Undead Girl Murder Farce

This is a very boring anime to watch, I actually felt sleepy when watching this anime, very suitable for those of you who don't sleep enough!

Starting from the first prologue, I already suspected that this anime would move slowly.
And it turns out to be true, for the first episode alone this anime fills too much time with nonsense which I don't think is very important, In fact, almost the entire first episode is just filled with chat between the MC and the stump-headed girl.
Not only that, their style and way of speaking makes me even more sick of listening to them babble every minute.

Let's skip ... the first episode which is too much crap, I'm continuing the second episode and hope the storyline will be made faster, but apparently not, it's still the same as the first episode of this anime, it's too slow and rambles a lot.

Apart from that, as in the synopsis, this anime tells the story of a girl whose head is severed, and is looking for help to find her missing body.
At first I thought that this anime would be similar to the Hitsugi no Chaika anime, which both have a mission to find body parts.
But it turns out that this anime is completely opposite to what I thought, These two male MCs and stump heads even go around solving random mysteries or cases! What is this? Don't you guys want to look for missing body parts? Then why do you handle cases randomly and have nothing to do with the missing body?
Yes, here I am very disappointed!
It turns out that looking for missing body parts is just empty talk, the proof is that they are actually solving cases that have nothing at all to do with their main goal.

I don't recommend this anime, especially for those of us who don't like a lot of bullshit in it!

Notes: Please don't give confused reactions, because as a writer I am also confused! Why do you give a confused reaction? Is it because my words are confusing, Or are you too stupid to digest my words? If there are errors, this is the wrong translation, because I only wrote through translation.

Trashy and cheap anime, each case is poor, the evidences the girl sees are not shown for a viewer, so you cannot play along. Characters stories are not built well, just random OH AH things thrown, thus you don't feel attached. The general idea is nothing new, just another "revenge" thing with not much emotions. Animation is good, but not the main girl's face whish is terribly plastic.
After I've seen some reviews I feel like I'm watching a different anime. I wouldn't suggest this anime to any person.

I've seen other anime with geniuses, it was much well rounded, you could feel how hard they needa ... think. Here it's just a person that never misses. Boring, no real action happen

An interesting core concept of an immortal-oni crime busting duo pales quickly when the author decides to go the route of 'let's see how many public domain fictional characters (and some historical ones) we can shove into a gothic mystery show', and of course Sherlock Holmes is there, and of course the author feels the need to show how awesome and better than sherlock holmes his original character is.

This show has become embarrasing at this point, what could have been a really cool concept with, by the way, some REALLY good animation, artsy design, and excellent (initial) atmosphere, is dragged down onto the level of ... trashy B show, with increasingly terrible (and in a lot of cases painfully derivative) writing cribbed from the likes of Agatha Christie and Marjorie Allingham, and of course Arthur Conan Doyle, this show attempts to stand on the shoulders of giants, quickly losing it's balance along with any semblance of originality.

I do not reccomend this show at all unless for someone who only wishes to see how painfully bad a concept like this can be executed.

It started with an intriguing premise and captivating first episode. The initial plot setup was full of potential, leaving you eager to see where it would lead. However, as the series progressed, disappointment set in. It became meandering and lost its direction.
The character designs were interesting, but with average animation and composition, it wasn’t anything special.
The animation quality also suffered, with inconsistent pacing, and lackluster fight scenes. It's regrettable that a show with such a strong start ultimately failed to deliver on its early potential.
... I would not recommend it to others due to its disappointing execution and overall lackluster animation.
The OP song was cool tho.

What I expected after the first episode - Discount Bakemonogatari.
What I got - Discount Fate Spin-off.

The Monogatari Series, or, more accurately, its anime adaptation by studio Shaft, has had an absolutely profound impact on the industry. Yet, compared to similar era-defining shows such as Evangelion or Madoka, it spawned a shockingly low amount of straight-up imitations. And it's not hard to see why, an author has to have at least 150 IQ to even attempt to write this type of story, as well as immense confidence not to be afraid of unfavorable comparisons with Nisio Isin. Though IQ below 100 and the Dunning-Kruger effect is ... also an option, Bunny Girl Senpai exists as an ostensive example of how NOT to imitate Monogatari. Undead Girl Murder Farce is not THAT bad, but it’s still way too far from being good. A more accurate comparison would be with Cube x Cursed x Curious - both of these series successfully manage to replicate some aspects of Monogatari while failing as a story overall. What’s also interesting is that these parallels in execution exist despite the fact that the two imitator series in question focus on entirely distinct elements of the Monogatari formula. C3 is an action harem where the protagonist does psychotherapy for girls with supernatural afflictions. And Undead Girl Murder Farce is a supernatural detective full of verbal foreplay between a human-turned-supernatural invincible MC and his aristocratic, sharp-witted Yamato Nadeshiko girlfriend. Which doubles as a description of one more series, Kyokou Suiri, by the way, when I call all these shows “imitations,” I REALLY mean it.

