Introduction
"Toys" are powers bestowed upon those chosen to wield them, each having qualities that are unique to their users. Some of these individuals are born pure, using their powers to become detectives. Others bloom laced with poison and choose to become phantom thieves. These two opposing factions caused the formation of various detective academies around the globe—training detectives to fight and catch the phantom thieves.
Sherlock Shellingford, Nero Yuzurizaki, Hercule Burton, and Cordelia Glauca form "Milky Holmes", a group recognized as the cream of the crop in the Yokohama-based Holmes Detective Academy. However, in a skirmish against the phantom thief Arsene, their Toys suddenly disappear, deeming them unfit to continue as detectives. Stripped of their prestigious life and thrown into a rundown attic, they face expulsion if they fail to regain their powers within the next three months.
Tantei Opera Milky Holmes tells the story of a once-legendary group in their journey to recover their Toys, as well as attempting to continue their line of work without the powers that once defined their career.
[Written by MAL Rewrite]
Audience reviews
12 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
splatongus
Tantei Opera Milky Holmes is about the conflict of two opposing sides: detectives and phantom thieves. They are both bestowed with amazing powers called Toys and they fight beautifully in the dead of night.
That's what the intro wants you to believe, but that's not really the case. More than anything, it's about four useless idiot detectives tripping over each other.
I don't know why it's called Milky Holmes, either, but I'm guessing that's just something they thought sounded good in 2010.
The Milky Holmes are descendants of famous detectives and were themselves supposedly famous before the series started, but now they've lost their powers and became completely useless.
We don't really get to see them be good at anything and they don't seem to acually have the personalities or the intel…
Read at the sourceCanavar-K
Story (7/10) Main character lose their power and main villain trying her best to return their power so in this anime main villain helping main characters.
Art (7/10) This anime art is good it's like classic anime art.
Sound (10/10) Sound in this anime Outstanding even Voice Actors.
Characters (8/10) I loved main characters and villain except Twenty because he is annoying.
Enjoyment (10/10) I really enjoyed this anime never got bored in any of episodes maybe because of fan services or comedy.
Overall (8/10) Very Good anime if you like Loli with comedy scenes and Fan services than this anime is for you but if you want anime with good story this anime is not for You I was excepting this anime got story like Cardcaptor Sakura or Shugo Chara! but it's not.
Read at the sourcekonakona495
Tantei Opera Milky Holmes is a great title to detect people with alike mindset; if you stumble upon a favorite anime list with Milky Holmes included, it's generally a safe bet to try other high-rated titles there - similar mindset, simlilar taste that is.
And it's all because one can't really praise Milky Holmes for its story, art, sound or characters in particular.
The story mainly revolves around several cute magical girls who lost their powers due to a oppai villain and now fight to get them back.
You will have to grow extra fingers in order to count titles like that, right?
Art and sound are solid, but more moe had been seen before, even by J.C. Staff themselves.
Characters are amazing in their retard-o-meter level, but, once again, you could probably find something else somewhere…
Read at the sourceWulff
Admittedly I ended up watching "Tantei Opera Milky Holmes" due to a clip I saw on the internet which was sourced to this anime. In other words, I went in with literally zero expectations.
The ride was definitely a bumpy one.
A short summary of Tantei Opera Milky Holmes would be something along the lines of: A cute and somewhat entertaining little anime, that has a tendency to be about as non-sensical and generic as can be. If you want a good storyline, good characters and a satisfying ending, you'll definitely want to look elsewhere. If you want a whacky, zaney and non-sensical anime with cute girls, please stay and read on - But prepare to hit the off-switch on your analytical brain however, because this show makes no sense.
The story itself is not something that is going to blow your…
Read at the sourceIchigoRadiance
I'm honestly not sure what else to start with other than that I came to this show with expectations that I could watch lolies go on wacky adventures and solve strange cases. At the start I am greeted to the protagonists and the antagonists. The first five minutes prove to be very promising, with the characters losing their powers. I figured that they would have to use teamwork to move forward. What I got after that though was highly disappointing.
I'm going to be straight with you, one of things that got me through the first few episodes was the lolies, and even then, they weren't much on their own. I got the feeling that the creators thought that making the girls borderline retarded would make them more cute, sort of like the girls in K-on, mainly Yui. But the difference between the two…
Read at the sourceVeronin
In the near future, in a world tarnished by lawlessness and disorder, exists an elite detective agency known as Milky Holmes. Represented by four talented young girls, the agency exists to fight against those that threaten the people's security. Through their struggles to preserve peace is a courageous, poignant story of mystery and betrayal...
