Hello! We are now hopefully back to our regular schedule. But on the other hand I am now looking for another job, because working 16 hours a week now that the touristic season is over does not make for a big paycheck…Wish me luck!
Our program for today is to talk about Dansai Bunri no Crime Edge. The story is pretty simple, in this world, some legendary killers left behind their tools of choices that then possess other people making them kill as well. Kiri is one of the person who inherited one of these tools, a pair of scissors. And one day he meets a princess with uncuttable hair.
This anime is the kind of anime that, when seeing the promo picture, especially of Iwai, I would refuse to see. Except it talked about murder so I just could not pass it up and had to at least check it out. Surprisingly I fell in love with the first episode. To be honest, it loses a lot of its appeal once we reach the second part of the anime (and it is only 13 episodes …) but I still am very enthusiastic about everything.
For most of the first half the plot is about laying out the principles of how the tools and their masters work, how it can influence people, how you could use them or let them use you and more importantly, the relationship between an Author (the one using the tools) and their Instead (the person they use their tool against without killing intent).
It seems a bit complicated when written like that, which is why I find it good they used so many episodes to really lay out all these principles. Not to mention the individual stories of each couple of Author/Instead were often pretty cute, and pretty devious. To be honest, the whole thing seemed really perverted to me. (Not that I minded, quite the contrary…) Some scenes were nearly pornographic, except Kiri was just cutting Iwai’s hair. I told you it was perverted. (They are not even the “worse” couple when it comes to perverted things…)
The second half was more about Gossip, an organization that tries to hurt Kiri and Iwai. It was a bit less interesting, probably because less perverted, featuring less characters and less interesting ones. Beside, we never got the ending to this part of the story so it felt a bit frustrating to me.
As for the characters, to be honest, it mostly is about Kiri and Iwai. Iwai is the typical Ojou-sama character, Kiri seems at first like a normal person, a usual protagonist but he quickly shows some more wits and spirit and it was interesting. Not many other characters are recurring and if I say everything it will not be interesting anymore, so I will keep my mouth shut and let you discover that by yourself.
And for the rest, well, not my style of animation but not ugly either (and it has real blood!), nothing exceptional in the music either, but I really did like the performance of Kiri’s seiyuu.
I would suggest to try this out if you are looking for something a little darker and more adult in anime. The contrast between the character design and the topic is really surprising at first.
And it has blood. Did I mention it had blood?
