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I don't recommend this if you like series such as Death Note, Danganronpa, Revengers, Higurashi When They Cry or any other mystery/thriller/suspense like those.

I feel like the perfect example of why not to watch this is, when the main character brings his suitcase with the yakuza remains to the grocery store and makes the most obvious trap so he can check if someone opened the suitcase in the trunk of his car while he was shopping.

The trap is not bad and i suppose in many cacses, apart from how it is visible in the animation, this trap might work and will go unnoticed.

The ... idiot returns from the store and proceeds to open his trunk AND the suitcase, seemingly knowing he might be under yakuza survailance and stares at it for a good couple of minutes while looking around all suspicious.

I don't know who is dumber, the yakuza? the should-be crime-mystery writer main character? the director of the anime? or the viewers??

I just couldn't stand watching this. One moment the show makes me believe that the MC has some wits and in the next he seems dumb as a door..

I get that this is supposed to be a first-time something will go wrong type of situation, but even so.

Another great example is the faces that the mother and father makes 3 times in a row to their daughter, as she interrupts them trying to decompose the yakuza remains in the living room. This makes me think the daughter either doesn't care at all about what her parents are doing/thinking or maybe she is also dumb as a door.


Overall i like the premise and idea, which this show brings, but the animations are pretty bad, and the direction of how to display the events and characters is so damn lousy and doesn't fit into the narrative and theme.

The thing I'm missing the most in the animations/direction is some drama. Just add dramatic lighting like in Higurashi. Some dramatic pauses and closeups with dramatic lighting and sweat drops running, to really show the suspense.
Anything... The shots feels more like it was meant for a cute slice of life or some comedy.

Hope this review saved your eyes some time away from this anime and your face away from your palm. Or maybe you disagree and you watched the anime and face palmed after reading this review lol.