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| meh, this one doesn't suck but it is only a 6 and barely above average. i watched this one years ago... not long after it first came out... i was quite hesitant back then because reading the synopsis i didn't figure it would be worth my time. i just forgot to put this anime on 'MyList' back then and decided to rewatch it now to ensure i treated it fairly with comments and rating. as a 'Purist Sherlockian' AKA one of the Doyle fans who almost entirely criticizes ANY thing not 'real Doyle'... most of the 'Holmes' that has come out of Japan... that disgusting travesty Moriarty, which i dropped like a nuclear meltdown hot potato... and Kabuki-cho Sherlock of which i wasn't all that impressed with... are the only examples of 'Holmes' from Japan in my experience. well, that one bit with him and etc. in Undead Girl Murder Farce... which was a good show but the Holmes in it was just barely ok. to me, in my humble opinion, Japan shouldn't touch Holmes with a ten-mile length pole and a bundle of dynamite tied to the point. their culture and mystery writing is entirely and utterly different than Doyle's and our US interpretations. Japan just needs to stick to stuff like Conan and their own authors and quit adapting Doyle in ANY way. frankly, CBS' remake Elementary with Lucy Liu and Jonny Lee Miller as Dr. Watson and Holmes is my fave American Holmes production and of course the BBCs Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman (Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss from Doctor Who writing/producing didn't hurt Sherlock in my eyes a bit) is the best Brit one. not to say Christopher Lee's 'Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace' from 1962 wasn't awesome! even MDJ and Jude Law did an 'ok' job with Sherlock in their two movies... these examples of modernized Doyle 'moving pictures' are the best ones in my eyes. as to the best of the best 'period setting' Sherlock? the old TV serial from 1984-85 with Jeremy Brett and David Burke by Granada Television and first aired in the US on the A&E Network was my first 'experience' outside of Doyle's works. still today i think it is the best produced 'period correct' Sherlock. even at 8 years old and freshly finishing all the Sherlock content Doyle ever printed for the first of dozens of times in my life... Brett/Burke still have a warm, cozy, and coal soot-stained place in my heart. Holmes of Kyoto? sigh. just using The Name will make me grit my teeth like a horse biting the bit and ready to buck like mad. but, this isn't a Doyle adaptation so... i'll attempt to take this show on its face value. art, just barely ok. animation, horrifically bad in so many places i'm appalled that a highly lovely history of porn/H by SEVEN (yes, they're an anime studio with a PUBLIC and same name porn/H branch) created this show. the hands. watch peoples' hands in this show. they're pathetic. the writing? uggghhhh sub-par at best. the fake priest running around NOT arrested? the room of attempted murder conspirators not arrested? the guy in EPISODE ONE not arrested for trying to pass a counterfeit tea mug as an antique? the mysteries are ok. not disgustingly simplistic or childish. but they were all flat and so detail poor BEFORE the 'big reveal' that i'm thinking the source author is a hack loser with no talent and/or the screenwriters at SEVEN were and are so used to porn/H adaptations that they're useless mouth-breathers. the romance/relationships written into this show? pathetic. some are wretched and twisted in nature, others are just ugghhhh baad! writing! if you want a brain-dead, spoon feed you everything mystery anime? watch this one, otherwise... give it a pass. |
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luinthoron said:
Is it just me, or was that a stealth confession from Kiyotaka?
Is it just me, or was that a stealth confession from Kiyotaka?
Possibly... But I doubt Aoi knows the meaning behind it.
| @booyah10 that saying of "the moon is beautiful tonight" is by Natsume Soseki,,, and yep it is damn famous in Japan. so if she didn't know it? she's a dunce of the highest caliber. |
| just an ol school American otaku enjoyin the life. don't sass me kiddies, i've been otaku probably since before you were born. leave me in peace and i won't bother you either. |
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