Audience reviews
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KimuraTheHatoru
Undead Girl Murder Farce.... Honestly from that name i actually expected some zombies? This is one of the few shows i entered 100% blind,not even seeing any part of it anywhere. Or at least anything i can remember. And that played in my favour really, as this one's all about mystery solving.
The show starts wierdly enough with a completely different premise,of blood sports kinda fights between monsters. That's where the final member of a more morbid Mystery Gang gets recruited from. That guy being our...MC? Goes by the name of Shinuchi Tsugaru. But even if we are introduced to him first and foremost,he honestly doesn't feel like a proper MC. That's a role shared by him and Aya in equal measure.
The cinematography in this one's is for the most part real good. The animation is... all over…
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Undead Girl Murder Farce has an exceptional first episode — one that promises a great cast, creative direction, and kick-ass fights. All those elements remain throughout the show, diluted somewhat. On top of that, it (being a novel adaptation) features impressive mystery writing… with one caveat.
The core cast is strong, and all have fun dynamics with each other. Oni MC Shinuchi Tsugaru has a fun comedic dynamic with both of the other leads. He and severed head/detective Aya have a Holmes and Watson type relationship, and constantly try to outwit each other with dad jokes (this is one of the many dynamics that make it obvious this is a novel adaptation). His more direct boke-tsukkomi rapport with battle maid Shizuku is entertaining when it shows up. He also (as his name implies) does raku…
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This seems to have flown under a lot of radars. I suspect many people watched the first two eps, and threw their hands up, wondering what this was all about, then gave up.
Please don't. It takes a while to flesh out the characters. Remember, the MC has no body. Her maidservant seems to be a robot, and their back-up is pretty much a dick. But that's just the surface layer. As each episode passed, these characters move from total dysfunction to a cohesive squad. Slow, but ultimately solid, character development, design and writing.
The narrative writing is fine, too. Besides our main troop, there is a mish-mash of supernatural beings, and an assortment of famous 19th century literary mystery protagonists. It sounds like a recipe for trainwreck, but the writers use short arcs to solve the…
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Undead Girl Murder Farce is an anime that plunges its viewers into a world of mystery, and supernatural suspense. This series, while not for the faint of heart, offers a captivating experience.
The first episode, directed by Mamoru Hatakeyama, delivers a visually striking experience with its dark and mysterious art style. Hatakeyama's deliberate pacing and clever shot composition build tension effectively, seamlessly blending the mundane with supernatural elements. I really loved the cinematic way he approached some scenes and made unusual decisions in how to frame them, it reminded me of the Monogatari Series. The dialogue is concise yet engaging, revealing key plot points without sacrificing mystery. The sound design enhances the foreboding atmosphere, making the episode a promising sta…
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The initial mystery was very good. Although detective story connoisseurs will see the solution coming from a mile away, the step by step logical deduction with no leaps in logic make for a very interesting watch. The banter between the two main leads is also very enjoyable. However, by the 5th episode the show starts introducing too many unnecessary plot points involving various fictional and real characters from European history, and making them important to the plot. This detracts from the main drive of the show, which is simply watching a fully sentient girl's head in a birdcage solve interesting mysteries. The introduction of these flamboyant characters with unnecessary gimmicks seems more like cameos that were given way too much weight. The final mystery is again interesting, if a lit…
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Undead Girl Murder Farce is like Gosick if Gosick wasn't so boring, featured a boring JP male protagonist, shitty romance, and episodic mysteries that weren't ever that thrilling. It's always quite cringe to see a gothic lolita hanging around an adolescent high school JP boy who randomly catches her fancy, solving random crimes like it isn't the more bizarre and BS thing in the world, so Undead Girl Murder Farce gives the theme a go and makeover was a good surprise.
Of course, instead of a gothic lolita, you have a severed head. There's actually a reason for her bitter personality. It happens when you spend millennia alive and you're stuck as a severed head and wisened up after witnessing so much. So Aya's personality is less of a weird fetishizing of a loli, but more of a realistic setti…
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Funny enough, I initially wanted to watch this because of a cool edit I saw on Instagram, the actual anime's a whole different story though. The animation was well done for the most part but could get questionable at times. —The fights were like this too, the choreography was just inconsistent, and characters felt like they were brake-dancing half the time.
