(L) Vatican Miracle Examiner

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The December issue of Kadokawa's Comic Gene magazine is announcing on Tuesday that Rin Fujiki's Vatican Miracle Examiner (Vatican Kiseki Chōsakan) mystery novel series is getting an anime adaptation project.

Premise:
The novels center on Hiraga Josef Kō, a genius scientist, and Robert Nicholas, an archives and cryptanalysis expert. The two work as a team as the Vatican's "miracle examiners," traveling the world to investigate the authenticity of claims of miracles.

ANN source
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...roject/.108762

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Coming for Summer this year

http://kisekichosakan.jp/

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12 episodes + OVA

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/dai...es-ova/.113778

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Teaser:

[LKK]

Licensed by Sentai. Streaming on Anime Strike.

http://www.sentaifilmworks.com/news/...racle-examiner

[Stark700]

First episode aired today.

In terms of music, I think it has one of the more unique ones for this season. I like the world setting too as it gives off a Victorian-ish vibe. The main protagonists were well introduced but I'm not really sold into the story yet. Might not be my type of show.

[AB079]

Saw the first episode, well it is kind of interesting at some spoint but to be honest this isn't my cup of tea.

[bakato]

So we have nuns, pregnancy, money, and murder. I'm guessing there's some sort of prostitution ring going on hence the money and the pregnancy. The father might be one of the students.

[Marcus H.]

Alright, unnecessary padding dialogue and questionable episode story structure aside, the series is bold enough to plunge us right through the activities of the Vatican Miracle Examiners.

The "first case" is actually several incidents happening in the same Christian boarding school somewhere in Latin North America. We have the primary case of a stigmatic woman who claims to have an immaculate conception, then the presence of another stigmatic at school, the murders related to suspected demonic cult activity, and lastly the classic "Christian mystery" of the weeping Virgin Mary.

It seems like a doozy, but it could all be connected to the school itself. We don't know how the inner workings of the school+church+hospital work, but Hiraga is suspicious of the 30 million dollars that the institution has received so far. Whether or not the church is gathering people and turning the institution into a "museum of unexplained cases" related to the Catholic Church has to be seen, but the sheer fact that four cases are happening in the same place at around the same timeline is suspicious in itself.

Overview:
• Immaculate conception: Woman was impregnated ten days into arriving at the church complex.
• Stigmatic student: Cult of personality. Possibly benign in nature.
• Demonic summoning rituals and related murders: Some crazy people in the church. It could be anyone.
• Weeping Virgin Mary: Classic miracle mystery. Can be easily faked.
• "Three-eyed child": Congenital medical anomalies, very likely a case of Siamese twins.
Conclusion: Corruption angle within the clergymen of the institution using illegitimate miracle claims to generate income.

[Flower]

The first episode of this series felt messy and rushed, but had some elements that showed some potential mixed in with yawners for me.

I ... still really don't have much of a read on this at the moment ... but will try the next episode, methinks.

[AC-Phoenix]

Originally Posted by bakato

So we have nuns, pregnancy, money, and murder. I'm guessing there's some sort of prostitution ring going on hence the money and the pregnancy. The father might be one of the students.

Her hymen is, at least according to our information, Ok though and hasn't been restored. Then again her memory showed something that looked like a surgery light.

The characters in vitro semination theory isn't out of the ordinary here imho.

Originally Posted by Marcus H.

Alright, unnecessary padding dialogue and questionable episode story structure aside, the series is bold enough to plunge us right through the activities of the Vatican Miracle Examiners.

The "first case" is actually several incidents happening in the same Christian boarding school somewhere in Latin North America. We have the primary case of a stigmatic woman who claims to have an immaculate conception, then the presence of another stigmatic at school, the murders related to suspected demonic cult activity, and lastly the classic "Christian mystery" of the weeping Virgin Mary.

It seems like a doozy, but it could all be connected to the school itself. We don't know how the inner workings of the school+church+hospital work, but Hiraga is suspicious of the 30 million dollars that the institution has received so far. Whether or not the church is gathering people and turning the institution into a "museum of unexplained cases" related to the Catholic Church has to be seen, but the sheer fact that four cases are happening in the same place at around the same timeline is suspicious in itself.

Overview:
• Immaculate conception: Woman was impregnated ten days into arriving at the church complex.
• Stigmatic student: Cult of personality. Possibly benign in nature.
• Demonic summoning rituals and related murders: Some crazy people in the church. It could be anyone.
• Weeping Virgin Mary: Classic miracle mystery. Can be easily faked.
• "Three-eyed child": Congenital medical anomalies, very likely a case of Siamese twins.
Conclusion: Corruption angle within the clergymen of the institution using illegitimate miracle claims to generate income.

