“Detective Reiji investigates murders and missing students while searching for a girl's "true self" at a high school.”
Girl in the Shell
殻ノ少女
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Synopsis
Detective Reiji investigates murders and missing students while searching for a girl's "true self" at a high school.
Reiji is a private detective. One day, he receives a strange offer from a girl, "Please look for... me. True me." At that time, a series of abnormal murder cases happen and Reiji is offered to investigate it as well. There is a girls' high school Yukari, Reiji's younger sister, goes and two female students are missing. Tokio, vice principal of the school, offers Reiji to search for them. As a result, Reiji receives three offers at the same time. To collect information, he starts working at the school in disguise and meets Toko, who asked him to look for real her before. "Hi, nice to see you again, sir." The killing never stops.... A spiral of tragedy.... What breaks through this tragic condition might be a girl's smile.... (Source: Himeya Shop)
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Derived from 9 sampled reviews
What 9 viewers settled on.
Polarized
σ 1.89 · split reception
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Not enough recommend signal yet
↓ 2.44
Running avg · Feb 2012 → Oct 2022
- 2 “This Hentai OVA is based of a Visual Novel of the same name but just to keep things short, my advice is don't watch this and play the Visual Novel. The Visual Novel is about a Private Detective...”
- 6 “Rate of 6 (fair) seen via english subtitles uncensored Emotions upon viewing this slight horror Like(s) -characters:all cute in their own way. Each one had their own look. Backstories were not only...”
- 2 “This horrible piece of work manages to completely butcher what the original visual novel stood for pretty much in the same way that the visual novel butchers the poor murdered girls. I'm not a VN...”
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- Format 2 × 27′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 54m all episodes
- Aired Jan 2010 – Oct 2010
- Source Ova media type
- Rated Rx Hentai
- Ref. BS-4937 catalog
Produced by
- Milky Animation Label Producer
- MS Pictures Producer
- Innocent Grey Producer
Licensed by
- Kitty Media Licensor