Kimihiko Kimizuka has found himself inadvertently entangled in various crimes more times than he can remember, referring to himself as a magnet for trouble. One day, as if it was nothing out of the ordinary, a group of unknown men kidnaps him, forcing him to board a flight—where he also encounters a hijacking. Amid the resulting chaos, however, Kimizuka meets a stunning silver-haired beauty, going by the codename Siesta, who then saves the day.
Claiming to be a legendary detective, Siesta enlists Kimizuka to be her sidekick. Though Kimizuka refuses at first, with Siesta's insistence, he eventually joins her—marking the start of a grand adventure spanning the entire world, preventing multiple threats that could spell doom for humanity along the way.
Unfortunately, after three years of their unpredictable yet enjoyable time together, Siesta abruptly passes away. Distraught, Kimizuka tries to leave all memories of her behind, but as he begins to meet more people, it seems that Siesta's influence will never truly die.
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SingleH
*spoilers* This show is totally fucking with us. The main girl is named Siesta. “Siesta” is Spanish for “nap.” And this show does nothing but put you to sleep. But that’s only if you’re lucky, because staying awake is torture. I know “The Detective is Already Dead” may sound like an enticing title, but don’t be fooled. This is a battle harem. It may not be set in an academy, and there may not be an arena for waifu fights, but the essential elements are there, and the show isn’t ashamed of this at all. In fact, it’s the only selling point. Why is a show about amiddle school loser becoming Discount James Bond, traveling the world fighting international counterintelligence and terror organizations, but also aliens, mind controllers, werewolves, and superhuman androids enjoyed by anyone? Because he does so with a cute detective waifu at his side constantly trying to fall on his dick. I don’t know if it’s a spoiler to say this, but as the title suggests, the detective is, indeed, already dead, so everything I just described only takes place in flashbacks, and everything happening in present day consists of new, different girls trying to fall on his dick. This is actually genius when you think about it, because now you and the self-insert protagonist don’t have to choose a best girl, and can instead just fuck them both, one in the past, and another in the present. But I didn’t mean to so quickly sweep all that dumb shit under the rug. To say this show contains aliens, mind control, werewolves, and superhuman androids is not a spoiler, because they aren’t treated as mysteries nor presented as reveals. I know this may seem odd considering nothing about the premise or promotional material would suggest this show gets that ridiculous, but that’s just it. This show makes no attempt to build the world or make the setting feel distinctive. Everything will look and feel totally banal, and then suddenly you’re watching this indescribable Frankenstein’s Monster of disparate genres and ideas which don’t mix together at all. This may be a weird thing to say, but nothing in this show feels like it was done in the right order. Yes, the pacing is incompetent, but that’s not what I’m talking about. It’s hard to put this into words, but scenes are just so poorly considered and end up feeling awkward or like there’re taking place in the wrong context. The lifeless directing and ultra-generic art style don’t help either, because a weird and out-of-place character or concept will be introduced, and the music will change to try and switch the tone, but NOTHING changes visually, so the whole sequence just feels deadpan—like the building blocks making up the scene were ordered wrong or internally misplaced.
With all that said, the real reason this show is such a boring piece of shit is plain and simple: it just has awful writing. Siesta’s motto as a detective is, “A first-rate detective gets a handle on a case before the incident occurs,” and this motto is the central gimmick of the series. We and our self-insert protagonist are the fish out of water, and Siesta is the seemingly clairvoyant, Holmesian mastermind who already holds all the relevant knowledge beforehand. We, the audience, are supposed to marvel at her intelligence, but what the author doesn’t understand is that this does not make for an interesting story. It is well-established that what makes detective stories engaging is the audience’s desire to solve the mystery with the clues and foreshadowing provided by the author, but if you know the author isn’t going to provide you with ANY clues or ANY foreshadowing, and is instead going to constantly pull random shit out of thin air and expect you to applaud his creativity, then you’ll immediately lose interest. However, what makes this show in particular its own special brand of retarded, is that explanatory information is withheld even during scenes which have nothing to do with mystery.
This show is amazingly forthright with how contrived it is.
Why does our teenage waifu decide to move in with our teenage protagonist half a day after they meet?
Just because.
Why does our middle school aged protagonist with no credentials get an international license to carry by an intelligence syndicate?
Just because.
Why does Waifu #2 get a heart transplant that magically imbues her with the thoughts and emotions of the heart’s original owner?
Just because.
Why can our normal human waifu safely jump out of a building wearing a dress, high heels, and carrying our protagonist in her arms?
Just because.
Why does Waifu #3 stop some random asshole on the street who she’s never met before and assume he’s a legendary detective?
Just because.
Why does our waifu’s blood turn into bullets, and why do those bullets magically revoke a person’s free will?
Just because.
Why does our protagonist scream “It’s time for My Teen Romantic Comedy™!” despite rejecting our waifu’s romanic advances?
Just for the memes.
I have twelve episodes worth of this bullshit to chose from, so trust me when I say I could do this all day. Any principle fixture of the plot or character chemistry is totally preposterous, and it’s not even in service of anything interesting. Remember, this show is just a battle harem, yet in its attempts to stand out, it just embarrasses itself when it probably would’ve been better off relying on more standard concepts. The show still would’ve been a boring piece of shit, but at least it wouldn’t be so confusing and dumb.
This show is also amazingly forthright with how trashy it is. It may rattle off endless dialogue in an attempt to feel intelligent, if only on a kindergarten level, but its fanservice is flagrant. Don’t get me wrong. There is certainly diegetic fanservice—like whenever one of the girls squats or bends over right in front of the main guy’s crotch like a porn actress, we’re treated to a nice shot of her exposed lower-back and ass—but there will also be totally lecherous and nonsensical shots of girls’ bodies apropos of nothing. This isn’t even mentioning all the ridiculous shit the characters do in service of pandering which totally shatterers your suspension of disbelief. Waifu #2 is literally introduced by walking up to the main guy, shoving her hand down his throat, fingering his tongue, removing her hand covered in drool, talking down to him like a dominatrix, and then smothering his face in her tits. Seriously, is this a new fetish or something? What that fuck is this?
It is genuinely challenging for me to describe the characters in this show without describing other characters from other anime. Siesta tells the main guy he’s perfect for covert detective work because his face is so unexceptional, anyone who sees it will quickly forget about it. This is funny not simply because I can say the exact same thing about this show in its entirety, but because I can also say the same thing about her and every other one-dimensional, cardboard character from within it.
Watch Re:Starting Life in Another World From Zero™.
Take Emilia. Cut her hair into an even bob, leave her ribbon on the right side, remove the flower, and make her eyes blue instead of purple.
Take Rem’s obsequious, unconditional love, but also Ram’s wry cleverness, and combine them into one girl.
Congratulations. You’ve crafted Siesta from scratch. Now you have a sexy waifu to leer at, but one who you can also appreciate as an intellectual equal despite your apprehension toward women.
Watch NISIOISIN’s Monogatari Series™.
Take Araragi. Replace his disheveled hair with something more generic and refined, and widen his eyes a little too.
Take his relatable cynicism, but remove all the character complexity and past experience which makes his personality believable.
Congratulations. You’ve crafted the main guy from scratch. Now you can self-insert without having to be reminded of your social flaws which make this kind of escapist fantasy attractive to you in the first place.
