Apr 20, 2020
I originally started watching because the art style and premise sounded interesting. I love a good mystery, especially when there's supernatural elements, but this show manages to make both of these aspects boring and mundane.
Entire episodes are just two or three people sitting/standing around and talking about the thing that's going on, often times repeating the same information we've just heard a few minutes ago. I will give it credit for at least breaking up the monotony of looking at the people talking by at least showing us animated snippets of what they're saying might have possibly happened, but everything that's learned either comes from
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speculation or from some information that was gathered offscreen and not revealed until the writer decides we need a "twist".
There's also a "romance" subplot between the two leads that I honestly cannot find believable, and that's because we get next to no time dedicated to showing us how or why they got into the relationship to begin with. The first two episodes show the female lead being very forward and pushy about wanting to date the male lead, but then we have a sudden two year time skip out of nowhere and they're in a relationship somehow, despite the male lead showing at least 90% of the time that he doesn't want to be dating that girl.
Not to mention the show's awful pacing. Episode one mostly covers male and female lead meeting (for a second time) and talking about how they'd met the first time, as well as how male lead came to be single. There's a very small bit at the end that gets thrown in where they have to fight a hostile yokai and it's revealed that male lead has anti-yokai blood because he ate two of them as a kid. You'd think that'd be a great point to follow up on for the next episode, right? NOPE! We don't get any answers to those obvious questions until episode 4 or 5.
The second episode covers female lead visiting a big snake water deity to help him with something that's been bothering him for a long time. It consists of "Hey, a woman did this and said this at my lake. Why?" "Oh, well that's because of this and this." "But wouldn't she have said this? What's the real reason?" "That's probably because this and this." "No, that can't be it because then she would have said this. What's the REAL reason?" And on and on for the entire episode.
The third episode is where the main plot finally kicks in, as well as the sudden time skip. We only learn that there was a time skip, by the way, because of how long ago female lead says she'd met male lead. There are no other indications to this.
Anyway, plot's finally starting, that means we can get some better pacing, right? NOPE! I sat through four entire episodes of the characters just giving exposition after exposition with nothing to really attach us to them or the plot. There's no actual investigation, aside from a brief scene where they look at a related wiki page. And somehow the plot of this arc still isn't resolved despite this. Well, I know why it's not resolved yet. It's because, as I said before, they just repeat things we just heard, several times in some cases, and explain things that a little bit of basic connecting the dots on the part of the audience could have handled.
Honestly, if this show wasn't so bloody and had some more mature stuff that gets talked about in one episode, I'd say it was written for children just going off how much hand-holding the show gives us. I think the most frustrating thing about us is that it doesn't even answer the questions we DO have in a satisfying way, or at least at a time where it would make sense.
It's the most boring mystery show I've ever watched.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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