Tantei wa Mou, Shindeiru. (2025)

SingleH

Not Recommended

*spoilers*

This show is totally fucking with us.
The main girl is named Siesta. “Siesta” is Spanish for “nap.”
And this show does nothing but put you to sleep.

But that’s only if you’re lucky, because staying awake is torture. I know “The Detective is Already Dead” may sound like an enticing title, but don’t be fooled. This is a battle harem. It may not be set in an academy, and there may not be an arena for waifu fights, but the essential elements are there, and the show isn’t ashamed of this at all. In fact, it’s the only selling point. Why is a show about a ...

Stark700

Not Recommended

The Detective is Already Dead gives off an ambigious feeling of uncertainity. And by that, I do mean how potential viewers should expect from the show altogether. Let's face it, the English title should also fire some questions into your head. You may be asking yourself why the detective is 'already dead' or who really dies in the show. In what seems like a thematically intriguing premise quickly turns sour when we realize just how mediocre this actually turned out to be.

Taking a step back, I didn't want to be judgmental at first glance. In fact, I was actually impressed by some of the promotional ...

P3ck

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (4/12 eps)

Never heard of this show, Synopsis didn't really give any viable information on what the plot is. Heck even the cover art doesn't match the title for some reason. The detective is already dead? but what's the harem of girls at the back?

Watched it and well..

The 1st episode was good, 50 minutes long, a massive leadup to the twist provided in the synopsis. We get introduced to the Mc and Siesta, the mythical powers in the world along with the antagonists gets introduced. It was good, we get to see how the two become partners albeit for one episode only.

Then we get episodes ...

g1l

Not Recommended

Between the good anime and the enjoyably bad anime sit the ones that are unremarkable in every way, and you can’t help but wish you hadn’t wasted your time watching it. The Detective is Already Dead fits this role perfectly. With one-dimensional characters, an unengaging story, and plain awful visuals, there is next to no praise that can be given for the series. Don’t worry though, as it makes up for this by making sure there’s at least one cute girl in every scene.

There is an abundance of poorly directed scenes that lack the intended impact that they were going for. The moments that are ...

defestore

Not Recommended

Kadokawa is a Japanese media conglomerate founded in 1945.

And it is the bane of my existence.

Imagine this: in the leadup to your anime, you have to promote your show. Someone comes up with a brilliant idea: “let’s confuse them so much, they’ll HAVE to watch the show!” And what’s more, this idea actually fits with the themes of the story! And so, all the PR staff put their heads together and come up with an intriguing, faithful, and popular marketing campaign that garners eyes from all over.

People are constantly speculating, discussing, and spreading the word about your adaptation! Bloody brilliant! The PR team’s ...

skysurf

Not Recommended

A reminder that a waifu character alone is not enough to carry a show, especially if she's already dead. This is a Frankenstein anime made of a convoluted mix of tropes: harem, mechas, tentacles, werewolves, aliens, terrorists, you name it.

This anime did everything it could to call attention to it: white-haired waifu bait, a few seconds of high quality animation in episode 1, vtubers cameos, character designs that look stolen from 'Date a Live' and harem merchandise marketing, but after it got the attention it wanted, it was an utterly disappointment since it didn't have anything to stand on its own.

The "mystery" consist of characters ...

Maysushi

Recommended

Funny

IRUZA66

Not Recommended

Preliminary (5/12 eps)

- so this show was one of the most hyped show this season. have a great premise, the concept is also good but do I think they live up to the hype ? no, to be honest they do it backwards. instead of getting better by episode, all I see was disaster.

-episode 1:

-the only thing that I can praise in this episode was the fight on the airplane. damn man, gonna need that scene to be one of the best fight scene this year.

-I dislike how they suddenly went from the hectic scenario from the airplane, and then suddenly move on to school ...

ItsVizor

Not Recommended

Preliminary (6/12 eps)

Welcome to Tantei Wa Mou Shindeiru, also known as BAD COPY of Bunnygirl senpai. It's actually so obvious that they tried so hard to copy the relationship between Mai and Sakuta, it's insane.

Story: 4

The story starts off with a 50 minute long episode, which practically shows us how Siesta and Kimizuka met on a plane that has been hijacked. Somehow, Siesta has been able to get a huge freaking GUN on board which is stupid since they didn't even explain how she got it in. Everything after that is generic, extremely predictable and boring to watch, I don't even know how I managed to ...

KANLen09

Not Recommended

"The Detective is Already Dead"? More like:
"The Story/Plot is Simple-mindedly Predictable (on the back of our heads)";
"The Characters are Absurdly Boring (and one-sided)";
"The Animation (or rather the production) went from Heroic Sakuga to Zero";
"The Music is somewhat Decent"; and to sum it up:
"The Anime is Already Doomed (after the double-length Episode 1, which was all style but no substance)".

Being one of the most hyped (that's mostly from word-of-mouth from light novel readers) that in a bizarre turn of events, turned to one of the most disappointing shows of the derisory state of the Summer 2021 season, I'm sure that novelist Nigojuu had an idea of ...

