Introduction
One stormy night, a young woman is shot to death on a cliff; her body is found floating in the waters below the next morning. She was last seen with a man who is now being sought not only for her death. Meanwhile, an estranged wife hires Goro, a private investigator, to find her husband. Alongside another member of law enforcement with his own motives for finding the man, Goro sets forth on a trail of tragedy and intrigue to find the reason and connection behind the murders and missing husband.
(Source: Anime-Planet; edited)
Audience reviews
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CaptainKenshiro
This ova is dumb as fuck, and I know that’s a strong and harsh way to begin a review but I find no other nor more appropriate way to sum it up. The premise has a woman paying a private investigator to find her criminal husband to see him one last time, it’s sentimental but also kind of cheesy from the get go. At least the pacing is not bad, since even though the protagonist is seemingly fooling around, he is getting close to people related to his target and gathering information about him, that way he also comes to learn stuff about him, and since every character he encounters is related to the man he is searching, both that guy and everyone else gets fleshed out at the same time by revealing more about their shared backdrops each time. The movie it’s mostly about that, there isn’t much pl…
Read at the sourceBobSamurai
*SPOILER FREE*
This OVA follows a private investigator hired to find his client's husband. It turns out the man is wanted for double homicide, and she wishes to speak with him before he's arrested. What makes this anime so interesting is that this investigator travels across Japan following breadcrumbs he hopes will eventually lead to his target. But, instead, he discovers that these clues slowly unravel a psychological mystery of a man who suffers a mental break after being haunted by an incredibly difficult decision he made in the past.
While I won't spoil exactly what this decision was, I will say that his survival once teetered on a morally grey dilemma where all outcomes are tragic. The PTSD resulting from this choice forever changed him and sent him down this dark path.
Despite t…
Read at the sourceymasumac
The art and sound remind me of a Japan I never saw, but one the 匂い (nioi/perfume) of which I have sensed from dear friends. It's an older drawing style reminiscent of Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo and Master Keaton, backed by a kind of "cocktail hour" jazz, which sweeps me away to a simpler, more beautiful time in the world, and particularly in Japan.
We have seen many of these characters before in melodramatic police shows, but somehow Inspector Yamagishi's remarkable seiyuu and character design managed to bring me to the brink of tears more than once, as though meeting his "type" for the first time.
If anything, although it's in color, Hello Harinezumi: Satsui no Ryoubun "feels" more like a black-and-white 1950s Japanese movie than it does an anime. Keeping that in mind helped me to e…
Read at the sourceSidewinder51
Rate an 8
English Dubbed
As far back as i can recall, detectives have joked about cases falling into their laps. The idea of having snow as a setting illustrates that point further. For you see cases are like the weather. Some times the endings/starts are like sun shine nice and bright. Although, they can always turn into rain/snow, miserable/bleak. A case drifted in a detectives lap and while he had multiple opportunities to brush it off he choose against it. Now, the question remains was that the right call? Simple to answer without the facts but like Aristotle said, "The more you know, the more you know you don't know.” Which means there is no longer an easy answer for as the facts come in so do different paths and approaches. A simple detective story but come to conclusion be ready to…
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Domain of Murder is an interesting anime to say the least. The audience is somewhat thrown into the story and are given the same clues to work with as the private investigator which I thought was pretty fair. As a 'psychological' anime it does fulfill that role and deals with some serious questions about the grey area of morality (specifically analyzing the concept of sacrifice to save another) and by the end you are left with the general message that the decisions we think are easy may end up being ones we regret for the rest of our lives, which is pretty damn psychologically mind boggling for a half hour movie. However, the movie had its ups and downs from the start.
The art style is what you would expect of for an anime of this era so there are no complaints on that front, and the soun…
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Domain of Murder is a simple old school detective story, and it was pretty fun to watch. Its just a single episode based on a random case from the manga it was adapted from.
story: The story is about a private detective working for a firm taking on a case to find a disturbed killer. This story about the killer has a twist I have never seen in an anime before or anything else in matter of fact. It makes you think would we have done the same thing if we were in his shoes or what would we have done different. it might have not been the right thing to do but was it really wrong?.Is it fair for us to judge him on the decision he made. It will make you question your moral values and makes you think what did the victim feel when the killer had to make the tough decision. I know I am very vague a…
Read at the sourcePrede
Ah "Hello Hedgehog: Domain of Murder", this is an OVA that almost know one knows about, in the U.S. and in Japan. I wouldn't even know about it if it weren't for ANN's recent Buried Treasure article. I read that review of it, and it seemed interesting so I bought the DVD. I am quite happy that I did, because this is quite an undicovered gem. It's no masterpeice, but it's a very good series.
Plot/Story
7/10
This OVA is based off of the popular seinen manga "Hello Hedgehog". Sadly the OVA did not become too popular, but lucky enough for us, Central Park Media licensed it for some reason, and even gave it a good dub a few years later. Anyway the story is very interesting. It's a classic detective tale, but the mystery behind it is very interesting. The story starts out with Detective Goro…
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