Kamisama no Memochou

There is no thread about this sho if I'm not mistaken

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Chihiro
UTW

DDL/XDCC links on their sites.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/ency...e.php?id=12865

"Plot Summary: The Story revolves around Narumi Fujishima an ordinary high school boy who remain isolated from his fellow classmates.One afternoon fellow classmate Ayaka Shinozaki invites Narumi to join the gardening club and introduces him a reclusive detective named Alice. Alice hires Narumi as an assisant and put him to work solving the srtange mystories of Angel fix an illegal drug. Little does he know it could put him and Ayaka in serious trouble. "


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First ep (48 minutes long) was pretty good.
Animation Style reminds me of Railgun/Index

I watched UTW's version, but I will download Chihiro's too because I believe them to be better.

How everthing came together was a bit weird, the main character is said to be "ronery" and tries to avoid people, yet he submits to total strangers and follows everyone around.
It was still fun enough to watch though

I'm so done with J.C. Staff

What is up with this season? Quality anime out of nowhere.

[UTW]Kami-sama no Memo-chou Episode 2 720

It's really unfortunate that this series aired right after Gosick ended. They're both detective series, and although I know I shouldn't be biased, it falls short in every way. It comes off as preachy. Alice randomly throws out aphorisms that I suppose are meant to be insightful, but they only look arrogant because she's a shut-in. The result is she comes off like a know-it-all and annoying, rather than someone who is actually intelligent and insightful. I can't even begin to see how she is ever meant to come off in any endearing or moe manner. "Oh how cute, she doesn't like to take baths or go outside." No thanks.

The rest of the characters are just very bland. Stereotype after stereotype. Military nerd, the playboy, the street-smart enforcer (conveniently a school dropout), Yakuza with a heart of gold, generic restaurant owner (of a ramen shop no less), generic cheery girl who is secretly not so cheery, generic pushover boy.

Worst of all is the lead. He's just going along with it, already Alice's errand boy. They never really gave a good reason why he was doing it at the end of the first episode, and in the second episode it comes off like he's been serving her for month with nothing to show for it.

I could barely stomach the forced melodrama this episode delivered.

I sincerely hope the story picks up by the next episode or two. Otherwise this feels like it is just a pathetic cash-in from Gosick reviving detective shows (by that I mean ones that aren't Conan).

I also think that this series is inferior to GOSICK, but I would not be that harsh in judging it.

The main thing I didn't like is how they introduced so many characters already. Right now, they merely serve as tools, both for the plot and for the neet detective, so they don't rouse any interest from me. I really could not care less when they appear onscreen.