Suteki Tantei Labyrinth – 02

To give a quick rundown on why I’m not blogging the other series so far (emphasis on quick): – Bamboo Blade is fun but the black-haired girl is annoying. – Sketchbook had a boring second episode, so I dropped it. – Nougami Neuro’s mystery is so shallow that it can’t even fully submerge a coin if it wanted to. – Mokke is all kinds of awesome and heart-warmingness, though it’s a series you’d best watch while relaxing, and it’s not really fit to be blogged. – I have no idea whether to blog Blue Drop yet, I’ll leave that decision to episode three. – Night Wizard is nice enough, but it’s got too many clichés. So, why Labyrinth? Simply enough: it intrigues me. Out of all mentioned series above, Labyrinth is the only one that made me want to know more about its characters and their mysteries. It’s a big experiment, though, as I have no idea whether it’ll turn out good or not. The previous spring season had so many series where I knew that they were going to turn out good and worth to be blogged about (Seirei no Moribito, El Cazador, Toward the Terra, Kaze no Shoujo Emily, Bokura no, etc etc), but the current season only has two of these series: Kaiji and Ghost Hound. For the other series, I’m going to have to guess which ones will turn out worthwhile, and Suteki Tantei Labyrinth is the first guess. It’s not perfect: it’s produced by Studio Deen and directed by Hiroshi Watanabe: both are behind series that are either incredibly good, or incredibly bad. Studio Deen was behind gems as Higurashi, Simoun, Jigoku Shoujo and Full Moon wo Sagashite, but also behind crap as Amaenaideyo and Mouse. Hiroshi Watanabe is the genius behind the Law of Ueki, he directed Orphen and yet he also produced the crap of Shining Tears X Wind, and the awful second half of Star Ocean Ex. This series really can go anywhere, and it’s going to be fun to find out whether we’ll have another gem here, or another waste of time. There’s a diverse cast of characters here: a bunch of high-school students, detectives, maids and strange females in skimpy clothes who are up to something. The great thing is that none of them really feels like an overdone cliché, and things can turn out great if they actually get developed. The graphics look nice enough, and especially this episode featured some nice music. Anyway, about the episode: it made me really curious about Mayuki’s character. For some reason, that woman is after him, and she lures him out with explosions. We also see him have the first proper birthday in his entire life, and I really wonder how things will end up. Who was his mother, and why did she separate from him? What happened to his father? I’m going to hope that this series is going to turn out worthwhile.]]>