This case hurts hard because unlike the beach case and the Hummingbird case, Ron and Toto spend more time with Himeno and they even see her befriending Chikori. It was devastating to lose such a nice girl like Himeno and it must hurt a lot more for Chikori to lose someone she just befriended. It was super sweet of Amamiya to hand over the investigations to Toto despite him being emotional over the incident. She definitely had similar cases in the past where she was as emotional as Toto, which is probably why she handed it over in the form of making a fake phone call. Above all else, she is trusting him.

Everyone in the research facility is suspicious. This is a case where anyone can be the culprit and it’d make sense, but I feel like the Professor Aoe is the most suspicious. Why I choose him is because the other three are way too obvious choices. It could be that Aoe preplanned this and that he wanted to gain an alibi for not being in the room at the time. Also, he had the threatening letter in his office. That’s clearly suspicious. If the stamp was from yesterday and that he kept it since then, he definitely preplanned it all.

Also, what is with this anime and it’s top tier casting for one-off characters? First, we have Himeno voiced by Reina Ueda. Ueda is pretty much in every anime right now. You might recognize her as Mayu/Cure Lillian from Wonderful Precure, Miyo from My Happy Marriage and Chinatsu from Blue Box. Second, we have Professor Aoe voiced by Nobuo Tobita. You might recognize his voice from Naruto where he voiced Zetsu and in My Love Story With Yamada as Takezo. For the other three researchers, they got pretty good voice actors too. First off is Oigawa, the black haired guy. He’s voiced by Wataru Komada. I’m not too familiar with him, but he did voice Pablo in Blue Lock and can speak English well. Second is the blond guy Imai, who ’s voiced by Gakuto Kajiwara. You might recognize him as Allen from Paradox Live and Amaaki from A Terrified Teacher At Ghoul School. Finally, Niki is voiced by Ari Ozawa, which is a name I haven’t heard in a while, She’s the voice actress of Chiyo from Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun. I haven’t seen her in shows in a long while.

The beginning parts were hilarious with Ron being bored to death and playing dinosaurs and Chikori’s animosity towards Ron ending when he tells her he’s studying to become a detective like Toto because of his admiration. Speaking of which, Chikori stood out a lot as she found a friend in Himeno due to their similarities. They could’ve been soulmates yet Amano cruelly takes her away from a potential girlfriend.

Who do you think is the culprit? What do you think about this episode and case? Let me know your thoughts!

Professor Aoe being Himeno’s killer was obvious, yet his motives for killing her was messed up. Himeno was unfortunately the victim because she was the one chosen to go into the room that night. It could’ve been anyone as Aoe planned threatening letters for all four of them and chose the one that contained that specific victim. It means that Himeno just happened to get unlucky. The fact that the composed Aoe is actually depraved and sociopathic mama’s boy who fabricates his research to get to where he is now is quite the twist, especially when he wanted to suicide bomb. It was cool seeing Ron actually getting angry without his culprit condemning powers and that his actions of stopping the professor were all by his own will. The professor definitely deserved it; Chikori should’ve slapped him.

It’s interesting how Himeno and Chikori are so alike yet also foils of each other in that Himeno’s admiration of Aoe got her killed while Chikori’s admiration of Toto makes her strong. This was also good development for Chikori in the sense that meeting someone that could’ve been her soulmate resolves her to work even harder at her job. I can’t help but to want to root for her.

The side effects of Ron’s medicine causes him to pass out, but when he wakes up, the story slowly shifts to focusing on a strange, seventeen-year-old letter that was in Ron’s mailbox. It’s an invitation to an auberge, which is where our dynamic duo goes; it also contains an emerald. Though, I do wonder why Toto is tagging along despite the invitation being for Ron only. The other attendees feature an international cast of Americans, Italians and English. This means that Toto and the chef are the only two Japanese people with Ron most likely only being partially Japanese.

