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How are Ron and Toto not living together already? Or maybe they are, we just don’t know it yet, because the show’s focus is almost always on the murder cases they are solving. For instance, Episode 21 of Ron Kamonohashi’s Forbidden Deductions starts with a scene of Ron playing with a toy (yes, seriously), while Toto just walks into his place in what’s definitely casual home clothes, with no real agenda.
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“When you said you’d go crazy from boredom without a case, did you really mean it?!”
Toto freaks out and asks Ron if he is losing his sanity after catching our genius detective sitting on the floor and playing with a toy like a toddler. But nope, Ron Kamonohashi is only trying to piece together some missing memories of his childhood. Meanwhile, yes, he is dying to get his hands on another murder case!
Titled “The Case of the Psychological Research Lab Murder”, Episode 21 of Ron Kamonohashi’s Forbidden Deductions takes Ron and Toto to the Maruyama Laboratory in Tokyo University. The two basically tag along with crime reporter Chikori Monki, hoping she might lead them to an interesting new case. And, of course, as with every moment in the anime series, they stumble upon a rather shocking new murder to unravel. In a slight departure from most of their earlier cases, this time around the characters feel a little more personally connected to the victim, leaving Toto slightly shaken by the crime.
The first half of this episode is fun and comedic in tone, with most of the humor stemming from Chikori’s fangirl-level admiration for Toto’s “deduction skills.” However, things take a tense turn in the last few minutes when a premeditated explosion brutally kills someone, and multiple suspects emerge. Unlike the “Hummingbird – Talent Kidnapper” case, where the suspect was fairly obvious, this time there’s plenty of suspense over who the killer in the lab murder could be. We’ll have to wait until the next episode to find out!
Stream the series (Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri) on Netflix or CrunchyRoll.
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