Audience reviews
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Tulipfera
Gonna try to tip the scales here.
To those reading the reviews to see if you are going to watch it or not, do NOT listen to the negative reviews, just see for yourself.
I read the reviews before watching and they were mostly negative. I stopped reading them so I didnt persuade my brain to expect it to be bad.
I ended up really enjoying it, like a lot. I laughed, I gasped, and teared up, I enjoyed the music, and the characters, and the storytelling. Ive seen some truly bad shows, but this one wasn't bad at all.
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(This review has been adapted from my blog/reddit thread. Spoilers ahead!)
Crime has been around for as long as humans have roamed the Earth. While it would be awesome if everyone held hands and made peace and sang carols, an idyllic world of that kind simply does not exist. There are “bad apples” everywhere. People who, for whatever reason, resort to crime.
Ranpo Kitan: Game of Laplace centers on crime like pedophilia, torture, and murder. Grotesque crime, but crime all the same. It shows the lengths people on both sides of the law will go to and what that means for everyone in society.
I have never committed a crime and I have (thankfully; knock on wood) never been the victim of a crime. Someone did steal a USB drive of mine once, but I was not so annoyed that I wanted to call for an…
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As I normally do, I will have spoilers as you can't really explain how good/bad the story flows without actually explaining/telling parts of the story. So don't read if you don't want to get spoiled.
Story: 1
For an 11 ep series, it sure took its time to get to the main story: the Twenty Faces identity. The first few eps are largely character introductions, showing how inadequate the police force is, how great Akechi is and how unjust the justice system is. It dragged on needlessly as it could have easily been condensed within two episodes; maybe even one. And even when Twenty Faces was introduced it dragged on quite a bit with continuous side missions/mysteries.
The highlight was when the origin of Twenty Faces was revealed and that was when it became interesting. Unfortunately the wr…
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SPOILERS: This show is garbage. It started as a simple, but decent murder mystery show. But then it goes into WTF territory of pretentiousness, head scratchers and forehead smacking that would have Evangelion telling it to relax.
This show sucks.
What’s good?
The main character Kogorou Akechi is the cool headed boy detective that I actually grew fond of as the show progresses. Always one step ahead, brilliant and having a sympathetic motivation, Akechi is what keeps the audience drawn to the show.
Souji Hashiba is possibly one of the most underutilized characters in the show, which is a shame. He doesn’t do much in the show, but the scenes with him (sans that trap) are some of the best moments in the show. I liked that he is straight man of the main trio while Akechi and that other on…
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Another anime ruined be its ending. I am very picky, even small things can ruin my mood. This ending definitely ruined the enjoyment for me. Was expecting an ending more like the one in fight club and not a wimpy nonsensical melodramatic wannabe happy one.
Story:
The story in a way is the embodiment of a shapeshifter transposed into the plot of a series. Interesting in itself, but as a result it's creepy and unenjoyable.
So it first starts of as a nice mystery anime, with murder solving elements, although a bit awkwardly exaggerated it was still great and from the first episode on i only expected it to be a mix of horror and detective crime solving anime. Would have been truly awesome.
However the 2nd or 3rd episode, not sure which, starts a bit comical with a guy wearing a bag over his…
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In the first 3 episode, I started to think that this series was interesting. But in the last 3 episodes, it all goes wrong..., in almost every aspects.
I will first discuss the story, the anime was identified as the mystery genre with no other genres. I should say that at first, the story promising many things. As we know, in mystery series, there's only one item that been offered to us. And the answer is 'the mystery' itself, but if we identified all of the available cases in Game of Laplace, there's not much mystery in it. It just a blank question that ready to be answered at any time and any place. The bad thing is the anime unable to present intense mystery settings to the screen. Which a fatal error to the story plus the enjoyment. Imagine this,
"Have you had any idea if we watch a d…
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This is an odd noitaminA series celebrating the temporary entry of Edogawa Rampo's work into the public domain. (@$%# TPP rubbish) The series isn't a whodunnit, but resides firmly on the crime story or borderline horror end of the mystery genre. Rampo, like his namesake, frequently wrote about horrific things so this isn't an inappropriate focus. His work has been turned into a horror anthology film (Rampo Noir), and the only readily available English translation of his work for a while was the inclusion of "The Human Chair" in the My Favorite Horror Story anthology. The series probably shouldn't have been billed as a mystery for western audiences, but that has little to do with the work's quality itself.
