I've always loved watching sleuth related animes / dramas, but this really wasn't done that well. While I often turn my brain off watching detective things so I can fully enjoy them cracking the cases, this anime didn't give me any thrill. I was basically able to guess all the culprits way ahead of time, and there was no interesting plot twist, until a certain one that had completely no foreshadowing.
While Ron is probably supposed to be somewhat eccentric and funny, I thought he was mainly just incredibly weird. For Toto, I had hope that he would grow into his own as a detective, but either there was not enough time in 13eps for him to do that under Ron's shadow, or he was never destined for character development.
The cases were nearly all 1 episode ones, except for a particular few which were slightly more interesting. There are no connection between each cases, and were basically stand alone episodes. I thought the connection between each cases/episodes could've been done way better.
Then there's the magic bit which I find annoying, why was magic even incorporated into an anime about sleuthing? And it's funny how Toto just can't help but wait until the last milisecond to do something about this everytime it happens.
It was just up until the last episode that things started to get a little bit more interesting, but at this point, I have no motivation to continue on to season 2, where hopefully there is a more interesting plotline.
But while I've gone on about how terrible this anime was, I still slightly enjoyed it as a time-passing thing, but only watch this if you really have nothing else to do or watch. The only reason I didn't drop this was because it wasn't entirely bad enough for me to stop watching.
