Reviews Too Late: Rin

Netflix suggested that I would like the anime series Rin, the subtitle of which is Daughters of Mnemosyne.  Very brave of anyone, let alone Japanese, to put a word like “Mnemosyne” in the title.

Rin is an immortal who is also a private detective, sharing an office with her girlfriend Mimi, who is also immortal.  (No straight women in this series, at least so far.)  In the first episode, while hired to find someone’s missing cat, she encounters a young man who seems to have lost his memories of the day, especially the part that explains why legions of bad guys are trying to kidnap him.

But enough about the plot.  My first thought on seeing the series was, Wow!  Fanservice! Because if seeing lovingly drawn nude and seminude female cartoon characters is the sort of thing that turns you on, this may be the series for you.

On the other hand, you’d also have to be the sort of person who is turned on by a long, incredibly bloody, incredibly detailed, incredibly eroticized sadistic lesbian torture scene.

As for me, at the end of the first episode I felt . . . sated.  I felt I would not be needing to watch another bloody sadistic lesbian torture scene for, I don’t know, years probably.

So all I can say is that if you’re a fan who wants to be serviced in this fashion, this is the service you’re looking for.  Though, in fact, you may need more help than mere fanservice can provide.