigans that a random person goes through to find someone and pull off their crime: assassination! Although being a parody, some elements are canon. This alone should tell you if it's something you'd rather skip or watch, depending if you're a completionist or if you enjoy parody-type comedy.

The art style looks atrocious to me, except for the main character and I strongly dislike the seiyuu choice for him. Regarding the OP, it's strangely addictive.

For me, this was just a 5/10 because out ... of all the episodes, only 4 were enjoyable to me.