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I thought it might interest you to know so I'll make a summary of what detective shows will air soon:


Haruchika: Haruta to Chika wa Seishun Suru
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Haruta and Chika are members of their high school wind instrument club that is on the verge of being shut down. The two are childhood friends, and they spend their days practicing hard while also trying to recruit new members. When a certain incident happens within their school, they work together to solve it.

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Lieutenant Colonel Yūki of the Imperial Japanese Army forms the "D Agency," an army intelligence outfit under his command and tutelage. Army General Staff attaches Lieutenant Sakuma to observe the unit's performance. D Agency casts a wide net to find agents beyond Japanese military personnel, and Yūki establishes D Agency's tenets, which go against IJA doctrine: "Don't kill, don't get killed, don't get captured." With this, Yūki trains a team of operatives who conduct missions against domestic and foreign powers.

Bungo Stray Dogs
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Nakajima Atsushi was kicked out of his orphanage, and now he has no place to go and no food. While he is standing by a river, on the brink of starvation, he rescues a man whimsically attempting suicide. That man is Dazai Osamu, and he and his partner Kunikida are members of a very special detective agency. They have supernatural powers and deal with cases that are too dangerous for the police or the military. They're tracking down a tiger that has appeared in the area recently, around the time Atsushi came to the area. The tiger seems to have a connection to Atsushi, and by the time the case is solved, it is clear that Atsushi's future will involve much more of Dazai and the rest of the detectives!

Boku Dake Ga Inai Machi
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Satoru Fujinuma is a twenty-eight-year-old struggling mangaka with exactly one published work under his belt and a part-time job as a pizza delivery boy. Having been repeatedly told by publishers that his writing "doesn't carry enough of himself in it," he's become disillusioned with both his work and himself, fearing that if he reveals himself through his art, he'll affirm what he fears — that he's actually a hollow person on the inside. In the face of his disheartening failures, he continues living on in mediocrity, with one very notable exception: He has the power, or rather, the responsibility, of traveling back in time in order to avert disasters that happen around him. Appropriately termed "reruns," these instances force Satoru to relive a span of time (usually lasting only minutes, if even that) again and again until he spots the "oddity," the cause of the impending catastrophe. Unwilling though he is to interfere, Satoru consistently and successfully completes each rerun, oftentimes at his own personal detriment.
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Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note reminds me of Tantei Gakuen Q but I doubt it'll be half as good. Apparently KZ is made by a studio with only one OVA or something under their belt. Hopefully it can deliver since it's a new studio I guess.
Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga Umatteiru sounds promising didn't know of this, hopefully it has real cases.

Subete ga F ni Naru I know of I think it's a TV show adaptation so it might be worse than it sounds but I'll watch it (apparently it will be adapted by A-1 so hmm.. They're not the most faithful studio but it looks like Madhouse production).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rigdvRzcLrA
It definitely looks like Hyouka done right hmm...
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This is my excuse to not watch Kindaichi (not that I'd dislike it, but I'm sick of only watching sequel anime for the new season)
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I've been hyped about Sakurako-san ever since I saw the character designs. I'm not expecting much but this looks like a really good show.
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Bungo Stray Dogs is that manga where the characters are named after Japanese authors and their powers are references to the authors' literary works. It's kinda straight shonen but a lot of fun especially when you recognize things like Edogawa Ranpo being a genius detective (he pretends that super deduction is his power but he's actually a badass normal), Osamu Dazai trying to commit suicide and always fails, and Akutagawa having a power named Rashomon. I think Agatha Christie and Dostoyevsky also appears in it.
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I watched the Perfect Insider. I will say, I was a bit worried when I saw both Noitamina and A-1. But I will say so far it hasn't annoyed me. I'm just not entirely sure what to say about it. It's one of those philosophical, talky shows. But I will say the ones I get into that do stuff like that are usually much less restrained. This probably has some of the least energy I've ever seen in the first episode of an anime. Which is not a bad thing yet, but I feel like the characters' personalities are behind a brick wall of talking and exposition. It's interesting though. I guess.
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Okay so I watched the first two episodes of Sakurako, it has the usual tropes and it's similar to I guess Persona 4 in how it works or something like that. But however... It has great fun atmosphere and animation... But the cases suck really bad, those are not even cases. It's just Sakurako taking care of something. Other than that it's worth it but I hope for longer cases, atleast 2 episodes.
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I almost forgot. Perfect Insider, hyping awesome Opening. Really fun to watch, really good song.
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KZ jigen is practically worthless. Cute girl, generic guys and in school.
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So 4 episodes in and this entire series is in fact a single murder mystery it seems. Interesting direction to go in...I mean, I guess it can't be rushed.
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Apparently they will all be 12 episodes only?
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The Perfect Insider is definitely the best out of the bunch but it's not all that entertaining (very dry and colorless and basic idea for a case and the case takes up the entire series length) and it's definitely very slow paced.
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Watching Sakurako. Beautiful anime but can get really clichéd sometimes. I don't really mind the simplicity of the cases (actually I like non-murder mysteries). Kinda reminds me of Hyouka though Hyouka is the better mystery show.
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Sakurako-san = Disappointing, lame cases, good animation
Subete ga F = Almost nothing happened in the episodes. Could have easily condensed that 11 episodes into 4.
Tantei team KZ = Not worth watching
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come on man, Tantei Team is pretty nice

and I'm supposed to be the community pessimist
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