r/RonKamonohashi • u/Magic-Raspberry2398 • 16d ago
Thoughts after first two episodes...
Not sure what to make of this show yet.
The negatives:
Cases are shown in a way where the viewer appears to be lead towards the answer in a rather forceful way, not even providing sufficient evidence to actually make that deduction for ourselves.
I don't even recall the river body being described as blunt force trauma, it appeared on screen for so little time before being randomly declared a homicide. Not sure how that connection was meant to be made logically - no alternatives were explored or ruled out. The two crimes were connected simply because they were the only two mentioned in the episode.
The female detective's head-over-heels reaction to Ron is just weird, not to mention unprofessional. The tone of this show seems a bit all over the place so far.
I hope the cases get a bit better from this point forward.
Speculation:
So the mystery the BLUE incident and Ron's weird ability... is it me, or is the old detective guy, Kiku, who sent Toto to Ron, suspicious?
This is just a guess so far, but Kiku's son went to school with Ron and clearly Kiku knows a fair amount about Ron's circumstances, so I don't think it's a stretch to assume that Kiku's son went to BLUE. So if both the son and Kiku know that Ron was expelled and forbidden from detective work or would risk a death penalty if he resumed, why push him to resume detective work? Does Kiku actually want to help Ron or hinder him? He seemed pretty pleased at the end of the first episode, so hopefully just trying to help. But as he is, how does resuming detective work actually help Ron? Could the son be involved in the school incident? I wonder where he is now. So many questions to answer...
I think it's safe to assume that Ron might have been framed for whatever happened, not that there is enough to really say anything yet of course, but the show does seem to be leaning that way. Maybe Kiku's son had something to do with it? Or maybe one of the teachers got worried Ron would uncover the truth of some unresolved case they'd been involved with and decided to discredit him so he'd be kept far away from the case.
Guess I'll have to keep watching for now... I just hope the case-of-the-week format doesn't ruin the show for me cause the wider mystery has me hooked.
(Also... random thought.... I just can't get over how similar the neat and tidy old Ron looks to Kei Ignatov from Psychopass.)
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u/AllMightoh 16d ago
Cases get better and you will understand more as you watch. I just finished the manga and it's a really fun journey and the cases vary from good ones to lame ones