The main character’s real name is Kimihiko Kimizuka. In light of this, Siesta decides to nickname him “Kimi.” This makes sense considering his name, but what the show attempts to lampshade is the fact “kimi” is the Japanese word for “you.” If you’ve never seen one of these self-insert harem shows, this may seem meaningless, but if you’re familiar with the way these shows work, you probably see why this is so unbelievably shameless. The dialogue scenes in these shows often use a Shot/Reverse Shot directing style, so when the waifu on screen is talking to the main guy stood across from her, she is effectively just talking directly into the camera. In other words, she’s looking at and speaking to the audience. This is prefect for self-insert escapism, and there are even shows like One Room which consist exclusively of a girl talking to the camera and pretending to be your girlfriend, but this show has found a way to have its cake and eat it too. Unlike One Room, it has a real cast of characters, but in practice, it almost nullifies this fact by having the waifu refer to the main character as “you” instead of his actual name, so you can just jerk off and not have to worry about hearing another man’s name ruining the fantasy, because as far as you’re concerned, she’s talking to you. If not so morally contemptible, this manipulation would be hilarious.
“The novel is better.”
This statement is a fallacy. While it’s true most anime are just advertisements for the source material, especially those produced by companies like Kadokawa, shilling the source material to your fellow anime fans is assuming they actually give a shit about reading it, but I don’t. I’m trying to find good anime, not good manga, and certainly not good light novels. Given the absurd amount of monotonous dialogue packed into this show, it’s effectively a novel in and of itself, so if it’s any consolation, this show is still a piece of shit even if you’re only viewing it as an advertisement for the novel. After all, it gives me no reason to assume the novel which it’s advertising is any less shitty, and even if the novel isn’t shitty, that fact wouldn’t somehow make the anime less shitty. If you ever see someone throwing around the word “secondary” as an insult, you know the point they’re making is wrongheaded. Attempting to discredit someone’s opinion on an anime because they haven’t read the source material is a flawed line of thinking, because it’s attempting to force a conflation between adaptations and supplemental materials, when in reality, an adaptation is its own work which should be criticized on its own merits. These people may be correct, and the source material may be better, but it doesn’t defend the anime, and that’s what we’re talking about here.
I almost forgot to mention how ugly this show is. I think it goes without saying it’s artistically soulless, but even on a technical level, it’s just poorly produced. The first episode isn’t mind-boggling or anything, but it’s serviceable, and it has a few cuts of cool animation. However, this premier is unapologetic bait on which all efforts were expended and all good animators were invited, and everything afterward looks progressively worse. The background quality drops to the point it can be painful to watch, and the animation is never too far behind. This is often the case with light novel adaptations, but this show has a particularly bad case of shitty character designs. Light novel cover art is extremely detailed, so it’s rare for an animation studio to adapt these designs faithfully into an anime, but any character designer worth his or her salt shouldn’t have a hard time simplifying the designs for a proper adaptation. However, if the character designer is a hack or if the studio just doesn’t have the talent, and if this ineptitude is then combined with shitty animation, that’s how you end up with shows like Overlord, Youjo Senki, 86, Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody, or this fucking trainwreck. I think I’m going to give this show a One, but I honestly believe it deserves a Two. It wasn’t downright offensive, and its only real crime was waterboarding me with boredom, so in all fairness, it probably deserves a Two, but it simply has no redeeming qualities. If you put a gun to my head, I still wouldn’t be able to say anything unconditionally nice about it. I mean, frankly, if you put a gun to my head, so long as it allowed me to stop watching this trash, I’d pull the fucking trigger for you.
Thank you for reading.
Stark700
The Detective is Already Dead gives off an ambigious feeling of uncertainity. And by that, I do mean how potential viewers should expect from the show altogether. Let's face it, the English title should also fire some questions into your head. You may be asking yourself why the detective is 'already dead' or who really dies in the show. In what seems like a thematically intriguing premise quickly turns sour when we realize just how mediocre this actually turned out to be. Taking a step back, I didn't want to be judgmental at first glance. In fact, I was actually impressed by some of the promotionalmaterial it showed off, especially a gun wielding girl fighting what seemingly taking place on board an aircraft. It's very confrontational from the start and leaves little room to breath for the first episode. To further its experience, the show decided to air the action style pilot at double the standard length, as a way to give us a taste of what to expect. Does the first episode make or break the chance to enjoy the anime? Let's find out.
For starters, we do meet two prominent characters - Siesta and Kimihiko as they get caught in the middle of a plane hijacking. To make matters worse, the hijacker has supernatural abilities that can threaten everyone aboard the plane. Siesta's request to Kimihiko to become her assistant is replied with ambigiouity although he has little choice than to team up if they both want to survive. It sets forth the core of the show as the duo begin their adventures together. Fast forward and later, they are thrown into a high school setting and for some reason, the anime decided to add in a wedding dress for Siesta. I'll leave that to your imagination but let's just say that such a transition is a massive direction in setting. But you may still be asking yourself: just who exactly is Siesta?
With Kimihiko's rotten luck, you'd expect him to be the last person on Earth to meet a stunning girl like Siesta. Even more so, he becomes her partner after displaying his innate skills in a complicated situation. Watching the two work together at first seemed as mysterious as the main premise itself. They have nothing in common but are seemingly bound by fate. It's not soon after when the story transits into meaning of the anime's title and we find out who the dead detective is. However, it would also appear that Kimihiko isn't fully ready to move on with his life and this draws him to other girls such as Nagisa. From here, his life gets perhaps even more complicated than ever before.
Now I want to be discret and warn that the anime's story can be a bit confusing at times. From what the anime adapted, some novels are out of order and it deepens the confusion. It's not that the anime is difficult to understand but that it doesn't follow a traditional chapter-by-chapter adaptation format. Watching this anime did show me the depth of Kimihiko's personality as he develops peculiar relationships among its cast. Unfortunately, most of these lacks the sort of concrete depth you should be expecting. For instance, Kimihiko's character relationship with Nagisa is bleak at best as the girl practically forces him to help her. Their confrontation can almost be described as brutal and replusive to the point where Kimihiko feels like a victim. That is to say, it's also hard to feel sorry for Kimihiko when we can't get fully invested into his character. We don't know much about his past except for his relationship with Siesta. In respect, I think it's dangerous for the anime to plant the story in this direction. We can only ask ourselves more and more questions about the past while almost being neglected to know about the present. Then again, this is a mystery anime, right?
In some aspects, I do appreciate at how the show handles its mystery in terms of revelations. While some story segments are easily predictable, others can be misguided and with red herrings. However, it's not a complicated storyteller where the show feels like a puzzle. What's unsettling about the storytelling is the way the anime depicts Siesta's overall character role. She goes from alive to dead in different episodes and sometimes, you have to ask yourself what exactly the author wants you to experience. Sorrow? Suspense? Ambiguity? In essence, I ask myself what the purpose of the premise really is. Yes, the detective is already dead but at the same time, she is also alive. I think from the beginning, killing a character like Siesta permantely would set off a massive red flag so the series avoids this by bringing her back in different ways. It's clever on some levels but also disappointing. Why? Let's just say that the more times she is on screen, the less appealing the mystery is. If it can even be called that...because honest to God, the 'mystery' of the show is more of an amateur detective fiction.