Actually its pretty obvious its that one nun.

[Marcus H.]

It's much bigger than that. Why did that one priest stop the guard from talking any more about the recent incidents? The priest even warned him to not have the police involved.

Chances are that the "devil" that the examiners' superior stated is the presence of an entire church made out of corrupt clergypeople.

[AC-Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Marcus H.

It's much bigger than that. Why did that one priest stop the guard from talking any more about the recent incidents? The priest even warned him to not have the police involved.

Chances are that the "devil" that the examiners' superior stated is the presence of an entire church made out of corrupt clergypeople.

the root of the evil is definitely the the nun though - otherwise they wouldn't have put such an emphasis on her scaring that one priest to death.
My guess is that Klaus found out about her and had to pay with his life for it, while she turned it into a demonic ritual.

A certain amount of supernatural ongoings has also been confirmed by one of the priests saying that stigmata aren't that rare.
Point about it is though that there is almost no way to tell whether they are self induced or not, according to a rather recent paranormal investigator (source wikipedia).
The crying Mary and the flying buy are easily faked, the latter also had stigmata though, so I see some kind of connection there.

[DracoS]

Not to bad so far, through the camara fondness for floating about is slightly anoying.

[Dop]

Ok, this one looks like it might be good.
It's all a bit over the top, but in a way which I find entertaining.
They've thrown a lot of things in to begin with. Parthenogenesis, stigmata, demon worship, nuns who are perhaps excessively fond of their sausages and so on.
That church is definitely up to no good.

[Anh_Minh]

I don't know about this show. In theory it should be chokeful of interesting elements, but the first ep just ended up being tedious.

Originally Posted by bakato

So we have nuns, pregnancy, money, and murder. I'm guessing there's some sort of prostitution ring going on hence the money and the pregnancy. The father might be one of the students.

I'm thinking 30 million dollars in saving is also too much money for a nun themed brothel.

[bakato]

Originally Posted by Marcus H.

Alright, unnecessary padding dialogue and questionable episode story structure aside, the series is bold enough to plunge us right through the activities of the Vatican Miracle Examiners.

The "first case" is actually several incidents happening in the same Christian boarding school somewhere in Latin North America. We have the primary case of a stigmatic woman who claims to have an immaculate conception, then the presence of another stigmatic at school, the murders related to suspected demonic cult activity, and lastly the classic "Christian mystery" of the weeping Virgin Mary.

It seems like a doozy, but it could all be connected to the school itself. We don't know how the inner workings of the school+church+hospital work, but Hiraga is suspicious of the 30 million dollars that the institution has received so far. Whether or not the church is gathering people and turning the institution into a "museum of unexplained cases" related to the Catholic Church has to be seen, but the sheer fact that four cases are happening in the same place at around the same timeline is suspicious in itself.

Overview:
• Immaculate conception: Woman was impregnated ten days into arriving at the church complex.
• Stigmatic student: Cult of personality. Possibly benign in nature.
• Demonic summoning rituals and related murders: Some crazy people in the church. It could be anyone.
• Weeping Virgin Mary: Classic miracle mystery. Can be easily faked.
• "Three-eyed child": Congenital medical anomalies, very likely a case of Siamese twins.
Conclusion: Corruption angle within the clergymen of the institution using illegitimate miracle claims to generate income.

The first reported miracle was the immaculate conception and they had that money before then. I think the woman was holding two babies.

Originally Posted by AC-Phoenix

Her hymen is, at least according to our information, Ok though and hasn't been restored. Then again her memory showed something that looked like a surgery light.

The characters in vitro semination theory isn't out of the ordinary here imho.

Well, that can't be right. There's obviously no immaculate conception here. She's either not pregnant, which is unlikely, or she was fertilized without her knowing. Maybe they just faked the hymen with false footage.

[Anh_Minh]

Originally Posted by bakato

Well, that can't be right. There's obviously no immaculate conception here. She's either not pregnant, which is unlikely, or she was fertilized without her knowing. Maybe they just faked the hymen with false footage.

Or, and that's probably what the show's going with, they impregnated her without breaking her hymen.

[bakato]

Originally Posted by Anh_Minh

Or, and that's probably what the show's going with, they impregnated her without breaking her hymen.

If she's really not in on this, then she's really gonna be messed up when this is all over.

[Anh_Minh]

Yes, not that she's a picture of sanity right now.