Journal of Mysterious Creatures

異常生物見聞録

6.34(3K votes)

Ranked #8845Popularity #5860

episodes

Type

ONA

Status

Finished Airing

Aired

Jun 28, 2019 to Sep 20, 2019

Studios:MMT Technology

Supernatural

Synopsis

Yoshihito, a 23-year-old man who has no job or girlfriend. In order to make ends meet he rents out one of the rooms in his house. While he's showing Lily, his first tenant, around the house, she's suddenly attacked by a vampire named Vivian, and Yoshihito notices that Lily is actually a werewolf. As Yoshihito and Lily start living in the same house, Yoshihito is scouted for an organization that maintains order of the parallel universes, and strange creatures one after another become tenants in his house. (Source: ANN)

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Worth Watching? — Global Verdict

6.5/10

Average Review Score

50%

Recommend It

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International Reviews

MarsRed22

Recommended

At first it is to say, this is a Chinese Anime, so it is a bit different, from most of the common Japanese Anime you already know. But don't get me wrong, there isn't anything bad about that, the Anime doesn't look different (at least not that much) and the speaking/subtitles are at normal speed. That is good, because on some other Chinese Anime, the speaking and subtitles were way too fast. Good, that the producers of this one though about audience, from different countries (the series also has a Japanese subtitles). I felt really refreshed, about the difference, from 100% normal Anime, instead it reminded me ofsome good cartoons, I watched in my childhood (but it doesn't have a cartoon or Shounen style) and this was a nice feeling. The Anime might look like the fantasy genre, but it also contains science-fiction elements as well.The intro song is nice, the graphic quality and art is okay, the sound is good, the characters were interesting and only a bit stereotypical (not as much as in other Anime). I have to say, this Anime is worth watching and I encourage you to do that too. I hope for a 2nd season.

19 found helpfulMay 6, 2020

Community Discussion

I honestly had a hard time watching the entire season of this, mainly because the subtitles were absolutely horrible quality. The spelling and grammar were atrocious. The story itself, while not top-tier, was interesting enough that I didn't drop it immediately. I watched this on Amazon Prime, I never bothered to look for it elsewhere, so it's possible that on other streaming platforms or websites that there may be better subtitles, but at least on Prime there was no English dub and no other source for subtitles. Either way the quality of the subtitles was bad enough that I rated it 4/10 when I otherwisemight have rated it a 5 or 6.

Soyeudani

Mixed Feelings

I found that's a very different anime, very interesting and has a unique story, although it has some errors of lack of information, I really liked the plot that shows throughout the episodes. Although the graphic is a bit sinful, it becomes so much fun that it's even understandable. At the beginning, I confess that I found the plot very slow and long-lasting, but as I was persistent, I managed to watch the other episodes and I liked what was shown; I believe that an investment in the graphic and good marketing to make it more visible to the public can make it a success. I'm waiting fora new season to find out which pariah has inside the boiled egg.

0 found helpfulDec 26, 2022

SakamakiKoyatsu

Recommended

The setting and plotline along with the role of the main character(Hao Ren/Yoshihito) might not be appealing due to how mundane, out of place, and straight-up rush presentation of it might be for what tags this anime contains. As an anime that is vampire-tagged with sorcery, vampirism is not the point of effort in this anime to emphasize in terms of setting or trope generation. It center and rotated around our main character and what he is really doing and what has been ended up with at the start of this anime for the epithet of the plot, setting, and chronology of this anime. The worlddoes not seem to be a host of supernatural and sorcery... until you find out how our main character and what tenants he is receiving. To which lengths and ends he will go to recieve them and whether or not they are really of his own accord. These are things not spoken in this review since they will spoil the events of this anime. However, it is the point of focus and noticing to take on when watching this anime so that that you can have a feel as why this animated series is divergent for other vampire-tagged or sorcery based anime. Such abnormalities should also be motivators as to why one after starting watching, continue watching. There are moments of cinematic comedicness and plain foolery to be about in events, character dynamics and their meetings. They might be a window in their region of origin and how they are written up in plot planning. It is real different in his origin with anime style, story trope, and targeting, along with segmentation per episode based on Chinese rather than Japanese anime style(Insert bilibili/Almost like youtube) as your platform and you get the reason for such start differences in this anime. However, that is the only note. Thus the rating given in this review are based on how well the rotation around our main character and how the plot is decaded around this one mechanic of hosting tenants really is.

0 found helpfulJan 19, 2026