A new setting definitely means a new murder case will happen and this definitely reminds me of the observatory case where having a lot of people means that there’s going to be multiple murders and someone relating to the M Family. I wonder who’s going to be the first to die? I wonder who’s going to be the culprit? I got my eye on the Tiger Dan guy because his name is related to an animal and we all know those named after animals are very important to the story.

The voice acting cast is still crazy as heck. First, I want to talk about Nobuo Tobita’s performance as Aoe with the way he finally shows his true psychotic nature and how he started yelling for his mother during his arrest. That was some good voice acting. Now for the cast of the Auberge arc. It’s pretty crazy. You have Takehito Koyasu as Tiger Dan, meaning you know he’s going to be important. Not only that, we have rising star Ikumi Hasegawa as Mia Costa; you might recognize her voice from Frieren where she voiced Ubel or Wind Breaker where she voiced Kotoha. The chef Sakai is voiced by Shogo Sakata, another rising star; he’s in Blue Box as Nishida and Wind Breaker as Anzai. I’ll get to more details of the other characters’ voice actors in future episodes.

Though, I have to say, the auberge is beautiful! The house and the garden really amps up both the beauty and the mystery of it. Too bad there’s definitely going to be damage as is all murder cases. What are your thoughts on this episode?

TW’s na bio: gravidez indesejada, abandono, aborto espontâneo.

Biografia:

A vida é muito mais fácil quando se nasce numa família grande e muito rica: nem o mais velho e nem o mais novo, a pressão até existia mas não era igual aos outros dois. Tinha tempo de sobra para torrar dinheiro e fazer algumas besteiras à medida em que crescia. E, apesar de ter consciência de que tudo poderia mudar com um estalar de dedos dos pais, levou uma vida fácil até o começo da universidade.

Ainda que não fosse exatamente o curso dos seus sonhos, Ryu sempre foi o melhor dos três quando o assunto era administração e esse foi um dos principais motivos que o levou a de fato escolher aquilo na Universidade de Tokyo alguns anos depois. A vida fácil e folgada que tinha durante o ensino médio se seguiu durante o primeiro ano inteiro, mas tudo pareceu “ruir” quando a namorada que tinha na época apareceu grávida. Antes que pudesse tomar qualquer ação à respeito - e que muito provavelmente não seria lá uma que realmente apoiasse a garota -, seus pais descobriram e seu pai foi bem ágil em dar um jeito em toda aquela bagunça.

Como uma forma de unir todos os pontos defeituosos - e ainda continuar com uma imagem de família exemplar para os acionistas -, Ryu foi enviado pelo pai para a Coreia num programa de intercâmbio para que terminasse o restante da graduação por lá. A universidade escolhida foi a renomada Yonsei e, mesmo que aquele fosse o último país em que escolheria estudar ou morar, não fez nada para contrariar a decisão: não estava pronto para ser pai naquela idade e nem queria sê-lo no futuro.

Assim, entrou na Yonsei como aluno intercambista um pouco antes da metade do curso de Administração e, ainda que nunca fosse admitir tão fácil, até gostava da metodologia embora a mistura de pessoas não fosse total de seu agrado. Estudar num país diferente do seu fez com que acabasse se distanciando da própria família por quase um ano inteiro e, quando viajou para casa no natal seguinte, a distância só pareceu aumentar. Descobriu que a tal ex-namorada havia tido um aborto espontâneo e, como um bônus da situação, seu pai e seus irmãos sabiam e não haviam lhe contado. Ameaçado pelos amigos dela para não procurá-la, voltou para Seul com a mente bem mais amadurecida no final do ano.

O ano seguinte, no entanto, começou de forma bem mais positiva: Minji, a garota por quem esteve apaixonado desde que havia começado o intercâmbio, tinha aceitado seu pedido de namoro no primeiro dia do ano. Era incrível como eram diferentes e, apesar das brigas frequentes por conta disso, foi por esse mesmo motivo que Ryu se viu amadurecendo o suficiente para passar a pensar num futuro. Devido a isso, começou a colocar em prática o dom natural que tinha para investimentos, ao mesmo passo em que retomou o contato com o pai, embora sempre desconfiado.