Episode Review: Mnemosyne 01 (warning: contains spoilers)
Uniflame recommended this series to me because she thought it might be something I like. Reading the synopsis about it, I agreed, but having seen the first episode I am not so sure anymore, since it has a lot of elements I usually don’t like; still, my curiosity is stirred, so I might give it another go when I get my hands on the second episode.
The story introduces main character Rin, a private investigator of some sorts with a reputation to boot it seems. In the opening scene she’s chased by an assassin and killed, yet she wakes up in her bed the next morning as if it were just a dream.
Here her job is introduced, along with her assistant Mimi, who looks like she’s 12 but downs vodka as well as her employer. Of course with alcohol involved these’s a good excuse for some touchiness throughout the episode to fan-service the perverts, but nothing too out of bounds.
While completing a job – finding a lost fat cat – Rin stumbles across a young man named Maeno who is about to be beaten up. She rescues him and learns he has an odd case of amnesia.
Rin decides to help him find his missing memories and their trail – a trail of violence, extortion and a few dead bodies, mind you – leads them to a pharmaceutical company with mob connections.
When attempting to sneak inside, it turns out Rin’s butt (-lol) proves to be too much of an obstacle to bypass some infrared beams, and the two are arrested, introducing this episode’s villain: the pharmaceutical director with a preference for Lolita dresses outside office hours and the bizarre fetish of gaining pleasure from attaching vast amounts of piercings. Add a random female-female french kiss and we have a torture scene that could’ve been taken straight out of a kinky hentai flic.
But all’s well that ends well; Rin proves to be able to revive after dying, using this talent to unleash some zombies upon the unsuspecting director, and free Maeno. And guess what, the fat cat is found too!
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I had seen the episode a few months a go. There are elements that I normally don’t like, but I like detective series. I’m downloading the next episode and I hope its even better then the first episode.
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GatekeeperCruelman
Comment by GatekeeperCruelman — March 6, 2008 @ 3:54 pm