Ranpo Kitan: Game of Laplace is a mystery anime and reimagining of Edogawa Ranpo's eroguro cases. What made the team behind this anime tick? Find out more! Continue reading →
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Ta-daa-daaaah, you bunch of weirdos! You feelin’ bored right now? Then look no further! This time, I’ve got a disastrous world of wonders for you! Yoshio Kobayashi is bored with this world. As your [...]
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Tokyo Ghoul is currently shaking in its edgy socks after this first episode. By which I mean that Trickster Edogawa Ranpo is super hot trash that’s getting [...] The post Trickster Edogawa Ranpo [...]
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「D坂蜃気楼」 (D Zaka Shinkirō) "Mirage on D. Hill" It's an eccentric sort of mystery
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Well that was bad. Yep, after my strange optimism after the first three episodes of Ranpo Kitan, I can now safely say that this show is really just plain awful. Sure it has a few good moments, I mean [...]
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AniTAY, I have a problem. I am constantly getting attached to sub-types of fiction that are either rare, rarely well done, or both. One of these is what I’m going to call “cerebral detective.” A [...]
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The series itself delivers the best summary for how little it actually has achieved with its story: First it throws around big words and then what you get to see is such a basic and simplistic story [...]
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  Considering I came into summer with the expectation that it would devolve into a generic sludge of mediocrity much like spring did, I was honestly shocked how entertaining it ended up being. Despite [...]
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Detectives solve mysteries and walk the thing line towards madness. Ranpo Kitan is downright disturbing. And this is coming from a guy who wasn’t too bothered by Crime Edge or Mirai Nikki or even [...]
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So I’ve been slacking off on some anime recently. Haven’t watched the latest Durarara episode. Yet to see Shimoneta beyond the first few episodes. And don’t even talk to me about Overlord. But there’s [...]
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Except a little more lifeless than before. So the summer anime season is coming to a close and as we prepare for the Fall to simultaneously disappoint us and blow our minds, let’s start looking back [...]
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Kobayashi may be most out-there anime protagonist in recent years. How would I summarise Ranpo Kitan? Butterflies, blood, and blatant insensitivity. The post Ranpo Kitan: Game of [...]
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Well, technically there’s a lot of surprising stuff to unravel in this “surprise-party” but how serious of a series is this anyway, if situations like this one can be part of its plot-line…? Ranpo [...]
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You heard it here first: There’s a 50/50-chance of getting away with murder in Japan! This time I review: Ranpo Kitan 05: Get this: You kill someone, rape someone and steal from them (not necessarily [...]
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This show sucks, Beavis. I’m quite simply shocked at how incompetent at even the very basics of mystery writing this show has proven to be in these two episodes. It’s not like it’s playing with the [...]
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Sure, bad puns are one way to deal with high-concept story-ideas… This time I review: Aquarion Logos 04: Love is in the air! Obviously the upcoming Tanabata-festival is a big chance for the shy girl [...]
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Ranpo Kitan: Game of Laplace is a strange creation. Based off the work of famous Japanese author Edogawa Rampo (Yes, that is how Americans spell his last name. It goes against the title of the show, I [...]
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That’s one of the good guys. You know, being into little girls as a middle-aged man… turns out it’s not THAT weird apparently! This time I review: Ranpo Kitan 03: Someone who weirdly sounds like a [...]
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Man - we've really lost some ground these last two weeks.It's not too often that I regret a quick trigger with the whole label thing, but I'm beginning to fear I might have jumped the gun with [...]
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Well, I think that my praise for Ranpo Kitan‘s mystery was a bit too early and lo and behold, I was wrong about the mystery. In this episode, it just kind of… fizzled out without much in the way of… [...]
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