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Where there’s a body, there’s Ron Kamonohashi, lying next to it as if whispering secrets into the corpse’s ear and receiving back clues the others fail to notice. We mean, listen—if there’s a scene in Ron Kamonohashi’s Forbidden Deductions with a body in it, and Ron isn’t allowed to lie down next to it, that’s blasphemous!
Episode 16 ended with a bonus scene showing Ron deep in thought, thinking back to Winter Moriarty’s last words before someone shot the villain. So, episode 17 of Ron Kamonohashi’s Forbidden Deductions opens with Ron revealing to Toto that he is on a lot of medication to help suppress his uncontrollable supernatural ability to order murderers to kill themselves. It’s already been established that Moriarty did something to blunt Ron’s abilities, and he is intent on finding the crime family and putting an end to all their nefarious activities.
Titled “The Case of the Midsummer Beach Hut Drowning Pt. 1,” episode 17 of the series also brings back the clumsy neurosurgeon Mofu Usaki, the purple-haired doctor who was first seen in episode 6 of season one, where she is challenged by a psychic who claims he can read minds. So, we see Mofu, Ron, and Toto go to the beach after Toto insists that Ron needs a break from all the brutal murders they’ve been surrounded by.
“You should take a break; that’s why I am here,” Toto says when he visits Ron at his flat.
“What? Are you here with a relaxing murder case?!”
Ron’s eyes hilariously light up with excitement, although Toto screams back at him, telling him there’s no such thing as a ‘relaxing murder case.’ Lol.
The animation in this episode stood out particularly because the production team has put in more effort than usual into designing the supporting characters and some of the background elements. For instance, when the episode started, it looked like a completely different anime for a few seconds, featuring a darker-than-usual palette and a man struggling for his life.
Of course, like always, Ron and Toto’s outing to the beach brings them a new murder case, and this is a fun beach-themed mystery, where a young man dies during a trip with his friends. While everybody thinks it’s an accident, our genius detective immediately sees otherwise. The truth is held back for part two of this new case!
You can stream the series (Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri) on Netflix or CrunchyRoll
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