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So Tantei wa Mou, Shindeiru, one of the biggest disppointments of this year, with its first episode being very well animated and overall pretty exciting, it went down really fast. Later on it was really hard to even finish an episode. So what went wrong?

Story:
After the first episode I found it sort of interesting, there is an evil organization - SPES and a legendary detective - Siesta who wants to take it down. The problem is that in the other episodes you almost never see the threat that SPES poses and overall not much explanation is present.
There are also some ... plot holes, for example Siesta shot a monster with a bullet that should make it not attack her. Because of that it was ignoring her for a minute, but then out of nowhere it turned around to strike her for a pointless scene.
The timeline also gets kind of confusing with dreadful flashbacks, but it is not for the purpose of mystery or at least it didn't feel like it. It just felt like the storytelling was boring and very poorly executed. I would for sure not label this as a mystery anime. Honestly, I can't even figure out what the genre should be.

2/10

Art:
Animation in the first episode was awesome, it looked very smooth and the choreography of the action was great, but again it went downhill. It became kind of dull. The characters looked pretty good, but the background felt always the same and so after a few seconds I got bored by it. There was never an exciting location and the animation mostly looked like a powerpoint presentation.

4/10

Sound:
The OP and ED are pretty good but nothing memorable. Also, the OSTs were fine nothing amazing, but certainly not bad. What I thought was kind of amateurish was the mixing. I felt like sometimes the background music was either too quiet or not in the right frequencies to hit.

5/10

Characters:
Legendary detective Siesta who knows everything and can solve anything. She was the only character that stood out but that doesn't mean that she is in any way a perfect character. She is pretty good, however she can't carry the other boring characters. They were simply bland and in the scenes without Siesta there was much to be desired.

3/10

Enjoyment:
Needless to say I did not find this anime very enjoyable. Every episode I had a little bit of hope, but was always let down. The comedy was so-so. There was some fine fan service and a funny drunk Siesta moment, though that is not something I am looking for in an anime centered around detectives.

2/10

Overall:
This is a blunder. I am not sure if the source material is any better, since I have not read it, so maybe try to read the LN, because this is not something I can recommend.

3/10