Audience reviews
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LegionIscariot
(In/Spectre. Funny play on words. An inspector of spectres 🤔)
In/Spectre is a series of murder mysteries/ghost stories being investigated by a girl Kotoko chosen by the spirits to be their "god of wisdom" when she was about 10 yrs old.
One of her legs and one of her eyes had to be sacrificed for this ritual. So they had to be replaced with prosthetics.
She falls in love with an immortal young man Kuro who is feared by the spirits because he ate the flesh of spirits (yokai).
Kuro is not in love with her but she insists that he be her boyfriend. Their relationship and interactions is actually the best part of the anime. Despite being horror it is also a comedy.
Its a dialogue heavy anime. Action is not really a focus.
Kotoko plays the role of a mediator for the spirits and helps fin…
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The way the writing handles the anime's chosen themes is so convoluted that it hurts.
The writing is bad and never successfully conveys any of the 'messages' this anime might have.
The directing is a mess, without any regards to what is being said or the moment in which the story is. Directed in a way that seems experimental at best, and unprofessional at worst.
The music is out-of-touch for the genre, the scenes and the 'action'. Audio design is 'just there', nothing interesting for the ears throughout the entirety of the show.
Example for how bad the directing and writing are: in episode, when the female police officer is in the hotel room with the wisdom princess and the male MC, there’s a moment in which the princess explains that ‘tonight is the night when it all be determined’ (…
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In/Spectre wasn't what I was expecting and was largely a disappointment. While I could certainly finger-point to forgettable characters, multiple filler episodes in a twelve episode anime and an inorganic romance that barely hangs on by a shoe string, for me the most egregious flaw of the program is that it's insanely dialogue heavy and most episodes boil down to two characters sitting near each other and having a seemingly never-ending conversation. There is little to no action, only one actual mystery to solve throughout the entire show and nothing to break up the monotony and repetition of talking, talking and more talking.
Having come out in 2020, it looks and sounds fine. My wife liked the intro/outro music, which is fine and well, but that doesn't make the actual show any better. I…
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There are a few shows I will claim to be proud of watching. In/ Spectre is one of them, as I am happy of
not having let its poor ratings stand in the way of giving it a chance.
In/ Spectre is not an underrated anime, it is a misunderstood one. It seems it was expected to follow the trend of spectacular demons fights in the line of other recent successful shonen.
However In/ Spectre has a very elegant and original take on the yokai theme, one not explored yet. Not the fighting approach mentioned above, nor the emotional one tackled in other acclaimed animes. Indeed, In/ Spectre focuses on helping yokai by solving mysteries with the sheer power of logic and deduction.
As such, poorly written characters would have been unfit to carry the sophisticated themes tackled. Starting with a sim…
Read at the sourceRebelPanda
Words, words, words. What the hell do they even mean? Well, I don’t know! But someone has to figure out what the hell this show is about and whether or not it’s good. Lucky for you, I happen to be extremely qualified in deciphering bullshit, and In/Spectre certainly is grade-A bullshit.
Where do I even begin untangling this web of nonsense? First of all, there’s so much goddamn talking. If you want to see some good animation, find a different anime! But is the dialogue good or bad? Let’s establish a criterion. Dialogue-heavy anime can work well if the writing is witty, informative, believable, and INTERESTING! We’ve seen this done right in Monogatari, Tatami Galaxy, and Oregairu. In/Spectre is comparatively very lacking. Simply put, this is like a battle shounen, very drawn out fights, b…
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I feel like the creator had a good idea about the main characters, their origins, motivations, etc and then by accident, while writing notes, the TV turned on. What was playing? Those Sherlock Holmes films with RDJ and Jude Law. "Oh wow these parts where he explains the crimes are so interesting! Perfect, that's exactly what my cool idea needs!" Unfortunately, the creator was hit in the head with a brick at some point so all the creativity expended on the characters was totally lost when it came to pacing. Now clinically braindead, the creator to decided to stretch the part he was writing into six or seven episodes because he couldn't think of anything interesting thanks to the event where he was hit in the head with a brick.