But enough about their similarities, the actual important part is the differences. The unique selling point of Monogatari is the best prose ever created by man and post-modern reflections on the otaku culture. The unique selling point of Kyokou Suiri is the namesake “made-up deductions” deconstruction of the murder mystery genre. And this is where the troubles with Undead Girl Murder Farce begin, it just doesn’t have a unique selling point. It’s set in the XIX century Europe, except it’s not really the XIX century Europe, but rather The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen cinematic universe, with Sherlock Holmes, Jack the Ripper, Arsene Lupin and so on appearing as characters. Which has been done to death. There is also the fact that the supernatural in this universe exists in the open, as an organic part of society, but the story barely explores this aspect. The series just doesn’t really do all that much, and what it does, it doesn’t do very well. Nothing illustrates this better than putting the titles of all these shows next to each other:
Bakemonogatari - Ghostory - a pun and a factual description of the content.
Kyokou Suiri - Made-up Deductions - also a factual description of the content.
Undead Girl Murder Farce / Cube x Cursed x Curious - this is just trying too hard to advertise the expected quirkiness of the genre without any meaningful substance of its own. It’s shallow and derivative. Like, the word "farce" has an actual meaning, and there is nothing in the show that fits it, it is not a farcical show, using this word for the name is just pretentiousness.
The only well-made part of the story is the banter between the protagonists (which is the single easiest step of the formula to imitate, even Bunny Girl Senpai had decent banter). Outside of banter, the writing is subpar. Including, but not limited to:
The characters aren’t developed and act nonsensically at times, like when an entire family barely flinches in response to their relative getting killed after being revealed as a murderer.
The dialogue often exists to dump plot points on the audience with no regard for how natural it is to actually say those things at the moment.
Old-timey murder mystery cliches, like telling a person’s entire life story based on the stains on their clothes, are mindlessly reproduced without anything meaningful done with them.
An abject failure of the murder mystery element, it’s full of contrivances and plot convenience. It even commits the biggest sin of detective fiction: not telling the audience all the information necessary to solve the case. For example, the circumstances of one murder depend on the mansion’s layout - a layout that wasn’t actually shown at any point before the reveal.
Every single memetic XIX-century character (Sherlock Holmes, etc.) in existence is vomited into the same story arc with no sense of restraint.
Gratuitous battle shonen cliches, a character can’t just be a demon slayer by himself, he has to be a member of a special Demon Slayer Corps full of nakamatachi with distinct silhouettes straight from Kimetsu no Yaiba. The series gets progressively more battle-shonen-esque as it goes.

The direction of the adaptation weirdly parallels the writing. It’s lacking in all but one aspect, which is the pacing. I think everyone and their mother have commented that every episode feels like it only lasts 5-10 minutes, it’s very engaging. But outside of pacing, the direction isn’t all that much. The series director is Omata Shin’ichi, a Studio Shaft graduate also known for Kaguya-sama and Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu. You can clearly see this with the visuals of the show being full of recognizable “shaftisms,” yet those feel like mechanical surface copying without any underlying substance, especially when measured against other ex-Shaft directors such as Itamura Tomoyuki (Vanitas and Youfkashi no Uta) whose “shaftisms” look like a genuine artistic vision.
For example, the "glitchy green screen" and the "archaic wipe transition" effects are just failed "ironically bad" stylizations. Because stylizations are supposed to have style to them, there is nothing stylish about a wipe transition, anyone can do them in Windows Movie Maker, it takes no thought or effort. And wtf do green screen effects have to do with a murder mystery set in the XIX century? It's the last genre you'd expect to see CGI special effects in, there is no thematic connection, again, it's just pretentiousness.
The director also took the worst possible lesson one could take from working on the Monogatari franchise: how to fuck up the narrative by arbitrarily changing the arc order. The anime starts with an (original?) lore-dump episode that irreparably ruins the actual first arc of the story (episodes 2-4 of the anime) by retroactively turning all the plot points revealed there (for the first time, in the proper order) into pointless repetition (like the reveal of which exact supernatural beings the main couple are), as well as deflating many intended to be tense moments (like when the main character who’s been acting as a goofy clown for the entire arc reveals himself to be an insanely strong fighter in the arc finale - but we’ve already been spoiled on that by the first episode).
And then there are fight scenes that are pure cringe, with characters double and triple jumping in the air as if it’s a match of Super Smash Bros.
On top of all that, the anime is hamstrung by being single-cour, we just see a few disjointed criminal cases, without any meaningful progress to the overarching narrative (assuming the original source material even has any).

4/10 for a subpar adaptation of subpar source material.

Perhaps one of the worst shows I have ever watched. I will break this down systematically:

Dialogue: The conversations in this series are consistently meandering, like traveling down a long, winding road with no end, littered with horrible attempts at wit and organic human interaction. It's unfortunate that this series chose a preponderance of dialogue throughout, as it thoroughly ruins the show and makes it borderline unwatchable.

Animation: This is essentially a wannabe Mappa style animation. It is clear the animators and art directors were basing every detail on aspiring towards the pinnacle that is Mappa, who has brought such great shows as Chainsaw Man, Hell's Paradise, ... Vinland Saga, etc.

Fighting: Terribly choreographed, terribly shot. The action is almost never tense, and 100% never clever nor surprising like, say, Attack on Titan, where movements of martial arts actually move you emotionally. This is almost like pro forma boiler plate fan service of a fight sprinkled here and there. It's thoroughly unsatisfying when there's no fighting and so paltry and unappealing when there is due to a true lack of cinematic competence.

Narrative: Solving mysteries that are generic and bland leaves viewers bored. I was especially bored during the first several episodes where the talking head (literally) spent 90% of the episodes explaining everything. We all learned in grade school that narrative is formed upon the basis of "show don't tell" but this show simply "tells and rarely shows" which makes it an unbearable grind.

Characters: Characters are shallow, poorly defined, everyone is generically full of angst and misanthropic, except for the protagonist who is lackadaisical and carefree perhaps based on some spurious notion this makes him more relatable and attractive.

Summary: This show is not recommended at all for the reasons stated above.