I did enjoy seeing Aya solve mysteries tho. But after deep inspection, I found that her skills were only as amazing as the plot wanted them to be. This is evident in how she brings up stuff that we "the audience" weren't shown. Nonetheless, it was fun to watch. I don't know if I'll tune in for season 2 though. 6/10
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It started with an intriguing premise and captivating first episode. The initial plot setup was full of potential, leaving you eager to see where it would lead. However, as the series progressed, disappointment set in. It became meandering and lost its direction.
The character designs were interesting, but with average animation and composition, it wasn’t anything special.
The animation quality also suffered, with inconsistent pacing, and lackluster fight scenes. It's regrettable that a show with such a strong start ultimately failed to deliver on its early potential. I would not recommend it to others due to its disappointing execution and overall lackluster animation.
The OP song was cool tho.
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Are you tired of watching the same Isekai trash with the same plot progression and themes, well look no further.
Undead Girl Murder Face is a breath of fresh air regarding story telling, characters and unique fighting scenes with lots of creativity. If you are looking for an detective show or just love well made shows with funny characters than I highly recommend this anime.
8/10 is my objective scoring of this anime you can see my reasons why underneath.
Summary (episode 1 spoilers): Undead Girl Murder Face is a anime where we follow Tsugaru Shunichi a Half Oni traveling together with Aya Rindo and her devoted attendant Shizuku Hasei. This trio travels around as detectives hoping to find clues about Aya Rindo's missing body. Aya Rindo is a immortal being and is being carried as a head i…
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Undead Girl Murder Farce is a great comedy mystery mix. Its core is solving various monster related mysteries, and it does that very well. The mysteries are intriguing, and presented in a way that the viewer can guess along and actually reach the right conclusion.
But its true strength are its characters and its humor. Especially the main cast is so weird and aloof that just watching them banter while traveling is truly entertaining. Tsuguru is really not what you'd expect of a main character, watching him fool around in very serious situations and play dumb, while his quiet intelligence continues to shine through, is very refreshing. Aya is as dignified as you could expect from a head in a cage, but has a happy disposition that seems absolutely displaced in some situations, which makes i…
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As someone who likes to graciously pen at least one review every quarter, this season was uniquely terrible to write for. This summer constituted a particular combination of shows that I largely can’t/wont review for a variety of reasons that I will now list: the show is getting unceremoniously delayed because the anime industry never ceases to be incompetent, the show is two cours so it won’t finish until December (there’s like three shows I considered watching in this category), shows only notable because its studio is a living meme, sequels to shows I haven’t seen or caught up on, spin offs and sequels to shows I’ve dropped, shows that clearly cater to fetishes I’m not into, and everything else looks like shit. The only show that fit my review criteria for this season was a show called……
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I don't write reviews, but I ended up writing this summary/review for a friend so I thought I might post it:
Undead Murder Farce: its straight up a detective show, but one of the best ones I've seen, in any genre - extremely underrated and slept upon in the Summer 2023 season
the two main characters are original and so are most BUT he takes huge inspiration from classic western fiction literature and makes use of a ton of iconic characters like [mild spoiler] sherlock holmes & moriarty + related, frankenstein, arsene lupin, passepartout (from Around the World in Eighty Days), etc. [end spoiler] and involves them each in a way that's actually really well written and feels natural - basically placing the setting in a fictional world that contains almost all iconic fantasy characters (inclu…
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Murder mysteries and detective fiction are notoriously among the most difficult stories to write. It requires walking a tightrope, giving enough detail that a sufficiently clever audience member could solve the mystery, but not so much that the answers are obvious to all. Undead Murder Farce walks this tightrope expertly, parceling out little bits of information, never quite showing its hand about what details will ultimately be important to solving the cases. Each one is complex and convoluted, with 4 episodes devoted to each case (the leftover episode in the count is episode 1, which introduces our main detective trio), but all 3 can be solved before the final reveal by a person that is paying close attention and making a few deductive leaps.
This all might imply a series that is very s…
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"Undead Girl ANIME Farce"
POSITIVES:
- Character-filled
- Art Quality
- Voice acting
- Bop OP, good ED
- MCs chemistry
NEGATIVES: - Clickbaits
- Unnecessarily stretching out cases for too many episodes.
- Rushed climax/finale
- Threading two rivers at the same time while clearly favoring the other.
