But, if you're an avid anime watcher, you wouldn't expect much from this anime in the first place.
Sure, survival games can always be somewhat interesting, but immediately, if you'll notice, Akuma no Riddle has a less than 7 rating on MAL, 13 characters and 12 episodes. (13 if you count the OVA)
That formula itself is not good. With so many characters and so little episodes you can predict the anime will try to give each character its own little piece of screen time, but it did not work out well.
Akuma no Riddle followed an episodic format that made it predictable.
Seeing each characters backstories and failed attempts just gets boring. But probably my biggest issue with this anime is that the characters....
are pretty dumb.
So, you have Haru Ichinose, she's being targeted, right? She knows this and even gets a notice every time someone will attempt to kill her, and you know what? SHE'S STILL FRIENDLY WITH THEM!?
I mean seriously, if people have tried to kill this girl her ENTIRE LIFE, If you, are in a dark room with another girl assassin, and you just got a notice that you will be killed, you DON'T GO AND ASK:
"Oh, Haruki-san? Have you seen Tokaku-san? She wrote me a memo of how she wanted to see me here urgently..."
NO, BITCH, YOU RUN.
I mean seriously, this girl Haru's dream is to want to live right? WELL IT SURE DON'T SEEM LIKE IT.
And not just Haru, the assassins have less sense than an empty piggy bank too.
If you kill this girl, you can get ANY WISH. So even if you are SKILLED, COCKY, ASSASSINS.
WE ARE TALKING ANYTHING HERE.
Some of their logic and ways they want to kill her, well, let's just say I could do better than they could. In the cast of characters, we also have the most dense and naive homeroom teacher ever to grace the earth. YOU SERIOUSLY WOULDN'T SUSPECT ANYTHING IF 7 PEOPLE TRANSFERRED IN THE COURSE OF A WEEK?
But anyway, those are just the main problems, packed with the confusing ending which actually managed to somehow undo plot twists.
If you see Akuma no Riddle, I will admit, it seems interesting. Not the best art and animation, but for me I really liked it, the anime even dedicated a different ending song for each character. IT SEEMS INTERESTING, IT DOESN'T FOLLOW THROUGH!
But anyway, some good points, music is good, like I said before, each character has their own ending, the opening grew on me too, it really sets up the mood, but unfortunately, the anime wasn't as dark as I expected.
You might enjoy it, I...wanted to enjoy it, but I'm sure most of us MALians will agree it didn't fulfill much of it's potential.
Thanks for reading!