I guess an equally brain damaged executive recognized his intel…
Read at the sourceRayReynolds
Although the medium of television does not have as much history as that of literature, there is half a century watching how narrative rules are gradually forged. These rules have not been defined by any kind of random whim, they are the result of many hours of trial and error. Series that tried something new and failed, and others that succeeded in their innovation and then were plagiarized endlessly. It is normal in the creative process, originality as such is quite scarce and any work is mostly a certain combination of the infinite influences that its authors have had throughout their lives. This anime, perhaps more commonly known as "In Specter" is basically characterized by ignoring the normal rules of other media adaptations to anime. That is a risk, those rules, as I have said, are l…
Read at the sourceZenoTheHermit
I really don’t understand why this show has such high ratings on here.
Having not read the manga, all I knew going into the show was it was going to be an anime where the protagonists face off against ghosts, demons, and monsters. Cool, so like an anime version of Supernatural? That could be fun.
Nope. Instead the show boils down to “Kotoko spends 2 episodes sitting and talking at a snake spirit”, followed by “Kotoko spends 6 episodes blogging a spirit to death”. No, really.
Kotoko is pretty much the only interesting character, in a show populated by cardboard cutouts. Especially Kuro, who could not possibly be any more bland. Kotoko’s proclivity to say highly inappropriate things at inappropriate times makes for some hilarious moments. But that is about all that the show has to offer.…
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So, Koykou Suiri is very bad, but you can pass the time.
The female protagonist is so cool and even then there was no better use of her. The first episode is incredible, I seriously thought it was going to be a good anime based on it, but as we can see, the episodes that have passed have shown how they can end up with a good plot in minutes.
The male protagonist does not speak or show so much charisma, shallow and meaningless secondary characters. Worst of all is spending 4 episodes listening to the girl talk about hypotheses that don't make any sense, so, as I said, Kyoukou Suiri is very bad despite having everything to be good. It is a pity!
Fé nos brasileiros que fazem reviews, hihi.
Read at the sourceFennex12
I started to follow at the time of its release, at first the anime has a very good premise and seems to have a lot of potential, but with the passing of the episodes it is clear that the quality will drop with time. The story is lukewarm, decent art, a little weak soundtrack and only the main characters deliver anything.
Overall it is an anime below average to pass the time, it had everything to work out, but unfortunately they delivered another ordinary anime, lackluster, with massive dialogues, not that this is a problem, I love a good storyline, but we are not talking about a good plot here.
If you have nothing better to do, absolutely nothing, watch Kyokou Suiri.
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Rating (My opinion) 6.5/7*
A lot of Talking, TALKING, TALKING, NONSENSE, TALKING, TALKING AND MORE TALKING. If you are the type of person that enjoy mystery and a lot of dialog instead of action, then this anime is for you. Kyokou Suiri is an anime that is mostly focused in a mystery plot that doesn't make sense, I tried liking the show at first, I really did, but by the time I got to Episode 7, I was wishing for the show to end, it was boring, I couldn't stand it. I don't know how it got to the point of the whole 'Last Boss' but BOY... when it got to that point, 95% of the show was dialog. I couldn't get myself to like ANY OF THE CHARACTERS, so... if all of them died at some point, I wouldn't care.
Read at the sourceChefColin
Imagine a show about dealing with spirits and finding the cause of one's existence.. Sounds like an action/mystery right? Now what if I told you this was accomplished through the characters talking non stop about the problem and barely doing anything about it, or that it was done by seeing the characters post reddit threads. Well that is In/Spectre, except I can't really say they accomplished anything except boring anybody who dared to watch it.
Plot - Basically a spirit of a dead idol goes around terrorizing people and Kotoko and Kurou, someone who can see yokai and an immortal guy respectively try to figure out why this spirit exists. There are some rare occasions where either character actually confront the evil spirit, and when they do, nothing gets accomplished. Instead, they decide…
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I'll start by saying that I reasonably enjoyed this anime. What I'll write next might make it seem like it's not worth your while, but that's not necessarily true. It's a show that will have a particular audience and if that's you, great.
The first few episodes did the job of grabbing my attention with interesting characters and dynamics. For the rest of the series, I felt switched and baited. I might have enjoyed it more if I had not expected something different from the first few episodes.
This show is about a girl who uses logical (if far fetched) arguments to change people's mind. That's it. There's a bit with a guy, that's not honestly not important as of this season. There's an antagonist, that also doesn't matter yet, you get the gist of their backstory and nothing more. There's…
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I want to preface this review by saying Kyouko Suiri is absolutely not meant for everyone. It is a very dialogue-heavy series, and if you're a bigger fan of action-oriented anime then it's unlikely that you would find a lot of enjoyment in this.
