Audience reviews
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Gaya3_HQ
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Okay, first of all, I have been watching anime for about 2 and a half years and have used MAL as my reference for which ones I should be watching and usually it hasn't let me down, but the score for this one really did not sit right with me. I'm honestly surprised it's so low. I guess to each their own and that it's probably not everyone's cup of tea, but I still don't understand why it only has 6 stars. I took a dive into this anime because my favourite seiyuus play the main roles and I honestly couldn't understand the 6-star score from just the PV.
To start off, the story having been set in the Meiji period was something new and exciting to me. I haven't read the original manga and neither do I have enough knowledge about the early 1900s in Japan, but it seemed l…
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A story like life:
Impossibly long, and yet...
So painfully short.
The episodes of this detective story had always an engrossing tinge of sadness to them that I couldn't quite put my finger on for the longest time. After merely twenty minutes, I felt as though my heart had been immersed in the stories of these poets for hours. Every time, without fail, this time distortion only grew, and after a while, I began to enjoy it.
I put off watching the final episode for almost a year, precisely because a part of me couldn't believe all these hours of serene storytelling could, or rather should, come to an end. It left me feeling both empty, like a church without faith, and incomplete, like a letter left unwritten.
But that didn't make the finale less beautiful. Even without faith, the psalms…
Read at the sourceCurryxSake
Woodpecker Detective's Office is pretty okay.
Production-wise, the artwork is beautiful. The animation may be static in most places, but the camera work and the tone of the story makes up for it. The OST suits the mood, though unremarkable.
For a story about a poet being a detective, it doesn't feel like a detective story. There's rarely a battle of wits or the tension that occurs when solving a mystery. That being said, I think the anime itself is more interested to how we as the audience solve the mystery. The characters' dialogue and routines, the way the camera shoots the scenes would often become clues for the viewers to think about. They can even be a form of foreshadowing, which definitely shows in the final episode where the key to a certain mystery is just thinking about what's…
Read at the sourceTiarwa
I really wanted to like this, truly. I love poetry, I enjoy slower paced shows, and the concept of adding a detective/mystery element sounded intriguing.
However, I really just do not care. The animation is beautiful, subdued but as is the tone of the show. The actual poetry that is read is quite pretty, probably because the main character is based off of a real poet. But every other character doesn't really have much to add.
The sound design is fine, nothing incredibly special, but not bad either.
The story just meanders and goes nowhere until it wraps up. Similar to how the main character behaves. I guess theres some poetic understanding of the story in there somewhere. But regardless its a shame it had to be so bland.
Read at the sourceNid_Vicious
I have very mixed feelings about this.
Never read the original story before, so I can’t say if this is a decent adaptation of the source material or not.
The first episode was really intriguing and I loved the art style. The Meiji-era is also especially interesting I think, although you won’t notice it much in terms of politics etc., you’ll notice it in the way they speak and obviously what they wear and so on. But personally, I love this period where Japanese and „western“ style first came together like this.
The story itself wasn’t really interesting to me, halfway through the show I didn’t even pay much attention to what was happening - until episode 8 or 9. The score is also just what I like, and even though the anime is mediocre, I’m starting to feel low-key obsessed with it. I don’t…
Read at the sourceShinObi-Wan
In fiction, a MacGuffin is an object, device, or event that is necessary to the plot and the motivation of the characters, but insignificant, unimportant, or irrelevant in itself.
What is the MacGuffin here? The murders, the conspiracy, the ensuing detective work. If these are insignificant, unimportant, or irrelevant in themselves, what matters?
1. Friendship. Real friendship. Until about episode 9, Ishikawa lives a life of total self-indulgence. While his Epicurean lifestyle creates genius-level poetry, it comes at a cost. This cost is burdened by Kindaichi.
Is Ishikawa a bad friend for consciously using Kindaichi? Is Kindaichi a little groveling bitch for deluding himself that Ishikawa is going to change... giving him limitless chances?
Kindaichi understands that he is being "used"…
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I'll just cut to the chase here: if you're looking for a good historical mystery show, this isn't it. In the same season where Yesterday wo Utatte airs to old nostalgia (and immediately getting a bad rap for its obscene adaptation), this series created in the late 90s (1999 to be exact) and falling into obscurity is honestly not a surprise.
Fast forward 20 years later, and Liden Films' anime adaptation...will quickly fall into obscurity as well (not to mention the obviously low amount of people watching this).
Think with me like this: We have seen detective shows and played detective games before, but historical ones are rife with accuracy, and as much as "fiction" allows the brazen content to skirt around its intended "plot", sadly what we have here in the Woodpecker's Detective Office,…
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