Special 7: Special Crime Investigation Unit

OVERALL: 6/10 I would recommend this anime as a 'palate cleanser' anime (by that I simply mean a quick 1-season 12 episode anime to watch while in between 2 really good shows, for example I watch slice of life shows in-between shows such as Demon Slayer and Fire Force). Ratings: STORY: 5/10 at best tbh, pretty slow and generic, I watched it weekly alongside Ahiru no Sora and BNHA S4 so I didn't retain much info between episodes. ANIMATION: 8/10 Personally I love this style of animation so I thoroughly enjoyed that. It gave me some madhouse anime vibes which I also loved.CHARACTERS/ VOICES: 9/10 9/10 Mainly because I loved the voice acting, Tsuda Kenjirou as a protag is quite rare for me 😂 but other than that Hiro Shimono, Suzuki Tatsuhisa etc. were all a really good combination. BUT in terms of characters themselves its probably a 6.5, I liked all the characters, mostly Ichinose since he gave me Shinya vibes, but overall the characters were pretty generic. OPENING/ENDING: 10/10 I LOVEEEE TAKE ON FEVER! Its SO good! One Wish is also REALLY good, but Oldcodex outdid themself with this one, probably one of my favourite songs from them and atm it's definitely one of my top songs.

With am absolutely ridiculous long title, you'd think that this show is from a LN source, but NOPE, it's an original series, which I'd applaud the production staff under this to take the risk for such "original" (but rehashed in some form) stories that hope to break the bank in the existing landscape of usual tried-and-true anime adaptations, I really do. At first, I'd thought: "Is this Dance of the Dragons once again? Because it sure feels like it for the majority of the most part." But thank God that the story and the setting itself is fairly linear and easier to understand than that clusterfishof a work (much less its anime adaptation which was horrendous to say the least). So in essence, pretty much everything is laid out in the synopsis (that's mostly the beginning), but it has the Bungou Stray Dogs feeling towards the entire "special team" (that is Special 7) to eradicate crime (as a backdrop), but most importantly the remnant "evil" group known as Nine that still worships the Tokyo of time past where humans and supernatural creatures (of all sorts) coexist together in harmony, but ruled under dragons of power divine, to each their own to answer the fight for "justice". That's not to say that the characters here are without their special unique caveats: the Special 7 consists of: Sakon Zeroemon "Boss" Kiryuin, the boss of the entire team that is Special 7, and one of the original dragons from time past. Rokusuke "Sniper" Endo, a master sniper just because he could effectively shoot long-range attacks with 100% precision. Bellemer "Ninja" Cinq, loli homunculus blonde-hair girl with tricks of the trade on electronics. Akane "Samurai" Shikisai, master swordsman-cum-vampire, just because humans and supernatural beings coexist (see my front pointer). Kujaku "Analyzer" Nijo, highly intelligent elf with his large vast of connections for insider trade. His brother Luka is part of the puzzle, as you'd see down the road why. Shiori "Charisma" Ichinose, the non-marksman and the only human in the team, yet bizarrely his misfire shots only work 1% of the time. Oh and his ability to deduce criminals intent is so good, his ability is just that. And the newest member of Special 7, Seiji "Rookie" Nanatsuki. Due to an attack years ago, Nijo's brother Luka saved his life whilst sacrificing for Nine's qualms in inheritance of Warlock's inherited dragon powers of the past. Now reincarnated from the dragon's life (due to his innate "surprise" magic-dispersing abilities), he exists to find his own "justice" both as a former police officer, and current Special 7 Rookie. In all, indeed a "special" group of people tasked to thwart people of time past like Warlock, head of the evil group Nine which used dragons and manipulative efforts to bring the world of dragons to existence, and earlier with Nijio's brainwashed brother Luka Mizuma to aid in his efforts in world domination (like almost any simpleton evildoer wannabe would do). It's a simple story and plot to follow, but the cut-out setting and the one-note characters just aren't quite as appealing, though it'd rake in the enjoyment factor a little amidst its boring plot and storytelling. And I'd say that the execution is just decent, nothing to blow off minds about. No-name studio ANIMA&CO. (apparently from what I speculate, a sister studio of Studio NAZ) heralded this production, and it's as average as you can get for a decently-sized budget on the original front, that all it takes is a simple hook to get money pumped in for this production, and wah-lah. Not to mention that while character designs are striking as they could get, the visuals and especially the animation are again, nothing to write home about. Music is also decent for a hyper-active show of crime fighting and otherworldly affections. OST is good, shall I say? OLDCODEX and SCREEN mode certainly did their best for the respective OP and ED with this, and I'd like the songs a fair bit, but its not something that I would listen to outside of the anime. All in all, this is just your average crime-fighting show that's just screams "mediocrity" in the slew of the many better similar genre shows out there that are worth your time than this. It's not a bad show, mind you, I did get some enjoyment out of it, but most of it is just...boring and uninspired. It's an easy skip if recommendations are a question, that's for sure.

Where to start... Okay let's start from the Character, the very poor part in the anime, first the character design so awful and tacky especially the villain and the detective who Follow him ( seriously? Is this even a serious design? ), and of course don't forget the design of the hero of the show، in short the character design look like the one who make it just dropped some hair style here and there, and some Scars here and there, and here we have some stupid character design, second thing.. the characters writing so weak and all the characters just Molded characters you can seethem in many anime, and they even don't have a good Development, you will finish the anime and you will found that you don't know anything then what you know in the start of the anime about them, they just Ready-made templates The story had some good points but generally it's so poor, where even the writer don't know what to do with it, he put elements in it, but the question is he use it ? The answer NO! Weave the story is okay, but of course not the weaving of the climax And the mixing of fantasy was weak where the writer like what i said before don't knows what to do with his story.. The art is so normally, especially the art style, the animation is bad even when the hard scene by the number of fingers, the background is boring and empty I want to say more, but there's nothing important left, generally the anime is so normal With a tendency to be bad