Haručika: Haruta to Čika wa seišun suru

I guess I do not understand serious music and orchestras, so I cannot judge the standard of the soundtrack. However, I enjoyed listening to it. I find the combination of music and solving mystery puzzles interesting (I think the combination is original). I think it is good as long as the puzzles are interesting enough and are not Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note-style plots where trivial stuff is solved. Also, I am not too fond of it when the kids could never solve trivial cases unless they are the best in some field (which is weird). As mentioned earlier, I like mystery shows in the style of Hyouka, where things are solved with a mysterious edge even though they do not feel trivial and are not so far-fetched, I can relate. The question was how the anime’s creators would manage to piece it together because finding good reasons for the school orchestra to solve mysteries will probably get more difficult by the episode. This was pretty much confirmed in the end, and some of the reasons they were solving a particular puzzle seemed quite odd at times. On the other hand, some of the problems did not seem completely pointless, so I did not mind the mystery aspect that much in the end. The characters were quite likable, and no one there bothered me significantly. However, when I summarize my overall impression, neither in the mystery nor in the music area was it amazing because the anime’s creators did not pay enough attention to the music, so my final rating is just a tolerable average. 5/10. (11/01/2016)