During a blizzard, Masayuki Muroi's old high school friend pushes him off a mountain to certain death. However, Masayuki survives the fall and escapes to safety thanks to Yuki-Onna, the spirit of a beautiful young woman who is said to lead men to their demise—but all she asks in return is money.
Eleven years later, Masayuki has lived a successful life, having gotten married and amassing a great fortune. But when his company collapses and his wife cheats on him, Masayuki retreats to the city where Yuki-Onna once saved him, and he reconnects with her by offering her money and tasty meals. While Masayuki recovers from his misfortunes, another one knocks on his door: his ex-wife is found beaten to death, and now only Yuki-Onna—who cannot reveal herself—can corroborate his alibi.
With no one to turn to, Yuki-Onna enlists the help of the spirits' God of Wisdom, Kotoko Iwanaga. Revered by the various spirits that wander the earth, Kotoko uses her extraordinary wits and cunning to solve all quarrels they may have. In her duty to protect spirits and humans from colliding, Kotoko drags along her immortal boyfriend, Kurou Sakuragawa, and promises to prove Masayuki's innocence without exposing Yuki-Onna's existence.
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TacoQZ
(It's a step up at least) Well... after a somewhat short wait for season 2, here I am once again watching a series that I will most likely completely forget everything about within 2 months of watching. Is Kyokou Suiri bad? No, by no means is this a bad series. However, there isn't... anything special about it. The story had potential but is executed poorly, the voice acting is okay, and the characters are semi-decent. One of the few things I do like is the animation. Although considering I tend to only watch stuff from the early 2000s, I guess that's to be expected. I will say however,S2 is definitely a step in the right direction and definitely held my attention for most of the episodes. S1 was a "too much speaking" type deal. It moved extremely slowly in my opinion and the last few episodes, with all the build-up they had, felt extremely boring, and the main fight(s) against the big-booba, no-face, lady felt somewhat "dry." Although there are still cases of this in S2, there is an increase in quality/attempt to move away from this. This shows concept is quite interesting, however, its execution could have been/could be a little better. It still feels like the show hasn't embraced a certain "genre" and is still teetering on the line between five. One minute they're talking about something really dark and the next they're cracking a joke. On top of that, the story feels a little confined still. There are few "stakes" and the number of characters is still too few to make the story feel like it has a "presence" in the world they live in at the moment. There isn't anything BIG... something that I'm gonna be like "ok...ok, I like that," there isn't anything Special, which causes the series as a whole to be very forgettable.
Now that it's leaning more/fully toward an investigator/detective type of anime, I guess a slower plot and lots of talking is to be expected, and maybe it's on me for expecting anything different.
Considering that the same man who made Blast of Tempest made this, I guess I might have had "high expectations" for this series as a whole, however, it still feels to me like another mediocre entry into this season's roster of shows. After coming back to watch S2 to see if it was more "my taste," it wasn't. Once again this series is by no means bad, it's just really slow for my taste.
Zant-sama
If specters, demons, ghosts, yokai, and any other manner of supernatural beings exist and are able to interact with humans; how would they interact with and affect human society? I think this is the question that Kyokou Suiri is getting at. The series does not attempt to answer this question in a grandiose kind of way with supernatural creatures attempting world domination. Instead it looks at it from a much less intense but nonetheless dramatic angle— covering such themes as supernatural romance, revenge, and murder. Story: While the first season focused a lot of time on the Steel Lady Nanase arc which many people did notenjoy, the second season follows several short individual stories, each taking up only a few episodes. This keeps the story feeling fresh with a new mystery to look forward to after each arc. In her typical fashion, Kotoko Iwanaga leads the viewer and indeed the other characters to believe one thing is happening while subtly dropping hints for when she makes the grand reveal of the truth at the end of the arc. This leads each arc to a close with a satisfying conclusion. Kyokou Suiri’s primary means of conveying the story is through conversation and flash backs of "what-if" scenarios. If you easily get bored of listening to characters talking in one room for an entire episode (albeit with a few of the aforementioned "what-if" scenarios thrown in) then this anime is not for you. That being said, if you enjoyed season one, then you will like season two.
