vrijdag 28 december 2018

(Average) Holmes of Kyoto

Series in one sentence:  
An asexual boy sitting on the autism spectrum and a bland high school girl fight against a great evil they could've easily sent the cops after.

Series in more sentences: 
After a harsh break-up, a young girl plans to sell one of her grandfather's vintage possessions so she can buy a train ticket home to scold her ex, but the clerk in the antique store can't be fooled and seems to know everything by just looking at her.

As he feels empathetic, he offers her a job in the store to help her get the money legitimately. While working alongside him, she's often dragged along for all kinds of assignments that seldom have something to do with appraising art. The clerk seems to be a real Sherlock Holmes and is a wanted "detective" by many people in the neighbourhood. 
 

The series is so lame, it's a shame. The ending alone doesn't make it worth watching it.

The clerk detective-guy, called Holmes, is disappointingly boring. The main character will often comment on his mannerisms as if that actually gives him a personality, but it didn't convince me. Holmes is boring, she is boring, the romance is boring, some of the episodes are quite idiotic, and the main villain is the saddest little shit I've ever seen in fiction. Like damn, what a loser. The people that see this guy as a genuine threat are even worse.

The way Holmes gets upset over fake clay pots is a character trait I care nothing about, I couldn't take him or the main story seriously.
There are glimpses of an interesting script here and there; scenes that make the characters seem like actual human beings, but for the most part they're just smiling faces.


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