Audience reviews
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Agent_Redacted
"There is no perfect answer. But continuing to seek one is very important."
Subete ga F ni Naru ( The Perfect Insider ) is a proper mystery anime that actually knows what it's doing. It is a well structured murder mystery, so good that regardless of the fact that you found out who the perpetrator was it'll still be an imperfect answer.
It's very hard to get into this series unless you love mystery or you come here expecting a full mysterical ( yes I made this word up ) experience. This anime is nothing but mysteries.
10 Sherlock Holmes Smoking Pipe out of 10. A very, very good mystery anime. I recommend this to everybody who loves or are looking for a mystery anime. This will no doubt fulfill your need.
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It's been about a month and a half since I finished this show, and yet, I'm still pissed at how bad it was. As such, it's time for my first non-seasonal review in like half a year.
What are the key components of a good murder mystery? First, and quite obviously, is the mystery itself. The mystery has to be clever, in such a way that the solution is unexpected, yet logical. The viewer also has to have adequate engagement with the story and be able to figure out the mystery for himself. Secondly, and also quite obviously, there is the investigation. The detective looks for clues, talks to witnesses, and pieces together the final picture, all while providing the same information to the viewer. And lastly, there has to be suspense. The viewer has to be invested in the story. If there is no su…
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(This review has been adapted from my blog/reddit thread. Spoilers ahead!)
Have you ever thought about the concept of nothing?
Nothing means no books, no chairs, no phones. It means no mirrors, no cards, no pillows. Even when all of these physical objects are gone, there is still more to remove. No air, no light, no electromagnetic forces, no atoms, no thoughts.
No anything.
Subete ga F ni Naru: The Perfect Insider goes the opposite way. “Everything” is just as crazy as “nothing.” Now those books and those pillows and those atoms are around, but that is not enough. Even when you think you collected it all, there is still more to collect. And then some.
“Everything” means everything to The Perfect Insider. But while it did not collect everything, it still provides a pretty strong anime…
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(No spoilers)
This anime is not for everyone, firstly you have to enjoy a more classic slow-paced mystery detective plot but mostly you have to enjoy "clever" conversations which might throw a lot of people off especially because it sometimes seems that the anime is trying to be too intelligent.
For me I watched the series to the end because of the relationship and interactions between the two main characters, I must say that the mystery part was until the last episodes a bit boring or just average but it was very enjoyable because of those two main characters.
All the rainbow faeces of the Unicorn - the good things
- The art style for the 3 main characters was different and serious/realistic for the tone of the anime.
- The opening was quite entertaining and artistic :)
- The plot was av…
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The Perfect Insider is a mystery anime that came out in October 2015 and is an adaptation of a light novel by the same name, which was released in 1996. That should be enough to set expectations really low, and that is really the only way to enjoy this show. Either that or you only care about visuals, superficial characters and ignore plot holes.
So I'll start by saying what's good about this show. It was animated by A-1 Pictures, the same studio that adapted Sword Art Online, Shigatsu Wa Kimi No Uso and Fairy Tail (2009-2013), among others, into an anime. If you have watched any of the previously mentioned shows, you will know that A-1 Pictures makes some of the best lookin visuals and animation out there. The Perfect Insider is not an exception. The color palette used is bright and colo…
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*Some context:* I have been seriously watching anime for over 4 years now, and I have never found the need to actually write a review. This would be my first one, so I hope you guys bare with it.
I'll explain my plight with a humorous short story - trust me, it's much more interesting that this anime:
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In an art competition, an artist stands in front of his painting, and the judges walk up to him and ask him to explain the concept before opening and revealing the painting on canvas. The artist says that he has drawn the situation where: "Buddha lets fly a white dove to symbolize peace and walks away. Unfortunately, a hunter who was hidden shoots this dove. The dove falls to the ground and dies."
The judges were mesmerized with the concept and were yearning to see the painting. The art…
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The Perfect Insider is hard to review objectively because it is one of those shows that people will defend as being "deep" and "nuanced". I'm not going to argue against that, maybe there is some deeper truth that I missed, but I didn't enjoy it and my review will reflect that.
First of all, the good: This show is visually appealing, especially the opening theme animation. I also found the animation pretty solid throughout and the sound never really distracted me from the story.
The problems I've had with the show was the story. The show does a good job of setting up the sense that there's going to be a grand denouement where the truth is found out and the guilty part is pointed out, or that everything will come to be clear.
