User Reviews

I will tell you when a spoiler will happen.

I first heard about this show from Mr. Enter; and his video piqued my interests in the show, so I watched it's 26 episodes and here I am now.

This show is episodic. Each episode has the main villain Miss Macbeth forming a new scheme to capture, reveal, kill, hypnotize, and/or punish all the children at Pinkerton (the school in question) or just the Invisible Network of Kids (the poorly named group the protagonists make). Many of her plans come very close to succeeding, as in one episode (this is were a spoiler comes into play), she basically kills all but one member of I.N.K. However, she's bested by Vin easily.*

Each episode serves as a way to teach one of the members of I.N.K. a lesson in friendship, teamwork, etc. It comes out in a mixed back of results. Each episode also serves as a catalyst to learn more about a certain character's backstory. These also vary in quality. Continuing onward will evoke spoilers... be warned. One such arc is Trixie's parent-hating arc. This dislike of her parents comes out of nowhere, and is resolved by the ending. Vin's parent arc is in direct contrast. It does feel forced like Trixie's but I thought it worked better. It's basically that Vin is an orphan, and his parents might be secret agents. Although it's cliché and forced I still thought it worked decently. Anyway, I just wanted to highlight those.

The show has a multitude of varying episodes, and each, does take much from other mediums as well as it's own. The last few episodes really brought that thought down upon me. They used many references such as in the final episode the character known as Trixie says, "Elementary my dear Newton." This is in all regards a reference to Sherlock Holmes, and the episode was about a private detective investigating the school, so it works. Now, they don't always just reference, no, sometimes they use cliché's. An example would easily be the theater episode, but firstly I am obliged to say there will be a minimal spoiler ahead. In this the group try to preform Romeo and Juliet; it goes wrong, they wing in, and in the end they're play is a success. This is an overused plot, and I cannot condone it. It does help move the romance, or well, the implied romance along.*

Moving on, in the English dub many of the voice actors are terrible. Macbeth is probably the best of the voice actors whereas Trixie is probably the worst. Many of the actors are decent at speaking in general, but when they're supposed to sound surprised, astonished, or even just yelling they will nine times out of ten fail. However, the translation itself was decent enough to understand.

The animation is flash. It is watchable, but some angles are trash. To illustrate, if there was a table with stuff on it that table would be seen as if from above, but we would actually be looking at it from the side. The show's looks didn't deter me from watching.

My final thoughts are that this show was enjoyable. Macbeth is funny because of her voice actor, and for the strange reason that she has a musical number each episode*. Some characters such as Zero are interesting; overall it's an enjoyable show. I won't go into it with high expectations though. That's just my thought, goodbye.

Notes.

*I didn't want to make the first paragraph abhorrently long, so I'm continuing down here. The episode I mentioned is probably the worst in the series. It's about time travel, and as you can tell, it isn't done properly. I could point out many many flaws and paradoxes throughout the episode. If I were to watch the series again I would skip this one.

*Implied romance it between Vin and Zero.

*Spoiler, which does get explained by her love of music... and her old job as a children's singer.