In last week's episode, Narumi made himself a new friend in Renji Hirasaka at the exact same time trouble began to develop in the midst of Hinamori's group and their efforts in music promotion.  Of course, there couldn't possibly be any link between these two things, right? As Narumi bumps into Renji once again, the two chat about various things as they further cement their friendship, before
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「あいつは俺を知ってる」 (Aitsu wa Ore wo Shitteru) "He Knows Me" Yondaime’s group is planning a concert for their girls’ indie rock band, and they ask Narumi for help promoting the event.
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Personally I’d have bought the far more trollworthy physically disproportionate orange koala thing on the left. Alice. Whatever happened to that mysterious, ethereal, otherworldly persona you had in episode 1? When you confronted that girl and told her that her friend was dead with no emotion whatsoever? Now every moment I see you I’m just [...]
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It's summer time as Kami-sama no Memo-chou hits its fifth episode, and we look in on what seems to be a pretty relaxed time for the NEET Detective Agency - well, relaxing if you aren't Alice that is, as she frets about forced attempts to have her clothes and collection of stuffed animals washed and dried. Amidst this laid-back atmosphere, Narumi finds himself with a job offer from Hinamori - it
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「はなまるスープ顛末記」 (Hanamaru Suupu Tenmatsuki) "The Hanamaru Soup Incident" This week’s case: a mysterious man with sunglasses who always takes one bite out of his ramen then leaves.
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Recipe for episode success: a generous serving of Min-san’s generous oppai. Plus a dash of hot ramen action. Yes, the frames were recycled. No, I don’t care, because there is a severe lack of ramen representation in anime (or at least the anime that I watch) so I’ll take what I can get. The discerning [...]
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Kami-sama no Memo-chou breaks out of its two-part story arc format for this fourth episode of the series, as it brings our ragtag band of NEET detectives a mystery right on their front doorstep. More specifically, this episode grants us a couple of mysteries to chew over - the first is with regards to a sunglasses-wearing gentleman who frequently visits Min's ramen shop, only to take a single
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The last episode of Kami-sama no Memo-chou ended in a shocking and meaningful revelation: there was a cellphone hidden inside the moneysack!  It wasn’t meaningful to me, and it wasn’t shocking to me either, since I hadn’t built up any expectations for it to knock down, but the hikkikomori detective Alice sure seemed to think it [...]
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「僕が二人にできること」 (Boku ga Futari ni Dekiru Koto) "What I Can Do For Those Two" I feel like there’s a huge breech of privacy going on here with Alice’s incredible hoard of information, largely gathered by tapping phone calls, hacking databases and secretly tracking people.
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The second half and conclusion of this arc proves (again) that Kami-sama is lacking any direction and focus. And where the first arc ended with a horrible and shocking resolution, this time the conclusion is silly at best where the yakuza are a joke as villains. I also didn’t quite understand the “brilliant” plan of [...]
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Between Meo's foolishness and Narumi's tendency to engage his mouth before his brain is in gear, everything is looking a bit messy as we enter the second half of Kami-sama no Memo-chou's current story arc. With yakuza now sniffing around and threatening the ramen shop which serves as Alice and company's base, things are taking a turn for the dangerous - a problem not helped by Meo's decision to
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That’s not the only thing that I hate about this episode. From Idiot Balls to damn near Out-of-Character behaviour to one heck of a cop-out ending and much else besides, this episode was terrible. But that’s getting ahead of myself. Let’s start with the good stuff (what little there is) before I start bashing the [...]
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It doesn’t seem as though R-15 is going to air uncensored after all, and it’s been pretty universally panned across the internet.  I figure I won’t even bother, at this point.  That way I have more time to watch shows like Kami-sama no Memo-chou!  I wanna see a painfully self-conscious girl detective solve mysteries with [...]
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Leave it to JC Staff to fuck up an interesting setting but perhaps being based on light novels shouldn’t warrant much expectations to begin with. Basically we have a dull-as-a-brick-cookiecutter male protag moving into a town where he meets a … Continue reading →
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「君と旅行鞄」 (Kimi to Ryokou Kaban) "You and a Travel Bag" For this week's case we have Meo, a mixed Thai-Japanese, who comes to Alice for help in finding her father.
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Right. I’ve given up on holding back spoilers or anything because it requires more brainpower to not mention details than to mention them, and I’ve got a headache. Do pardon the hideous pun in the header. Meo is, for all intents and purposes, a Thai Hirasawa Yui. Without the heavenly guitar playing skills, but that’s [...]
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I’ve been putting off Kami-sama no Memo-chou because the first episode is a full hour long, and I sort of suspect that’s longer than my attention span. There’s a reason I write an anime blog and not, say, a movie blog, or a classic literature blog. But people are saying it’s good, and that’d be [...]
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Things get serious in episode 2 of Kami-sama no Memo-chou (God’s Notebook). Again we have some very nice artwork, and an intriguing mystery that is only unravelled with collective effort. Unlike the predictions of many, this series does not rely solely on the strength of a single individual (Alice), but rather the strength of the [...]
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After a rather long gap since we enjoyed the opportunity to check out its first, double-length episode, it's finally time to dig back into Kami-sama no Memo-chou and another case for our NEET detective and her crew. This time around, the case which comes to Alice's attention arrives via a Thai girl living in Japan named (or rather nick-named) Meo, after receiving a phone call from her father
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Hello minna-san! The first episode of Kami-sama no Memo-chou is titled: “Two or Three Things You Shuold Know About Her”. Hope you enjoy! Kami-sama no Memo-chou Being 48 minutes long really did give Kami-sama no Memo-chou enough time to introduce each character and show us what this series is about: crime solving. The genre mystery never really [...] Related posts:Kami-sama Dolls 01 [First Impressions] Ro Kyu Bu! 01 [First Impressions] Mayo Chiki 01 & Yuru Yuri 01 [First Impressions]
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