I'm sure this claim will get pretty dated and irrelevant come next year or so, since one or both of these anime will probably be forgotten by then, but watching this, I can't help but be reminded of last season's Ranpo Kitan. Artsy mystery shows with an air of renown. In my opinion, they were not created equal.
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| Goooood... |
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| Freaking WOW |
It's kinda sad. The moment I saw Subete ga F ni Naru's theme song, it was like — BAM. And I'm not talking "bam" like I felt about Ranpo Kitan's theme song*, I mean like buhbuhbuhbbbBAYYYUM. Ranpo? You did great. But F got a freaking A+++.
Mmkay, let's get to the show.
* Keep in mind that Ranpo's was my favorite theme song of the season.
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| Yes...yes.....yes indeed. |
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| Yeeeeeeeeeeeees..... |
This guy is a teacher, and this girl is a student. She's a really rich student. Got her own car. He's good with computers. They hang out. She likes him. Can't say it. But she can be really coquettish about wanting to go to the mall with him — that's not embarrassing~
She keeps trying to drink this hot coffee while this guy talks about philosophy and stupid people.
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| stopSTOP |
While he goes out to solve somebody's computer troubles, she looks at his computer and there's a name she seems to recognize and...oh? Oh? We're suddenly somewhere else? Alright, it looks like some sort of cyber-communication with a prisoner. Spill it, show, give us the situation.
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| Thhhhhhhankyyyooooooooooouuuu..... |
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| O-okay, we're...back here... |
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| C-c...cool? |
Okay! Okay, it feels like we're actually hammering something down now. We're going to a family restaurant to discuss the woman whose name was on the computer who was a convict who was shown in the flashback just now who the girl we know spoke to. Nice, good!
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| Not just any family restaurant! |
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| Stock image of bananas on the wall? You know it's getting serious. |
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| *wheeze* AAAAAUGH, NO FAMILY SHOULD SEE THIS |
That girl isn't just an inmate, she's a prodigy who got a doctorate when she was like twelve! And she killed her parents, who also (as explicitly stated) had doctorates. She has this theory that we're all born geniuses, but then we become uniformly-stupid adults capable of banal small talk.
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| Combined with this claim of innocence, that must have really hurt her public image. |
But is she still in prison? Everybody thought so, but...nope! She's on an island somewhere. That's good, because the old teacher dude wants to meet her. He's a scientist, he wants this for the science.
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| Shudduuuuup, we just went over this small talk shit... |
And then the episode ends! And...wow...wow, I made this sound awful. It's not as if I loved it. It's also not as if I felt as impartial and tentative toward the first episode as much as I did Ron Paul Kitan or whatever that summer show was. Where Ranpo's characters tend to be distant or kind of stock, these characters are pretty personable. And holy heck, that ending theme. It just gets into Ranpo's face and tells it you blow chunks. And that ending theme was stupendous.
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| *massive world-ending explosion* |
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