First Date: Suteki Tantei Labyrinth
- Title: Suteki Tantei Labyrinth (Great Detective Labyrinth)
- Studio: Deen
- Genre: Mystery
Ratings (out of 5):
- Story: ♥♥♥
- Animation: ♥♥♥
- Characters: ♥♥♥
- OP/ED Themes: ♥♥♥
- Overall: ♥♥♥ (You’re cute…but try again in ten years.)
Thoughts:
If Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro is going to be a sort of badass/silly detective drama, Suteki Tantei Labyrinth is going to be a “precious” detective drama. 11-year-old Mayuki lives in a creaky old western-style mansion in the middle of a forest in a city that has been abandoned by most of its population because of an earthquake. And from this house, he solves mysteries that happened elsewhere via a vaguely mystical intuition. And there’s something about him being unable to leave the city, too.
There was nothing particularly bad about this show, but it left me vaguely discontended. In the past, when young male characters were played by women, I’ve never especially noticed– but in this show, Mayuki does actually sound like a girl. (Then again, he’s only 11.) But when compared to Romi Paku, who plays a ~13-year-old boy in the show, it’s pretty astonishing.
None of the characters are especially interesting– except, perhaps, Mayuki’s butler and the “dolls” he uses. The “dolls” are adult human-sized women, who fight against a third such being (I think) in the first episode. That side of things leaves me kind of curious. But as for the mysteries and Mayuki? Eh, I’d leave them as soon as take them.
Tags: fall-2007, first-dates, suteki-tantei-labyrinth
October 18th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
I found this one watchable. Watchable enough to volunteer to script edit it, anyway. I don’t expect any surprises, certainly.