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Just by the hairstyle of Neuro, I had unpleasant flashbacks to Yu-Gi-Oh! and wanted to stop watching. But I couldn’t. It was too fascinating - what, with the grotesque hairstyle and its unsightly little beads and Neuro’s transformation into what looked like a blue semi-tropical bird that ate mysteries. I don’t know whether that’s purposefully retarded to garnish interest or whether the author was serious. And yes, demon arms that can organic chemically analyze food is a welcome…skill, I suppose. It’s just, a show with myriads of stupid details isn’t going to get balanced out with a more “realistic” detail like the need to scientifically analyze compounds in food (I kid you not, but they were showing the ring systems and all).

The animation is done by Madhouse which technically should mean that it’s at least decent. There’s something off-putting about the colours they use though - they’re overly blocked in and once again I have to mention that Neuro’s beads hanging off his hair makes him look like some failed-at-crafts douche. Anyway, with the “tantei” in the title you know it’s going to be about solving various mysteries and this show gets right into it. At the end of the first episode, it is revealed that the school girl Yako is a cover for Neuro’s real purposes which is, the need to feed on human mysteries so that he doesn’t die. He has various demon powers (of course) and is physically and verbally abusive to Yako. The reason that they work together is because her father died mysteriously and with her need to find out what happened, they obviously formed some sort of pact and well, when you literally make a deal with the devil you have to go through with it.

*Interject two hours because my keyboard suddenly stopped working in the middle of writing this.*

The story itself for the first episode is hilarious in many ways - surprisingly two “science” thingies. I mean, the chef injected steroids and drugs into his food to make it taste good. In reality, that probably wouldn’t be true I mean, drugs make you addicted yes, but the taste? Also, that doesn’t make sense to me how the chef suddenly bulked up in 2 seconds. If you use steroids you get bulky and stay that way. Minor technicalities, my problem is that if you’re going to throw in steroids, drugs and substances - make it at least workable. Drugs and chemicals don’t give you superpowers, period.

Anyway, point is - I think they try too hard to combine random elements and it’s probably really stupid but I think I’m going to continue watching. The whole raining scene with Yako standing there is a complete 180 from the retardedness of the beginning. Yes, it might just be schiznophrenic…

Even though the premise is lame, demon who uses school girl to solve mysteries and has a rather abusive relationship, I think I’m just grotesquely fascinated and that’s the best kind.

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A. Papillon is not amused.