Somebody might ask “yes, but what about the journey?” So for reasons of thoroughness and fairness, I shall continue. The anime immediately shows typical noitaminA stylization with a great OP (the ED is also good), although when the actual episode begins we are served with mediocre animation. It's probably a matter of taste, but I really don't like poorly rendered 3d CGI objects festering the scenes.
The other major issue is the characters. The main “detective duo” is pretty cool, we have the genius ojou-sama and the “genuis-er” professor, but throughout the 11 episodes we learn nothing more of substance about them and no development occurs. But our duo is not the main problem, the main problem about the characters is the supporting cast: there are characters that have the potential of becoming interesting and we wait to discover how they will factor in the story etc, but nothing happens, they just disappear in the background. Magata's sister is the prime example. This anime looked pretty interesting in the first three episodes, but then simply blew over. Magata's character is pretty complex and interesting, but again: the poor ending ruins everything.
Magata's character brings us to the only strength of the anime: It offers some philosophical thoughts worth contemplating (mainly using Magata as the transmission vessel). Also the lab structure as a self-sustaining micro-society of intellectuals is a beautiful contraption. So around Magata, the writes manages to create a beautiful setting, which I imagine is the sole reason for his success with this work.
I will not spoil anything about the end, I'll just say that it has major timing issues and that it demands that we accept actions and motives based on their aesthetic value, completely disregarding logic or offering a valid explanation. You get a “wow” moment in episode 9 but that's it. Oh, and the “F reveal” is pretty dumb.
The murder mystery portion of the anime ends in episode 10, the final episode is a few pretentious dialog and a hormone overflowing Nishinosono. The fact that they gave up on the cyberpunk charm of the earlier episodes annoyed me; instead they chose to do the lazy “people talking on changing backgrounds”.
As I already said this anime fails as a murder mystery, but I imagine the near-future-cyberpunk aesthetics may make some people happy. The whole manga/anime industry seems to fail hard at the crime mystery genre (if someone thinks I'm wrong about this point, I would love to hear suggestions), so for the genre's lovers I would recommend the first season of Broadchurch and the Murder on orient express (1974). For this one... 3.5/10.
