yeah I really havent find much problems with them, xcept a couple of times but nothing worth "Dropping" . . .anyways those Morning Rescue commercials were complete lulz back in the Madoka airing.
lol, I watch gg for the ads, but i hate their moment killing "baby shiba" ones. I'll pass on their trollsubs though.
that aside, i don't see what's wrong with arc-based anime. Index and Darker than Black were pretty good.
thing is you dont really get much character development in arc-based animes . . . I mean you get a little but when its like one big arc, or say if they can pull it right and make "arcs" but at the same time keep a really interesting story boiling in the back thats when its awesome!
to me it seems like this is going to be the template:
- mystery identified
- go meet peeps in the network
- mystery solved
- NEET girl dresses up and goes with the victim/culprit and ala Gosick unfolds all the mystery and uses the fountain of wisdom to unveil all missing pieces. . .
- culprit/victim cries or accepts his crime and says "I would've succeeded if it wasn't for these meddling kids!"
- something happens and we have our comedy relief -
That's more or less the template for the whole mystery genera, Gosick and this simply skips some of the intermediate steps with red herrings or incorrect assumption.
1. The preamble, which establishes the characters and setting
2. The conflict is introduce, either it has already occurred or occurs somewhere near the beginning -
hopefully, I've read mysteries which play fast and loose with the actual introduction of the crime or problem to be solved.
3. Gathering evidence, speaking to suspects, making deductions.
4. The detective deduces the answer from available evidence, and their is a denouement where the culprit is revealed, either through an explanation of the detective's conclusions, or some kind of clever trap which exposes guilt
6. epilogue.
This style of mystery prefers the brain-twister-like instantaneous solutions to their mysteries rather than tedious investigations. If you consider having to solve the mystery in a relatively short span of time - while keeping up the far more interesting aspect of character development which really is the heart of the series, makes a great deal of sense.
This particular style doesn't worry me as much as overlapping character archetypes when Gosick's was - at least in my opinion, better. There haven't been many traditional mystery genera anime in recent seasons, so it's standing out ostentatiously.
Another thing, there seems to be an new found love for the Kyon-type character in anime - the seemingly straight-laced average male character with a fully developed interrogative monologue which is acerbic and clever juxtaposed against more obviously flashy characters. Well, Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko comes to mind - perhaps it's just how light novels can be translated into anime?
