Minor spoilers and splibbery goo are contained within this review
This is my opinion so y'know feel free to spite me and watch an anime even if I don't recommend it you rascals
Hey it's a mystery anime that totally went past me last year. It must be a good one judging by all these scores.
-Eleven episodes later-
Well that was... mixed.
Art is a-ok. There are some pretty nice parts, I'll spoil a bit and say they get into the water before those, but overall it was nothing special. Let's give it a 7 and this is mostly because of that damn awesome opening.
Sound was existent. There was not much special about it tho that opening song was a bit above average. Here's a 6.
Story takes place on an island where a murder happens and our two protagonists try to solve it. Of course this shouldn't be a hard task to them cause they are super geniuses, cause isn't everybody these days? There's a main story in current time and a side story in the past. Now the anime began with an episode that slowly introduced us to two leads and their chemistry. ,, Nice, pacing!'' I told to myself foolishly. There's a difference between pacing and slogging an anime for 8 episodes! Well that might've given my opinion on the story. Most of the anime is spent with a female main character trying not to soil her panties in public over the main lead character, and flipping out whenever a girl involved in his life shows up. There's also both characters getting involved in extremely boring conversations about life, death and breakfast. This could've been interesting, deep or thought provoking if it wasn't all on the level of a pothead reading Nietzsche. Usually theories drawn are completely face palm inducing, like considering that a person with multiple personalities is ,,the purest human being,,. Now I gotta give the anime some credit, actually quite a decent amount of it. The solution to the mystery and killer's plan was so in depth you could find oil. It did keep me in awe how complex, in a good way, it was. Howeeeever there was another bitter pill to swallow before the ending which was killer's motive. The killer tells us the alleged motive but soon contradicts it with the following action. I am aware that mysteries are slow moving but those I've seen thus far kept me intrigued. This is by no means a horrible story and I am doubtless that quite a portion of people out there will love it. From me it gets a 6.
Characters are mostly a rim-ram-shim-sham of nerdy folk. There isn't some overwhelming character displayed by anybody but two main characters. Sohei is sorta cold, always thinking about life and wishes for complete freedom. His subordinate, Moe, is quite emotional which she displays whenever she feels like her feelings for Sohei are showing or a girl approaches/talks about him. Characters can pass with a 6 cause they were also annoying with their constant repetition of obvious things like ,,X was killed,, , ,,they were killed in that room,,. Seriously script writer insert whatever but stop repeating stuff.
Enjoyment is 5. Enjoying 3 out of 11 episodes is more of a 3 but considering those eps were damn good I felt like it should be recognized.
This anime is obviously been done by somebody who had this awesome idea for a convoluted murder but couldn't think of a way to fill the time till the reveal of the murderer and things as such.
