Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga Umatteiru

[Kraco]

Oota Shiori. Isn't Shiori a female name? At least it sounds like one.

[shinta|hikari]

So that's why all the men suck.

[Kraco]

Episode 10 - HS




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This show has far more varied cases than the initial setting would have you believe, so in a sense the fact Sakurako is only really interested in corpses and bones makes it more colourful. Just like traditional live action detective series are more interesting if there's at least one detective with more personality.

But it still sucks and really lessens this show that everybody save Sakurako, especially all the men, are idiots. The MC dude is the biggest of the fools, which is quite painful indeed. He's so stupid that he doesn't even learn anything despite encountering mysteries continuously in Sakurako's company. Such a pitiful case of a man.

[NeoCybercoin]

He is also still 'just' a kid with a normal sense of values as opposed to Sakurako. At least they are a whole lot more normal than hers anyway. From what I can tell from the latest episode is that one of the reasons she is so into that stuff is that she can find the killer of that boy Shoutaro. In episode two she shouted his name when she thought the MC could die. The man that got arrested in that episode was also all drugged up and talking about butterflies and how he needed to get them to 'him'. I assume he also means that painter.

So the MC is really just filling up the hole created by the death of Shoutaro which was probably caused by that painter. So I'm glad the show has a deeper plot than just random events strung together.

[Kraco]

Yeah, he's a kid, but doesn't that create more contradictions here? He's obviously in love with Sakurako, yet he's all the time reprimanding her and telling her what to do and especially what not to do. Would a kid behave like that in the company of an older person? If he's mature on one hand, he should also be mature on the other to learn and understand. Doesn't he realise he has nothing in common with Sakurako and, even worse, he doesn't approve of Sakurako or at least not her interests and methods even if he's jubilant when she solves a case? Even the teacher would make a better pair with Sakurako since he at least has his professionalism and added to that his deep understanding of plants and insects connected to the plants. The MC has bloody nothing and is trying to develop nothing, except for his youthful spirit, which will hardly win him an older lady, unless the lady is a shotacon. This show would be more balanced if the dude had a hobby he'd be really into, and that would be helpful somehow in some of these cases. But then again, it's plain as day "balanced" is not a word the author is even remotely familiar with.

[Munsu]

Just watched this series and have mixed feelings on it.

On one hand it had both very interesting cases and some very stupid dull ones, and some just plain boring nothing happens episodes. In a 12 episode series, that's not a good balance to have.

Sakurako is a cool as fuck character I thought.

Shoutaro was for the most part a tragic character to have only because he has all the makings of being a cool character himself, but they constantly purposely make him make dumb decisions/observations while he has already shown in the past that he has very good observation skills, and good critical mind, and wits about him. Yet, a few minutes later that's forgotten for some reason.

We're left without facing the "big bad".

Last episode was a bit bitter sweet, I thought it was fairly satisfying in some regards, particularly glad they didn't rush to some sort of clash against the enemy, on the other hand it simply remains an incomplete story.

I'd watch another season if it came to that. Sakurako by herself is worth it.