Wandering through Kyoto‘s Teramachi Sanjou shopping district, Aoi Mashiro decides to visit the antique shop Kura in the hopes of selling something of her late grandfather’s. She instead ends up working there to help out the grandson of the shop’s owner, who handles most of the day-to-day business of appraisal and has come to be known around town as “Holmes-san” in part for his ability to get to the heart of any questionable situation.
An educational pseudo-mystery slice of life series with prominent romance elements, frequent comic relief, and periodic emotional outbursts.
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Conceptually, this series was damn good — way better than it at first seemed. The relationships depicted were psychologically complex. The subject matter was endless. It could have been exceptional, but they used bottom-of-the-barrel animators and jammed plot ideas into episodes like broken toys, and ended up with something mediocre. Although the episode ideas were interesting, because little energy was invested in their development, they often ended up in the ‘so bad it’s funny’ category. Same with the relationships. Although the romance between the male and female leads developed rather nicely, the far more passionate and consuming relationship between the… Read more »