UN-GO

Title: アン ゴ
Animation production: Bones

Episodes: 11

Genre: Mystery

Release: 13 October 2011

OP Theme: "How to go" by school food punishment

End Theme: "Fantasy" by LAMA
Original Story: Based from Sakaguchi Ango’s novel “Meiji Kaika Ango Torimonocho.”
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Plot:  UN-GO" is a full-fledged detective story about a detective and handsome boy combo who tackle the world's most difficult crimes together for reasons of their own. The profession of private detective fell out of favor long ago, and yet, that's how the young man, Shinjurou Yuuki identifies himself. With his superior deductive powers, Shinjurou solves various challenging cases. Meanwhile, Inga, an attractive young lad, serves as Shinjurou's "buddy". But contrary to his cute looks, he's a sharp, arrogant rogue. Why Inga sticks with Shinjurou is as yet unknown. The setting of the story is a postwar, future Tokyo that still bears the scars of war. Ruling the land is Media King Rinroku Kaishou, who through politics and industry has the communications infrastructure under his thumb. Kaishou has used a clear head and the massive amount of information at his fingertips to lead to the solution of a great number of cases. But there's an underside to Kaishou's brilliant deduction work, which is that Shinjurou Yuuki, "the Last Great Detective", is the one who actually uncovered "the truth" in those cases. However, the public doesn't know this and thus refers to Shinjurou as the "Defeated Detective". Still, Shinjurou, together with Inga, can't help but search for the truth.
(source: MyAnimeList, Wikipedia,)

Quick thoughts: It was different. At first, I did not know what the appeal was for this anime. But halfway through the series, it started to grow on me a little. What made me continue watching this anime was because I love production Bones. Plus, I like mystery. But I was also curious as to what kind of relationship does Shinjiro and Anga have. And, why does Anga wants to seek out the truth. It did give a small hint on whats going between those two. But it looks like they will reveal it all of that in their movie, Episode 0: Inga-ron. Did I like this series? I'm still in the middle with this. I just don't know whether to like it or not. It was a different kind of detective-mystery story that I have never encountered before. But if you like a unique detective story, then this series is for you.