Akuma no Riddle

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Name: Akuma no Riddle　悪魔のリドル Riddle Story of Devil

Status: Completed
Episode: 12
Release Date (for eng subs): -


Summary:

The story is set at Myoujou Academy, a private girls' boarding school. The 10th year's Kurogumi class has 12 assassins with their sights on one target, Haru Ichinose. Tokaku Azuma is a recent transfer student who is also targeting Ichinose, but she gradually develops feelings for Ichinose.

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Personal Ratings: 2.5

As said by many people, this anime is a lot like Danganronpa: The Animation, in the way that the whole setting is set at, and the type of cases that happen in the show. However, if you compare the two of them side by side, this anime is a lot more inferior compared.

This anime really lacks the impact that Danganronpa: The Animation has. I didn't think that the story line was well planned out. It just seems like they worked each episode out separately. There was almost no plot twist to spice up the boring story line. I also thought that the whole concept of the story was a little dumb. I don't think that you can act normally in front of people that are going to be killing you anytime. 

The action scenes were also lacking. There were some that were nice, but most of them really liked the intensity an the impact. Since all of them are assassin, I think that there should be a standard set. Some of them were way too weak to be assassins. It also seem to lack the intelligence in this show. There wasn't really any planning or anything deep, it was kind of predictable and plain. 

Can tell that they tried to put in more effort to give the story a little more depth, but those riddles that Tokaku was given constantly, in almost every episode lack the connection to the episodes. And since they went out of their way to make him seem like some evil plot master that was behind everything, I thought that he would have played more parts in the last few episodes of the anime, but he didn't, which all the more makes his words even more worthless. 

Also, the mystery of the 'judge' in the whole black class incident was also not used to their advantage. I thought that there should be more intensity in the last episode, but there was really nothing. 

The whole idea about the mystery of Ichinose Haru was the only thing that probably kept the viewers watching, since she was the biggest mystery. The last person (i forgot her name, but the girl who was half robot) incident was pretty well thought out. Though I didn't really like the change of her personality halfway through the show, I thought that the fast that Haru Actually defeated her really made a lot people wonder more about who she really is. 

And of course another factor that kept people watching was probably fan service (?) I'm not sure what guys like, but since girls mostly like gay shows like Free!, I'm guessing most male Otaku likes Lesbians? 

Art Ratings: 3

Quite nice. Like how they use more sharp and edgy lines for this show to give it more intensity that the story line lacked. 

Action scene were also smooth, but I still thought that the characters lacked that flexibility. 

Recommended for:
Gender: Male
Age: 16 and above
My Ratings: PG-13