Art & Sound:
I have no complaints nor anything to applaud regarding the art and sound. The opening is nice to listen to and fits the series well. The voice actors did a good job which is important in a series with so much talking. The art style and animation have no obvious flaws. It’s overall decent with nothing special or concerning to note.
Characters:
Our protagonist, Kotoko Iwanaga, is someone who takes her status as the goddess of wisdom seriously and will help the supernatural beings with their problems. However, she feels little obligation towards human society and mostly does what she wants regarding their affairs. She is smart with good reasoning skills. In addition, she can be very funny, especially when teasing her boyfriend, Kurou Sakuragawa.
Kurou mostly just follows Kotoko and goes along with her schemes. His unique abilities are an important part in many of Kotoko’s plans and they help her get to the truth of the mystery. His cousin, Rikka Sakuragawa, is also important to the story but spends most of her time running away from Kotoko and doing things behind the scenes.
Neither of these two really experience any character development through this season, but it doesn’t really take away from the series since it has a story driven by events, not the feelings of our protagonists.
Enjoyment:
I found Kyokou Suiri Season 2 to be a pleasant watch and better than the first season. Viewers that like mystery and supernatural elements will certainly find this series to be something worth their time but should be aware of the lack of a large, complex overarching storyline and the reliance on dialogue as a means of storytelling. One thing that makes this series enjoyable is the story does not get so complicated or contrived that it becomes hard to follow.
Overall:
Kyokou Suiri is an anime that only some people will be able to enjoy. If you do not fall into this grouping, then it is unlikely that you will enjoy this series. That being said, the second season does improve upon the series conventions established by season one and this makes it more enjoyable overall.
KANLen09
The most polarizing anime of Winter 2020 comes back to shave off too many brain cells once again, and I don't blame you if you find that this show is still an absolute nightmare to trough through. It's of clear, obvious intentionality that novelist-cum-mangaka Ryo Shirodaira's supernatural thriller mystery series is something that we all either love or hate, much aligned for its dialogue-heavy segments. And exactly 3 years later, we get another sequel, which is frankly, more of the same that covers the manga's content right after the long-winded Steel Lady Nanase arc from Volume 7 onwards, diverging into mini-arc cases that take a lifeon its own.
Most depictingly:
Volume 8's Electric Pinocchio
Volume 9's Guillotine Sanshiro
Volume 10 and 11's Sleeping Murder
Volume 12 and 13's Yuki-onna
Several stand-alone chapters from the boundaries between Volumes 7 to 11
But in essence, everything is the same exact copy-paste rhetoric if you've seen Season 1 exactly 3 years ago, from the characters to the setting, which basically confirms that the "One Eye, One Leg" spirit intervenor Kotoko Iwanaga and her assistant-cum-boyfriend Kuro Sakuragawa are back at it again solving "dragged-out" cases, though this time it's better drawn out because the stories here aren't as awfully long as the Steel Lady Nanase arc (which took up the majority of Season 1).
The only refresh is the OST, though that frankly is forgettable at best, even with Mamoru Miyano's ED "Invincible Love" that sounds like a swag with the obvious product placement of Volume 11's manga cover spliced for an extra visual.
If you still love/hate it, that's up to you. The supernatural mystery mind beckons for a big brain on this show.
TangerinaAcamado
This anime really had surprise me! On first season, the main plot, the chars and their grow up are so good! This story have focus on dialogs and, in my opinion, that just make what happen better!!! I loved all chars, main chars are so awesome. Also fighting moments are so good cuz the animation and careful have so many skill i think. So, battle moments are so cool BUT this anime is, mostly part, about dialogs! If u dont like that or is searching some shonen, isn't for you... Btw, I think everyone need to watch this! Even 3 episodes rules. So, enjoy yourself!!!!
