Either Kageyama is psychic or he was stalking Hosho at work, to know there were flower petals on both cars.
The reason for murder was kind of stretched, I guess the adoption didn't go through regular channels, but I imagine that is really more of a problem of adoptive parents, not Leo himself. And Hollywood forgives worse things than being a blonde Japanese.
Nazotoki wa Dinner no Ato de - episode 9
AOTS
Are we finally getting a bit more of Hosho's private life?
I suspected ever since we first saw the cars in the previous episode that the cherry blossom petals were going to be important. Also if this guy was born in the US wouldn't he have birthright citizenship?
Loli Hosho arc? Peak.
I'm still waiting for there to be a shot of her letting her ponytail out on-screen... because her hair volume in her two guises do not match at all...!
Obviously Kageyama quickly puffs it up with help of blow-dryer and really good styling mousse.
Something I've realised is that in that huge mansion we never ever see anyone but Hosho and her butler. Still, she is bound to have some family, otherwise who would be taking care of the business while she is playing a cop? And who hired Kageyama?
Cute loli Hosho.
I'm holding out on the schizo plot twist that they're all the same person, the OP even foreshadows it
The only thing that would support that is Kageyama's first appearance, where Hosho heard his voice, but didn't actually see him until later. After that, all three have been shown doing different stuff at different places at same time, and Kazamatsuri is definitely acknowledged by other people as a separate person.
shakespearean magical girls
No.
Without even spitballing ideas after dinner like she usually does, she bluntly asked the butler to solve the case for her and he did, and he was right again kek. I would do the same
To be honest, that shitbag journalist deserved it.
Can't imagine there would even be that much material to turn into a positive magical girl show. Hamlet is probably the easiest cause of his revenge plot. Juliet would probably spend half the fight howling from balcony and then pretending to be dead.
But that pulls her away from her dream of being the hero, she is just a fumbling cop whose only purpose is to snap the handcuffs after someone else did the hard work. It's not that much different from being the usual rich heiress, paying other people to work for her.
The finale will probably be her finally learning to escape this fate and solve the case on her own.
that would be kino but would fuck up the tone of the series unless they spent the last 4 episodes building up to it
she is just a fumbling cop whose only purpose is to snap the handcuffs after someone else did the hard work
That's an overexaggeration. It's not like she and Kazamatsuri aren't doing the hard work of tracking down the facts of the case, getting people's alibis, visiting the crime scenes, spitballing potential theories, etc. All Kageyama really does is point out details that they overlooked or missed in the field. It's like saying a writer doesn't work hard because they have an editor looking over their work.
petals on a car is proof
Must have been the wind. What now?
Why are there petals on the other car?
If you want to use the writer/editor comparison, then it would be like a writer that has various scenes, but can't for the life of him combine them into a consistent plot. If he lets the editor do that part for him, then the editor is really like a ghost writer, which is a rather shameful practice.
But imagine Kageyama was removed from the picture, the detectives would be running in circles, not knowing how to fit evidence into a good theory. They eventually would have to learn, in fact Kazamatsuri is shown to be less sure of himself than at the beginning, but Hosho is getting too reliant on Kageyama acting as safety net.
It's parked under a tree.
When you think about it, the murderer trying to hide her taking the car in the night would have been tougher to discover if her husband had just served her breakfast in bed and told her he was out that morning to get it.
this fuckin guy
THINK QUICK
Damn.
That was a surprisingly good case
good case
The mom is going to jail even though that shitbag 100% deserved it.
But she didn't hit him in moment of insanity, it was a carefully planned murder. And police can't have calculated killers running around, especially not in an upbeat tv show. God knows how many more would she kill to protect her son.
I think Reiko is extremely observant and has a great memory. She just sucks at deductions.
Reiko is functionally retarded and it is very confusing how she is STILL single despite living in a 100 room mansion.
She's single cause she is focused on her career in police, can't find a husband if you are not even looking for one. In fact, Kazamatsuri would have love to change her single status, but she refuses his advances in a heartbeat.
So is she a virgin?
Maybe. She doesn't really give impression of someone good at seducing men for a short fling, and her superiors would hardly get on their couch heiress of powerful Hosho Group.
Weird how this niche series got OP this good.
it is my understanding the live action was popular in the past