Psychic Detective Yakumo

Psychic Detective Yakumo

    In order to help a friend possessed by a spirit, Ozawa Haruka knocks on the door of her university's movie research association. There she meets Saitou Yakumo, a rude, unkempt young man with a red left eye, who is said to have spiritual powers. At first Haruka is skeptical, but she comes to believe him when he conveys messages from her older sister, who died when she was a child. Together, they work to shed light on the terrifying events happening at their university. But this is only the prologue of what's to come...

General Info:

Episodes; 13.

Language; Japanese with English subs.

Review:

    I love mystery-like shows, and 'detective' was not just part of the name. Despite the cases seeming relatively random, they were all connected in one way or another; in my opinion that is the work of a clever mind. 

    I found the romance between Yakumo and Haruka gentle and sweet. It wasn't exactly basking in the spotlight, but subtly hinting. I think their non-extreme relationship suited Yakumo's internal conflict with himself, and Haruka's self-unawareness, so it worked really well with them. It left me completely satisfied in that sense to say the least.

    The story had interesting twists and each ending was both conclusive and a cliff-hanger - again takes a clever mind to do - with left me happy with the episode, and eager for the next. 

    I feel as if I can't say much without ruining the story - but I can comment and say that I would also be in love with Yakumo, and I also really loved Nao (Isshin's daughter) I thought she was absolutely adorable.

    Also - speaking of Isshin - whatever episode it was when the crazy man was trying to resurrect his daughter, when Haruka first met Isshin, I thought he was the crazy man in disguise. Ha ha; proves how skeptical I am. It would have made a nice twist though, eh?

   On second thought, perhaps not. I really liked the opening song and video, it set the whole atmosphere for the show, so I really enjoyed this. Fantastic!

Rating:

I would give Psychic Detective Yakumo 4 out of 5 stars. * * * *