Introduction
During a blizzard, Masayuki Muroi's old high school friend pushes him off a mountain to certain death. However, Masayuki survives the fall and escapes to safety thanks to Yuki-Onna, the spirit of a beautiful young woman who is said to lead men to their demise—but all she asks in return is money.
Eleven years later, Masayuki has lived a successful life, having gotten married and amassing a great fortune. But when his company collapses and his wife cheats on him, Masayuki retreats to the city where Yuki-Onna once saved him, and he reconnects with her by offering her money and tasty meals. While Masayuki recovers from his misfortunes, another one knocks on his door: his ex-wife is found beaten to death, and now only Yuki-Onna—who cannot reveal herself—can corroborate his alibi.
With no one to turn to, Yuki-Onna enlists the help of the spirits' God of Wisdom, Kotoko Iwanaga. Revered by the various spirits that wander the earth, Kotoko uses her extraordinary wits and cunning to solve all quarrels they may have. In her duty to protect spirits and humans from colliding, Kotoko drags along her immortal boyfriend, Kurou Sakuragawa, and promises to prove Masayuki's innocence without exposing Yuki-Onna's existence.
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Audience reviews
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SirDroffilc
Coming from the dragged-on Steel Beam Nanase Arc of the first season, the second season of Kyokou Suiri definitely had a huge improvement. The show stayed true to its core, a supernatural light mystery anime, but this time none of the arcs had the extremely slow pacing of the Steel Beam Nanase Arc of the first season.
The only complaint I had in the first season is again the arc that was unnecessarily dragged-on and went for 10 whole episodes. The second season kept each arc at around 3 episodes each, which made each arc feel much more compact but still complete and interesting. This season was able to show unique cases with each having interesting set of characters and stories. The only thing that was lacking in this season is that there was no progress regarding the conflict with Rikka,…
Read at the sourceAshParth
Kinda funny that it felt like yesterday that I'd completed the first season of In/Spectre and now here we are, finished with the second season. I mean, this is a fun show if you're into supernatural mystery kind of anime like I am. There is some improvement with this one, yet it does have some hiccups that held this show back a little. Not in a bad way, by the way. Just that there are some things that might linger in my mentality for a long time.
The season continues where it'd left off but it's more about Kuro Sakuragawa and Kotoko Iwanaga, still voiced by Brandon Winckler and Lizzie Freeman, traveling from place to place, residing in different hotels as they grow closer as boyfriend/girlfriend solving various cases. Unlike in the last season, this season does take its time better with ho…
Read at the sourceJet_Suzuyaki
I really like this anime!
The concept is a bit silly, with investigations sprinkled with supernatural elements, but it works really well, and the scriptwriters skilfully manage to use the same types of crime in this season while creating variations that give a bit of freshness to what we're watching, so that we're systematically very keen to find out the end of the story (which is rarely what we think it is) and get involved in the investigations.
What's more, there's a real atmosphere created in this series, thanks in particular to the OSTs (which are top-notch) and which convey the oculous and mysterious side of the situations really well. Frankly, this works well, especially as the stories don't necessarily always end well, which accentuates the atmosphere, which is broken up by gags…
Read at the sourceKasuk
This will be against the grain compared to the general consensus in regards to this season, but the truth is, it is just okay.
The formula of the mysteries is really a simple Point A to Point B, very straightforward road, but then the author introduces pit stops going a scenic route and dragging the journey out. But the destination of Point B was never in doubt. In fact throughout the mysteries Point B is probably where your mind goes to initially, and then the MC throws in a bunch of other stuff to lead you off path... but then STILL ends up bringing you back to Point B.
What it ends up being is a really straightforward answer, being convoluted with a bunch of extra unnecessary information AFTER you've already made your assumption.... only to lead you right back to that assumption. Rea…
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tl;dr: A sequel season that has a bunch of smaller but still great stories, though it does so at the expense of any progress in any overarching plot lines or character/relationship development in the main couple.
The second season of Kyokou Suiri, AKA In/Spectre, continues to follow Kotoko and Kuro as they deal with various affairs involving both humans and supernatural entities. Seeing how the first season ended with a battle of wits between Kotoko and Rikka, I had assumed that in this season Rikka would continue to mastermind various incidents and Kotoko would continue to face off against her in resolving them. However, this isn’t the case at all. Let alone serving as the antagonist of an arc, Rikka barely barely shows up in this season at all. She has enough presence to remind viewers…
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If you're looking for a cheap battle shounen with yokai and suffer from TikTok brain syndrome so you can't keep focused for more than five seconds without a constant adrenaline rush from some cartoons beating each other, this anime is not for you - you might find the "talking" a bit too complex and verbose to follow, and who'd want to see a bunch of characters *talk*, right? At least add a Subway Surfer gameplay in the background to keep the kiddos focused, right? Oh, wait, they do that in Season 1 with the final battle.