Holding the show further back is the reminder of the cast. Among them advertised from the key visuals include Yui, Charlotte, Alicia, and Nagisa. Yes, this anime may not be a harem but having Kimihiko pair up with them gives off a stench. Oh and did I almost forgot to mention the SPES? That's a mysterious organization who is deeply involved with Siesta. Unfortunately, the show does a poor job at making them look like a credible threat or at least one for fans to invest into. The more and I watched the anime, the less appealing it felt with each episode lacking the thrilling suspense I anticipated. The characters are underdeveloped and far too much emphasis is dedicated to Siesta, whether she's dead or alive. If I wanted to see a mystery anime, I could've picked up something more coherent. What we got here is nothing short of a jumble of incoherent mess.
But....I do want to praise the anime's visual quality. While the main story lacked a compelling plot, the artistic visuals speaks another language. The female cast such as Siesta, Charlotte, and Nagisa are characterized with alluring appeals that makes them stand out compared to almost anyone else. Furthermore, the consistency of colorful backgrounds is clear from the very first episode. It also falls no short in showing the action sequence and violence on occasions, when given the opportunity. Elsewhere, there's also some degrees of fan service such as the classy swimsuit episode or when Nagisa ruthlessly bullies Kimihiko with suggestive yet sexy behavior.
Yes, that's it. To call this show a deep complex mystery would be an illusion. What started as an appealing premiere ended up being one of the most underwhelming anime of the Summer 2021 season. That's not an exaggeration because after watching the anime, I felt almost betrayed. If you want better a mystery, watch something with an actual planned out plot and meaningful character cast. This ain't it folks.
g1l
Between the good anime and the enjoyably bad anime sit the ones that are unremarkable in every way, and you can’t help but wish you hadn’t wasted your time watching it. The Detective is Already Dead fits this role perfectly. With one-dimensional characters, an unengaging story, and plain awful visuals, there is next to no praise that can be given for the series. Don’t worry though, as it makes up for this by making sure there’s at least one cute girl in every scene. There is an abundance of poorly directed scenes that lack the intended impact that they were going for. The moments that aresupposed to feel emotional will feel no different from every other scene. This is due to a number of reasons but ultimately comes down to the flat characters and their lackluster responses to anything that happens. The art and animation quality doesn’t help either when every character is awkwardly placed in a scene with a blank expression. As a viewer, you don’t know what you’re supposed to feel at a scene because it never gives you a good reason to feel a certain way. All it does is chuck in a couple of potentially sad scenes without using proper visual techniques to back it up.
You might’ve noticed a certain mystery tag on the show but don’t be fooled, there are essentially no mystery elements to be found. I’m not even sure if Mystery was supposed to be a major aspect of the plot, but when mysteries are present they are handled terribly. In most good mystery anime, you'll find that it engages you with foreshadowing, hints at a greater narrative, and an exciting sense of discovery. The best part of mysteries is when you feel as though you are figuring out the plot right along with the characters. This anime, however, makes no attempt at the aforementioned techniques. Instead of uncovering the plot with the characters, you will be stuck watching as the main character figures things on his own with no explanation to the viewer. Then, once the whole “mystery” is over he will explain it all in one big long scene of boring dialogue. The foreshadowing is atrocious, and the only purpose mystery serves is to make our main character look all clever by the end of it. I’m not kidding when I say one episode of Scooby-Doo would have better mysteries than what this show tries to do.
The characters were particularly frustrating throughout the show, including everyone’s beloved white-haired waifu, Siesta. I felt physical pain every time there was attempted humour in the dialogue. It’s obvious what they were going for with the main character’s deadpan reactions and Siesta’s typical kuudere bluntness, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a worse attempt at it. The dialogue aims to be clever but never achieves more than being flat and unfunny. While I can at least give credit for the attempts at fun dialogue for the main duo, the rest of the characters are simply boring. It amounts to nothing more than some basic personalities slapped onto a generic character design. I find it amazing that they can describe the main character as ‘forgettable’ throughout the show and not wonder if having a forgettable main character is actually a bad thing.
Of course, these major issues don’t matter when there are some cute girls in the show. While going about defeating the big bad organization the main character manages to get several cute girls on his side to help him fight his battles. In fact, he’s so good at attracting cute girls that there isn’t a single other male character that isn’t on the side of the antagonists. I feel like this would be a given at this point, but don’t expect any sort of character development. Even after a character's death, which is so major that they included it in the title, we don’t get to see any characters attempt to cope with it. Instead they just sort of go on about their lives and all is okay right after a time skip.
There are times where the writing in this series can feel even childish. Take the antagonistic force for example, it’s nothing more than a generic evil organization given the name ‘SPES.’ Things like the motives and ideologies of the organization aren’t clearly explained and the representatives of the organization are your average bad guys. It’s unable to challenge the views of the protagonist, only seeking to end the world. It would’ve been much better if it stuck to one clear villain that can properly conflict with the protagonist’s own motives and world views. The series thinks up one cool scenario, such as a plane hijacking for an opening episode, and never uses it to its advantage.
If you were hoping for visuals to make up for this prepare to be disappointed. Some people may view the quality to be acceptable, especially after an okay first episode, but you can easily see it drop right from the second episode. For starters, I couldn’t help but notice that most scenes would just leave out crowds from backgrounds making the whole show feel isolated. Movement is stiff and the fight scenes avoid movement as much as possible, just throwing in still shots of characters talking rather than fighting. The expressions fail to give a good impression of a character's feelings and are never more detailed than the average wide-eyes shocked face. As far as soundtracks go this one was unimpressive and forgettable. It never quite matched the scene and added little value to the show as a whole. I might just be nitpicking here, but there was a noticeable amount of sound effects missing that the show needed. Scenes felt quiet because of this and were unable to really stick out as something important.
The Detective is Already Dead is awful in every way possible. It calls itself a mystery yet fails to actually provide engaging mysteries. The characters are nothing new, though I can guarantee that people will watch this for the sole purpose of seeing more Siesta. On top of this, it doesn’t even have good visuals or soundtracks to back it up. It’s what happens when a studio has no sense of direction or time management, only seeking to capitalize on a popular light novel, and I would recommend staying clear of it if you value your time.
Maysushi
This show is so bad and so terrible, that it is literally my favorite anime now. 10/10. There is truly nothing in this world better than The Detective is Already Dead. This series deserves a movie, a second season.. no not even a second season 4 extra seasons. In fact we need this series to last longer than humanity itself, so when aliens look back into our world's history they can also watch The Detective is Already Dead. I do not know how else to describe this show other than an absolute beauty, from the characters having absolutely zero value to the idol scenes. Thisanime truly has it all, I always joked that having a beach episode was the dumbest thing but how about a cruise that lasts 3-4 episodes. I thought characters looking into their past was a generic attempt at filler but try having the whole anime just be the past. Time skips are no longer the biggest problem in life anymore when there are middle school children that the mc is literally falling for and proposing to. I wanted to take a second to voice my feelings on this show so badly because personally I feel actually so saddened that there is no second season in this show. It is truly life changing and has inspired me to even make an account on MAL and even go as far as to making a whole review. But somehow a fictional series has done so. Please go watch Tantei Wa Mou, shinderiu. It is truly a masterpiece, this is no anime. This is truly a modern day work of art.
defestore
Kadokawa is a Japanese media conglomerate founded in 1945. And it is the bane of my existence. Imagine this: in the leadup to your anime, you have to promote your show. Someone comes up with a brilliant idea: “let’s confuse them so much, they’ll HAVE to watch the show!” And what’s more, this idea actually fits with the themes of the story! And so, all the PR staff put their heads together and come up with an intriguing, faithful, and popular marketing campaign that garners eyes from all over. People are constantly speculating, discussing, and spreading the word about your adaptation! Bloody brilliant! The PR team’sdone its job, and a spectacular one at that. All you have to do now is execute even a HALF-decent adaptation and you’ll get a respectable number of BD/merch sales, possibly even enough to cover production costs. NOTHING can possibly go wrong.