That being said, I love this series because it has some of the best-written dialogue I've seen from any piece of media. When your series is structured in the way Kyouko Suiri is, smart dialogue is critical to making the slow pacing forgivable, and I've been able to forgive this show's pacing a million times over because of how captivating it is. What struck me from the get-go is just how great the chemistry is between Kotoko and Kuro, setting a strong baseline for a thought-provoking and entertaining series.
I can understand why people didn't fin…
Read at the sourceBLP_
I made an earlier review of this show after 7-8 episodes where I explained that there were several things I liked including the art, stylisation and early character exploration. However it needed a good kick up the ass to get things moving because the characters went on endless monologues, over-complicating uncomplicated ideas and had little to no natural interaction with each other. I gave the show a 6 and hoped for the best.
After watching the 12th and final episode I can say...It never did get the kick up the ass that it needed.
Several episodes of tedious, pretentious, try-hard pseudo-intellectual nonsense. Characters stood in place endlessly talking in circles, often repeating themselves. If the mysteries and theories explored were smart, interesting or well crafted then it could ha…
Read at the sourceSunlitSonata
In/Spectre is the type of series that tests the notion “how far are you willing to stretch a good idea?”
Conceptually, this is a brilliant idea for a story and overall, I think the execution is at least good. While so many mystery stories, anime or otherwise, tend to focus on purely the truth, characters getting to the bottom of how events actually happened, never have I seen creating a convincing LIE to factor into that. A lot of ins and outs are explored in the show’s attempt to qualify this point, so it keeps a unique source of engagement in a way unlike many other shows of its type. The focus on one larger tale rather than many smaller stories also has the perk of trying to explore the types of angles other supernatural mysteries don’t have time for, in terms of implications. But it’…
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It’s really hard for an anime to feel original these days. So many series I’ve seen lately have felt like I was watching the same series, with the same characters, with different names. So when I come across a fresh and unique story, I have to acknowledge it. That’s exactly what I got out of Kyokou Suiri.
Kyokou Suiri is some of the best fun I’ve had watching anime in a long time. Based on a light novel originally, it tells the story of a girl who’s traded her leg and eye for god like powers. She teams up with a boy who also has god like powers and they form a paranormal investigation team. The first arc of the show is pretty episodic, focusing on a different case each episode. The second half of the show is one arc focusing on a single relevant case.
Throughout the course of the series…
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Usually, in the mystery genre, they use all the evidence and logic they have to search for the truth. Instead, Kyokou Suiri uses all the evidence and logic it has to create a lie.
The story is about two characters, Kotoko Iwanaga and Kurou Sakuragawa. One of which is a “goddess of wisdom” for the youkai who live in the world, and the other is a seemingly plain human who is not what he seems. The two of them band together (or you can say Kotoko clings on to Kurou) and they try to solve the worries and concerns of the youkai around them.
Episode 1 introduces us to these two characters, and shows us a bit of their backstories together. At first, you’d have no idea that the anime is Supernatural if you haven’t heard about it before, but as the episode goes on you’d realize that they are inde…
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Japanese youkai lore has been a fascinating subject in the realm of anime, manga, and video games. Every year, we are graced by media related to these supernatural entities, based on the Shinto religion. And while Kyokou Suiri (ln/Spectre) certainly isn’t among the first to explore such themes, it does embark on a supernatural quest with a lovely little oddball named Kotoko Iwanaga.
Let’s allow reality to hit us first. Kyokou Suiri has a fair amount of volumes but the anime allows the show to be only 12-episodes. To make things more complicated, the early chapters (manga version at least) are fairly long, some expanding well into 40-50 pages. A common logic designates the show has fairly incomplete and as a means to advertise the manga and novels. That’s not unfair but it does limit its p…
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Human beings are storytelling creatures.
Our little stories are vital for us to convey truths, and sometimes, create lies. However, truth manifest lies. Lies, conceal truth. In every mystery and detective anime, there is always one definite truth. Everything else is just a fabrication to bury the truth, layer upon layer. In most cases, a clear line is drawn between what is real and what is not. But, what if, just what if – the line no longer exists?
Then, truth and lies are no longer differentiable. They are blended into each other, and being played around by whoever’s behind them to reach a desired conclusion. Justice would no longer be that opaque. Everything that you ever believe in can be twisted, changed in just that instant.
Kyokou Suiri knows this, and it brings this element int…
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