XanWasting
It's a detective show, plain and simple. We get a brilliant detective loli, a reasonably motivated arch villain that sometimes pops up to say hello, and a passenger's seat ride into dissecting truth from falsehood in order to achieve justice. The show is best watched with this in mind. Supernatural is used as little more than spice, just to increase possible venues of deduction, and to charm a viewer with alien and unknown. That said, it is certainly better than season 1, which spent half its screen time estabilishing the world and characters, and the second half on 1 story arc of arguing on internet forum. Its anice watch and a rare sequel surpassing its predecessor, so I'd recommend seeing it if You've seen the first season and wouldn't mind more, as this is exactly that. There's more of season 1 stuff, and it's paced better.
Laid_back_ash
This season takes a different route from the first season.It doesn't focus on the main story much but instead is a collection of short stories playing in 2 or 3 episodes each. That said your enjoyment of the series will depend on how much you like the main character Iwanaga coz this is her ride all through. While the first season introduced us to this world the second season shows us the nature of the characters that inhabit it. I loved this season mainly 'cause I liked Iwanaga's character and how they show different aspects of her. There's mystery here some stories are better than others theanimation is beautiful. Unlike the first anime the fight scenes are rare and it is a more dialogue focused approach. Eagerly waiting for the third season...
nazephya
I'm confused about what to type, I'm not good at commenting. if you are a fan of supernatural genre but want a light story, then I recommend this!! :D Actually I hope there will be more cases discussed in season 2, but this is already good, there is character development too, New cases, new characters too. In this season I like the story case with Yuki-Onna. the music is quite calming. for art style, it's quite good like season 1. Even though it's a supernatural anime, this anime also has a subtle romance which I think is quite cute! I like this
hexashadow13
tl;dr: A sequel season that has a bunch of smaller but still great stories, though it does so at the expense of any progress in any overarching plot lines or character/relationship development in the main couple. The second season of Kyokou Suiri, AKA In/Spectre, continues to follow Kotoko and Kuro as they deal with various affairs involving both humans and supernatural entities. Seeing how the first season ended with a battle of wits between Kotoko and Rikka, I had assumed that in this season Rikka would continue to mastermind various incidents and Kotoko would continue to face off against her in resolving them. However, this isn’tthe case at all. Let alone serving as the antagonist of an arc, Rikka barely barely shows up in this season at all. She has enough presence to remind viewers that she exists, but she isn’t really important at all.
As such, all of the arcs this season are pretty limited in scope and aren’t really contributing to any sort of overarching story. They’re also in general pretty short, ranging from one to four episodes, which is far from the Steel Lady arc that took up pretty much the entire first season. The arcs this season are a lot simpler than the Steel Lady arc, but overall I found them just as interesting. Every arc in the anime involves Kotoko using her wits and knowledge of the supernatural to figure out the exact nature of whatever supernatural problem is occurring and then dealing with it.
The most interesting part of this as in the previous season isn’t the actual solving of mysteries, which is overtly straight forward most of the time. Rather, the most interesting part is Kotoko weaving stories that are far from what actually happened but are completely believable to those she tells. This isn’t an anime about a detective solving mysteries, it’s an anime about a liar fooling her marks. She has good reasons for doing so and there isn’t any maliciousness involved whatsoever so it’s entertaining and fascinating, even when you like the people being lied to and tricked.
On that note, this season had a lot of great side characters. For example, Masayuki and Yuki-Onna were just really likable and thus it was really satisfying to see them get solid character and relationship development. And as another example, the Otonashis had interesting backgrounds and motivations so it was interesting to see all that get fleshed out. These all felt like one off characters and I doubt we’ll see them at all in any future arcs. But their presence still made it easy to get invested in their respective arcs which made the anime overall much more enjoyable.
