Audience reviews
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Agent_Redacted
The detective trope's been around within the anime community for a long time now. I'm not particularly into the "solving mysteries" stuffs. But sometimes it can be enjoyable, spending time to think about things instead of admiring how kawaii characters are. Or getting all horny from fan services.
Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga Umatteiru was... Something I didn't really gaze into like any other anime in my interest. Sure, I've checked it multiple times. But the anime just doesn't seem to be appealing to me at first. Hence I decided to place it at the back row of my plan to watch.
But then it happened again. The string of fate. Pulling random stuffs from the back to the front without my consent. As I was having fun playing my new Visual Novel I bought for hours, the anime sudde…
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Beautiful Bones is a 2015 done by studio Troyca, of which I’m not very familiar with. This anime was based off of a series of novels. Is it worth it though? Let's find out.
Story:
Beautiful Bones doesn’t have an overarching plot, rather it’s comprised of episodic thriller scenarios in which our main lead Sakurako & her shall I say, lackey, Tatewak go around solving mysteries. Our main lead is very interested in Bones & uses her knowledge to help solve mysteries.
Ok, we’ve got ourselves a nice little set-up here. The problem is, the series doesn’t make any sort of effort to actually utilize its concept to create anything beyond basic. The series largely consists of “Sakurako goes around pulling the strings, while the others occasionally help out”. It’s not very interesting, as they basic…
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“Beautiful Bones” or “A Corpse is Buried Under Sakurako’s Feet” is a detective show styled directly upon the classic Sherlock Holmes novels, or at the very least, uses the general setup of Holmes to tell various stories about human mortality, and the various philosophical and moral issues that lie therein.
The character archetypes should be familiar. Sakurako-san is an eccentric, antisocial rich lady who spends her time studying bones because it is her passion. She is very intelligent, but often comes across as rude because of her honest and analytical nature. Shoutarou, presented as our protagonist, is the foil- a quiet, observative, and domestic high school boy who makes up for his lack of studied intelligence with warm kindness and keen eyes. A typical Sherlock and Watson, though Shout…
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If you're going to watch this series, do it for the mysteries, not the plot.
You know those kind of series that are always episodic and every now and then it gives you a hint that somehow it really has a background story (to never really unravel it)? This is one of those. The basis for everything is Sakurako and her love for bones, being an osteologist. She and Shoutarou are friends(?) and like to unearth bones to add them to Sakurako's large skeletal collection. Oh, and they solve mysteries regarding those bones as well.
I'm having a tough time trying to write about how does the mystery come to the pair and what makes them solve it. In many other detectivesque anime the justification is: the MC's a detective, they maybe like the whole mystery stuff or they've /just/ got to solve mysteri…
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(This review has been adapted from my blog/reddit thread. Spoilers ahead!)
The closest I have ever been to death is a moment that I don’t even remember.
Complications during childbirth are common. For me, at the (very) tender age of ten seconds old, there were two such complications: the umbilical cord and my size. The cord just so happened to wrap itself around my throat, cutting off oxygen to my body. As for my size, I was so huge (ten pounds, eight ounces) that I got stuck in the birthing canal.
The doctors, desperate to save both my mom and me, made the decision to add a third complication: bone breakage. To get me out in the world, they snapped my collar bone, stopping death and granting life. They got the umbilical cord situation sorted out, too, but, by that point, I looked like…
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Beautiful Bones: Sakurako's Investigation is quite an unusual anime as it focuses on a strange topic which are, as the title tells, bones. Beautiful Bones tells tiny stories about cases which most of them are related to bones of victims, and how a woman named Sakurako solves the case (well, sort of). Beautiful Bones had a lot of potential to be great. However with noticeable flaws, this anime falls back unfortunately. However it still manages to be enjoyable enough to be given a chance.
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The premise of this anime is about a woman named Sakurako, who loves bones; studying them, organizing them, using them to solve problems and collecting them. The “story” revolves around Sakurako and a boy named Shoutarou, a high-schooler who assists Sakurako, solving cases by examining bones. Th…
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As an avid reader of detective novels I found this anime really enjoyable.[WARNING!!:Spoilers]
Story: 7
The episodic nature of the anime was really nice to see with every one or two episodes presenting its different story. Most mysteries were complex and had a lot of suspense,. Another interesting fact was how the mysteries seemed to stretch from simple things like a lost gift to the tragic events such as the death of a mother. Also the atmosphere of the anime screamed out mystery.