Oh, wait.
There are a number of issues with your show. Subpar direction. Atrocious animation -- apart from one sakuga sequence in episode 1 by Hashimoto Ryuuki. Barely functional backgrounds. A disjointed story. How?
Well, your answer lies with 株式会社KADOKAWA - not Studio ENGI, as I, and many others, may be inclined to believe. Shall we begin?
Earlier this year, during KADOKAWA’s FY2020 report, the company outlined plans to ramp up anime production to 40 per year. 40. Per. Year. From. One. Company. It’s an obviously unsustainable plan - the industry in its CURRENT state is chock-full of production bottlenecks, overwork, and thin profit margins (if any at all). It didn’t bode well for anime as a medium. And Tantei wa Mou, Shindeiru. (Tanmoshi) is case in point.
Tanmoshi entered production in LATE 2020. FOR A JULY 2021 PREMIERE. To illustrate how absolutely absurd that is, in an absolute time crunch, a studio may be able to produce a fully-animated episode of an anime in five weeks. (That’s an incredibly unrealistic pace for even just one good episode, let alone an entire cour, but we’ll let it slide.) Tanmoshi has approximately 13 episodes worth of animation material (the first episode premiered with 50 minutes - which in itself was a terrible decision that I’ll get to later).
So, doing some very simple mathematics with some very unrealistic benefit of the doubt, 13*5 comes out to 65 weeks for Tanmoshi to be a fully finished product with regard to animation. Assuming a July 1 production start date - again, being very generous here - that’s STILL ONLY 52 WEEKS AND SOME CHANGE. Oh and, of course not accounting for national holidays like Obon in September of 2020. So - that’s a whole 13 WEEKS shaved off the schedule. Which, again, for those of us who have forgotten our times tables, is TWENTY. GODDAMN. PERCENT. With this, inevitably, comes outsourcing. And said outsourcing did not perform well. Which is not out of the norm. So, uh, no surprise that the anime really struggles on the production value side of things.
You may be wondering, what does Kadokawa have to do with this? Well - as the owners of the rights to Tanmoshi, it’s Kadokawa who both choose a time to approach a studio AND who largely dictate when an anime will premiere. THEY foisted this timeline upon ENGI. Logically, the next question would be “why didn’t ENGI simply reject the project?”
Well… they couldn’t. Kadokawa is the majority stakeholder of ENGI. ENGI is beholden to Kadokawa. It’s likely that no other studio could handle such a fantastical contract, and so it was dumped upon the youngling ENGI - who, by the way, don’t have the greatest track record when it comes to their anime.
All this begs the question, “how is this remotely beneficial for Kadokawa?” Easy: as a publishing company first and foremost, Kadokawa couldn't care less about studios, anime as medium, or adaptations. Their first and predominant priority is the promotion of source sales - the light novels, in this case. Anything else is a bonus. Which means, the adaptation did its job. The light novel has skyrocketed in Oricon sales rankings, with all five volumes out currently in the top 20. (The light novels are GOOD.)
Thus, most of this train wreck of anime can be wholly attributed to Kadokawa -- ENGI really just needed more time.
I say most, because while I addressed the categories of Art and Sound (all of the production value related stuff), I have yet to consider the merits of the story. As a diehard fan of the source, I have my prejudices here - but they probably won’t matter. This is an objectively trash adaptation story-wise, too.
Remember that 50-minute premiere episode I said I was going to get to? We’ve just gotten to it. A terrible decision to start the cour off. What the anime did was take a coherent story - and rearrange events in the timeline to the point where the intrigue, the charm, the suspense - all vanished. It took a well-developed but mysterious Siesta and inappropriately (in the context of the story) contrasted it to the seemingly 2D, bland Natsunagi. The characters didn’t work with the flow of the story. In essence, it made episode 1 work better than it should have had it kept a normal length and stuck to the story - but in relation to the rest of the show, IT DIDN’T MAKE SENSE.
The story jumped from setting to setting, seemingly with no distinction to the development of any character, and left plotlines hanging unresolved until a later point with a dissatisfactory conclusion supported by a lack of exposition and storytelling.
There were hints of the source’s brilliance and of passion/competency on the part of the staff throughout Tanmoshi. Episodes 1 and 4, episodes 8 and 10, they were tolerable, acceptable, even, in many aspects. But that isn’t enough to salvage a show. It simply isn’t. If you’re considering getting into this show, may I suggest the light novel? Because otherwise, the show isn’t worth your time.
2/10.
Thanks, Kadokawa.
skysurf
A reminder that a waifu character alone is not enough to carry a show, especially if she's already dead. This is a Frankenstein anime made of a convoluted mix of tropes: harem, mechas, tentacles, werewolves, aliens, terrorists, you name it. This anime did everything it could to call attention to it: white-haired waifu bait, a few seconds of high quality animation in episode 1, vtubers cameos, character designs that look stolen from 'Date a Live' and harem merchandise marketing, but after it got the attention it wanted, it was an utterly disappointment since it didn't have anything to stand on its own. The "mystery" consist of characterssaying that they "knew it all along" without providing any logic explanation to the viewer. The "comedy" consist of cringe "quippy" lines from the male MC, who is a middle schooler that somehow looks and acts like a salary man and doesn't change physically despite going through 4 years of puberty.
Characters are devoid of personality and sometimes even their basic reason for existing in the story is not clear. Female characters are harem fillers, enemy characters are dumber than a videogame set on "super easy" mode and the overall plot is full of contrived and absurd developments.
This anime may be a good watch for those who want to analyze a case study on "how not to write a story".
AtomicTopHat
The worst part of this anime is that it could have been good. Besides the first episode, the show feels like random clips from the second or even third season of a show. Plot threads are shown in flashbacks but instead of resolving them, they just create more plot threads that they don't do anything with. I never read the source material for Tantei wa Mou, Shindeiru... but I can't imagine how this was all supposed to work. The anime withholds 90% of the story from you and assures you that stuff was super cool. And then the plot twist only makes sense if theMC is a moron, but he is shown to be intelligent even if not as smart as the improbably Sherlockian titular character.
This could have been a fun show if they had presented things in a better way than completely at random.
KANLen09
"The Detective is Already Dead"? More like: "The Story/Plot is Simple-mindedly Predictable (on the back of our heads)"; "The Characters are Absurdly Boring (and one-sided)"; "The Animation (or rather the production) went from Heroic Sakuga to Zero"; "The Music is somewhat Decent"; and to sum it up: "The Anime is Already Doomed (after the double-length Episode 1, which was all style but no substance)". Being one of the most hyped (that's mostly from word-of-mouth from light novel readers) that in a bizarre turn of events, turned to one of the most disappointing shows of the derisory state of the Summer 2021 season, I'm sure that novelist Nigojuu had an idea ofdoing a work that he so desired to make, and it was deemed good in its written form. But aside from the naming convention that sounds like a clear reference to Hokuto no Ken's Kenshiro's famous catchphrase, and as "smart" as the anime wants us to believe it does, "Tantei wa Mou, Shindeiru." is a work that for the life of me (and many others) just couldn't seem to wrap around what it's trying to be.
