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NEWS: Anime Sols Opens Crowdfunding for The File of Young Kindaichi Returns

Yeah, the detective work on the series is on the level of the 1960s Batman movie which had an exchange like this.

RIDDLER: What's yellow and writes.

ROBIN: A ball point banana!

Batman (holding a yellow #2 pencil): Exactly Robin, the only possible answer.

But the Japanese idea of what constitutes a good mystery is vastly different from the English speaking world.

Even with the few success stories under Anime Sols I can't support them anymore.

I'm still sad over Hurricane Polymar not making it's goal. Outside of Black Jack only Shojo and Magical Girl anime only gets funded on Anime Sols. No one wants to help support the stuff I like

Did you listen to the new ANNCast with Sam from Anime Sols? He actually specifically mentioned that they might do another campaign for Polymar that targets the super hardcore fans with premium sets.

This show... is horrible. I'm all for mystery shows, but this one is abysmal. There is no actual crime solving, it's just people pulling stuff out of their ass. Unlike Detective Conan, us viewers cannot even form a theory of our own, since many times, we're not even shown the clues. The straw that broke my back was when the geek gets his glasses bent, so he shows Kindaichi how they are made from a special alloy that resets its shape when put in hot water. Wouldn't you know it, that's exactly how the killer got away, and 2 seconds later, the figures it out. Lucky his friend just HAPPENED to have the EXACT SAME ALLOY that the killer had. And this happens constantly. They just HAPPEN to run into the very person they were looking for in the park. They just HAPPEN to be there at the EXACT time to see the victim hated butterflies. They just HAPPENED to... you get the idea. It's just a series of contrived resolutions.

DmonHiro wrote:

This show... is horrible. I'm all for mystery shows, but this one is abysmal. There is no actual crime solving, it's just people pulling stuff out of their ass. Unlike Detective Conan, us viewers cannot even form a theory of our own, since many times, we're not even shown the clues. The straw that broke my back was when the geek gets his glasses bent, so he shows Kindaichi how they are made from a special alloy that resets its shape when put in hot water. Wouldn't you know it, that's exactly how the killer got away, and 2 seconds later, the figures it out. Lucky his friend just HAPPENED to have the EXACT SAME ALLOY that the killer had. And this happens constantly. They just HAPPEN to run into the very person they were looking for in the park. They just HAPPEN to be there at the EXACT time to see the victim hated butterflies. They just HAPPENED to... you get the idea. It's just a series of contrived resolutions.

Actually, other than the metal alloy, I had pretty much figured it out by the last episode. For instance, they didn't just happen to meet the girl, they were led to her, precisely so they would meet her. My main problem with the first case was that it was too easy. The only time that it fooled me was when I thought the problem I spotted was so obvious that I figured it couldn't be the solution... but it was.

The second case was just a second rate version of an early case in the first series, and it did make some leaps, but I thought it was alright.

But what I just don't get about this news is, why not fund the first series first? From what I've watched of it, it's superior to this new one, has a modest following already (the same people who would buy this new sequel), and it's not like the first series was ever released, I can't even find fansubs for the entire run.

I know Sentai Filmworks Signed a deal with Tatsunoko Production to release 11 titles but one of them was Gatchaman Crowds which I found rather disappointing. I own all the old stuff Sentai released so far like Casshan, Gatachaman, Time Bokan etc... Was hoping they would get Polymar since Anime Sols wasn't able to release it. Yatterman would be awesome too...