>>287767052
is baiting for engagement necessary? I'd happily discuss the series as it's one of the best mystery. anime I've seen.
>myseries are surface level
just the opposite. They balance episodic mysteries with a continuing thread from episode to episode. I've never seen that done so well before.
Some of the mysteries (the mirror one, the later one about color blindness) were very clever.
I'm only talking about S1 as S2 was just too much of a drop off.
And the comedic elements is just the usual anime tonal dissonance. I could live without that but it is what it is.

it's both

As someone who never watched this show and only knows about it through osmosis, I had 0 idea it was meant to be a mystery

>>287767861
I dismissed it as generic romance slop like most stories in ancient china tend to be

>>287767052
It's actually about anal sex

(Almost) all Japanese fantasy runs on a kind of comedy as a base structure. Not comedy as a genre, but as a base rhythm. It is stitched together out of romcom beats, slice of life downtime, panty shot, bouncy breasts, dress that barely hides.

You see the same pattern across Japanese fiction in general. Even historical dramas like Hideyoshi Kyoudai lean into it. I have watched some Chinese dramas too, and honestly they are not that different. Even in war chronicles, there are always lighter moments. People joke, loosen up, act human. Tension gets broken on purpose. It is not about being constantly funny, it is about creating a sense of warmth and ease between heavier beats.

Japanese storytelling kind of assumes those moments have to be there. It builds in breathing space where the audience can decompress, laugh a little, reset. That pressure and release loop is baked into the structure.

Berserk, Parasyte, Re:Zero, Mushoku Tensei, Kimetsu no Yaiba. Even when they go dark, they do not stay in pure grim mode all the way through. Compared to a lot of Western stuff, Japanese fiction just defaults to this rhythm.

And yeah, as much as I hate Fairy Tail for its total lack of sincerity, zero originality, zero creativity, zero thought, zero commitment to actually making something good, that steaming pile of fiery dog shit is still a clean example of what Japanese fantasy fundamentally is, and did I even mention most Japanese spit on original stuff with dense, massive worldbuilding?

>>287767052
>pretentious mary sue slop
Don't care, didn't watch. Women belong in the kitchen raising kids, not whatever the fuck this is. Anime like this is why women in the west are so entitled and insufferable.