Vatican Miracle Examiner

They say there are miracles everywhere, and I think the biggest one for me was finishing this anime series! I was sort of subconsciously convinced that it was going to be a supposedly miraculous pile of nonsense from the first episode. Simply the fact that two priests go to investigate one miracle and within twenty minutes there are about five more of them was causing me to stop finding it believable. Furthermore, the miracles kept increasing with each episode; everything was constantly unnaturally dramatized and convoluted that I could not believe that they would ever reasonably get out of it. All this was mainly to conclude the first narrative, which I do not think I am ever going to forget! The point of it all, and who was behind it was so incredibly B-movie-Esque, plucked out of thin air. It aimed to leave as much of a surprising effect as possible, and I was rolling around with laughter. Any positive impression went definitively in the bin, and I was entertained by the fact that I expected it to be bad, even though I had not expected it to end that way. Any seriousness was gone, and I was waiting to see what would happen next. After a brief interlude, there was another narrative stretched over a few episodes, with everything basically repeating itself; only the word MIRACLE was replaced by the word PROPHECY. Suddenly prophecies were everywhere, and everything was again getting more and more convoluted, so I was waiting to see what "brilliant" outcome they would come up with this time. They did not disappoint me, and I had a great time with the absurdity. Plus, by consistently watching all these episodes, I have also confirmed that another thing that scares me about this anime series is that most of the characters strike me as somehow strangely unlikable. Still, I was eagerly awaiting the last episode, and there was a part that felt like it was lifted from a sub-par horror movie. Once again, everything got messed up and convoluted, and the conclusion was actually quite weak this time compared to the previous ones. I was disappointed that after two absolutely brilliant nonsense movies, they came up with something this plain stupid, or rather not so shocking. So the last episode came along, and I was not expecting anything great because they probably would not wish to cram a new big case into one episode. Well, the conclusion was typically emotional and philosophizing on the subject of those real miracles. However, it did not do anything special for me and did not improve my impression of it much. So I guess the only thing this anime series gave me that I enjoyed was the anticipation of whatever bullshit they were going to explain everything with this time. As a positive thing (especially for a show that does not consider itself a comedy), that is a great big bummer. 2.5/10. (23/09/2017)