Nigojūu's biography is far more interesting than his work, not gonna lie, and for real. You can read it on Wikipedia, but the TL;DR is this: this guy, during his university days, was influenced by Oreimo so much that he wrote some light novels, only to be met with disappointment. Years later with the release of Saekano, he took part in Comiket events, formed a Doujin circle and dedicated most of his time into writing light novels and responding to open calls when competitions arose, and this work won the grand prize for Media Factory's 15th MJ Bunko J Light Novel Newcomer Award in 2019, which simultaneously started serializing in November of that same year. Nigojū's influences when creating Tanmoshi (the short nickname of this work) are from Oreimo, Saekano and even Oregairu, which these 3 are romance light novels, and IMO, it's heavily influenced as the anime had showed. So, blame this guy all you want if Tanmoshi felt more like the detective's harem version of BBC's Sherlock.
And yes, the story/plot is just that: unknown enemies at work, detective earns a sidekick, and there it's off to solve the numerous cases of which all are linked to the usual organization ratcheting evil, how simple does that sound. The thing that makes Tanmoshi stand out is that the "legendary detective" Origami Tobiichi *oops, wrong character, ahem* Siesta, she is a kink of a potential waifu character that does what detectives do, but on an insane level. Dealing with shape-shifting beings from the underworld organization that is SPES, she is unstoppable in both action and wit to outwit them, even when she's already dead and has part of her organs transplanted onto others that can easily pass them off as being part of Siesta's party charade. If you were to ask me if this idea sounds fresh, it truly does feel that way. But the whole execution of the show of trying to leverage that fact of being a missionary detective class of a "smart-ass" case study just feels wrong on so many levels, and not to mention that there hardly isn't any kind of lore of rhyme and reason to it. Everything just screams: "Since the plot device is there, why not let's use to our fullest potential, even when it looks or sounds bad."
And you've guessed it, that plot device is rounded through Siesta's sidekick that is the "troublemaker" Kimihiko Kimizuka, a guy that's born with a condition that naturally attracts him to troublesome situations. You name it, he's in all of it. Being thrown into Siesta's detective mission on a whim, starting out with Episode 1's airplane hijacking that marks the start of the conflict between Siesta and SPES, he was literally forced into her mission without parole and acted as her sidekick for that duration. It was there when he made his mind to be her sidekick (NOT a detective, mind you) in the aftermath and proceeded to spent his time with her until the series' title beckons her fate. A fun fact that Kimizuka's voiced by a newbie whom only had an insignificant work to his name, and this is VA Arata Nagai's MC debut. What's surprising is that he sounds like most other veteran male VAs in the industry (something akin along the likes of Bunny Girl Senpai's Kaito Ishikawa), and for a first main role, he does the job well to give some personality to Kimizuka, because he's a largely boring character to look at. Something that I've noticed about Kimizuka, is that he has to be constantly spoon-fed with infodump, largely because he really doesn't know what's going on during his detecive adventures with Siesta, and that's fine.
But bring in the other girls that are attached to Siesta in one way or another (the weak-hearted Nagisa Natsunagi, the sapphire-eyed Chuunibyu idol Yui Saikawa, and the "before Kimizuka existed" assistant Charlotte Arisaka Anderson), and the show's rhythm immediately trenches akin that to a not-so-alike rom-com harem situation (that thankfully isn't a core theme of the show). Kimizuka IS supposed to take Siesta's place and rekindle his thoughts before these girls show up, but they sure took Siesta's position and made him look like the joker fool of a sidekick once again. I get it that Kimizuka's supposed to push the plot forward, but the incoherent storytelling that makes even lesser sense as the series progresses is its Achilles' Heel, so much that I gave up trying to analyze what could happen (as if the predictabilities aren't that obvious enough). Looking back on the influences of Oreimo, Saekano and Oregairu, the one thing that Nigojūu tried to do was to stand out in the least blatant way possible, but these influences (I'd reckon) got to his head too much that sometimes he sacrificed the story for characterization, which for a comparison, is the worst of the 3. Not everyone can be Kyosuke Kosaka, Tomoya Aki or Hachiman Hikigaya, and Kimizuka is almost completely devoid of his own instinctual humanity to act on his own behalf. A good character being dependent of, but not independently.
Making things worse is how Tanmoshi was marketed to increase the hype for both light novel readers and anime-onlies. For one, some of the promotional visuals released had both the original and "true" versions (which I know that not a lot of people would've even paid close attention in the first place). How this goes is that the original visual would be released first, then once the episodes relating to them had finished airing, the "true" visual would be released. It's not really a spoiler since it basically spoils the final product of the character arcs, and then again, it's a reference that only if you've watched the anime and went back to the visual, then it paints the difference. Also, a double-length episode is almost set and guaranteed to fail because of content that is hamfisted to give the audience some "perks" of its story to give it a great first impression (see this season's Bokutachi no Remake), only to be faced with the slow intake of brewing disappointment. It almost felt like that the studio behind this (ENGI) wanted to give a good proposition, so they went all out in the production to give an amazing Sakuga Episode 1 for all of us to be wowed. Sadly, being a studio that's tied to it's parent compaany Kadokawa (which this series is serialized under), after that inital episode, it completely burned out slowly but surely, and you can feel that creeping up when you least expected it. Heck, they even got Hololive's Shirakami Fubuki and Natsuiro Matsuri to be a cameo in an episode, so I can only commend on how hard the production team must've tried to drive the show's momentum. All of this begs the sole question: "So what's the point in all of this?"
If anything, the music's decent enough with at least a good OP and a decent ED. The OST which also tries hard to make it sound like an American or Japanese live-action themed detective show just...feels out of place, and is something that tries to push the envelope that it grates on my nerves quite a fair bit.
It pains me to say that Tanmoshi could be a lot more better if it knows how to balance between its slice-of-life and true detective moments in a coherent manner, because majority of the people who watch anime aren't deep thinkers, and they would pretty much prefer a tried-and-true detective show like Yuukoku no Moriarty a.k.a Moriarty the Patriot, which goes deep into the detective lore, making it a compelling watch. That said, I highly recommend you go and read the light novel, even if the storytelling's just as bad (or good, according to your tastes), but at least like your favorite fiction book, you will never stop wanting to read it to the end.
TL;DR Skip the anime, go for the light novel.
TheUnholySausage
Mystery, arguably the most eye catching and mind straining genre to experience in any medium. Seeing a case slowly unwrap itself, while you follow along and make your own conclusions is thrilling. Or if you’re as dumb as me, you have no clue what’s going on and just wait to get amazed by the big reveal. With timeless classics such as Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet, and The Moonstone to more modern cinematography pieces such as Will Smiths Bright or Id: ‘Invaded (pls watch this, its so good) the genre has cemented itself as an integral part in the media business. A good detectiveshow is made upon an intriguing yet overwhelmingly convoluting plot with sharp witted, intelligent yet charismatic characters. Unfortunately this show has none of this.
