Kami sama no memo chô Online

Narumi Fujishima is a rather quiet high school student; his life is gradually changed when he meets Ayaka Shinozaki. She recruits him to the school's gardening club, as its second member. His new friendship brings him into contact with a group of NEETs (Not in Education, Employment or Training) who eat at the ramen bar Ayaka works at. They aren't ordinary NEETs they work for a girl called Alice and her 'NEET Detective Agency'. Alice appears to be a hikikomori; spending most of her time staring at banks of computer screens. Narumi finds himself helping in her cases; this will ultimately bring him into contact with local gangs and those responsible for a dangerous new drug; Angel Fix.

This series starts a little slowly with a variety of 'case of the week' episodes; however as things progress it becomes darker in tone and more gripping. The fact that the opening episode is double length served to give a good introduction to the characters and their situations. The character designs are pretty good so one is unlikely to confuse who is who. While the later episodes are dark in tone there are some fairly amusing earlier episodes. Overall while I wouldn't call this a must-see series it is rather enjoyable.

These comments are based on watching the series in Japanese with English subtitles.

My very first impression after finishing episode one was, "oh..well this isn't bad but its also not that good.." but none the less I trucked on through and I'm glad I did. The impression I felt from this show in the beginning was it was gonna be some goofy slapstick comedy anime with a detective theme but as it turns out this show was WAY darker than I ever could have guessed by the first 3 episodes. In terms of pure detective realism this show is one of the better ones I've seen (granted I haven't seen all that many but still), the show has quite a few very large twists and turns that turn this show from a 6.5>7/7.5. The artwork is very beautiful, all the buildings and background artwork is very nice to look at. The character design is kind of plain and not to standout-ish but I enjoyed that, it makes it feel more "real" than something cartoonie. The opening and ending themes are absolutely great, the animation is spectacular and the music is great never got sick of listening to either. As for the music for the rest of the show it seemed to match perfectly fine, nothing seemed off nor did it stand out to me. To put it bluntly, if your looking for a detective theme anime or a darkish themed anime this is decent and you should enjoy it but only if your willing to watch it all the way through. If you don't watch it all then you simply wont get the effect that it builds on and is the only thing that bumps it from an average show> decent show. If your just looking for a new anime to watch, i'd say you can probably find something better but again its not bad just nothing to flip and go on about.

4/5(barely) or 7.5/10 Why? In terms of a detective anime it does quite well, it has quite a few large twist and turns and is much darker than you'd think form first glance but it does seem to be missing that "something". You can't place whats missing but it feels like there's something it still needs. Animation & music are nice, story is decent. If you are going to watch this make sure you watch it ALL, don't watch 3 or 6, tough it out till the end and i'm sure you'll have a better opinion on it than if you drop it before hand.