Review of Ron Kamonohashi's Forbidden Deductions

It was a good anime, however, can't really tell you "yea, it was amazing, dig in and you will enjoy it!". In fact anime has its positive parts but also some mistakes and cliché. First, there is some connection towards one of the famous detectives and stories from the books. I get the idea of the story and author who tried to build upon that, but I personally didn't find it fascinating. More like I had "what? why?" moment when there started being some hints around it. As it really didn't develop story any further and it's more likely just some base concept to build on.Which is a pitty, because even without that it could be a very solid anime.

Second, it lacks of some funny moments. There are a few of them, not enough yet... Despite being a detective story, you still should have some level of humour in it.

Third, detective stories on their own are nice, however, anime is skipping some important parts while searching for clues and such. When you make a detective story, you want to captivate reader's/watcher's attention and drag him into the story. And that didn't always happen here. Some stories simply didn't care about this aspect, some stories did it well.

Fourth, main characters are really well built and it's creating a very funny yet serious duo. At first I thought I will find this boring, after all you have mastermind detective able to solve anything but can't be solving mysteries, on the other hand you have quite simple guy who isn't at his level but is something as his puppet. I had my doubts but it works well together.

It's a good anime but I have really mixed feelings from it and I am a bit scared about another season, as this entire concept can go down really really fast. I would like to see another season of this but only if it will be at least the same quality to uncover some wider story and character development of characters. 13 episodes weren't enough for such things and it's possible that the next season could make things better as well as worse.

I am a huge fan of mystery stories, detectives and such, yet this anime created some doubts inside of me and can't really say it's really nice, perfect or amazing. For now it's "good" and let's see what future will bring to us.