Trickster is right!, as in this anime tricked you into watching this borefest. It's not something I'd really recommend, but I won't highly discourage someone from watching it either. I really liked it at first, but it quickly became just an ok anime due to all the different events being thrown at you in kind of a non orderly fashion. I still enjoyed Trickster, but my enjoyment lessened overtime. Reducing the character numbers by a few would've helped a bit. They got some development in the second half, but a lot of them were kept off screen most of the time. Kobayashi, Hanasaki, Akechi, and the rest didn't really evolve much during the first half of the show. The character department is kind of a mess. I do like the second opening theme and ending theme. The art isn't really special, but it at least captures the tone of the vents properly. Hanasaki meets Kobayashi in the first episode, who has a power that prevents him from dying, and it goes on from there into cases being solved, character turmoil, and bunch of random stuff. The story is about a bunch boys in the Boys Detective club solving cases they take up. It could've been a lot better, but it wasn't a bad show. Trickster was actually an alright show, overall. I'm not mad at this show, it just makes me sad. Plenty of other mysteries like The Perfect Insider, Erased, Higurashi, or literally anything else with the "Mystery" tag will be more entertaining than this. If you want something dark and mysterious in the vein of Agatha Christie or Conan Doyle, or more to the point Edogawa Ranpo, watch either Ranpo Kitan for a more direct adaptation or Kindaichi for some dumb fun. I would review the characters and story and all the rest, but there are none. There are a few moments that look like they just colored the story boards and skipped everything else. Without exaggerating in the slightest, it looks like they couldn't even be bothered to finish. I don't know if they knew they had a stinker on their hands and pulled the entire animation budget, or if they simply didn't give any more of a crap than I did at that point, but all of a sudden what was once simply disappointing suddenly became catastrophic. And then episode 8, when I said, "F this show for REAL." Until this point, nothing had been unforgivable, I simply couldn't bring myself to care about it. It has, unfortunately, been chugging along at the same level of bland for the past 7 episodes. the next one will be better." Upon the next one being pretty much the same, the writing on the wall was becoming pretty clear. Then I watched the first episode of the show, and at the end I said to myself, "Well that was kinda boring and lackluster, but I bet It didn't even have to be good, just in some small way enjoyable and then I would've been IN. There have been other recent anime influenced by the work of Edogawa Ranpo that have been pretty enjoyable, namely Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace and my favorite dumb anime from the 90s Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo, so I was really pulling for this one to at least be fun. I went into this show with a lot of hope.
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