PurplePeopleEater

A main character who isn't actually a detective but gets involved in cases and solves them anyways and also happens to be a bit eccentric and antisocial + a "sidekick" main character who tags along, and isn't nearly as perceptive or intelligent as the fake detective + One is a male and one is a female + A story following various cases which all or most are related in some way that is revealed in the end + Several small injuries and multiple dead people + an occasional touch of romance + a side character who actually IS with law enforcement who gets involved in some of the cases + plus the reoccuring theme that the real police are gennerally idiots who jump to hasty conclusions + some special thing done with the animation + at least one school aged character that calls for a few school scenes at least = at least, probably more, than half the detective mystery animes ever......including this one. On top of that, this one isn't particularrly well done either.

I can give it this much at least, the solution to all the cases weren't as predictable and obvious as some other stories make them. I wouldn't say they were the most interesting though. It doesn't make use of some of the typical types of the cases like locked doors or ghosts either which could be seen as a good thing making it more unique but for me it left me somewhat unsattisfied. 

The connection between the cases is very unclear until the end. Actually, the real issue/case/conflict whatever yyou want to call it barely even gets hinted at till the end leaving little time for it to develop and making the connection feel weaker. The characters aren't developed that well either. I realize we are working with the detective theme is only 12 episodes but that's not a good excuse. I went back several times thinking I must have looked away from the screen during an important moment because I feel like I must have missed something. Well it does sort of get explained at the end but the timing just felt so off, like the story would be better if that information was given earlier. The last two episodes didn't flow either. It felt like first they were going one way with the story which sort of fit the previous ten episodes but then the last episode totally switched directions, left a lot of questions, didn't feel like a conclusion, and left me wondering what the purpose of the story was in the first place. It didn't feel consistent at all! It felt completely pointless too like thanks for wasting my time.

The animation was inconsistent too. The first episode has some uniqueness to it. It may have been annoying if it did that for every episode for the entire episode though. Still the angles and clarity were different, at least that's how I would describe it, but after the first episode it basically disappeared. There were a lot of changes in scenes that were never explained very well too. The first few episodes also had a little fancy thing done when the main character is about to reveal the solution to a case as well as a phrase she would say but that didn't last through the whole anime either. The animation was about as consistent as the story...maybe less. I do give it props for some of the interesting stuff at the beginning, although it felt a bit like it was trying to hard to be unique.

Sound was whatever, nothing special to mention.

Like I said the characters weren't well developed, or rather, they didn't truly develop till the last episode which is a bit pointless. They weren't unique either. We never really get to hear their stories or at least not all of it. The extent of involvement between characters isn't even clarified till the end and isn't hinted at very well until well into the anime.

Overall, this was disappointing. I did give it a six at first but that last episode was enough to drop it to five and that might still be generous. Too much inconsistency. Also, the animes it's competeing with (animes with the same basic characters and stories) are easily better than this one. This just isn't worth it. The animal deaths are entirely unneccessary too.