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(Two episodes watched): Early on, I had a good feeling about this show. Ron really is a genuinely wacky and intriguing person, and you can understand Isshiki's need to accomplish something, even if he is basically the straight man. But once Ron's introduction was complete and he agrees to help solve this case, things pretty much stopped being nearly as colorful. He's a little too good at making spot-on deductions which most people, and even most detectives, would miss. These are things which might be correct, and one should hedge their bets, but Ron always gets them right, apparently. I wonder if 'oxygen defficient air' would really have the effect Ron claims in an open sink (I didn't see any dry ice). And there's no way the trick he pulled with a pair of bungee cords would really have worked. It turns out that Ron also has some sort of supernatural ability to hypnotize people when a certain pattern appears in his eyes. He claims that afterwards he has no conscious memory of telling them to do the things which he does, which was kind of intriguing. Delving into this might actually be more fun than all these preposterous but supposedly quite possible detective skills that he has. So, this show started off well but I was not so sure about it in the end. I fear what we'll get is not going into greater depth about his strange personality but rather more iffy cases getting solved. Episode two pretty much reinforced my impressions from episode one. Ron is a colorful character but the cases aren't all that interesting. The solution to the one about a piggy bank wasn't very startling. And how did Ron sense that the bank had been used as a weapon in another case? Did he just wander off and stumble upon the nearby murder scene, and draw a connection? That's good luck, not detective skill. And wasn't the crime itself arguably a justifiable act of self-defense? Ron's second personality didn't think so. And it was hard to buy the notion that the elite detective school he once attended, 'Blue', has some sort of holy code of conduct which an alumni can be executed for violating. This show has some neat traits but they are largely cancelled out by the haphazard nature of the writing. Last updated Tuesday, November 21 2023. Created Tuesday, October 24 2023. | ||||||||