Wait, none of that has anything to do with Milky Holmes. Let's try again.
For Sheryl, Cordelia, Elly and Nero, any shred of courage and talent is tossed aside within five minutes of the first episode. After losing their supernatural abilities— "Toys", the once-esteemed detectives devolve into a group of scatterbrains miserably failing at every single thing that they set out to do. Bear attacking them in the forest? They try to befriend it. An anta…
Read at the sourceGaijin-san
SAO just like Milky holmes is a psychological delicacy that is undermined within the mainstream media as being a moe trash piece of garbage which when in fact it is really a genre defining academic text which would drive the most literally minded academics insane over the deep and complex issues conveyed of perpetual identity, symbolic relational symbolism, alternative character constructions and exploration through modern sociological issues within the show not to mention the ground breaking visuals which would send the most post modern shaft style shows to shame.
Honestly i could spend hours unravelling and discussing the deep psychophysical themes of Tantei Opera Milky Holmes and in the perfect world i would but simply if you cannot objective agree that Tantei Opera Milky Holmes is a s…
Read at the sourceshuncchi
So after a while i decided to write my first review for the most underrated anime i saw. Tantei Opera Milky Holmes.
If i look at my scores 8 for story, 8 for art, 8 for sound.
Its not really the animation or a great storyline which amazed me. The character are so funny to watch and the most important point for me was the "enjoyment".
I dont care if the arts bad, story boring and the sound annoying, but the jokes was so nice to watch, and the insider gags were so funny( ones you get it) that the enjoyment factor was at maximum for me.
And whats really special for me was that i dropped this anime once. After watching the 5 ep i started to watch something different. But suddenly somewhere near christmas i started to watch ep 6 and was so fascinated that i couldnt stop and watched all of t…
Read at the sourceKuro4735
After ranting like crazy about the first episode when I first saw it, I never thought I would go back to finish the rest of it. But after hearing that it was nominated by Japanese fans as the best anime of 2010 (although Japanese fans do admittingly have some odd tastes in anime…) and hearing some good comments about it from the few people I knew that were watching the show, I figured going back and finishing the show couldn’t hurt. And I can say that, after watching this series, while it is the most underrated from the Fall season of 2010, it is by no means the best of the year. For a comedy, it was actually done rather well, and while it gets heavy in fanservice sometimes, this show turned out surprisingly better than I had expected.
That being said, the key thing you need to realize wh…
Read at the sourceAnnabeiru
When watching the first episode my first impression was that this anime was a children's anime on detectives and thief's, oh but how i was wrong. After watching more episodes i find that this series is definitely for older audiences especially when the teacher made his appearance.
Story: 5/10
Whilst their is a plot half of the episodes are dedicated to pure randomness, this is to be expected of from a comedy series. Now to the main story line. This story revolves Sherlock and her friends and their mission to re-gain/ find their toys whilst also trying to arrest The Gentleman Thief Empire. This is a plot that hasn't got much to it except that.
Art: 8/10
I enjoyed the art style used for this anime. I like how each character is drawn and how they animated the some of the battle scenes. Th…
Read at the sourcehelur
First impression & Bias:
Oh dear god. This show threw me for a ride. It took me a few episodes before I realized the kids genre was removed on MAL. I was sort of puzzled by the stripping male teacher who would pinch his nipples. Well despite that oddity, this show is definitely a stupidly fun show. Why? It has nothing to do with mysteries, special powers, or anything pertaining to the story. It is nothing more than the adventures for a group of girls to attempt to regain what they once had only to fail humorously.
Expectation: 5
Episode Scores: -,-,-,8,6,8,7,7,7,6,8,8
Actual: 7 (Good)
Analysis:
Starting up with a quote from the episode discussions, "This show is dumb in all the right ways." This sums up a lot. Extremely episodic, with happy art, and a tale of how the good guys and bad guy…
Read at the sourceDangoSadge
OK first of all, before you pick up this series, throw every expectation out of the window! Literally!
Here's the most common perception people have on this anime;
-"Oh god, It's another lolicon's anime!"
Well, that's my first perception on it, but I can assure you, only the opening looks lolicon-ish. The rest of the show doesn't really promote pedophilia. How can you when the main villain of this series has gigantic b**b!
-"Wow! A mystery anime! Finally I get to watch something else other than Detective Conan!"
Once again, throw away that perception. Did the title say Detective Holmes? No. Unlike Detective Conan, it's clearly not stated it's a detective show. Closest you'll get to them solving a case is almost to nil. The only mystery here is how they lost their powers and will they eve…
Read at the source