I tend to complain about comedy sequels. It’s one thing to be funny, but it’s an entirely different story to be funny consistently, over a longer period of time. I really noticed that for the vast majority of these sequels, they tend to lose their inspiration, run out of their best jokes, or start trying too hard. The exceptions are there, though: there are comedy sequels who manage to beat their original: Tentai Senshi Sunred, Mitsudomoe and Fireball are examples of that. The thing is however, that the first season of Milky Holmes already was a really, really good series. And here the creators came, and improved significantly over it.
The original Milky Holmes had its weird moments as it chronicled the adventures of a group of four hilariously inept detectives, but at least it still was somewhat grounded in reality. The second season is crack. Pure crack. It makes no iota of sense, and it takes so many things along with it to the absurd. Its contents are completely bizarre from start to finish.
While parody isn’t its main focus, this show has a ton of fun pulling all sorts of references, only to make them completely ridiculous. The four lead characters have got to be the dumbest characters I have seen in a long while. In this case, it’s a compliment: you really have to try in order to be as mind-numbingly stupid as these four girls. By far the favorite form of parody of this series is taking a common trope, and completely changing its context into something completely bizarre. The result is hilarious, and this was by far my favorite comedy of the past season.
What also helps is how technically sound this series is. You wouldn’t suspect it with a team of Artland and JC Staff behind it, but the animation of this series is consistently excellent: the screen is always incredibly dynamic, this series experiments with a ton of different animation styles, and the energy just bursts from the screen in the different and numerous action sequences. The direction also is full of energy and creativity, and this creativity doesn’t run out, even though this is a sequel of a franchise totaling 24 episodes now.
Now, this series doe shave its slow moments. Because despite all the chaos, it also knows how to build up. The result is that the first halves of most episodes are relatively quiet in order to set up everything, only for this show to flick the bizarre-switch as the episode enters its second half. Don’t expect much in terms of deep characterization, though.
| Storytelling: | 9/10 – Hilarious; full of energy and creativity. |
| Characters: | 8/10 – They’re very simple characters, but they remain lovable throughout the entire series. |
| Production-Values: | 9/10 – Terrific and very dynamic animation; full of life. |
| Setting: | 8/10 – Loves a good parody, and tears a great deal of different tropes apart. |
Suggestions:
– Dororon – Enma-Kun
– Mitsudomoe Zouryouchuu
– Ooedo Rocket
You know i think 85 is a bit high for this show. I did watch all 24 episodes and some were awesome like the train one and the dream one. One problem i had was that they kept on using the same jokes over and over. They must have used that “Koko” one like 50 times. The best place to dock points is the story line, everything after the 3rd episode of the 2nd season went way off the deep end. Like randomly they decide to start a farm for no reason and its not explained at all (I actually did like the farming episodes, it was just too random to not like).
And wtf was up with the black haired girl? So let me get this straight, they shoved her into the end of one episode and didn’t explain that character at all only to bring her back 3 episodes in the future for some random plot which in the end she takes a toy and walks off the screen with no explanation on what that toy is or bring that character back in the future. I actually do like random things in anime but when stuff like this happens it just shows that the person writing this stuff doesn’t care.
To sum up what i think: I judge an anime on what its intended purpose is and this ones is comedy and i did not laugh as much as when i watched other stuff like Azumanga, Fooly Cooly, Panty and Stocking, or sexy commando. Sexy commando was a great find btw, i need to finish it once i find all the episodes. But for Tantai I would give it a 77.5 but that’s just me and my opinion.
im confused,im on one of my favorite anime sites but they have tantei opera milky holmes and i started with episode one and it seemed as if i were missing a season because they had their powers already.usually it tells you the story on how they meet and how they got their super powers,thats what i expected but it seemed as if i skipped something.if there is a series before the one im on please tell me!