TheUnholySausage

Not Recommended

AtomicTopHat

Mixed Feelings

The worst part of this anime is that it could have been good. Besides the first episode, the show feels like random clips from the second or even third season of a show. Plot threads are shown in flashbacks but instead of resolving them, they just create more plot threads that they don't do anything with. I never read the source material for Tantei wa Mou, Shindeiru... but I can't imagine how this was all supposed to work.

The anime withholds 90% of the story from you and assures you that stuff was super cool. And then the plot twist only makes sense if the ...

bulkyhog

Not Recommended

Funny

Welcome to this season’s brand new edition of “Poor Light Novel Adaptations!” I’m your host bulkyhog, and today, we’ll be discussing why you shouldn’t waste 5 hours of your life watching this hot garbage! It certainly doesn’t take a legendary detective to realise what crime was committed here.

Yet again, we have an adaptation of a light novel that god knows why got the green light. While 86 was bad (fight me I dare you), it was at least not as bad and also popular enough to justify an adaptation. But this? No significant fanbase to work with, so the studio really chose this series ...

A_909

Recommended

Preliminary (6/12 eps)

The story was far different from what I imagined and It is pretty good. Yeah, the story seems slow at times but it didn't stop me from enjoying it. I started it and I wanna see the rest of it. Yeah, it wasted alot of potential story parts but as far as I know, the story will get good later.

The animation and sound quality pretty ok.

Its character development is slow but its happening. They brought rushed when bringing new characters thats a bit problem. But I hope they cover the gap in the future episodes.

I just want to say Don't be influenced by ...

Pumpkinyaaan

Not Recommended

Preliminary (6/12 eps)

I think this is one of the worst anime I ever watched. I tried not to spoil anything important that isn't in the first episode.

The art is pretty mediocre. In the first episode, the fight scene was great and it was overall good. All the episodes since have been lazy, the characters look off-model half of the time and it ruins the "waifu-esque" designs. I feel like the first episode was just bait and animation to use for trailers. In the later episodes, there is a chase scene between a mecha and a giant monster, great action right ? No, this was so boring, one ...

maitawa

Not Recommended

Preliminary (4/12 eps)

What about "detective" aspect of this show?
Expect some trash middle schooler fanfic about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson being a middle schooler and a hot chick with supernatural abilities fighting supernatural mutants.

The whole detective aspect of the show is the hot chick knowing everything about a particular character without explaining how she knows.
In the very first episode it becomes utterly ridiculous on the level
"You are this and that"
"How do you know"
"Wait, but actually you are that and this"
"Wow, how did you know this as well.... But I'm actually rather that"
"I knew it"
The revelations go on, not caring that every new revelation cancels the genius ...

Vandervekken

Not Recommended

Preliminary (9/12 eps)

This show started out strong, with a good double length first episode, good looking characters and an intriguing premise ... and then it nosedived like nothing else. The only thing I can think of to compare it to is GoT series 8.

The art looked beautiful and episode 1 seemed to race along, with the mysterious detective Siesta taking our MC (who is apparently at school but you'd never guess from the look of the character) along on a real roller coaster ride.

In subsequent episodes we have an abrupt change of pace, the MC is now mourning the death of Siesta 3 years later and we ...

Sasu2chan

Not Recommended

After a year of sitting at episode 6, I finally finished this show. There's a reason it took so long. It ain't good. Horrible dialogue, horrible characters (even Siesta), and some of the worst pacing I've seen in an anime. The only saving grace could possibly be the art not looking horrible, and music that is passable at best.

If you're thinking of starting this anime because the premise sounds cool, don't bother. The plot is so all over the place, the main gimmick of the show (the detective already being dead) just doesn't work well. Lots of the show is ...

askekmi

Not Recommended

Preliminary (6/12 eps)

You cannot look into my eyes and tell me that this was in any way, shape or form a good, even remotely decent or slightly below average show. It's very hard to imagine people enjoying the show because it has a good narrative or characters that seem like real people. Any type of good comment on this show is either done by a brainlet or a person that has never watched anything good in their life.

Now that my rant is over, let's actually get into the review side of things. Yes, the experience of 'Tante wa mou, shindeiru' was absolutely dreadful. It's not even over ...

sToRMyQ

Not Recommended

Preliminary (5/12 eps)

Before starting the review, I have to admit, I am neither an avid reviewer nor someone with high anime standards. I watch anything and enjoy basically anything, as long as they're enjoyable, even if the anime itself might be stupid. Heck, I can watch Steins;Gate one day and watch Kanojo mo Kanojo afterwards and laugh it off.

Tantei wa Mou Shindeiru however, is just plain hard to swallow.

I get that people enjoy or dislike anime for various reasons to each their own, such as being against harem, plot holes, deus ex machimas, OP MCs and whatnot...

...but I think everyone can agree that bad pacing ruins ...