But let's assume you're a normal person and your brain hasn't yet been hijacked by some Chinese spyware. In that case, this anime is clever enough to forgive the relatively low production value and some pacing flaws, and you might actually find it compelling enough to wa…
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I went into the first season expecting an episodic story of a girl who was made into a Goddess of Wisdom by the youkai taking an eye and a leg from her, and now acted as an arbiter between worlds to solve problems and protect peace and harmony. I got a drama between her and another human family that only had anything to do with youkai because of what their family did to them. There was only one instance of the main character solving a mystery between humans and youkai, and it wasn't even in the manga. and the time skips felt like all the important parts of the story were skipped in order to reach the conclusion, which uh, does not make for a good story.
That being said, season 2 of this show was marginally better. I liked that it was more episodic, because that's exactly what I was hopin…
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I'm confused about what to type, I'm not good at commenting. if you are a fan of supernatural genre but want a light story, then I recommend this!! :D Actually I hope there will be more cases discussed in season 2, but this is already good, there is character development too, New cases, new characters too. In this season I like the story case with Yuki-Onna. the music is quite calming. for art style, it's quite good like season 1. Even though it's a supernatural anime, this anime also has a subtle romance which I think is quite cute! I like this
Read at the sourceTangerinaAcamado
This anime really had surprise me!
On first season, the main plot, the chars and their grow up are so good!
This story have focus on dialogs and, in my opinion, that just make what happen better!!!
I loved all chars, main chars are so awesome. Also fighting moments are so good cuz the animation and careful have so many skill i think.
So, battle moments are so cool BUT this anime is, mostly part, about dialogs! If u dont like that or is searching some shonen, isn't for you...
Btw, I think everyone need to watch this! Even 3 episodes rules.
So, enjoy yourself!!!!
Read at the sourceLaid_back_ash
This season takes a different route from the first season.It doesn't focus on the main story much but instead is a collection of short stories playing in 2 or 3 episodes each.
That said your enjoyment of the series will depend on how much you like the main character Iwanaga coz this is her ride all through. While the first season introduced us to this world the second season shows us the nature of the characters that inhabit it. I loved this season mainly 'cause I liked Iwanaga's character and how they show different aspects of her.
There's mystery here some stories are better than others the animation is beautiful. Unlike the first anime the fight scenes are rare and it is a more dialogue focused approach. Eagerly waiting for the third season...
Read at the sourceXanWasting
It's a detective show, plain and simple.
We get a brilliant detective loli, a reasonably motivated arch villain that sometimes pops up to say hello, and a passenger's seat ride into dissecting truth from falsehood in order to achieve justice.
The show is best watched with this in mind. Supernatural is used as little more than spice, just to increase possible venues of deduction, and to charm a viewer with alien and unknown.
That said, it is certainly better than season 1, which spent half its screen time estabilishing the world and characters, and the second half on 1 story arc of arguing on internet forum.
Its a nice watch and a rare sequel surpassing its predecessor, so I'd recommend seeing it if You've seen the first season and wouldn't mind more, as this is exactly that. There's more o…
Read at the sourceZant-sama
If specters, demons, ghosts, yokai, and any other manner of supernatural beings exist and are able to interact with humans; how would they interact with and affect human society? I think this is the question that Kyokou Suiri is getting at. The series does not attempt to answer this question in a grandiose kind of way with supernatural creatures attempting world domination. Instead it looks at it from a much less intense but nonetheless dramatic angle— covering such themes as supernatural romance, revenge, and murder.
Story:
While the first season focused a lot of time on the Steel Lady Nanase arc which many people did not enjoy, the second season follows several short individual stories, each taking up only a few episodes. This keeps the story feeling fresh with a new mystery to look f…
Read at the sourceTacoQZ
(It's a step up at least)
Well... after a somewhat short wait for season 2, here I am once again watching a series that I will most likely completely forget everything about within 2 months of watching.
Is Kyokou Suiri bad? No, by no means is this a bad series. However, there isn't... anything special about it. The story had potential but is executed poorly, the voice acting is okay, and the characters are semi-decent. One of the few things I do like is the animation. Although considering I tend to only watch stuff from the early 2000s, I guess that's to be expected.
I will say however, S2 is definitely a step in the right direction and definitely held my attention for most of the episodes. S1 was a "too much speaking" type deal. It moved extremely slowly in my opinion and the last few e…
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The most polarizing anime of Winter 2020 comes back to shave off too many brain cells once again, and I don't blame you if you find that this show is still an absolute nightmare to trough through.
It's of clear, obvious intentionality that novelist-cum-mangaka Ryo Shirodaira's supernatural thriller mystery series is something that we all either love or hate, much aligned for its dialogue-heavy segments. And exactly 3 years later, we get another sequel, which is frankly, more of the same that covers the manga's content right after the long-winded Steel Lady Nanase arc from Volume 7 onwards, diverging into mini-arc cases that take a life on its own.
Most depictingly:
Volume 8's Electric Pinocchio
Volume 9's Guillotine Sanshiro
Volume 10 and 11's Sleeping Murder
Volume 12 and 13's Yuki-onna…
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