Daimon Kaito is a high school boy, who loves puzzles. One day, the president of the student council gives him a mobile device and it leads him to an underground ruin buried in the school. He challenges an "insolvable puzzle" hidden in the ruin with his girlfriend Nonoha, but the puzzle turns out to be the dangerous "The Puzzle of Sage" created by the black society "POG". He manages to solve the puzzle but it's the beginning of a puzzle battle against POG. (Source: MAL)Spoiler warning: Following post contains spoilers for the first two episodes of Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle. Read with caution!
It doesn't have wizards or moe squid girls or King Arthur reincarnated or anything like what the other shows this series has, but Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle does have one thing the others don't have: puzzles, of course. Brain ticklers, cryptic cryptograms, mind bogglers, puzzling parables - you name it, Phi Brain is solving it. From crosswords to Sudoku, riddles to logic grids, not to mention mazes upon mazes, this show manages to be about the pursuits of the nerdy intellectual without becoming so burdened by the intimate details of them that the less-nerdy can't follow what is going on. The fact that it does all of this without becoming boring or just plain stupid and still be watchable should be sign enough that Phi Brain is a show to watch - at least for a couple weeks more.
It doesn't have wizards or moe squid girls or King Arthur reincarnated or anything like what the other shows this series has, but Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle does have one thing the others don't have: puzzles, of course. Brain ticklers, cryptic cryptograms, mind bogglers, puzzling parables - you name it, Phi Brain is solving it. From crosswords to Sudoku, riddles to logic grids, not to mention mazes upon mazes, this show manages to be about the pursuits of the nerdy intellectual without becoming so burdened by the intimate details of them that the less-nerdy can't follow what is going on. The fact that it does all of this without becoming boring or just plain stupid and still be watchable should be sign enough that Phi Brain is a show to watch - at least for a couple weeks more.
