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Terraziel
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The problem here is that due to the quick pacing, and simplistic mysteries, at least for the last two stories, there isn't really anything for them to talk about. Even if they did, all it would really do is make the other doctors look even more incompetent when they can't figure out the blindingly obvious. Hopefully the next episode will have something worth them taking the time to talk about. |
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blahmoomoo
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Also, if she suspects that someone has meningitis, I don't think they really need to know that it is caused by fungus to get the approval to take him to the hospital and at least start monitoring him. Sure, that knowledge is needed for the proper treatment to proceed (so they don't pump him full of antibiotics that will do nothing good), but I don't think delaying his admission was necessary, and may have even been harmful. |
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killjoy_the
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I'm thinking of something like House, MD again, where the characters just bounce ideas off and then shoot them down based on things that they know/observe later/info that comes about later. They could start going "it's very possible you got infected with something in that cave" which then leads to the curse guy mentioning the other guy with very different symptoms as proof that it's not the same pathogen/disease. Then they run about the things that could have these symptoms, and they still go to the cave in order to confirm which specific pathogen it is. It feels smarter that way because there's a process and more contribution rather than a single character apparently already think of the solution immediately but keep quiet about it until she gets all the proof she needs The mystery itself doesn't need to change - what could cause someone to have a bad lung and another guy to start screaming about the curse and refuse to leave his room - just the way they navigate it |
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Eilavel
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I thought exactly the same. I think its because doing so would undermine the later "reveal" that it was an airborne pathogen there. Obviously the reveal is undermined by just being really obvious, but still. |
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poisondusk
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This is really the big thing they're missing for me. Kotori is wasted right now, just there to be the brawn to her brain and follow her around like a puppy. He needs to be more driven and curious, and Ameku needs to actually want his input (whether that's because she actually values it, or because she's supposed to be mentoring him doesn't matter). I thought the other younger doctor in the first episode might join the 'gang', but then she just...didn't. Right now the show just feels like any old badly-written mystery series where the main character messes around all episode without really saying anything, and then does a grand reveal at the end because they're an amazing genius and everyone else is just incompetent. |
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dm
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Episode 5
This episode pretty much made up for the disappointing fourth episode, and depending on spoiler[what happens in the episode six conclusion] might just be a pretty decent story arc after all. It will be interesting if this comes up with an explanation. spoiler[Maybe something involving magnets and chemistry?] |
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Eilavel
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OK episode, the pacing makes up for the fact we already know the solution. It does make clear that our MCs charisma is doing a lot of work in the show as you really feel her absence.
We will see on solving the mystery next week, but at the least they didn't insta-solve it and didn't prevent a second horrible case. This is good for the shows stakes and they've done a reasonable job creating a 3 episode arc while still having something solved each episode. |
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quentntarantado
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With all due respect, maybe this anime isn't a good fit for you to review. I sympathize that you're slogging through a series you don't seem to like.
Me, I'm enjoying myself, and usually for the very same qualities, artistic decisions, writing decisions, and reasons you dislike. I suppose this celebrates the diversity of people, or it emphasizes how questionable my taste is! 
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a_Bear_in_Bearcave
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I don't really find anything wrong with reviews? This series has a really bad case of plot-induced stupidity. Discussions in other places also contains similar, reasonable criticisms, like "it was way too obvious it was fungi, why did they need a genius?" and "why did nobody bother to use masks even the second time, and "why did MC use microscope while still in potentially deadly place?" including new batch of criticisms for the newest episode that hasn't been reviewed yet. The writing is just very bad about making the characters that are supposed to be smart, actually behave in smart way, at least way too many times. It reminds me of the meme about Sherlock Holmes adaptation and "smart writers writing smart characters vs dumb writers writing smart characters". |
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Eilavel
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For this episode, at least it wasn't deeply predictable like the fungus/epilepsy ect. I actually needed them to solve the mystery. It wasn't a good mystery, but it was a better than average episode of this show solely on the basis that I didn't know exactly, almost beat for beat, what would happen from the first 60 seconds.
I agree with most of the critique on pacing. Its unfortunate the source material is Japanese only as I'd be interested to know if the pacing, perfunctory use of domestic violence ect is due to the source material or the adaptation. Either way, this really should have been a 4 episode arc, so they could spend more than 2 minutes solving the hospital death and spin in some more material that makes the 3rd case more foreshadowed. The last 5 minutes are, indeed, totally braindead. I found it so dumb it entertained me, but thats not really a compliment. Takao is, its true, not a very successful attempt at creating a quirky and charismatic detective. However, the rest of the cast are so very flat that its still welcome when she's there compared to last week. |
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InfiniteNothingness
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I still haven't return to this since my drop on episode 3 (I don't get brownies for completion), and I don't really see anything critically disagreeable with the reviews. It's not a great show and even if you can work with its narrative, faults and all, it's also not a very good looking show to boot. Far from the worst I've sampled this season to be fair, but subpar with iffy composition and a bad case of talking heads, and uninteresting direction bringing down a thoroughly weak to middling work depending on where you fall (for me, weak). There's nothing intrinsically wrong with an episodic mystery, nor a predictable "cozy" mystery, it's just not successfully doing either of those with its dirt simple plotting and consistent buckling under the weight of episodic formatting. Mostly I'm left wishing I was fluent enough in Japanese to grasp her and her nuances as someone explicitly written to be both a savant and more interestingly, on the autism spectrum, because I don't see an explicitly autistic lady terribly often. And all the better for her being intended as a charming POV lead. (That is, without a doubt, explicitly autistic.) Besides that, they seem fairly receptive to a variety of works anyway, as a baseline, going by their past reviews. |
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ab2143
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Decided to drop the series. It’s so dumb and the mysteries have been weak
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Mr. Mosty-Toasty
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Yeah, I think I'm dropping here after episode 6 as well. The mysteries just aren't doing it for me, and the characters simply aren't likable enough to make up for that. I was hoping that this set of three mysteries would be enough to convince me to stick around, but alas. Sort of just tossing domestic abuse haphazardly into the resolution like that was pretty wild, too. They definitely should have spent at least a little more time with that revelation.
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Kiskaloo
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I admit I am only watching this series because Takao-sensei kind of reminds me of an older Suzumiya Haruhi.
As to whether or not Kennedy should be reviewing this show if they do not (appear to) enjoy it, as others have noted, ANN is not using this to promote the show. These are reviews, not advertisements. 
And while some "tentpole" franchises have their fans amongst the reviewer pool who could (and in some cases are) assigned to said franchise, others go in "cold" and their reviews will be influenced by how that show unwinds to them. If people are enjoying the show, they should continue to do so and not worry about how others feel about it. 
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dm
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Is episode seven delayed? I'm not finding it on Crunchyroll.
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