I'm not even gonna talk about its story-- it's interesting to me, personally. Instead, I'd rather judge how it performed as a show, and how it ruined the story-telling of this Anime. And just like the finale of the show, I'm gonna rush through my rant as well.
The first episode had a Dark Fantasy-Action vibe which had the then yet to be acquianted MCs battling each other in a somewhat testing of strength, which concluded in a partnership to achieve opposite goals relating to a common enemy.…
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I love a good murder mystery, particularly those with a twist, and this one has a good one: the world is one tainted by the persecution of monsters, and how they respond to it helps shape both the larger narrative and the individual mysteries.
In that sense, this is a blast to watch. I found myself engrossed, particularly in the first of the mysteries that takes place in a vampire household shaped by compromise with the human world that spurned them.
Things get more complicated beyond that and so does the messaging, making it more difficult to fully appreciate subsequent arcs. The following one, in particular, isn’t so much a mystery as a gathering of both all-time great detectives and criminals as well as a who’s who of monstrous villains and antiheroes. It’s a nice idea in concept, an…
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What I expected after the first episode - Discount Bakemonogatari.
What I got - Discount Fate Spin-off.
The Monogatari Series, or, more accurately, its anime adaptation by studio Shaft, has had an absolutely profound impact on the industry. Yet, compared to similar era-defining shows such as Evangelion or Madoka, it spawned a shockingly low amount of straight-up imitations. And it's not hard to see why, an author has to have at least 150 IQ to even attempt to write this type of story, as well as immense confidence not to be afraid of unfavorable comparisons with Nisio Isin. Though IQ below 100 and the Dunning-Kruger effect is also an option, Bunny Girl Senpai exists as an ostensive example of how NOT to imitate Monogatari. Undead Girl Murder Farce is not THAT bad, but it’s still way too f…
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Undead Girl Murder Farce was probably the talk of the season in many circles. From Reddit to various YouTubers, this anime showed a lot of promise to a lot of people, but unfortunately, it never delivered on its promise.
At the end of the day, I feel like it was still kind of entertaining. The fights were somewhat cool, the character cast was interesting, and the mystery parts in the show were also pretty interesting.
But unfortunately all of it fell apart when there was no proper "glue" to stick them together into a coherent, interesting storyline and there are a few key problems in the anime.
Firstly, the main plot and the premise of the show almost never actually progresses. The place we started in episode 2 is almost the same as we were at the end of episode 13. The anime consists o…
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Undead girl murder farce took me by total surprise this season. I was initially intrigued by the key visuals and character designs, but after watching the first episode I was instantly in love with this story and the characters. If you’re a fan of mystery, urban fantasy and interesting characters with a lot of deadpan humour, this is the one for you.
What makes Undead Girl stand out to me is just how unique the story feels. It’s a globe trotting mystery-solving story combined with mystical elements. I’m not quite sure how to fully describe it, but it’s got a cool mix of fanatical elements and a realistic world. That’s to say that our journey takes the characters to real locations such as the French and German countrysides, London, etc., but sees them interact with the magical underbelly…
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Undead Murder Farce screams exuberance and stylistic achievement from its very first moments, with no qualms about being absurd or perhaps even corny, and as mysteries go, that is the uniqueness that is to be desired. There’s so much media revolving around mystery, from your Agatha Christie novels, to your Conan Doyle stories, to the plentiful mystery anime and tv shows, so it’s difficult to create something memorable out of the vast sea of mystery media choice, and I’m happy to say that Undead Murder Farce stood out nicely, so come one, come all, into the pseudo-Meiji era, and enjoy the fun!
The anime title surely tells you nothing, but believe me, this is one of the most unique takes on mysteries I’ve seen a while, combining a wide range of mysteries with compelling action and witty hum…
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Undead (Girl) Murder Farce: the most underrated Summer show of the season that we, the audience, DON'T deserve. for a series where every episode feels like 5 minutes, that it is the literate definition of a binge-worthy show from start to finish.
Clearly the definitive Dark Horse of the Summer season, novelist Yuugo Aosaki's Undead Girl Murder Farce may be a dramatic historical fantasy work for the ages, that if you bring to the typical anime director who is just content with the bare minimum, this show would not have worked out the way that it has been these past 3 months. But it really seems that with one sole person (which I'll get to later in the review), all the cards were clicking towards the right path, and soon, the light shines in the darkness, ever so subtly to deliver a work th…
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