 Detective Daisuke Kanbei has no problems using his own fortune to solve crimes, even if he assesses human lives based on their financial worth. Compassionate Harukato sees all life as sacred and is sickened by Daisuke's materialistic ways. Can they stop butting heads and overcome their opposing worldviews for the sake of solving the toughest crimes in the precinct? Hey everybody, welcome back to another First Impressions video here at Wikinkik them Gio here and today we're taking a look at the series The Millionaire Detective Balance Unlimited. This is a new anime series produced by Cloverworks and is directed by Tomohiko Ito and it's inspired by a novel of the same name written by Yasutaka Sutsui. So what is the series all about? Well I read a brief description at the beginning of the video and yeah we're following this character Daisuke Kanbei, this playboy detective who is assigned to the Modern Crime Prevention Headquarters. This headquarters has officers that often have or they have caused problems I should say for the Metropolitan Police Department in Japan and in this department we see the Modern Crime Prevention. We see our second protagonist Harukato, a man who is a very honest, grounded, real detective slash comp. He had his runnings with the previous police department where he eventually was let go because you know he's a little bit too moralistic I guess. But I have this clash between a playboy eccentric millionaire who has an unlimited cash fund to do basically whatever the heck he wants. The character only has to reach for his glasses I think and it activates sort of like this satellite network with his butler and is able to produce an obscene amount of money and get whatever the heck he wants. This on a first impressions basis alone if I were to tell you what this series is about I gotta be honest. The first thing that came to mind was okay Daisuke is basically a Bruce Wayne persona. You know the fake persona that he uses to infiltrate and shoo people away and you know mingle with the high society. A playboy version of Bruce Wayne who has unlimited money with his butler coincidence solving crimes eccentric crimes I guess in Japan. Just erase all the Batman stuff all the cape and cowl stuff. That's how I sort of saw the character in my eyes and I like that you know you have a character like that who's so eccentric and odd compared to Haru who's more honest and realistic and toned down. You see it even in the way that they dress you know obviously one doesn't have the money that the other one possesses but still there is this interesting contrast of two different ideologies of going about solving crimes and stuff. When I first started watching the series I had no clue what it was about. Especially when I watched a new anime I do as little research as possible so as not to be influenced or to get a preconceived idea about that show I want to go in cold turkey and experience the thing as it was intended so I didn't know what it was about. I just saw the poster image or the key visual and it looked pretty interesting. So with this new season I said you know what yeah I'll check it out and it turned out to be a pretty fun action packed series that you know it's only the first episode I know but it sort of has this realistic approach even though you have a character that has unlimited money you're still dealing with the real people they're not exaggerating the police work and all that stuff even though he has like these high-tech glasses or equipment to access funding and pay off people and all that stuff it's all somewhat realistic. So when the character of Daisuke Kanbe first shows up I wasn't aware that the series was you know 50% about him and the other 50% about Haru and when I saw him I thought okay this is a terrible character look what he's doing in the streets but then I figured out oh okay yeah you know he's a little bit odd and is using his resources to fix problems in a different way that other characters would go about it. Meanwhile the character of Haru he he's trying to be the best cop that he can be he was kicked off the police department and is now in this crime prevention headquarters and he gets made fun of from his former colleagues but you know that's not gonna stop him and when he sees stuff going down he's going to take action just like the best of them. So I like his character a lot and I'm very interested in like I said at the beginning the clash of ideologies where you have a grounded realistic character with this over the top persona of that is Daisuke I should say. The art is fantastic it is produced by Clover Works like I said at the beginning and I love their style it's stylized but it's realistic in a way you know Clover Works did Promise Neverland so you know they bring their A game and it looks fantastic it looks like a real place yes I know it's a real setting you know it's based off in Japan and I assume it's Tokyo I don't remember what city they were on but it's everything looks real like it could take place in like a live action movie you know a heist movie if you will but this is more of a detective mystery slash comedy series but I like that the anime doesn't go or at least on the first episode I might be wrong later on we'll see but on the first episode even though you have the whole concept with the glasses and the high-tech network for the cash flow and stuff I like that it's all real they're trying on the first episode they are trying to stop this bomber who is targeting a foreign Arab prince so it's based on things that have happened in real life it's not so far-fetched even with the whole techie stuff and Kame talking about his butler and all that stuff I like that it's a nice mishmash of plot devices and tropes when it comes to shows like this and one of the other things that I found really interesting about the series was to see it trending on Twitter for all the quote-unquote wrong reasons or the right reasons I'll let you decide but still that was pretty funny that it's already amassed quite a following just on that alone the characters are pretty interesting like I just said the plot is pretty grounded and believable aside from the unlimited budget thing and yeah I'm excited to see where it goes from here there are two options one it could be a very episodic case of the week series it's only going to be like 11 or 12 episodes so it could go that route and resolve the main plot by the end or it could just keep going with a straightforward plot all the way to its ending so we'll see about that but I am very much on board I like the art style the clash between the two characters one is more honest and doesn't you know he is disgusted by the way Daisuke resolves his things how he works in the field and you know Daisuke he's got all the money so he can probably do whatever the hell he wants and get whatever he wants so yeah that's gonna be interesting overall just a fun action-packed heist inspired episode and a series that has a lot of style in gusto I'm I'm very much on board I liked it a lot have you watched the millionaire detective balance unlimited let me know in the comment section down below and if not what are some of your favorite heist or mystery cop anime manga very interested in that as well guys as always follow me on your favorite social media platform Facebook Twitter Instagram all that fun stuff you can like comment subscribe hit the little bell icon so you know when new videos pop up here on YouTube thank you so much for watching and supporting this channel it truly means a lot to me I am eternally grateful for your continued support I've got to go I've got more stuff to watch read and review so I will catch all of you on our next episode