Strange+ Episode 9
What They Say:
Kou comes to a certain city, in search of his older brother Takumi, who ran away from home and disappeared. Thinking it’d be rather difficult to find his older brother, Kou decides not to go back until he finds him… but he ends up finding him immediately. However, when Kou is reunited with Takumi, he had become the head of the Mikuni Detective Agency. Takumi appears to have no intentions to go back home. Kou then decides that if his older brother isn’t going to come home, he’s going to stay at the Mikuni Detective Agency.
The Review:
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
Strange+ throws us right into another job for the agency here at the start, doing its best to talk as fast as possible to fit in as much as possible. The gang is all excited about the job since there are so many dangers ahead for it and the potential for fun is totally there. But there’s a different kind of danger going on as bullets start flying and they go into a silly panic over it since they’re treating it all like a joke since the whole thing is just an act. But everything that happens seems to work towards various characters getting naked and making puns and other wordplay gags in order to hit the laughs. Or, at least that’s the plan.
In Summary:
As a series of frantic moments and really awkward sexuality, Strange+ definitely hits the right notes there. But it doesn’t do anything to actually make me laugh, more that I’m once again left wondering what the point of the whole thing was. There is a weirdly amusing dynamic between the group, but I keep feeling like this is the kind of show that needs a seven or twelve minute run time in order to do the gags, the characters and the ideas justice.
Grade: C
Streamed By: Crunchyroll
Review Equipment:
Sony KDL70R550A 70″ LED 1080P HDTV, Apple TV via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.