Nanana's Buried Treasure: "The Nanae Island Third High School Adventure Club"

It is 17 April 2014, and time for the second episode of Nanana's Buried Treasure.

Jugo collects a small box that arrived without explanation via a little parachute into a back alley. Inside he finds a mysterious jewel. Nanana shows him that by holding it up to his eye he can see if people are lying to him or not. The following morning a young detective named Tensai and her assistant Daraku arrive on Jugo's doorstep to accuse him of being a thief. Later Jugo is invited to join the local Adventurer's Club - the same club Nanana led when she was murdered.

Goodness this series is a mess. Two episodes in - out of a total of 11 - I find myself struggling to understand precisely what Nanana's Buried Treasure is supposed to be about. A big problem is the characters. While the audience is still getting to know Jugo and Nanana, the series throws in Tensai and Daraku and then adds a bunch of members from the Adventurer's Club who all come too thick and fast to even remember their names. It's utterly confusing.

Nanana's Buried Treasure: "Disowned and Exiled"

It's 10 April 2014, and time for the first episode of Nanana's Buried Treasure.

High schooler Jugo Yama arrives on the artificial island Nanaejima to continue his studies in one of its dedicated education and research schools. When he is assigned rental accommodation, he is shocked to find his room comes with its own ghost: Nanana, a compulsive videogamer obsessed with eating pudding, whose unsolved murder occurred ten years earlier.

Nanana's Buried Treasure is an 11-episode anime serial based on a light novel series by Kazuma Otorino. It focuses on Nanana, a ghost who - before her death - was instrumental in setting up a group of young explorers who located treasures hidden all over Nanaejima Island. Now that Jugo has moved in with her, there's already anticipation on my part that the subsequent 10 instalments will involve him hunting for treasure and solving Nanana's murder. It is a bright, light-hearted first episode, that would be great fun were it not for one major problem.