CSI: Anime-Style

I have to admit that my favorite Animax show these days is Detective School Q, the series about a group of exceptional students in the famous Dan Detective School in Japan. The group consists of main hero Kyu (who may in another life have been a young Super Chef, Super Angler or Super Sports protege), love interest/fan service provider/photographic memory-enabled Megumi, bishonen effete smartypants Ryu, underaged computer genius Kazuma and martial artist Kinta (who's really around just to protect the rest with his muscle). The cases they tackle often involve murder through mysterious means (often impractically so), and solving it usually takes a couple or more episodes.
The creepy circumstances of the cases, the odd clues and the often flabbergastingly intricate solutions are often over-the-top impractical, but quite interesting to see since they DO have logic to them. The most maddening thing is that the episodes often end at cliffhangers, leaving you hanging bur having to wait till next week to find out the answer to the case. Well, it's not really a question WHO rather than HOW the murders are usually committed. So I guess it's all like a puzzle that viewers are challenged to figure out before the onscreen sleuths do.

I think that detective novels and shows, including some sleuthing game shows, are very popular in Japan, hence this title (and similar titles like Files of Young Kindaichi and Detective Conan. Maybe I should look those other titles over and delve deeper into the anime mystery genre. We'll see what I can dig up. Heh.