To a certain extend this is accomplished. You know who did wh…
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WARNING: IF YOU DON'T LIKE MIND F***S THEN PLEASE DON'T READ ANY FURTHER.
With a banter that centered around the loneliness of the Number '7' and asking the question "What is the meaning of life?" to the point of showing Nihilism in a good light, this show caught me right off the bat.
As the show progressed, however, I found that the plot became increasingly difficult to follow, with key elements being embedded in the understanding the various permutation and combination of numbers. The story soon transformed from a murder mystery to a math/computer geek's wet dream come true. Even with all of that, given that the pursuit of the truth was done with an emphasis on 'logic' the final revelation was so far out there that you'd need the Hubble telescope to find it.
While the show is enjoyab…
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The accusation of being 'pretentious' has been lobbed at Subete ga F ni Naru quite often. This is unfair, considering the author actually worked as a researcher for quite a while. The integration of maths and computer science elements into the story is basic (in concession to the audience) but does bring a unique flavour into what would otherwise be a standard locked room mystery. The story starts off slowly, setting up the characters and story with dry factual dialogue, but as events unfold, more elements are added to the mystery and the relationship between Moe and Souhei becomes more fleshed out, leading to some more compelling drama in the second half. Magata Shiki's past also adds an edge and strangeness to the story that fans of psychological anime will appreciate.
While the story i…
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So here we are. The final noitamina show of 2015. Can’t say I’ve been a big fan of the time slot’s constant deaths and revivals to the point that Jean Grey is thinking there’s something wrong with it, and considering that nobody likes The Perfect Insider but people who seem to think that good dialogue automatically equals quality, I don’t think I’m going to be breaking many hearts when I say that I’m not exactly enthusiastic about having to review the show. But hey, regardless of quality, I think most of us can agree it’s still worth talking about. Not to mention, I get to slap those “novel adaptations are always good” heathens around, so win/win.
Based on the third or fourth novel in the S&M (Sohei and Moe) series - which I haven’t read, but The Perfect Insider seems to assume its audien…
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*Contains Little Spoilers*
First, if you love mystery animes, go watch this show. Second, if you don't like mystery animes and you're an easily-bored person, don't watch this show; and if you watch, please do not write a review about how boring it is and give it 1/10. You're just misleading people.
Story: 10/10
YES, IT'S SLOW AND YES, IT'S BORING BUT JUST DEAL WITH IT. OK. So this story is about some genius people. First one, Magata Shiki. She is a very intelligent girl who killed her parents. Because of that she has to live in a room in an island. She stayed so many years. Then here comes our other geniuses, Saikawa sensei and Nishinosono moe. Some day Nishinosono decides to talk to Magata Shiki because she is curious, then Saikawa and Nishinosono end up that island because they want t…
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TL;DR: Everything Becomes F: The Perfect Insider has what you might call the Prometheus problem. It looks good, seems interesting & at first you're totally along for the ride. Then, at some point, you start noticing that nothing makes sense & the more information it gives you, more questions you have.
Fall 2015 started out looking like such a strong season for detective dramas. Alongside the Return of Kindaichi Case Files, there were two new titles that looked set to fill a void for non-fantasy murder mysteries, with Beautiful Bones: Sakurako's Investigation & Everything Becomes F: The Perfect Insider (EBF) adding some new blood into a genre that has relatively slim pickings for animé fans.
1. Story
At first, EBF seemed likely to be the best of all three. While Kindaichi began with wha…
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Synopsis on Crunchyroll: Based on the award-winning novel Subete ga F ni Naru by Hiroshi Mori, The Perfect Insider finds Sohei Saikawa, a member of the Saikawa Research Lab, and Moe Nishinosono, the daughter of his mentor, on vacation when they discover a corpse. The two then work together to solve the mysteries of what becomes a serial murder case.
I don't normally write reviews, but I had to make an exception for this show since I'm not too sure that many people are quite getting its meaning. For people who are currently on the fence trying to decide whether or not to watch Perfect Insider, please do not take the current aggregate score on MyAnimeList as an indicative measurement of the overall quality. The anime is simply different, not bad; and, to be quite frank, it takes an open mi…
Read at the sourceKurosakimaru
The Perfect Insider is a great example of how fast an interesting premise can turn into a bad story. If you came to this anime looking for an interesting and intellectual show, then I would advise you to look somewhere else.
