Beautiful Bones: Sakurako's Investigation...
Beautiful Bones has the feel of Sherlock Holmes with Sakurako Kujo playing the part of the iconic detective and Shotaro Tatewaki playing the part of the detective's partner...
Overall, the pace of the series is a bit slower than I would like. Sakurako, in typical anime form, has a stock transformation sequence, whenever she is going to solve a mystery. But, clearly, Beautiful Bones has its roots firmly planted in the Sherlock Holmes style of deductive reasoning. Given the subject matter and the slow pace of the series, Beautiful Bones is not for everyone. The series can be macabre at times, but, is not overly gory. I would give Beautiful Bones a 3 out of 5. By the way, you will need to read your anime as Beautiful Bones is subtitled only.
Beautiful Bones contains a lot of technical medical jargon, but, the pace wasn't so fast, that I couldn't keep up with the subtitles. Beautiful Bones does exhibit a fair number of dead bodies in various states of decay and plenty of bones. But, the series is not particularly gory or bloody. The subject matter is presented in a form that is consistent with modern police detective dramas. Although the series is recommended for mature audiences, there's nothing that is truly objectionable. There are, of course, no naughty bits to speak of in the series. Like Sherlock Holmes, Sakurako, does have a certain amount of contempt for the ineptitude of law enforcement and also like the iconic detective, Sakurako's social graces leave a lot to be desired. But, Sakurako proves to be a most capable detective.Shotaro Tatewaki knows that Sakurako Kujo isn't a normal person. After all, most young women have multiple interests revolving around things like work, fashion, and sports, but Sakurako is fixated on just one thing: bones.
While she already has a huge collection of them, mostly animal, she's always trying to gather more, especially those of the human variety. This can be quite a problem for Shotaro: especially since he and Sakurako have a positively unnatural aptitude for discovering dead bodies together.
Fortunately, Sakurako is a naturally brilliant detective who unearths the mystery of what happened to the owners of those bones, but it's up to Shotaro to make apologies for Sakurako's odd quirks and tendency to make off with the evidence.
It's a grave business that can leave him literally bone-tired, but for the wheels of justice to turn, there are always more skeletons to be bared and new secrets to be exhumed in BEAUTIFUL BONES -SAKURAKO'S INVESTIGATION-.
Overall, the pace of the series is a bit slower than I would like. Sakurako, in typical anime form, has a stock transformation sequence, whenever she is going to solve a mystery. But, clearly, Beautiful Bones has its roots firmly planted in the Sherlock Holmes style of deductive reasoning. Given the subject matter and the slow pace of the series, Beautiful Bones is not for everyone. The series can be macabre at times, but, is not overly gory. I would give Beautiful Bones a 3 out of 5. By the way, you will need to read your anime as Beautiful Bones is subtitled only.