The plot if you could call it that, is like something out of a kid’s fantasy. The mc is a crisis magnet. He finds himself in various troubles against his will. One day he gets kidnaped by a group of unknown people and put on a plane where he is saved by a white haired girl who’s apparently a detective, who then decides to make the guy his partner and he accepts. What…?
You could already see some absurd flaws in this plot. What normal high school going teenager gets kidnaped for no reason. It’s absurd and so ungrounded from reality that it’s almost hilarious. Our mc gets saved by the detective. Now normally detectives don’t go around fighting crime like batman. They’re the brains of the operation, they approach the case with intellect, find clues, connect the dots and figure out the criminal who’s then dealt with by law enforcements. But out waifu detective goes against every trope that makes a good detective as she becomes the person to rescue him. She then offers him to join her in her journey. Any person with half a working brain cell will say “NO”. The mcs a self-aware trouble magnet, the last thing he needs is more trouble. The logical decision would be to steer clear of people with shady jobs. But guess what, he said yes, why wouldn’t he.
So we see Batman and Robin go and solve crimes together. It’s unnatural and downright unrealistic to see a high school student adapt this quickly to the life of a detective let alone be going around solving major criminal cases. Then we see the untimely death of the detective, which results in their journey coming to a close. The End…or I hoped it ended.
We see our mc go back to his normal life, cause that’s natural innit? One day you’re a detective fighting mafias, next day your back to being a high school student. He then meets many different girls, which already cements the fact that this show is gunna take a harem route, so all indications of a good detective show is thrown out the window. Instead we get this horrible, time-lapse of past and present. The formula doesn’t work, one episode he is talking to a couple of girls who are linked to a crime organization or something, the next episode the guys mourning Siestas death. It then shifts to the mc and Siestas journey 3 years ago as they travel the world solving crimes. The storytelling is horrible on the same level as Peach Boy Riverside, if not worse. This absurd changing of pace out of the blue doesn’t work. It’s a real emersion breaker, and makes an already nonsensical plot even more convoluted. The plot twists in this shows are horrible to the point they don’t make sense. They went with the whole Higurashi approach of showing major events before setting up the whole premise, except unlike Higurashi it just doesn’t click. It would have been better if his past with Siestas was just vaguely introduced in the first episode, and we uncovered more and more details as the episodes went on.
The plot is pure nonsensical mess. A detective show is meant to give you clues as you piece them together to find the truth hidden behind a curtain. The whole objective is to get you to think, make a conclusion by yourself before the big reveal, or add some misdirection’s in the plot to add an element of surprise when the culprit is eventually revealed. This show goes against all the tropes by either having completely absurd revelations or not revealing them at all. You spend your time wondering why something’s happening, and the show instead of slowly revealing the answer to you, drops a complete bomb shell out of nowhere. The whole mystery aspect of the show gets so absurd, to the point you just don’t care anymore. To call it a detective show is honestly an insult to an actually good detective show.
The main characters being the guy (forgot his name) and Siesta, dont go against the classic anime mc troupes. Siestas a big tiddy anime waifu. She’s the main attraction of the show and is probably the only reason this show was watched to begin with. She bares a striking resemblance to Origami from Date A Live, but nearly not as amusing to watch. She’s super generic and is personally the only likeable character of the show. Not because she’s over filled with a super charming and charismatic personality that makes you curious to see her journey through, more cause…well you already know. She’s a huge tension breaker. Whenever a serious situation arises she already knows what’s going to happen. How you ask? Who knows, it’s never explained. She’s purely set up for fan service. If the camera isn’t trying to show her cleavage or go up her skirt every 20 secs, she will start flirting with the mc to remind you that there’s obvious romantic chemistry between them, which is completely disemboweled due to the super awkward and cringy character interactions. Personal bias, I have a ting for white haired waifus (Teletha Testarossa supremacy), so to me she’s 10/10 absolute perfection.
The mc, is as tasteless as plain rice, no that’s honestly an insult to rice. He’s flavorless, bland and all around super boring. From the initial depictions you can’t tell if this guy has yet to reach puberty or has a family of 4 with a mortgage. I can only describe him as the weird half-brother of Sakuta from Bunny Girl Senpai. They’re both emotionless to the point they get extremely unlikeable. There’s no hint of charisma or quirkiness in the guy. His overtly mature personality is super boring. He has banter with all the side girls, but that’s the extent you’ll see him somewhat act like a human, and not a complete vegetable.
The side characters are forgettable. They are there for the sake of being there, and the shows fully aware of it to the point that there left completely redundant, both plot and animation wise. They’re super unmemorable, and nothing about any of them sticks out.
The detective isn’t the only thing that died….the animation died with her. The show nosedives when it comes to quality. The animation goes from being acceptable and bright in episode one to all characters besides the two mc, looking like the weird doll villain out of Resident Evil 8. Where did the budget go studio? Clearly not towards the plot cause that’s still horrendous. If there isn’t enough resources to even properly animate the side characters who have recurring appearances in the show, you can only imagine how horrible the other parts of the show might look. If you’re thinking that the animation can act as a saving grace from the horrendous plot, Im sorry to say but you’ll be extremely disappointed.
The best I could describe this show would be a parody of detective shows. Like a shitty movie created by middle schooler’s for their drama class. It’s not even a “so bad its good kind” of show, it’s honestly just bad. The plot is a mess, I feel like I’ve repeated that sentence about 50 times and still haven’t properly expressed how awful the plot is. They go against every core elements of a good detective show. An intriguing case, a witty, charismatic yet determined and serious when the situation arises kind of detective, a slow paced plot where they leisurely reveal certain clues so you could form a theory of your own as your follow along the story, an element of surprise while revealing the culprit or critical plot points, and a completely wrapped up, fully explored ending. None of these criteria’s are ticked. Instead they went with the classic route of adding a harem into everything. The whole detective aspect in the show is nonexistent, and seems more like Clickbait than anything. Save yourself 4 hours of your life and do anything else rather than watching this show. If you want to watch a good mystery show, I highly recommend Monster, Mushishi, Great Pretender, Id Invaded or any of the Kara no Kyoukai movies. They’re all better, intriguing and overwhelming shows and more worth watching than this dumpster fire.
bulkyhog
Welcome to this season’s brand new edition of “Poor Light Novel Adaptations!” I’m your host bulkyhog, and today, we’ll be discussing why you shouldn’t waste 5 hours of your life watching this hot garbage! It certainly doesn’t take a legendary detective to realise what crime was committed here. Yet again, we have an adaptation of a light novel that god knows why got the green light. While 86 was bad (fight me I dare you), it was at least not as bad and also popular enough to justify an adaptation. But this? No significant fanbase to work with, so the studio really chose this seriesout of all the possibilities to gamble a big hit on. I guess the anime industry has dried up the isekai well already so it’s on to chums like this now.
After watching 4 episodes where I literally fell asleep halfway through, I strongly considered dropping this series right then and there. But I forced myself through it so you folks looking to binge seasonals once they’re done know what to do: avoid this show at all costs.
Is there anything enjoyable about this series? Absolutely not! You’ll find nothing but lackluster plot, lackluster characters, and most importantly, god awful directing and cutting! I’ve seen amateur film projects in high school produced with better sequencing of cuts than this shit. Just check out EP 3 for example: it feels like 4-5 distinct 5 min long episodes randomly spliced together. You have music trailing off and some “inspirational” or finale-like lines from a character as the camera pans up to the sunset in the sky, only to be jolted awake with random chit-chat as Kimizuka and Siesta 2.0 walk down the street discussing their assignment.