STORY
This show started out with an interesting premise. The premise being that a genius programmer Shiki Magata is murdered within a locked room on an isolated island. This becomes a game of cat and mouse, as our two main characters (or protagonists) search around for clues to the mystery. While I hyped the premise initially, the actual progression/execution of the show was lackluster to say the least. The answer to the mystery was rather predictable, but I was hoping that the execution would be better. The themes were simply not explored enough and most of dialogu…
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So I first decided to watch this show based off a recommendation from a Youtuber and I'm really glad I decided to give it a go. If you're looking for a true mystery anime this is the one to try.
Story: (9/10) The story was one of the things that impressed me the most about this anime. It starts out with Nishinosono Moe and her professor Saikawa Souhei who are both fans of the work of Dr. Magata Shiki, a scientist who has been living in complete isolation on an island for 15 years. Not only is she all alone but she ultimately hasn't left her room let alone the laboratory she's been living in. Moe and Souhei decide that they want to go to meet Dr. Shiki in person but when they arrive they encounter more than one murder.
At first when watching this show, I was actually pretty bored. You w…
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STORY: 7/10
To be honest I started watching this anime because is a mystery and I'm a sucker for those. At the very beginning the mystery seems pretty interesting and each chapter you have different clues so you can make your own theory along with the characters. The main problem for me was that the plot has giant holes that do not explain the whole thing. There are some questions that are pretty obvious and there's no answer for any of them so you're left with the assumption that every single person in that laboratory are idiots for it to make sense.
ART: 7/10
The drawing style of the characters was pretty plain. The animation is not that bad but it has nothing remarkable about it.
SOUND: 8/10
I loved the ending and the opening. The rest of the soundtrack is quite fine.
CHARACTER:…
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Spoilers etc.
"The Perfect Insider", or "Everything becomes F*ck All" is a mystery anime about a dysfunctional student-and-professor pairing trying to solve an elaborate locked-room murder mystery surrounding a schizophrenic genius the likes of which this world probably has never seen before(tm). The build-up and plot twists were interesting enough, character development was sort of there for the main duo and the show had plenty of clues and smokescreens to help keep the viewer invested. But if you're looking for a conclusion, I'm sorry to say it's in another castle. The criminal is still at large, a clear motive is never given to tie it all up and at the end of it you feel it was less about the mystery and more about the crime solving pair's brief run-in with the enigma that is Magata Sh…
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It’s not easy to watch a show like “The Perfect Insider”. Generally speaking, the show is about mystery and in this case involves murder. It’s something that can be a sensitive topic as we learn more about the circumstances. And given the mystery aspect of the show, it’s the narratives that captures the essence of story. Really though, what is The Perfect Insider?
Subete ga F ni Naru (also more commonly known as The Perfect Insider) is based on a Japanese mystery novel written in 1996 by Hiroshi Mori. Produced by A-1 Pictures, the show is symbolic for how mystery can be so…mysterious. The setting takes place on a remote island and begins when Souhei Saikawa, an associate professor of National Nagono University, goes on a vacation there. During his vacation, he is also accompanied by 1st…
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The Perfect Insider is what I would like to call the first 'proper' mystery anime I've seen in quite some time. By 'proper' I don't mean to say that it's amazing per se, but that it actually follows the best story design for the genre. That is to say, it takes its time to give the viewers all the details you could ever ask for as well as plenty of red herrings, it doesn't blatantly break the rules of detective fiction like certain other recent works, and it is also not episodic in any way. It gives you a fair chance to reflect on the case at hand and try to figure out the problem on your own, and it doesn't try to include any needless supernatural elements in the process. It's just 11 episodes of content all dedicated to a single in-depth mystery, and as a result it actually feels like a t…
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So, it seems that this anime was a hit more miss with most, who watched. I personally enjoyed the show thoroughly from beginning to end. What seems to be the "problem" that most people point out is that the characters are unrealistic or that they are just idiots trying to act smart but I didn't see it that way at all. Agree or disagree I will give you my 2 cents about this series.
I will start with first with the [b]Characters[/b].
If you don't like 'different/perfect' characters, you won't enjoy the show.
Our lead protagonist Saikawa is a professor at a college but his personality is anything but normal, he is very anti social and spends his time thinking about the way humans think and why they think that way. He is curious why people do many things for no reason.
His mentality is det…
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