Kamisama no Memochou Episode 3

Daww, Meo... As much as I like you, your arc wasn't that good.

 2.75/5 Stars

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The ending to this case was anticlimactic and sort of disorienting. I mean, I was happy that the writers made the episode more believable by not allowing Alice to hack bank accounts, but to completely and utterly dislocate the explanation for each scene is simply lazy. This episode totally reminded me of Darker than Black; they tell you shit, but then they never fully explain its loopholes. Then they use that advantage to progress with the story containing an ignored explanation of how things get into place.

No. Not even that will make me like this episode.

For example, Narumi says that Meo's father left her the 200 million to become a decoy, but then they completely jump gears when they find out that he is caught by the Yakuza. Who knew? Apparently Meo did. How? We don't know... I probably wasn't paying a good enough attention to figure this out, but I never realized how the NEET detectives knew that Meo's father was caught. In the episode before we were convinced that he left the nation to flee with the other 100 million yen. Please explain this to me people!

They are the Yakuza, and that's ALL they're going to do? Are you kidding me?

Another problem lies in the stupidity of the antagonists. I mean really, the head of the Yakuza failed to take a teenager into custody or prepare failsafe protocols when shit gets stolen? Especially for 300 million yen? Ugh.

Bromance is helpful! Oh wait, IT ISN'T.

So to make Narumi stronger he needs to join the NEET yakuza? Okay, but what ever happened to school? I mean that takes up a majority of your bloody life. Plus, the ceremony was anticlimactic in the way that it felt remorsefully unneeded and strayed a bit from the actual case... But whatever...

I need a better arc than this! This is something that is given in BONES's worst stories. I need something that will make me remember characters, care about the story, and develop the events in a methodical manner. I don't need this!

PS: If you have counter-arguments against what this post said, then I need to hear it, cuz I can be real ignorant of what an episode is trying to do!