To keep up with everything I've ever reviewed since the beginning I've produced a quick guide saying which Anime and Cartoons I've reviewed, a one line synopsis and now one line of good and bad.
Debutante Detective Corps
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The joys of watching wholesome anime.
Over in the picturesque village of Castle Combe in the United Kingdom, a young girl named Shinobu arrives from Japan to stay with the family of Alice Cartelet, becoming best friends. A few years later, Alice journeys to Japan to join Shinobu in her school starting a fun adventure along with Aya, Yoko and fellow brit Karen.
For what is essentially a 4-Koma manga, Kinmoza as it's also called takes all the best parts of the cute girls doing cute things genre and adds some British for good measure, the amount of detail that went into the first episode alone just to showcase Alice's house is impressive, based on an actual B&B in Castle Combe United Kingdom.
It's ultimately impossible to hate this series, if you didn't already fall in love with Alice's antics from episode 1 you'll find the group all together to be endearing and wholesome.
With how it's setup, a dub of this would be impossible to translate so one doesn't exist.
Final Verdict: Easily the most pleasant, wholesome series you'll ever watch, it's impossible to hate and leaves you with the warm fuzzies.
Sometimes you really do find trash.
Senko High School's Literature Club all develop superpowers one day as they come to terms with learning these powers while dealing with adolescence, the lone male of the group Jurai who is also a Chunnibyo has a useless black flame while all the female members get useful powers.
I hate this anime; Chuunibyo as a concept is hard enough to describe and portray right normally but here it's treated so poorly that it stops being a joke after less than a minute.
Chuunibyo or eighth grade syndrome is where you go through a phase where you make believe you are some sort of fantasy entity, the image that comes to mind are weebs going around pretending to be Naruto's Akatsuki.
The powers on offer don't translate well to a battle school anime and having your lead be the butt of all jokes doesn't make it easier to follow, it's not pleasant to follow and the fact that his Chuunibyo tendencies only enhance with these powers makes him insufferable as well.
Basically there are no redeemable characters, the story is shocking, the dub is dire and there is nothing memorable, except for one scene in episode 7, called the single best bit of acting in all of anime, but that needs it's own entry.
Final Verdict: this anime is in really poor taste, considering the subject matter it attempts to do. There is nothing to like in this anime.
I swear it's only a coincidence that I'm reviewing this on Election day.
Based on a dating sim, Takafuji Private Academy is holding an election for the new President, the favourite Satsuki aims to shutdown unfavourable clubs which prompts Yuki Ojima to step in and run against her to avoid losing the food research club he's a part of, but can an outsider persuade the school to vote for him?
Unlike Photo Kano, the plot of this dating sim is firmly on the election, it's not like Yuki can actually hold on to a relationship as a sabotage hijacks the plot before anything can really be resolved and the relationship that does get attention is dealt with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, the whole chocolate element in the story revolves around Chisato's hatred of chocolate and how it caused the death of her younger brother, so when she gets called out on it, it gets really uncomfortable, Satsuki's situation with her school teacher older sister is handled a little better but more melodramatic than it needed to be.
My point is, pick a tone and stick to it.
A dub would probably work but you'll be guaranteed to know who voices who.
Final Verdict: Not much for love, too much election and the chocolate was uncomfortable.
I struck gold with this one.
Katase Shiori is a short well endowed office lady who just received her first kohai in the nervous yet kind Takuma Shinozaki, what starts as a working relationship, starts becoming something more as the two slowly fall in love with each other, everyone can see it from friends, family to other co-workers and especially the boss.
It's a role reversal of the other office anime "My Senpai is Annoying" but Tiny Senpai doesn't pull the same cliches Annoying Senpai did, although the downside of Tiny Senpai is that despite the awkward situations the two leads often find themselves in, they take things too slow to the point where the anime is done before any satisfying outcome happens, it helps that the cast is too wholesome to really hate anyone, so you still like what you see.
Not seen the dub but I doubt it would have the same impact as the sub does.
Anime are trying everything to sell the idea of comfortable relationships in the adult world to save the declining birth rate that the teenage characters that dominate much of anime are on the decline, replaced by adults that need love in their lives, Tiny Senpai is too inoffensive to really achieve that but on it's own merits it acts as a safe watch for anyone intimidated by the working world.
Final Verdict: Way too wholesome to deliver it's mission statement but is pleasant enough slice of life to function with other shows of it's type.