Don’t even get me started on the characters. I haven’t come across characters this one-dimensional and boring since your average shounen power fest. MC and his harem are beyond lame. Even in the scope of the hundreds of mass-produced romcoms the anime industry has shoved out, none come close to matching the lack of distinction and “character” as Tantei wa Mou Shindeiru’s cast.
But I think this anime’s truly biggest flaw is the bloated shitty dialogue. There’s so much dialogue and conversation thrown around between characters, but less than 10% of the show’s total is actually relevant to character or plot development. Take EP 5 where Siesta and MC are talking during the flashback. Literally 90% of their conversation is just random shit that you could not listen to and still be up to date with the plot. This “conversation” also doesn’t progress characters either. Not using chances like this for meaningful character development is a heinous crime indeed. In the off chance dialogue is relevant to the series, it’s often so cliche or normal that you can predict the lines that’re gonna be said, almost as if a 4th grader wrote them. In the “climax” of EP 4, I literally predicted every single line in the exchange between the MC and the idol chick. Am I an unparalleled genius or is the show just that bad at writing dialogue? Take your pick.
No engaging or interesting plot, no deep thematic messages to unravel, no hype action scenes, no touching character moments/dynamics/development, and no skills when it comes to directing episodes. You can ask me a thousand times what’s good about this anime and my answer will remain the same: literally nothing. There is nothing unique about this anime that warrants watching it, so don’t waste your time and move on to literally anything else. Even hentai is worth more than this shit since you can jerk it off and get some post-nut clarity.
saurabhshivam
Its Really nice and enjoyable anime please don't judge quickly by some others reviews Season 2 have Happy ending its already annonced it Volume 5 light novel have super awsome plot twisted with huge surprise. This anime have comedy interesting engaing story Worth Watching, Character Design is Really impressive that character design don't Need Fan art that much awesome. I will buy all Light Novel and Manga to because i want season 2 soon possible with my own earning i Guaranteed You will like to. Main Character Siesta girl is super smart like Sherlock home and looks exact Pretty cute doll you to fell in love that character itsAvailable in crunchyroll app with English DUB,Hindi DUB, Japanese DUB WATCH IT YOUR FAVRATE LANGUAGE
Sasu2chan
After a year of sitting at episode 6, I finally finished this show. There's a reason it took so long. It ain't good. Horrible dialogue, horrible characters (even Siesta), and some of the worst pacing I've seen in an anime. The only saving grace could possibly be the art not looking horrible, and music that is passable at best. If you're thinking of starting this anime because the premise sounds cool, don't bother. The plot is so all over the place, the main gimmick of the show (the detective already being dead) just doesn't work well. Lots of the show isway too dragged on to the point of nauseum. Aspects that don't even matter all too much either.
All in all, Would not recommend. Don't fall for the trap a lot of us fell into. Escape while you still can.
ren0080
What happened? How does it happened? Why does it happened? Basically sums up my whole experience with this anime. From start to finish, I never had a good grasp of what's happening. It's a wild mess of an anime. The story is pretty weird. The first episode is enough to show anyone that. I thought this show would be a grounded mystery show investigating the dead of the detective... but boy I was wrong. It's pretty much just a fantasy anime in modern setting. The detective stuff is basically non-existent due to how the mary sue main character "solves everything before it happen". There's no investigation, deduction, andit just heads to confrontation just to show the action. If you're expecting some Sherlock Holmes sh*ts here, then you'll be disappointed as much as I do.
There's also the fact that the pacing is pretty bad. 80% of this show is basically flashback which isn't bad by any means if those were meaningful flashbacks... which they weren't. I won't say anything past that since it'll be a spoiler if I do.
The characters are mediocre. Just like I mentioned, the main character, Siesta, is a mary sue. She's called the great detective but there isn't anything in this series that shows the audience why she's great. The only reasons for her "deductions" is that she solves everything even before it happened. Like bruh, that's one of the laziest explanations I've heard. Don't get me started on the cardboard main character, kimizuka, as well as the underdeveloped side characters that this show have.
The animation is decent at best. It's clunky, sometimes even off-model, and just limited animation at times. It definitely had some good animation sprinkled throughout the series, but majority of the animation is below average.
The music is good. It's nothing too major that affects the scenes to make them memorable, but the ost does it's jobs well to compliment the scenes. The opening and ending are pretty nice as well.
Overall, just a disappointment mess of an anime. I think that the novel is better than this mess, but since I never read it, I can't tell you anything.
Mykes
Basically, another shitty anime that got hype because of cute girls... Writing my first review just to shit on this anime. It's a story about so called "LegEnDaRy dEteCtive" which gets mentioned like every 5 seconds which makes you question if life is worth living.. *sigh* As a mystery/detective story lover it's a disgrace that leaves bad taste in my mouth. They even had the audacity to mention Baker Street smh "This is absurd." - MC's quote describes the Plot so well. There is no logic or reasoning much less any deducing or solving mysteries from anime with "detective" in its title. Story, pacing, timeline... everything is all overthe place but the worst thing is this anime takes its self seriously which makes it 100x worse.
Bad story aside the conversations are dry as a desert with forced monologues and fake emotions. There is no chemistry or charm to these 1-dimensional characters as much as this anime wants you to believe.
Overall only thing that's going for it is the Art style and Animations which immediately loses its value when characters talk over them like shut your damn mouth for 20 minutes, please.
Falls40
This review might contain some spoilers! 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 someplot 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
SanaeK10
If TanMoshi was just nothing but a detective duo solving mysteries with ridiculous leaps of logic with shallow but entertaining Monogatari-esque musings on philosophy, like what the first episode implied, I would have enjoyed it nonetheless. I consider myself to be someone who's willing to look past a lot of jank to find something, some semblance of passion or heart even in flawed projects. But this... this show has tried my patience a lot. TanMoshi is a goddamned slog. It is so utterly boring with unlikable characters stringing you along for the whole ride. There is nothing worth watching in this. Kimi is such a blackhole of personality that he sucks out everything there is in this show with his drabness. The other side characters don't do much either. Siesta is fun in the first episode but bizzarely just lacking in the flashbacks with her, and everyone else is just bland. I get that this is a LN adaptation and is very heavy on the narration. Fine, lots of shows do that. But TanMoshi never has anything interesting in its narration or inner monologues. It's all mostly very obvious thoughts or plans of action on the current situation. There is nothing clever or witty to the writing. It's just so boring.
And don't even get me started on the story. I was thinking, maybe, just maybe they'd pull off something clever with the show near the end. Like you know, maybe Kimi isn't such a useless dumbass and is actually secretly planning some 5D chess move or just anything. But no, everyone is just an idiot and the most obvious plot "twist" that happens right in front of his face with Hel, Nagisa, and Siesta's circumstances go completely, and I mean, completely unnoticed by him all throughout the adventure and I just can't stand it.
The funny (or sad) thing with this show is that every week I watch it, I completely forget what even happened in the episode come the following day. Apart from the very first episode. I was fully expecting to maybe riff on the ridiculous detective action from this show, but man, week after week, this show is just giving me nothing. It's a vacuum of creativity and story telling. A cautionary tale that even the most chuuni-sounding premise can fall completely flat on its face and deliver an uninspiring experience to the viewer. Beware all ye who enter indeed.
