Rin ~Daughters of Mnemosyne~

Synopsis:

Rin Asogi and her friend Mimi run a private investigation agency in Tokyo performing all sorts off odd jobs. Finding lost pets, locating rare stamps, helping clones recover their lost memory, stopping angels from causing mass murder, it's all routine work for Rin as she posses a unique ability... she's immortal and can't die. Well, she can die but her wounds heal rapidly and she's back on her feet in no time as is the same for her partner Mimi. But when Apos, the guardian of the Yggdrasil which is responsible for both Rin's and Mimi's immortality grows bored and decides to satiate his sadistic sense of amusement by throwing the world into chaos by making the secret of immortality known to everyone. Rin decides to stop Apos even if it means losing her immortality and her life.


Reviewer: Endosanity
Number of episodes watched: 6


Review:

FUNTURDmation iz releasing hentaiz!! ZOMGBBQDESU~!!!!111 That's just a little summary of some of the comments I read about this DVD and let me just say this up front, no... no it's not. But first, let's take a look a the story, two immortal women... actually I should say one woman and a teenager running a private investigation firm and right from episode one this was an interesting premise. But, after a little while you start to notice how Rin seems to get her ass kicked on a regular basis regardless of her badass ninja skills. The only purpose this serves is to display some gore and show off Rin's regeneration capabilities but don't be surprised if you find yourself sighing wondering how she accomplishes anything by constantly getting the shit kicked out of her. To add insult to injury though is that the first few episodes aren't very imaginative or thought provoking for that matter and present little to no mystery giving you a long drawn-out episode where the case could have been solved in half the time with some intelligent story-telling.

After little while you start to see a pattern. Rin takes on a case, gets killed, comes back to life, has sex with her lesbian informants, goes and kicks ass and nearly dies in the process, then... case closed. But, sometimes Mimi has to use her own loli body to get info from the lesbians that seem to know everything about anything for the price of a round of carpet munching. Now don't go all getting excited as it's all done with scenes of soft-core sex, in other words, you don't really see anything amongst all the extreme close-ups but you sure get a lot of moaning going on. It's not until about half way though this mini-series that you start finding out about the source of Rin and Mimi's immortality and what's really happening unseen by the human eye but it turns out to be less than spectacular. When you think about it, this series feels like it threw in a bunch of sex scenes to try an make up for the recycled antagonist that's been used so many times before. An omnipotent being that became bored... feh.

In the end I will give this this anime credit for one thing, the time-line used for it's presentation. Even though Rin and Mimi remain the same age, the world around them keep progressing and changing with each episode. Technology advances, people age, buildings decay, but Rin and Mimi are still the same. Now this... this was very imaginative but unfortunately it's not enough to save the series from becoming an uninteresting mix of divinity and sex. Rin ~Daughters of Mnemosyne~ should have just either focused on action and mystery or just went for all out hentai because as it is you almost feel frustrated that this anime can't really focus on one thing very well making for one very lame conclusion which isn't really worth your time since you won't be getting the action you crave or the sex you desire. Go find something else to watch, you're not missing much here.

And now for Grandpa Endo's bonus material! Yes, I just had to bring this out in the initial review. Even though Rin ~Daughters of Mnemosyne~ is an adult oriented anime I just thought you want to know that the FAILimation DVDs are... (drumroll please)... CENSORED!!! Isn't that awesome? How so you ask? Well, any scene that contains massive gore is shrouded in shadow and you can't see a damn thing and snatch shots, especially of Mimi, have the mysterious ray of sunlight blocking it! FUCK YEAH!! Just think about that if you're wondering if it's totally uncensored. Makes me glad I can put the DVD back in an envelope and return it once I'm done watching it.

Rin ~Daughters of Mnemosyne~ (opening)

Recommendation: |Low|

Media type: DVD
From: FAILimation
Languages: English;Japanese
Subtitles: English