Genre : Josei, Horror, Mystery, Psychological Thriller Studio: J.C.Staff Have I used that as a title before? I feel like every single episode review for every single show, I’ve ever written could have been titled this way. I’ve been trying hard to destroy my blog under pretense of renovating it and as a result I…
Tag: Mystery
Angels of Death ep 1 – Second Worst Reverse Harem Ever!
Genre : Josei, Horror, Mystery, Psychological Thriller Studio: J.C.Staff I was actually not that inspired by the shows this season, which is actually a good thing seeing as I am desperately backlogged in my anime watching. However, one of the few titles that caught my eye early on was Angels of Death and after seeing…
Danganronpa V3 – Testing my Ability to Cope With Loss
Genre: Mystery, psycho cool, adult-like(?) Playtime: Long (30 – 50 hours) Developer: Spike Chunsoft & Spike The world is a strange place, filled with inexplicable mysteries, especially when you can’t seem to remember who you are and how you got there. But everything is going to be just fine, right? After all, you know that you are a…
Danganronpa 2 Goodbye Despair; Stop Killing my Husbandos!
Genre: Mystery, pure cool Playtime: Medium (10 – 30 hours) Developer: Spike Chunsoft & Spike Hope’s Peak academy is a cherished dream for most people. An illustrious institution responsible for nothing less than nurturing those destined to become the hope of all mankind. Anyone would be honored to attend, and most students have worked and sacrificed their…
The Dissonance of Terror in Resonance
Genre: Action, Thriller, Crime, Drama, Mystery Episodes: 11 Studio: MAPPA Nine and Twelve have been together for as long as either of them can remember. They are each other’s only family, only friends, only allies and confidants. Twelve and Nine know everything there is to know about each other. They accept one another, they…
Gahkthun of the Golden Lightning – Putting the Novel Back in Visual Novel
Genre: Mystery, Steampunk, Action, Romance Playtime: Medium (10 – 30 hours) Developer: Liar-soft At the turn of the 1900s the world has been plunged in darkness. The massive steam engines that power every aspect of modern life have also covered the skies in thick dark clouds blocking out the sun and stifling nature, but people aren’t…
Danganronpa Trigger Happy Havoc indeed or Irina fails hard at VN reviews
Genre: Mystery, pure cool Playtime: Medium (10 – 30 hours) Developer: Spike Chunsoft & Spike Makoto cannot believe his luck. It’s beyond just good, it’s phenomenal, extraordinary, ultimate. Hopes Peak academy is a breeding ground for the very best society has to offer. Only those so unbelievable skilled as to be considered the one and only pinnacle of…
I’m a Mystery Wrapped in Cotton Candy Drenched in Vodka
As you guys are very well aware by now – I am one UNIQUE individual. I reek of uniqueness. I also happen to be lovely, I’m considerably more unique than lovely but what are you gonna do. But did you guys know that I’m also Mysterious? Neither did I. My posts are a collection of…
Black Butler proved me wrong
Genre: Supernatural, fantasy, dark comedy Episodes: 24 Studio: A-1 Pictures A precocious young psychopath enlists the help of a deceptively charming demon to realize his revenge against his family’s murders by making said demon his butler and developing an antagonistically sexy relationship with him. Naturally, his quest for vengeance will consist of loosely related investigations…
Beautiful Bones: Sakurako’s Investigation or just Bones
Beautiful Bones: Sakurako’s Investigation Genre : Crime drama, procedural, mystery Episodes: 12 Studio: Troyca Sakurako Kujō is your average beautiful young woman in her twenties, with your average every day worries and pleasures. For instance, she worries that she will have to talk to other people since most of them are idiots and interacting with them…
Un-Go
Genre: All of them Episodes: 11 Studio: Bones In the not too distant future a slightly dystopian Japan is the grips of political unrest trying to right itself after a series of devastating terrorist attacks. Private detective Shinjuurou Yuuki makes his living trying to bring some law and order to these chaotic times with the help…
Serial Experiments Lain
Genre: Sci Fi, Psychological, Cyberpunk, Magical girl(?) Episodes: 13 Studio: Triangle Staff Oh maaan… OK so like first scene – BAM, this girl kills herself and we have no clue why. Then, people at her school start getting emails from her (this was a while ago – you couldn’t just schedule your emails to send…
Erased
Genre : Time travel, Murder mystery, Grade school action Episodes: 12 Studio: A-1 Pictures Satoru is in his late 20s and works at a pizzeria. He is stoic, jaded and disconnected from pretty much everything. He is also definitely not a pedophile. He is just aimlessly drifting through life when his boring little world gets suddenly…