There were some bad parts to the story as well. There are too many parallels to Sherlock Holmes novels, A mastermind(Moriarty in this, Hanabusa) manipulating the protagonist behind the scenes, being the root of most of the detectives cases .Also the cursed man seemed oddly familiar to the Hounds of the Baskervi…
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You know what my big problem with light novel adaptations are? They never have a good story. Okay there's one or two exceptions, but for the most part, when their plots aren't being dumb, they're just non-existent in general. It's always world-building or character-building for its own sake, which is basically showcasing the finest bullets in the world without a gun to actually fire them with. Impressive-looking bullets my friend, but unless you're planning to make the bad guys swallow the damn things, I don't see how they're going to help us here.
Well, impressive may be giving most light novel adaptations too much credit because they generally look like ass on top of their other problems. But to be fair to Beautiful Bones, it does look nice for the most part - even if said niceness is o…
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sakurako-san no ashimoto is an average mystery show that many people find it to be boring. it is adapted from an LN of the same name and aired in 2015 fall along with subete ga F ni naru. these two shows of this season somehow didn't pick the interest of many people, and even if they did, they were immediately dropped after the few pilot episodes. as for the reason Sakurako-san no ashimoto wasn't appreciated that much by the viewers, i personally can't answer this question. simply because i fail to find any noticeable flaw that would drive me to drop it.
the story of SSA has adapted an episodic pattern, where every episode we get to discover new cases along with their background story and solution. the show should be able to exhibit its nature only in the first pilot episode. every day th…
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Months ago, I think it was before June, I saw the first mention of this show. I spent the next 6 months waiting, watching every preview I could find, checking out all the promotional material, I don't think I could have gotten my self anymore hyped up for its release.
And I was not disappointed, everything from the character concepts to the animation style is spot on. In a rare and rewarding way, the script writers, voice actors, sound engineers, background artists, in-between animators and very noticeably the key frame animators and the researchers came together and created a coherent and beautiful show.
I really can't praise it enough, it balances tension with humor, pain and sorrow with truth and facts (Not made up facts either). It plays out like a novel written by someone who knows…
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Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga Umatteiru was an excellent series in my opinion. Some people had a problem with the story's pacing but I found this to be a strong positive point of the show. The way that most episodes slowed down and focused on mundane tasks or doing favors for friends such as Kougami grounded the show with a strong sense of realism for me. I don't need grand, over-the-top flashy action scenes or high-octane, intense thrills. This show understands that death doesn't need to be flashy, it can have a soothing aura to it as well. This show heavily focuses on the theme of death, and it presents it as something that doesn't need to be feared, sometimes it brings people closer together. This show is full of real human beings and their unique stories and I loved it so mu…
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My Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga Umatteiru review.
My ratings:
Story: Fair 6.
Art: Very Good 7.
Sound: Good 7.
Character: Poor 3.
Enjoyment: Fair 6.
Overall: Decent 4. Ok, so what we have is a combination of CSI, BONES, ROSEWOOD and COLD CASE combine in one, cu'z basically it's a crime drama, that was somehow doesn't look like one, so:
Story (up)
It was nice at first, but as it goes on , somehow original creator Ota, Shiori seem to focus more on the unlikely relationship between the cougar and tadpole....and I'm talking about Sakurako and Shoutarou, in fact most of the logic behind the crime are just too lame to comprehend, example like in ep 6. where the west was portrayed as making a mourning ring was basically something that creator Ota, Shiori may have conceptualize in a…
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So the premise of the show is that it is a mystery and that Sakurako is an osteologist and thus knows a lot about bones and can tell the gender, animal and traumas from it, but the biggest problem with the stories/crime solving is that she magically becomes sherlock holmes at whim. She's suddenly knowledgeable in art. She's suddenly knowledgeable in jewellery. She's suddenly knowledgeable in knot tying. When you never present your character as being a very diversely knowledgeable person from the beginning (like Sherlock from Elementary), everything seems to be resolved by deus ex machina.
Now the show is presented in a fairly episodic format. One episode generally has no relevance to its previous one besides character introduction, similar to Elementary. So what makes a mystery show grea…
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(This is a spoiler-free review adapted for this site)
[Synopsis]: High School student Tatewaki Shoutarou (Enoki, Junya) led a normal enough life until he met Kujou Sakurako (Itou, Shizuka), a beautiful, young woman and genius Osteologist who is endlessly fascinated with bones. Together on their outings they always seem to chance upon human remains after which it falls to the unlikely duo to discern the story of the bones and solve the mysteries they present.