2/10
FATMANBELUGA
This is going to be a short review but I just need to talk about how bad this show is. I clicked onto this series thinking it would be something like this: This Ace detective and her sidekick go around the world and solve mysteries, but in an unexpected turn of events, the Ace detective is found murdered. Now the sidekick has to go from being a sidekick to the ace detective to solve the murder of his Partner. There could be some Death note mind games shit happening or they can go for a more dramatic approach. Now take everything I just said andthrow it in the trash because this horrible show is a battle harem. And not even a good battle Harem with good fights. I almost fell asleep while watching it. I genuinely wanted to drop this show 4 times but toughed it out because it was only 12 episodes. What is the point of creating something with such a cool title and concept if you’re just gonna create another shitty battle harem. If I wanted to watch a battle harem I’d watch any modern Isekai. This is genuinely my least favourite anime of all time.
meatball1
Story: 2 The story of “The Detective is Already Dead” is about a mysterious girl claiming to be a detective, and the main character got caught up in some events as the girl’s sidekick. Up to this point, you are probably thinking about what kind of mystery it will offer in the following episodes and how both characters will solve them. However, you will be disappointed if you believe that this anime is anything close to a mystery anime. Unlike other detective stories, such as Sherlock and Detective Conan, it offers no mystery because everything is explained right at your face. Even in an anime likeDetective Conan, where the culprits’ motives are stupid, each case successfully builds up suspense and allows the audience to engage in solving the cases. Apart from this, the supposed female main character, aka the detective, Siesta, shows up only around 5 times in the entirety of 12 episodes. The male main character, Kimihiko, aka the sidekick, paired up with another random girl and they started their journey to do God knows what. The story jumps from point A to point B and to point Z, and this is not an exaggeration. Everything part of the story is being tossed around with no explanation and occasionally some flashbacks are supposed to depict the relationship between Siesta and the MC. The story is a disaster because the story doesn’t know which direction to go and there’s no consistency in anything.
Art: 4
The first episode is where all the budget is and when animators are hired. In the first episode, the animations are amazing with 360 camera angles and constant movements on the plane. The way the fight scene was animated makes you feel the momentum and intensity of the battle without giving you the time to breathe. There are certain times when I thought that the entire anime is going to be this good and I just came across a hidden gem in the mines. It turns out to be that I was wrong the whole time, and everything turned to sh!t afterward. After the first episode, I have two speculations: The animators died from exhaustion or there’s no budget left. The still motion and PowerPoint scenes disappointed me after seeing how great the animation is in episode 1. Other than the first episode, nothing from the rest of the anime is impressive as they look bland and uninteresting. By the way, the colors the anime decided to use lean towards a greyish style, so nothing looks vibrant or colorful in a way.
Sound: 3
The opening and ending are both pretty nice to listen to, but other than that nothing stands out in any particular way. Everything after episode 1 shrinks in terms of quality, so there’s nothing to expect from it. The opening and ending have high replayability as they are well produced by the singers.
Characters: 1
The male MC, Kimihiko, is probably one of the blandest characters you can ever see in an anime. You cannot separate him from Hyouka’s MC as they are identical. The MC tried to give off this “I don’t care,” “I’m bored,” and “I don’t want to do your bidding” attitude, but in the end, he will do everything for Siesta, the female MC. His personality is also the same as many other MCs, which is shoving his ideologies down other people’s throats. It is so one-dimensional to the point where it’s annoying to watch him on the screen and you will hope that he can just shut up for real.
Siesta is one of the female MCs, but a girl named Nagisa takes her place (literally) by having 90% of the screen time. Both characters are the same because they have no personality whatsoever, and they exist for Kimihiko’s sake. Their backstories are not sad or touching because the anime did not bother to elaborate more on them, and they give you the feeling of “oh that’s it? Huh, interesting.” Notice how I did not mention any other characters or villains? That is because they don’t matter to the story at all. The “villain” is an evil organization that is evil because it is evil…Yep, that’s how it is. With or without them, the story can continue perfectly fine, so I don’t even want to bother writing about them.
Verdict: 1
I’m one of the idiots on the internet that got tricked into wanting to watch this anime after seeing the PV released by the anime studio. Throughout my watching experience, I find myself dozing off because of the terrible writing and I have a hard time trying to piece everything together. I regret my decision to watch it, and I hope none of you waste your time on this.
GotS
Howdy everyone! And welcome to “Garbage of the Season [3]!” The series where I discuss the current season's trashy pile of unwatchable monstrosities so that mom can’t say I’m doing nothing with my life. But before I start, I’d suggest you smash that helpful button and click on notifications so that you won’t miss out on any of my upcoming reviews. So without further ado, roll the intro… *Sarah Brand - Red Dress starts playing* … *End of intro* Today’s garbage is the ever popular The Detective Is Already Dead. A mystery show where the biggest mystery is how it was ever greenlit. It’s an abhorrent clusterfuck from startto finish. With a script worthy of being the toilet brush in every bathroom of Taco Bell, before then getting nuked several times over.
If you’re looking for a good mystery with fun crime-solving then this show will give you the opposite of what you are looking for, as well as severe headaches and permanent eye damage. Just stop reading this review (but don’t forget to smash the helpful button and subscribe) and pretend that this piece of fiction never existed. Any actual crime-solving is kept to the minimum amount and is never actually fun. For the mystery is more often than not near impossible to figure out because they don’t give you enough information. That and the characters solve it almost immediately because “a true detective gets a handle on a case before the incident occurs” or some bullshit. Plus that the show contains supernatural elements and logic is an afterthought, so anything goes really.
But what’s the anime about then? The answer is waifus. It’s about selling merchandise of all the waifus. There’s a reason why in every arc the anime covers, there’s a new girl that gets center focus. I assume these arcs have been jumbled because the narrative is very disjointed. Both new and old characters just pop up out of nowhere and there’s never a clear sense of where the show is headed. It feels like they improvised the script for every episode as they were making them. It’s that messy.
But who cares about the story? You can’t smash a story like you can a waifu after all (or the helpful button). So what really matters is that the waifus are S-tier, and they are. S as in suck that is! They undeniably exist for the lone purpose of being waifu bait. You could tell that by their introductions alone, being that they randomly appear out of thin air. That’s not an exaggeration, they are literally shoehorned in precisely when the story needs them to. And yet they don’t even succeed with their one purpose. White bread is more appealing than they are. Yes, that also includes Siesta the Mary Sue. Now try to solve the mystery of what the main guy is supposed to be! That’s right! You!
The character designs aren’t bad at least but everything around them looks horrendous. The contrast between the characters and the backgrounds makes it look like they're in front of a green screen. It’s not authentic looking at all. Most of the animation budget ran out after the ten seconds of incredible animation in the first episode. Leavening the rest to look stilted and clumsy.
In its sound department the anime delivers nothing but toilet sounds. The music is uninspired and boring. The sound effects are often laughable. And even the voice acting ranges between okay to straight up embarrassing.
To summarize, I would describe this show the same way as eating ice cream in the winter. Just wrong in every sense of the word. But you know something that isn't wrong in every sense of the word? Me...GotS! And this has been Garbage of the Season! Leave your thoughts about The Detective Is Already Dead in the comments below and I’ll see you in the next review. But before I roll the outro I have something important to share with you guys.
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