2015-07-16, 21:13 | Link #181 |
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The "mystery" isn't really a strong point of this show. Still, I like it for what it is --- Weird stuff happening on screen.
Poor Sachiko though... She finally found happiness and it came to a gruesome end. Also, I SWEAR THAT HE'S A GIRL. HE HAS TO BE. |
2015-07-16, 22:51 | Link #184 |
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Episode 3
The characters are more interesting than the mystery, and the mystery just falls apart the moment they get into details. Which is kinda important. I'm still waiting for the inevitable case where Kobayashi is in over his head and Hashiba comes in for the save.
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2015-07-16, 22:56 | Link #185 | |
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And I also concur about Hashiba. He was completely left out of the dark(Kobayashi apparently has no qualms about his feelings or tricking him for his own benefit). He really had no purpose other than to stir up doubt and/or to not-so-subtly remind the viewer of Kobayashi's feminine aspects.
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2015-07-17, 00:55 | Link #186 |
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So I enjoyed the episode, so sue me. The details of the story are the least interesting thing about all three episodes, for sure. And the fellow-student is a royal pain. But the art and the flow are good, and the cavalier way they quickly sketch the story is enjoyable in its own way.
And Takahashi Rie as Kobayashi is good. I thought it was amusing that people didn't like how feminine Kobayashi was...and then it turned out he was being played by a woman...and now he turns into an actual trap. They were certainly right, although I myself enjoy the ambiguity. What delicious or disgusting fetish(es) will we meet next week? This screenwriter has always given me a funny feeling: Amenaideyo, School Days, Stigmata no Qwaser. This same writer-director team did Humanity Has Declined, so you know they are comfortable in the outer reaches. And every time I hear the ED, I like it more. "Sayuri the Suffocated Girl" has a future. She calls herself that as a member of the current teenage generation, which feels itself blocked and suffocated from birth, particularly in Japan, with its 25-year semi-recession. I enjoy the OP, too.
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2015-07-17, 01:00 | Link #187 | ||
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It turned out OK despite the writer/director, not thanks to. It's actually quite horrible as an adaptation. Last edited by Iby; 2015-07-17 at 01:36. |
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2015-07-17, 02:41 | Link #188 | |
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I don't think there are ones who didn't like Ave Maria
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Also, old arts can't draw ambiguous boys anyway
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2015-07-17, 04:24 | Link #189 | |
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It's been a really long time since I read anything Edogawa Ranpo, so my memory is pretty spotty, but this show seems to be mostly trying to emulate the Shounen tantei-dan stories which are basically kids' lit, and trying to infuse them with more "adult" aspects from the more serious stories. The question of whether it works or not aside, I think that at this point it's clear what the show is trying to do and adjust one's expectations accordingly... Personally I think the show is so far OK for what it is. Sure, I also would've much preferred another Mouryou no hako or Aoi bungaku (which also had its duds, mind, even if the brilliance of Hashire Melos makes up for everything), but clearly this show is not trying to be that, but it's mostly entertaining enough in its own way to continue watching for a while (stupid mysteries aside). |
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2015-07-17, 04:58 | Link #190 | |||
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Shadow Man was basically a pastiche of all of Ranpo's trickster characters, which include Akechi, 20 Faces, the guy from Walker in the Attic, and others. The novel was about a 'social adventurer' who liked to partake in illegal activities for the thrills, but abhores murder. One day though he is approached to help devise a plan for a company that deals in contract murders. The Shadow Man there had no problem disguising himself as a woman, he had several lovers AND one of them was a 17 year old boy. The one character so far that's actually established as bisexual and it doesn't feature into the anime...kinda weird. Quote:
Yes, I agree that it's also important to consider what an anime is attempting to do and judge it accordingly, but we should also be allowed to judge whether that is a good idea in the first place. So far the anime, as you said, tries to be a hybrid of the Detective Boys stories and his adult-oriented works, and it is stuck being neither. Quote:
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2015-07-18, 10:57 | Link #191 | |
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Watching this show actually reminds me of UN-GO, which also got billed as a mystery but had some issues with weak cases. I still really like UN-GO, because it makes up for that with interesting characters and a surprisingly detailed semi-dystopic world. When Rinroku Kaishou set media controls in that series, for instance, it was an effective reminder for how much control his private enterprise had over what people could learn from the news. Contrast that to here in Ranpo Kitan: when Akechi does it, it's... well, completely superfluous. You could have rewritten his lines to not mention a media blackout and you'd be missing virtually nothing. |
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2015-07-19, 08:18 | Link #192 |
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Here's a quite from one of the readers of the original Jintai novels.
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Also Un-Go wasn't that good only for the first 4 episodes maybe? It has improved dramatically afterwards. And Ranpo Kitan definately doesn't look as smart as Un-Go was. |
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2015-07-23, 13:28 | Link #195 |
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Well this is a rather bizarre case. Interesting to see Kuro Tokage this episode though. Is she a sadist or what?! And it seems like she has a thing for Akechi in a rather lustful way.The episode also shows that she is in a prison of sorts; well maybe not exactly but more like behind bars. The plot twist about Kagami is an interesting addition to this week's story though.
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2015-07-23, 14:02 | Link #196 |
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Episode 4
No. The comedy bit with Kobayashi and Hashiba does jack all for the story and adds zilch to their character, the interrogation with Mrs. Masochist provides nothing relevant to the case, Autopsy-chan is more mood whiplash, and the mystery itself is pure, unadulterated shit from busty top to trap bottom. Before, the aesthetics were just emphasizing the important players, but now it's highlighting whatever it damn well pleases or whatever fits the budget; the TV channels and random slaves have figures, but one lone guy guarding Mrs. Masochist doesn't? No. Seriously. How the Hell does this show keep getting worse?
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2015-07-23, 14:39 | Link #197 |
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Ok, this is going from something barely watchable into garbage of the season. The story is good (at least the original novels) but here the studio just destroyed the complexity of the plot with bad taste jokes, nonsensical stuff like the autopsy and the MC being a trap instead of the master of disguise described in the novels.
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2015-07-23, 17:07 | Link #198 |
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And yet again, not a soul was surprised at the revelation... Seriously, it was so obvious.
Anyway, I'm probably approaching this show from the wrong perspective, but I'm actually having fun watching this. Then again, this is pretty much what kept going though my mind during most of this episode: (It's kind of hilarious how much of this episode could have been an Azazel-san episode, with Akechi playing Akutabe. Not to mention, now that I think about it there's also the Edogawa onsen arc which is one long riff on, well, the obvious... ) Anyway, I'm not sure what was the creator's intention, but so far I'm having fun. Sure, the show is nowhere near as "deep" or clever as it seems to think itself to be, and I'm not entirely sure who the intended audience is (given that in one moment it's all ~weird~ and ~edgy~ and in another it might as well be a children's show), but I guess it helped that I stopped having any reasonable expectations. |
2015-07-23, 18:02 | Link #200 | |
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I did go "oh come on now" when the homo-ey friend caught himself staring at the MC's butt and looked away.
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