mariellealien

I have not read the manga, seen the anime, or watched any other adaptation, and I really enjoyed this. If you accept it for what it is, its a quirky show with anime facial expressions, and it's over the top good fun with big emotions.

This reminds me of the style of older (think 90s and 2000s) series that have been adapted from manga or anime. It's got the same vibe, the same over the top emotional outbursts, silly antics, and animated facial expressions and body language. If you can look past all that and enjoy it for what it is, it's got a good message, and it's full of heart.

I recommend it!

They are trying too hard, and not hard enough at the very same time.

The actors are doing their best, but they can only do so much. The characters aren't given enough scenes to let ut care about them, to let us find out who they are, what their lives outside of work are - we are given no reason to care about them, like we are in criminal minds.

The detective work is also pretty .. underwhelming. In criminal minds they teach us what they do, why they do it, and so on. Here they attempt to do that, but it's again not given enough time to really be engaging or that good. They try to pull on all the heartstrings when it comes to victims, like crime shows do - but it's ineffective.

It's really disappointing, maybe especially because there are several exceptional actors in this.