Delico's Nursery

A scourge has descended upon vampire society in the form of serial murders. The killings appear unrelated at first glance, but every crime scene has one thing in common: a card left behind, bearing the words "True of Vamp"—the name given to the legendary progenitor of all vampires.

The Vlad Agency, a secret intelligence operation, summons the renowned aristocrat Dali Delico to lead the task force investigating the murders. However, Dali refuses, choosing to focus on raising his children. His old colleagues—Gerhard Fra, Henrique Lorca, and Dino Classico—plead with him to balance his duty to the agency with child-rearing. He agrees on one condition: the other three men must also care for their children during the investigation.

Dali's estate therefore becomes a nursery and the base of operations for the four noble vampires. Meanwhile, a criminal organization Dali knows all too well lurks in the shadows with evil intentions that threaten to cause the collapse of the entire vampire society.

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Classico, Dino Main

Satou, Takuya Japanese

Delico, Dali Main

Morita, Masakazu Japanese

Fra, Gerhard Main

Konishi, Katsuyuki Japanese

Lorca, Henrique Main

Shimono, Hiro Japanese

Watson, Kiki Supporting

Akasaki, Chinatsu Japanese

Fra, Angelico Supporting

Itou, Ayasa Japanese

Klaus Supporting

Miki, Shinichiro Japanese

Lorca, Lucia Supporting

Wakui, Yuu Japanese

Lorca, Elena Supporting

Fuku, Sanae Japanese

Classico, Theodore Supporting

Anzai, Chika Japanese

Oowada, Tomoyuki Producer

Matsukura, Yuuji Producer

Nagamine, Rieko Producer

Katou, Miaki Producer

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Nov 27, 2024

Ashteron

Recommended

+ Both the artstyle and backgrounds are pretty unique. When combined with the colours used, the final result is a great fit for the atmosphere and setting of this series.
+ The frequent fights are thoroughly animated and a joy to observe.
+ The premise is incredibly creative, while the setting itself is pretty rare for anime.
+ The cast is notably large and handled really well. All of the relevant characters get a satisfying characterisation and many of them undergo development that feels justified and organic. Given the length of the series and the size of the cast, it is executed very exemplarily.
+ Dali Delico - the ... protagonist - is a really witty, nonchalant and fun character to follow.
+ The children are written in a realistic manner and feel different from each other (apart from the twins being similar).
+ The soundtrack is a banger.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Dec 3, 2024

departedmind

Mixed Feelings

The art, the worldbuilding and the realistic character personalities are the best qualities of this anime.

the child-rearing aspect felt like the story that wanted to be told and i kind of wish it just stuck to it because the antagonist group story just feels like it was thrown in haphazardly. I find the antagonists to be underdeveloped in comparison to the main characters and even the children, their "evil plot" is so superficial and feels like barely any thought was put into their plan. Main villain had one plan and one theoretical backup plan which he reveals a few episodes before even being close to ... taking action. Both attempts failed and that was that... like dude I sat through 9 episode of this group of vampire detectives struggling to stop them all to find out they were never a threat, c'mon.

also the fact that episodes 12 and 13 are pretty much the same episode with slightly different editing was a pretty irritating. why end on a recap?

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Nov 27, 2024

KANLen09

Not Recommended

Delico's Nursery - A case of children's child-rearing and adults's usual conflicts at the same time in a non-traditional environment, but does this amount to anything significant at the end of the day?

The criss-cross teeter-tattering of genres in this day and age for just about any given combination of genres can be good if the topic(s) are being understood and executed with meaning and purpose. Yet, for all that's worth, to have something that first existed outside of the AniManga industry and then made into those mediums with their own personal stories — this is exactly the setting premise of the dark, gothic fantasy series ... known as TRUMP. Coming into existence in the form of Shakespeare-ish stage plays going back all the way to 2009 under the direction of playwright Kenichi Suemitsu, who has directed many stage play series the likes of this show, K (yes, that GoHands series) and Touken Ranbu, it has garnered quite the audience it has back home in Japan, and seemingly enough, a reason for Aniplex to order an anime adaptation that while is standalone, still serves part of the entire TRUMP series in general.

When you look at shows that feature the childcare theme, that's the first hook that immediately gets its audience thinking what the show is all about. And yet this is exactly why Delico's Nursery, a standalone anime that's part of a series that features vampires in a fantasy, mystery setting, does right from the get-go, a pseudo-Buddy Daddies, if you will, in its given context. The standalone story of Delico's Nursery, where the tally of its serial murders threatens to derail its vampire society, leaving only a trace of a hint/clue that leads its followers to the culprit responsible: TRUMP - the True of Vamp, the origin of all vampires. And the taskforce behind this investigation is the vampire version of the US's Secret Service: the Vlad Agency, led by renowned and reputable noble aristocrats.