[Characters]:
Sakurako-san focuses almost entirely on the explorations and interactions of its two protagonists while intermittently featuring recurring supporting characters alongside a primarily episodic cast. The show’s attention to its main characters is well founded as none of the supporting cast receives much in the way of cha…
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I don't know about you, but the whole "mundane, reactionary dude and a sociopathic genius with a knack for solving mysteries " set up has been rubbing me off as of late. I already had the atrocious "Ranpo Kitan" sear itself into my memory just weeks before Beautiful Bones: Sakurako's Investigation began, so realistically speaking (even with the cliche premise I described) the show could not be any worse. I sure as hell was right, but not by anywhere near as far a margin I would have liked.
The mood Beautiful Bones goes for is a pretty strange blend between the macabre and the mundane varying one weekly episodic endeavour to another. To give you an idea, the script goes from murder mysteries to something as innocuous as finding out the final wishes of a dead grandmother. This is not reall…
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It's hard to put my finger on exactly what it is with Sakurako that clicks. As this is the second mystery anime of the season that I've seen; it's hard to not compare Sakurako and Perfect Insider- as disparately as the way they tell their stories and treat their characters are. A quick way to put it would be that the show watches a lot like "Bones" mixed with "Castle" and some "Law and Order SVU". Mostly the first two.
Sakurako focuses on two characters- a high school kid named Shoutarou, and the bourgeoisie, genius young lady that he hangs out with- the eponymous Sakurako. A few major supporting characters also float in and out- Utsumi the cop, Yuri, a schoolmate of Shoutarou's, Isozaki, a teacher at their school, and Sakurako's grandma- the chillest, sassiest, every-one's-grandma ever.…
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I really wanted to like this show, I really did. There are a lot of problems here and things that make me uncomfortable. I give most shows decent scores even if it had a lot of problems but Sakurako is something else entirely. I guess i'll explain.
Characters 2:
There are only two characters that are important, or maybe it's only one character that is important at all. Anyways, the 'heroine' the show is named after, Sakurako Kujou, is an Osteologist, meaning she studies and collects bones. She is obsessed with finding corpses of animals and humans so that she can add their bones to her collection. She also has a knack for being right about everything with little to no evidence other than. explanations to come.
Male lead who we follow Shoutarou is in every single way an average high sc…
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Sakurako-san is another one of those unfortunate anime which could potentially have been really good had it just done a few things differently, but instead sadly ends up fumbling upon itself thanks to a handful of slip-ups. It's quite similar to Hyouka as far as its theme and plot progression goes, but the pacing is significantly worse.
The story follows a normal high school boy named Shoutarou who has a not-so-normal friend called Sakurako. She has an unhealthy addiction to bones of all things, and finds it fascinating to study their history. By some strange coincidence, whenever the two of them are together they just so happen to get themselves accidentally involved in numerous bizarre cases, usually where a corpse or a skeleton is found and they have to figure out its story. So it's a…
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I'm going to start off by saying that I loved! Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga Umatteiru. Personally I thought it had a really great story, character (to a certain extent) and a good sense of enjoyment. Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga Umatteiru is maybe a 7.0 out of 10 on the dark story meter. What I mean by that is the story focuses a lot (judging by if you read the title of the show lol) bones, death dead bodies etc. There is horror in it, however it is natural horror, it's not like an all in your face look at the bones look at the dead bodes blah blah horror that we usually see in anime's like this one. Another thing I liked about the story was the pacing. Overall the stories pacing of events going on are slow, however the writers do a great job of making this slow pac…
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Her name isn’t Sherlock Holmes but that doesn’t mean Sakurako can’t solve mysteries. Beautiful Bones: Sakurako’s Investigations, a series based off of the light novel, is a TV anime adaptation that takes place in Asahikawa City. The main female protagonist is a beauty named Sakurako Kujo with an intellect and fascination for bones. She specializes her time in studying bones and examines them like a form of art. Behind those bones usually lies a mystery whether it’d be the remains of an animal or human.
In essence, the series is a mystery adventure. Almost every episode opens up to a story and reads like a book where we get the introduction of a case, the problem, clues, and resolution. Key players in each mystery case has some direct or indirect connection to the series’ themes. Throughou…
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