![]() Luckily for Keith, he basically has carte blanche to pursue this investigation on his own terms since the head of RIS is basically just Keith's personal Watson. So, go figure that his mental calculations somehow point to the enigmatic Killer B being the key to solving that, now several years old, cold case. Though it takes some time to get the whole story out of him, his depression and subsequent single-minded pursuit for revenge centers around the unsolved and brutal murder of his younger sister. Where Sherlock just gives in to boredom, Keith falls into the brand of melancholy detectives get when they've screwed up and lost someone because of it. ![]() Short of having a literal "mind palace," Keith is presented as this ace detective that stands head and shoulders above everyone around him but can't be bothered to actually do something with that intelligence. I've seen a couple comparisons between him and the BBC's recent interpretation of Sherlock Homes since my watching the show and I do see the similarities. When I say "genius savant," though, I mainly mean he has the ability to perform predictive mathematics that happen to make sense only to him and happen to always point in the direction he needs to go. Over the course of the show, the RIS agents solve things ranging from murders to military convoy heists to nerve gas attacks on the general populous with the assistance of Keith Flick, the team's genius savant. I don't think they ever actually spell what RIS stands for.) branch of Cremona's royal police force, this aspect mainly dances around the RIS solving the surface layer crimes of the deeper conspiracies that fuel the more Shounen aspects of the show. Centered around the RIS (Royal Intelligence Service.probably. Yet it knows just how to grab my attention and hold it for a whole 6 hours.įirst and foremost, I'll address the aspect of this show that actually got me invested in this mess from the word go-the Crime Drama/Thriller aspect. Yet, it's specifically because it borrows from these great shows to make it's own idiotic and half-baked plot that I found this show as enjoyable as I did. Borrowing from series like Psycho-Pass, Darker Than Black, and Terror in Resonance (thanks to the shows sharing the same character designer), this show is cobbled together from all the things that make your average Action/Mystery Thriller and Shounen anime great without having any way to bring those ideas together in a cohesive fashion. ![]() Originality is the key issue with this show, in fact. Where shows like Eromanga-sensei and High School DxD can be acquainted to a bland and morally bankrupt franchise like McDonald's, B: The Beginning is like Olive Garden by comparison, in that it's far more cultured but lacks the character and originality to make it an actually high-class restaurant. ![]() To be clear, though, this isn't your average junk food anime this is of a different class entirely. Luckily for me, B: The Beginning came to my attention just as that urge was starting to kick in. Review: I don't think it's any great secret that I love to sit back and enjoy some junk food every now and then let's be honest, who doesn't enjoy some meaningless schlock from time to time. ![]()
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