This Week On Kino’s Journey -Episode 2: Lives of Strangers
Kino’s Journey episode 2: A Tale of Feeding Others. Everything comes at a cost. Whether it’s a cost of money, …
Kino’s Journey episode 2: A Tale of Feeding Others. Everything comes at a cost. Whether it’s a cost of money, …
This should be the first time I’m putting one of these on The Artifice, so I should probably explain what …
So let me tell you about The Artifice, and no, this isn’t a non sequitur plug, and I’m not obligated …
On the good end, Decim, Nona, a yet unnamed black-haired girl, and presumably more characters as the show goes on actually have some depth. As it’s still early, the only one I can really comment on is Decim. I like him. He’s not the perfect supernatural arbiter who can read people’s souls at a glance that he came off as in the OVA. He’s clearly introverted, and has weird hobbies like collecting mannequins. But most importantly, he can make mistakes, and, trying not to spoil anything, he has made a pretty big one already. The frustrating side to this is that it was a pretty obvious mistake. I understood what was going on right away. While I am happy Decim isn’t a Gary Stu at his job, I would hope someone hired as arbiter of life and death would be more qualified than me.
As for the bad… The first two episodes center around a couple who died on their honeymoon, and they find themselves at the Quindecim Bar. After a little prodding and implied threat, Decim convinces them to play a sadistic game of darts-and-your-organs-are-the-dartboard. While I’m still intrigued by the concept, the execution here is clichéd and predictable as it gets. The two get small glimpses of their memories back, leading them to believe that their partner had been cheating on them.
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