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I Love A Good Mystery
| Submitted by: | Zero Omega  |
| Submitted: | Mar 02 2010 12:51 AM |
| Last updated: | Mar 03 2010 08:44 AM |
| Category: | Anime Reviews |
| Title: | I Love A Good Mystery |
| Series Name: | Daughter Of 20 Faces |
| Score: | 9 - Awesome |
| Description: | Synopsis (Originally posted by Wikipedia): Chizuko Mikamo is a young girl living with her aunt and uncle after her parents died. She behaves coldly toward them, despite their efforts to make her happy, because she knows that they are trying to slowly poison her so that they can take her inheritance for themselves. Because of her intelligence and knowledge gained from reading detective novels, she works to avoid eating the food her aunt prepares, but it is impossible to avoid all together and she still takes in enough to cause her to collapse. Her butler is revealed to actually be the world-famous thief Twenty Faces, who was there to steal Chizuko's rightful inheritance, a family heirloom gem known as the Anastasia Ruby. When he realizes just what Chizuko's been going through, however, he asks her if she wants to come with him and his band on their travels around the world. She agrees and Twenty Faces takes her back with him to join his gang, who affectionately shorten her name to Chiko. Two years pass and Chiko is now a strong thief, having learned the tricks of the trade from Twenty Faces and the members of his band. Now, with Twenty Faces and the rest of the band as her family, she has found a home at last. After living with the band for two years, Chiko becomes a skilled thief and thinks of Twenty Faces as her father. But a sudden train accident caused by Tiger, Twenty Faces' strongest enemy, kills most of the band and seems to have killed Twenty Faces himself. By chance a detective who works for her aunt finds her and, after being "rescued" two years after Twenty Faces "kidnapped" her, Chiko is forced to return to her aunt's house, where she becomes depressed and refuses to eat or talk because of the shock of Twenty Faces' death. But when a mysterious detective appears and she learns that there is a possibility that he may still be alive somewhere, Chiko becomes more lively and works, with the help of a few new friends, to find him by following the clues that he seems to have left behind, beginning with something that is rightfully hers and had been left in his care: the Anastasia Ruby. Now, Chiko must dodge her aunt's attempts to murder her and unravel the mysteries Twenty Faces left for her to solve, or so it seems. There are many steps in her long journey, some of which awaken painful memories and others that lead her to discover more about the past of the man behind Twenty Faces and herself. Overview: Before I go any further I have something to admit. I am a huge mystery nut. I love mystery novels, shows, etc. I'm a humongous fan of Sherlock Holmes. So when I saw the description for this show, I knew I had to check it out. I was not disappointed. Animation: 7/10 Very high quality, though nothing stands out to distinguish it as one of the best. All the artwork is very well done. Easy on the eyes. Sometimes it does that weird mix of hand drawn animation and cgi, which can be more painful to look at then two fat jewish men making out. Storyline: 9/10 If there's one thing I love it's clever problems. If it's one thing I love more it's clever solutions to said problems. Chizuko learns how to think outside the box from 20 Faces, she's very good at it. Her intuition is keen as well. Her ability to detect that her Aunt and Uncle are trying to poison her is what causes 20 Faces to take her in in the first place. Discovering who the man behind the 20 faces is, is enough to keep me riveted to the story as well. Character Development: 10/10 Every character's personality is fleshed out near perfectly. Even minor characters are extremely well developed. Every character has their own individual dynamics. In particular interest is 20 Faces himself. The series does a good job of coming full circle and finally explaining 20 Faces very mysterious past, as well as his interactions with all the other characters. Of course the main focus of the series is on Chizuko, throughout the series she is constantly evolving into a better(I guess you'd say detective), unraveling the mystery behind 20 Faces and improving her martial arts skills(complete with a montage). Then there's the matter of 20 Faces himself, who has an odd resemblance to Treize Khushrenada from Gundam Wing. Overall Score: 9/10 It's a win for sure, great show, if a little short. But it's long enough(a little over 20 episodes) to give you a great distraction for a little while. If things go according to plans expect to be able to download it from this site soon enough. |
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