7:00 pm, channel 41: Young Kindeichi? Whole thing was in kanji, dammiti!
Seems to be a really good show, great art and animation - couldn't
understand much, though. Contemporary setting. What I saw had a group of
people trapped in some big house, raving dogs outside keeping them from
escaping. Sounds like Resident Evil, huh? But not, although with a nicely
suspensful air. Some kinda subplot with DNA I couldn't make out, either.
Good character design. I'd like to find out what this one is about...
If this is what I think it is, it's an anime version of something that's
been coming out in translated novels from Kodansha, called the Kindaichi
Files. I had an idea it's been animated; I've seen pictures on it in the
last couple issues of Animage and Newtype. I've got some manga of it too.
Hajime Kindaichi is the grandson of a legendary detective named Kosuke
Kindaichi, and he goes around helping his cop friend Inspector Isamu
Kenmochi solve bizarre murders -- and incidentally hoping to get into his
girlfriend Miyuki's pants, though something (like more bodies) always seems
to intervene. The novels are pretty good and we've let our tape connection
know we're in the market for tapes as soon as he gets his hands on some.