In early 2020 before the blowout of the pandemic I was browsing through potential series I might be interested. Usually the ad spam of Crunchyroll don't really push to me watch any of the animes, but perhaps that time something catched my eye to investigate In/Spectre. I guess the quick search online made me also believe that this had murder mystery vibes in it, and as a person fond of many investigative shows I felt curious.

As I haven't (and haven't still till this day) touched the manga, I felt the beginning was quite clunky. I didn't really catch what the show was after and the cuts to different characters felt like I was hopped to the series mid season and I was missing some key information. And really the show's first episode didn't really offer me any investments other than I thought Kotoko's figure and style was intriguing. But I couldn't say the same about Kurou. I couldn't help to think that a person who has lived so long as Kurou would act and feel like totally different person than Kurou is potrayed as here. And honestly I do get small bit frustrated when I see powerful person like Kurou lacking ambition. I thought if he was as ambitious as even a normal person this show would perhaps more debt and maybe the world building would benefit from that.

The investigative nature of the series was definitely the strongest aspect of the anime. Getting answers from a serpent about a strange case was something I really liked and I thought this kind of tool could be used more in some of the episodes. And a series about ghosts that talk about murderers and getting them caught from that would have been much more interesting if there would have been multiple smaller murder investigations and you guessed it --- I thought the Steel Lady case went for far too long. And I would have appreciate far more involvement of the police. It would have been far more cooler that the police would have some secret department that are after the monsters with the main character, but they more or less just ignoring or half assing their resources to be just there --- being shocked and doing nothing. And the romance felt quite forced and the progression completely wasn't there. With the main characters just now being a relationship without knowing does it even make sense, and whole kappa incident felt just weird. Like there are so many better ways to show how some relationship doesn't work and I can't believe this one incident made everything different. Like my opinion is always if you have romance in your anime (or anything really) --- there needs to be effort put into it, if you just say they are now in a relationship, show me why and don't skip almost all the progression to that point. Especially when the romantic relationship is a cornerstone topic of the series. Hell, you can even have few clips about the progression, doesn't have to be much.

In general I thought the series premise took a dive close to the finale episode. I didn't really care about the characters, but I thought many of the action and character designs were neat but otherwise not really something I would consdier to rewatch.