Review of Beautiful Bones -Sakurako's Investigation-

THIS REVIEW CONTAIN SPOILERS Mystery animes should make you always curious to know what will happen the next episode. This one doesn't. This anime presented great potential at the beginning, showing Sakuraro and the "Shounen" discovering a person's bones and solving the mystery behind their death. I thought it would be like that the whole series. But then, it changed. The cases they solved were really boring and some even useless, it just didn't make me want to know what happened, because for me it really didn't matter. Then the story continued with some (light) drama and raising our curiosity showing a little of Sakurako's past, but atthat point it isn't that much interesting anymore, it seems rather obvious what will happen.
What caught most of my curiosity was: who the hell is Sakurako's fiance?

Art: 9/10
Really well made character's expressions. Background full of details. Coloring is also great, really vivid (I guess I could say that.)

Story: 4/10
The show is very slow paced, even too much. There are some useless episodes that don't add anything up to the story, but overall is nice.
Hard to say this but, the "explanation" is really good. What I mean is that they introduce the case to us with many details, and develop the story from that point flawlessly, but that's what causes the a anime to be very slow paced.
Differently from what I expected from the begging, solving the mysteries is not something thrilling. They try to make something dramatic but it doesn't feel all that deep and I can't really relate to anything, so it just feels shallow. I have the impression that it's sometimes forced, because they try to make a big deal out of little stuff. For example in the episode which the Yuri girl lost her grandmother. They made it sound like her world ended, and yet the old lady was already missing, so it was expected that she was dead. And yet they make it look like something really sad. Maybe some people will identify themselves with the girl, call me cold but, I simply don't have the compassion to feel sorry for her.
The true story begins at episode 10, when the anime is ending they start what should've been already solved by that time.
Ending an anime the way they did, only if they are certain of another season, because basically everything was left unsolved.

Sound: 8/10
Background music is good, sound effects fit in perfectly, opening and ending themes are also great.

Characters: 5/10
The story doesn't help the genius MC because the cases are really boring, so solving them doesn't make the MC look as smart as she is.
But I still like her and how cold she is, asking questions with no remorse and then solving everything on her own.
Something which bothered me a lot was that the personalities of some of the supporting characters somewhat changed through the story. Not some big change, but at some parts they acted outside their character, for example the Sensei, at one episode he acted really cool and said some nice stuff, but at the next episode he didn't leave his mark and it really annoys me these subtle changes.
Something else that bugs me is that whimpy cry-baby shounen. Can't he shut up? And why does he feel sick when he sees bones? They are just freakin' bones.

Enjoyment: 5/10
Good as it is, it just doesn't make me cry out for more episodes, desperately refreshing the page, begging for the release of an new episode.
Well, that was too much, but you get the picture.
Even though I really appreciate a good drama and mystery, this one doesn't make any of them truly enjoyable, leaving nothing else for the viewers.

Overall: 6 (Fine)
Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga Umatteiru is entertaining but it lacks depth to its story.
Showed great potential but it really disappointed me.