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There are a million variations on the saying “the only thing certain in life is that it w…
Read full review on AniList →Truly Electric Moments Unsupported by a Weak Narrative Skeleton
I can see a lot of potential buried in here, but I think it falls far short of the heights it could reach. This series follows a high-school student (Shoutarou) through a year of his life after meeting an aloof osteologist (Sakurako). Shoutarou accompanies Sakurako on a variety of field trips to sea…
Read full review on AniList →Part mystery, bigger part weirdly morbid slice-of-life
Coming off the murder mystery fun of _Young Kindaichi_, I was hoping to continue in the same vein. _Sakurako_ sounded like it might fit; I saw someone online compare it to the TV show _Bones.*_
~~~_“Sakurako Kujō is a genius beauty in her mid-twenties whose life is centered around one thing and one…
Read full review on AniList →The Sherlock Holmes reboot you didn't know you wanted
“Beautiful Bones” or “A Corpse is Buried Under Sakurako’s Feet” is a detective show styled directly upon the classic Sherlock Holmes novels, or at the very least, uses the general setup of Holmes to tell various stories about human mortality, and the various philosophical and moral issues that lie t…
Read full review on AniList →Awesome concept. Lackluster execution
Beautiful Bones is a 2015 done by studio Troyca, of which I’m not very familiar with. This anime was based off of a series of novels. Is it worth it though? Let's find out.
Story:
Beautiful Bones doesn’t have an overarching plot, rather it’s comprised of episodic thriller scenarios in which our ma…
Read full review on AniList →It mostly exists to make you read the manga.
This show is not recommended because it serves as some kind of a prologue to what seems will be a much longer story, had they also adapted the rest of the story it might be decent, but I don't like watching an anime just as a teaser for the manga.
It's one of those protagonist solves side quests ki…
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