Genre: School Life, Mystery, Shounen
Summary: Kyu is a genius at solving mysteries. His dream is to become a detective. One day, he gets the chance to become a student at a prestigious detective academy led by the most famous detective, Dan. Along with the fellow students in his class, he solves mysteries.
Characters: Kyu is more like an adventurous, shoujo version of Conan odd enough... He's definitely quite the unique character... I can't say he's lovable, but a decent enough main character. I never hated him at all.
Ryu is a tsundere (for complex reasons) and a genius detective as well.
Megu has a photographic memory and is a good detective, though not in comparison to Ryu and Kyu.
Kinta is... hmm... how can he be described. Uh. The oldest. Strong. Dependable. His character wasn't as developed.
Kazuma is an elementary school computer genius who is quite the tsundere himself too, though for substantially more superficial reasons than Ryu.
Dan is the headmaster and a genius detective who is trying to decide which of the 5 characters above will succeed him in taking over his practice.
Art: Not great at all. In fact, quite bad. That is actually my biggest qualm with this series. The characters' expressions look so unnatural and distorted sometimes...
My review: It's entertaining, and I recommend it. It is similar to Detective Conan, but at the same time, has a bit of freshness. The art is bad, but the story really makes you think and, with some thought, it is possible to figure out the criminal before it is revealed a bit easier than it is to figure in Detective Conan. The story doesn't exactly end, which is my only other qualm with the series.
As a side note, there is also a live action version of this and another live action called Liar Game, which you'd probably enjoy if you like combining mathematics, statistics, and mystery. (There's a second season of Liar Game, but the ratings are pretty horrid for it, so let me know if you see it, k?)
Targeted Audiences: Youth
Who will love it: This isn't very different from Detective Conan, really. If you like DC, Ayatsuri Sakon (or at least weren't annoyed by it...), or Spiral, you'll like this.
Who will hate it: People who don't like mysteries, scaredy cats
Disclaimer: It has been a while since I've seen this, so I don't remember exactly where, but one of their first cases, where they try to solve it with class A, stay away from that if you get easily scared. I'm a scaredy cat and it gave me quite a fright...
Overall: It is a great show. Almost everything I'd want in a detective show with the exception of the lack of a satisfying ending and better art. It is totally watchable and perhaps a great option for those who are following DC and are like me and can't bring themselves to watch the show past the new voice of Mori!!! (Sorry... that got to me... T.T)
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