However, this is a careful balancing act for the people of the taskforce being assigned to the intricate case: its leader of Dali Delico and his fellow colleagues of Gerhard Fra, Henrique Lorca and Dino Classico, are fathers to their own children, so the child-rearing aspect pretty much is a necessity amidst the tension of the investigation that the trail only grows more hotter and colder, adding to the fact that a once well-known criminal organization is adding pressure to the 4 gorgeous, handsome, but stuck-up vampire parents who have to play double duty with loved ones and enemies that would pander to the Shoujo audience all the more, while the Shonen audience gets to bite the mystery elements. Like I've said, think of Delico's Nursery as the vampire version of Buddy Daddies, and you'll be fine...at least for its first Act. The adults are somewhat out of their element since their wives are the ones doing all the child-rearing work, so to have the husbands of Dali, Gerhard, Henrique, and Dino find ways to entertain their rowdy children is in more ways than one, endearing with a soul for the pension of control, which gives some personality to get to know them for first impressions.

Alas, while this show does know what it wants to be...trying to subvert its main topic with something that just naturally lines up, only for that to be very flawed does serve its bit of criticism. I find that the first Act of the child-rearing aspect (that covers the 1st half of the anime) was actually decent and not too bad to establish the "happy-go-lucky" scenarios of the 4 men having to tackle their children's wellbeing in Dali's house where said nursery resides in with Dali's kids of Raphael and toddler Ul, Gerhard's daughter Angelico, Henrique's twin sisters of Lucia and Elena, as well as Dino's only child of Theodore, which indefinitely put a lot (and I mean A LOT) of strain on the adults having to take care of the illusive ongoing serial murder case all at the same time. However, the second Act of dealing with the criminal organization was, in many ways, more overbearing than the child-rearing portion itself. To be fair, we don't exactly know a ton about the group and their notions, but it soon becomes clear that they're just your stereotypical outcasts who've been maligned in the High Society of vampires in some shape or form that they cannot conform to. As an example, one such repetitive aspect always being brought up is the Cocoon Stage, in which an unfledged vampire in the form of dhampirs evolves to become true vampires in order to thrive in the stereotypical dog-eat-dog world. Yet, for as much as the "theology" of the rejects does have their shit together with characters like Kiki and Catarina knowing that they're being outcasts but also modest at the same time, man, does the book of character development literally be thrown out of the window to try and make us feel tangent on their actions and purposes. The murder mystery plot is natural; everything else surrounding it is just plain laziness in its writing.

Delico's Nursery being J.C.Staff's 2nd out of 9 shows for Summer/Fall 2024, you've got to give it to the studio being the sweatshop studio of the current AniManga industry pumping out shows with productions at both low and high-end extremes of the spectrum, but yet surprisingly deliver each and every show in their own uniqueness. I'd say that the production of the show pretty much reminds me of Winter/Spring 2022's Baraou no Souretsu a.k.a Requiem of the Rose King, taking on the minimalist approach while letting everything else flesh all the same (production issues, is anyone surprised at this point)? Yet, for all its mediocre production and animation to boot, the show is tolerable and watchable if you give it the second chance it deserves, alongside the efforts of director Hiroshi Nishikiori's rather small staff team that includes the playwright scriptwriter Kenichi Suemitsu himself and a few others. It's pretty much almost a near-majority stake of both director and scriptwriter helming the show, and you can feel cohesiveness at the very least, even if the final product did or did not turn out what they want from the series (depending on how you look at it).

The shining moment for the show has got to be its OST. Both Mika Nakashima and Anonymouz nailed the show with their OP and ED songs that give off the vampire mystery vibes, and for a first bout, Shunsuke Wada's first-ever anime music composition may not be a knockout, but it's still respectable.

Ultimately, Delico's Nursery is a tale of two divides: either you appreciate the child-rearing and hate the serial murder case, or vice versa. I'm betting on the thought that you'd think that this show would be a take on Buddy Daddies by involving vampires, but that expectation is quite severely misplaced given what it chooses to place foremost, and then add the mystery motive that, for all intents and purposes, Buddy Daddies nails the overall premise more than this show could do either.

Sure, there's the parenting theme that helps skew Delico's Nursery to a relatale degree, but this could've been so much better if there's a level of focus on elevating what to expect from a stage play adaptation into the anime, which is its biggest Achilles' Heel.

This show should've just given up at its moment of hiatus, period.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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