Mnemosyne wasn’t on my Spring List, but I still thought I’d give it a look. Series description from Anime News Network:
Rin Asōgi may look like an ordinary office lady on the outside but she is actually a private investigator taking on any jobs, from finding a stray cat to infiltrating a high-security corporate lab. What’s more, she appears literally indestructible, supernaturally healing any injuries and mutilations. Together with her partner Mimi, Rin delves into the darkest secrets of the society but the ones she hides herself are by far more sinister…
Mnemosyne is a rather dark series and gruesome. From the beginning montage of bleeding, naked women nailed to a pole, you know the tone of the series. The main character Rin is appropriately no-nonsense, not afraid to use violence or sex to get what she wants, and recalls all the best female spy/assassins of popular culture. The jobs she accepts are dangerous and dark, and she never shirks from them in any way. (In fact it almost seems she prefers the danger when in the first episode she accepts a particular job instead of looking for a stray cat.) There’s some slight brevity in the interactions with her assistant Mimi, but nothing to take away from the overall tone.
All in all, I could do without the torture/gore parts of the series, but all in all it’s a solid, gritty detective series. I’m certainly looking forward to more episodes, and if you’re not squeamish I suggest you give it a look too.
