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TopicRobazoid Ranks 275 Anime and Top 100 Anime Characters (recommend me stuff too)
Robazoid
08/20/22 1:49:42 PM
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207. B: The Beginning
https://myanimelist.net/anime/32827/B__The_Beginning
Winter 2018 (12 episodes), Winter 2021 (0/6 episodes, unfinished)
My Score: 3/10, MAL Score: 7.21/10 S1, 6.18/10 S2
Best Character: Hoshina Lily

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JosoJVDxyg0

Premise: Keith Flick, a brilliant detective who is still recovering from a personal loss, is brought in to solve a series of murders by the mysterious vigilante known only as Killer B.

The Good: The early parts of the detective plotline were intriguing. I also liked Lily quite a bit, she was a lot of fun as the overactive sidekick to Keiths quieter brilliance.

The Bad: B: The Beginning is two completely different stories only tenuously connected by the fact that Keith is involved in each of them. Theres a detective plot, and then theres another far more supernatural plot. With only the tiniest of edits, you could get rid of either one of these stories and lose absolutely nothing in the other. In fact, if either half of the story was given more time to breathe, it would probably be greatly improved. Instead, B: The Beginning is about Keith bouncing between different plotlines while the viewer waits for it all to come together. It never does, and because of that neither plot amounts to much in the end.

Overall: B: The Beginning tried to cover two unrelated stories and only managed to feel disjointed. Of the two, Id have preferred if it stuck more to the detective side, because Keith and Lily worked well in that genre. The supernatural side, by comparison, never made a whole lot of sense. Theres a mini second season I havent watched yet, but it has a really bad MAL score so Im not in any rush to see it.

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