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+ has definitely been one of the harder short form shows to get into in the last few seasons, but it’s slowly finding its footing, even if the characters aren’t exactly accessible. We get some weird semi-dream sequence material between Takumi and Kou to start which is fun even if we don’t really know them before it shifts to them doing an abandoned style hospital run where Ozu Clinic is located. Kou’s excited by seeing Ozu, which leads to you wondering what sort of weird relationship they have, made all the more by how Ozu is just weird in general. His nurse id cutely disturbing, which plays into some banter between the agency members. All while Kou stands around naked. It introduces a bunch of material, but mostly it’s just setup here as the gang has to investigate said nurse being kidnapped, which is what the next episode will be about.
In Summary:
Strange+ feels like it’s almost a bit better this time around by taking some time to just establish the characters a bit, though they’re not all easy to name just yet since it’s been all over the map. What we get here is a first part story where we meet the doctor, his cute child-like nurse and the setup for her to be kidnapped. Ozu definitely steals the show with some of his lines and his interactions with Kou, but I’m still not really feeling the series as a whole yet.
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.