Unfortunately, the main character’s didn’t fair so well. Kotoko and Kuro didn’t really have any development whatsoever. They have zero character growth, and while Kotoko’s unique personality is enough to keep her interesting, Kuro seems to be getting kind of stale. There are comments made in passing by Kotoko that imply that their relationship certainly is progressing off screen, but this wasn’t focused on in the anime at all. To be honest, the two of them felt less like they were written as actual people, and more so just their functions in the plot, which is making it a lot harder to stay invested in them as characters. This doesn’t matter much this season as the writing doesn’t seem to be asking the viewer to care about them all that much, however it will likely be a detriment to future arcs where the narrative shifts to focusing on Kotoko and Kuro themselves.
The art and animation were solid enough. The character designs were decent but nothing particularly memorable. The OP and ED were also reasonably solid in terms of the song and visuals. The soundtrack was also fine but didn’t really stand out.
Kasuk
This will be against the grain compared to the general consensus in regards to this season, but the truth is, it is just okay. The formula of the mysteries is really a simple Point A to Point B, very straightforward road, but then the author introduces pit stops going a scenic route and dragging the journey out. But the destination of Point B was never in doubt. In fact throughout the mysteries Point B is probably where your mind goes to initially, and then the MC throws in a bunch of other stuff to lead you off path... but then STILL ends up bringing youback to Point B.
What it ends up being is a really straightforward answer, being convoluted with a bunch of extra unnecessary information AFTER you've already made your assumption.... only to lead you right back to that assumption. Really basic answers fluffed up with pseudo intelligence
Only real reason to watch is to see the relationship interactions of the MCs
petrichorbones
I went into the first season expecting an episodic story of a girl who was made into a Goddess of Wisdom by the youkai taking an eye and a leg from her, and now acted as an arbiter between worlds to solve problems and protect peace and harmony. I got a drama between her and another human family that only had anything to do with youkai because of what their family did to them. There was only one instance of the main character solving a mystery between humans and youkai, and it wasn't even in the manga. and the time skips felt like all theimportant parts of the story were skipped in order to reach the conclusion, which uh, does not make for a good story.
That being said, season 2 of this show was marginally better. I liked that it was more episodic, because that's exactly what I was hoping for originally. I have to be honest though, it still does a lot of just talking and explaining rather than showing. I can probably attribute that to the way this show tries to present itself as a detective show, which I am usually not a fan of specifically because of how much talking there is in place of actual story telling. If you like detective shows where the main focus is a person of logic deducing things and revealing the truth you may like this show and particularly this season. If you wanted a more integrated story of a youkai-made Goddess of Wisdom protecting the peace between worlds, you might be disappointed like I was. My favourite anime and manga is Natsume Yuujincho and I think that show still does a better job of what this show claims to do without even doing it. I wanted the idea of an uncanny half-human girl who talks to ghosts and solves problems for both people and spirits but it just doesn't really deliver. You have to be told constantly how terrifying she supposedly is but she just looks like a regular girl. The humour also seems a bit awkward or poorly done to me, but I suppose I may be harshly judging it because I'm not a huge fan of what they are trying to do in the first place. But basically she is constantly telling people that this guy is her boyfriend, even when it's not relevant, and it's kind of confusing and takes you out of the scene. It's supposed to be funny that she is a Goddess of Wisdom but has immature tendencies to overshare personal details, but it just comes across as forcibly reminding you they are supposedly a couple while they never actually act like one on screen. There is some hand holding but they often barely seem to like each other and also we never see details on how they act as a team or what the guy's personal motives for protecting her actually are. Instead, Iwanaga seems to just boss him around constantly and he just complains and goes with it.
The reason why I dislike this show so much is because I really wanted to like it. There's lots of things about it that appeal to me despite the "mystery/detective" aspect which usually I avoid, and yet, it's just not even good at being a mystery/detective show. It's just bad. I don't ever feel invested in the characters. In this season I did feel attached to the Yuki Onna character but thats about it, and it was unrelated to anything having to do with solving a mystery or even the main characters of the show. I can barely even rate this one higher than the first season. My score of the first season is largely due to my disappointment, but the score for this season is just because it's still not good even after giving me more of a semblence of what I wanted lol.
