Kamisama no Memochou is an action/coming of age story about a young man in high school who is swept up into working for a detective agency headed up by a young girl (Alice) with extraordinary computer skills. She's more Victorique (GOSICK) than Sherlock Holmes, but she has a crew of NEET helpers who do the grunt work and she puts those pieces together with what she can find by either hacking databases or accessing surveillance cameras.
This is not a moe series, nor does it try to be. Yes, Alice is demi-kawaii and demi-tsundere, but as the series continues, she doesn't have that much screen-time. The
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Nov 12, 2008
Mizu no Kotoba
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It was clear to me after a few viewings that 'Aquatic Language' or 'Mizu no Kotoba' is a prototype for what would become 'Eve no Jikan' or 'Time of Eve.' Or, perhaps, more correctly, Eve is an expansion on the concepts put forth by Studio Rikaa in Aquatic. The animation style, scripting, 'camera work', layout of the coffee shop, the appearance of the cafe hostess (compare to Nagi), and even the ping at the end of Aquatic are all incorporated, albeit somewhat refined, into 'Eve no Jikan.'
I don't know why Studio Rikka waited 6 years from one project to the other, but from what ... |