Story: I've seen a lot of complaints about tone shifts, but have watched enough liv…
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Ranpo Kitan: Game Of Laplace was created to commemorate the passing of the famous Japanese author, Edogawa Rampo. And just as his literature was, Game of Laplace is dark, twisted, and all over the place. The weird thing though, is that it's all done with a smile. All of these grotesque scenarios like: Child abduction, self-mutilation, murder...they're all presented lightheartedly as if they were no big deal whatsoever. And if that sounds weird to you now, you don't even know the half of it. Ranpo Kitan is one of the most creative shows I have seen in quite a long time. However, it has come under fire as of late by many viewers who see it as "Too sporadic and odd to provide a positive watching experience". That isn't a direct quote, but I feel like I paraphrased a good portion of the commun…
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I really don't want to 'pile on' the Ranpo Kitan: Game of Laplace troll train. This show has been shat on and abandoned by so many bloggers and critics that it needs no more of that. Rather, though I'm giving this show an overall score of 4, I'd like to mount a short defense of the show. I do not regret watching it, and would encourage others to do the same.
Warning: some spoilers, though nothing too significant, follow.
Here are what I believe to be the greatest problems with the show, and the ones most criticism live on:
The mysteries are not great, and billing this as a detective, or mystery, show is somewhat untrue. Leaps of logic, insane and often inane conclusions based off the most meager of evidence, frequent the show. The cases are often punctuated by brief bouts of melodrama,…
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Honestly I wish there were a negative scoring system because I don't think this even deserves a 1.
Story - 1/10
Unfortunately, any attempt to establish a plot utterly failed. Most episodes just seemed like a generic crime show where they would present the case and then come up with a culprit out of nowhere. Aside from that, there were a few episodes which were so cliche that they were utterly predictable.
Art - 1/10
Animation seemed really lazy for this anime. Most notably the fact that all the characters irrelevant to the plot were just grey blobs. Sound - 1/10
A lot of people seemed to like the OP and ED, personally I disliked them. Nothing from the OST really stood out either.
Characters - 1/10
The characters were really one-dimensional in this series and they utterly failed…
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The Academy Awards, also known as The Oscars, is an annual American award that honors the best in cinema and their achievements in the film industry. Since its introduction in 1929, winning this award has become the gold standard to which movie titles are measured against, as well as the end goal that many bigwigs within the film industry aim for. It encourages innovation and progress, which is always a good thing in any form of storytelling medium.
And while the Oscars celebrates the "best of the best," there's an equally recognizable award that does just the opposite, The Golden Raspberry Awards. Better known by its shortened name The Razzies, since 1980, it has served as the antithesis of the Oscars by honoring the "worst of the worst" to come out of the film industry. Needless to say,…
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Okay okay, before I get backlashed for my "high" rating, please read this (almost lengthy) review.
For a disclaimer, I haven't read any of the source material. I've heard bad things about this adaption, but I can't agree or disagree. But you have my condolences on it not being to your standards, really, I understand. And yes I'll probably read the source material in the future.
Story - 7/10
The story, for my tastes, was interesting for the most part. There of course are lots of things I wish they had done differently, but you can't win 'em all I guess. For example the "comedy" relief in Ranpo Kitan isn't that great. I didn't find most of it actually "funny." Then again, humour is subjective. The characters are also a disappointment, but I'll get more into that later.
The actual plot…
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Ranpo Kitan - Game Of Laplace is one of the three shows that aired in Summer 2015 from relatively new studio, Studio Lerche. This was the studios first time ever producing more than 2 anime in a year, and I must say, besides one major fault, this, as one of the 4 series from them this year, is my favourite.
Let's get the bad thing out of the way. The execution of the writing. The first 2 episodes and the last 5 episodes I absolutely loved, however, all that was in-between I would have counted as filler if they didn't come into use (even though small) in easily one of the best finale's of the year. Their were three writers to the series, and all had their own distinct style which creating a bit of a problem for many watchers. The weakest out of which is the writer not mentioned in the staf…
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DISCLAIMER: I haven't read any of Sir Edogawa's work when I wrote the review for this anime.
