“Genius Iria isolates on island with maids and geniuses; guest murdered, assistant investigates killer.”
The Kubikiri Cycle
クビキリサイクル 青色サヴァンと戯言遣い
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Synopsis
Genius Iria isolates on island with maids and geniuses; guest murdered, assistant investigates killer.
Due to a mysterious disease, the genius Iria Akagami has been forced by her family to stay in a mansion on the isolated Wet Crow's Feather Island with only a handful of maids. To keep herself entertained, Iria invites a variety of fellow geniuses to stay as guests in her home, including computer savant Tomo Kunagisa and her unnamed assistant, skilled fortune-teller Maki Himena, famous artist Kanami Ibuki, academic scholar Akane Sonoyama, and renowned cook Yayoi Sashirono. These visits progress as normal until one of the guests is found gruesomely murdered in the night without a single clue as to the identity of the killer or a possible motive. Tensions rise between those on the island as the killer remains at large, and Tomo's assistant takes it upon himself to uncover the culprit's identity before the murderous events progress any further.
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Derived from 35 sampled reviews
What 35 viewers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.32 · split reception
6.0 pts
Recommenders 8.5 · others 2.5
↓ 1.80
Running avg · Nov 2016 → Mar 2026
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- 10 “Nisio Isin has a incredible talent, this oddly deep yet strangely self-aware style of prose which never ceases to intrigue me. Here the isin style is in full force with his sights targeted on the...”
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- Format 8 × 29′ eps × min
- Total runtime 3h 52m all episodes
- Aired Oct 2016 – Sep 2017
- Source Ova media type
- Rated R 17+ (violence & profanity)
- Ref. BS-11439 catalog