Ranpo Kitan is an anime coming from the mystery genre which produced Un-Go, Hyouka and Case Closed. The show's setup was good enough. The characters are quirky enough. The premise of the mysteries was creepy enough to pick the interest of the audience. To be honest, I really thought it can be a successor of Un-Go but what went wrong with this show? Oh well, let's proceed with the review.
Ranpo Kitan's direction is more mysterious than the story itself because the way on how the outcome of stories were solved was bereft of any thrill and life. It was also randomly handled at times that it managed to squeeze all the characters in a single episode for God knows why. It can also be inferred that one…
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A damn shame, i didn't had a lot of hype about it but i was hoping that it would end up good.
It failed.
Ranpo Kitan is an anime to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Edogawa Ranpo. He's pretty much of the godfather of mystery series. If he was alive, i'm not sure if he would be happy about this adaptation of his works with the modern twist of these days.
For the story, i'll not talk about it you can just read the synopsis. However, what i can say is that the mysteries around the cases aren't really good. They are cases that could have been interesting but it goes so fast and they don't even show you a clue, they just throw the answer like that.
''Hey, we never showed you that girl or these clue but it doesnt matter, that's what happened deal with it.''
Where's the fun…
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Ranpo Kitan: Game of Laplace Review
Story (5/10) Mediocre
I'm not going to be doing a synopsis in this section I will be talking about how I felt about the overall story in general. The first episode made it seem like the all of the episodes would be able who framed the MC but that mystery gets solved within the first two episodes. After that it turns into an episodic anime filled with some controversial, sometimes interesting and sometime not interesting episodes. The the last like 4 episodes try to all connect together an introduce an antagonist for the sake of having some sort of series finale feeling which was an ok little arc but not enough to suffice and withhold anything better than a 'fine' for the overall story for the anime.
Art (8/10) Very Good
The art for the anime is reall…
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As of the time I'm writing this the last episode of Ranpo Kitan has finished airing. This series is genuinely decent. Just decent. If you're just looking to find a 'masterpiece' this show is not for you.
Also I'll just go ahead and tell you that as you go into this series, expect all sort of disturbing, disgusting things. The series is very gory and it's themes and undertones aren't exactly child friendly. So just a heads up, the show is messed up from day 1.
It's biggest flaws include it's story and character development. There are continuous plot holes that by rules I cannot discuss now, but they take away from the overall quality of the show especially from the first few episodes.
This show is also somewhat confusing for some viewers as some episodes leave you with questions and le…
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This anime to me resembles a lot like Tokyo ESP v2.0. It is pretty sad to say that Kishi Seiji has declined in quality ever since Persona 4 the Golden Animation which I didn't watch.
STORY (3):
This anime marks the 50th anniversary of Edogawa Ranpo's passing. Edogawa Ranpo was known as the Sir Author Conan Doyle of Japan who produced mystery fiction books. Now, Kishi Seiji the director undergoes this project.
You know a mystery fiction has to build tension and suspense when it comes to mystery solving and riddles to be solved. However, this anime failed on that ground. Everything was extremely cliché and countless mystery fiction have done before in the past years. Everything was unresolved at the end.
Some mysteries try to include all those sexual fantasies of the creators which Japa…
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Now is the time, once again, for me to have an opinion in the minority here. I see plenty of scathing reviews for Ranpo Kitan. But I'm giving this show a positive review. I really liked this show.
I imagine that the problem most people thought that this show was pretentious, silly, all style, no substance, no profundity. And truthfully, I agree with all those except for the last two.
It is very true that this show is one of the most stylistic animes I have ever seen. I have never seen a show like this. It reminds me of Chicago, but this is that style in the form of a mystery theatre instead of a stage play. And it is brilliant. It's bright, it's colorful, it's dark, it's powerful. This is something that truly sets this show apart. It helped with the drama and it helped with the comedy.
Th…
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Here’s the thing about detective fiction. When you go into a series with mystery as part of its genre, the least you should expect are cases, then suspense, culprit(s), clues, and the resolution. Ranpo Kitan: Game of Laplace takes the typical ideas of a mystery and attempts to transform the show into a blockbuster thriller. The key word here I refer to use is “attempt”. Otherwise, this series is what came out as a disorganized mess with a colorful script that started out with life but ended up as wreckage.
First, we should understand a bit of the background info about the original series. The 11-episode adaptation is based on an author known as Edogawa Rampo. As a celebrated author in Japan, the main focus of the series concentrates on some of his published works from over 50 years ago. B…
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