#kindaichi 37 year old case files spoiler

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KIND OF A SPOILER BECAUSE I saw the raws!

What do you think of Miyuki's recent appearance in Kindaichi 37 year old case files?

I saw this ask so I had to get the raw lol.

Spoiler below... Well not really a spoiler but just in case.

Miyuki did appear in the newest volume, but aside from talking about wanting to meet Reika and how not solving cases doesn't suit Kindaichi, there was not much info there. I kinda expected her to appear in the middle of a case to help Kindaichi (or get dragged into one instead), but here she just casually appeared lol. There's a new case but she doesn't seem to play a role there so at this point I don't really have anything to say. Fingers crossed she'll have a major role soon.

On a related note, Kindaichi 37 was on hiatus for a while (I think the authors worked on the 30th Anniversary series first before continuing 37). I haven't read the 30th Anniversary series, but Kindaichi is wearing his school uniform in the covers and there's a panel of Takatoo in one of the snippets, which makes me kinda more interested in that at least until something big is happening in 37. I'll probably write something if/when the 30th Anniversary series is released here 👀

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Random thought: saw a theory on pixiv encyclopedia about the one who admired Phantom and created the Opera House was Takatoo's real father.

While so far there's no indication of it (though thematically fitting, I guess? Masks are associated with Takatoo after all), I had a wild guess about Utajima Resort Murder Case (Phantom of the Opera 4th murder) as something used by someone who personally knew Kindaichi (as challenge, for example) so that he would go back to solve cases (wilder guess: Takatoo). Evidence to refute this is that Takatoo wasn't responsible for all murders in that Opera House (if I recall correctly) so he shouldn't have any connection to this case either.

BUT

If the first one who built the Opera House was Takatoo's father, and if during the 20 years gap Takatoo and his father become an important plot point that makes Kindaichi refuse to solve cases, the Phantom of the Opera murder cases can be connected to him. Or maybe he figured out about those three cases and tries to create a fourth one just to spite on Kindaichi. Or maybe it was just coincidence that Kindaichi got involved in the fourth one, but Takatoo takes it as "fated encounter" anyway (that kind of case has actually appeared in the series after all). My point is, even though so far we haven't seen any sign of Takatoo yet, there's still very small possibility that the case was indeed orchestrated by him actually I just want him to be alive and well because after Akechi is confirmed to appear he is the last of my precious genius trio to take part in the new series.

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It's kind of funny to see how in the past Kindaichi usually were the one asking around for info about past cases when something happened but now he's the one withholding Utajima's bloody history from people, the irony.

Anyway I need Kenmochi, Itsuki, Fumi, etc. to appear (even as cameo is fine!) and of course for my murder child Takatoo to take the main stage again (he's like, what, 43 in current timeline?) But seeing how Kindaichi and Akechi literally don't change at all he probably will stay the same.

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Ready for yet another 37 year old crack theory? lmao

I've been theorizing (crack, of course) that Takatoo and/or his real father is involved in the Utajima Resort murder. And that 20 years is such a long gap that something must have happened during that period of time. And that Takatoo would definitely create trouble again for our protagonists.

But how if,

During the time gap,

Takatoo became friends with Kindaichi?

I mean you have to acknowledge that they are similar, and that they can work well together (Russian Doll Murder Case, Rosenkreuz Mansion Murder Case). Takatoo claimed that they are parallel lines, and overlapping lines, in a sense, are also parallel each other. So maybe it's not that far fetched?

But Kindaichi said he'd never forgive Takatoo and swore to arrest him? Ok listen to me.

When I said "friends", I never meant it to be strictly buddy-buddy relationship. They can still be the way they are, the pursuer and the pursued - but after 20 years, they might be not as hostile as they were to each other. My favorite crack headcanon is that Kindaichi at one point successfully caught him and put him behind the bars (because seriously? That guy has escaped three times from prison, what are the police doing?), then turned to him for advice like in Silence of the Lamb. And from there something might happen and made Kindaichi reluctant to solve cases again... another mystery I really want to see the answer of.

Anyway this is just crack theory so don't kill me I just want Takatoo to appear again ok and I love Silence of the Lamb so much this is more or less a self indulgence—

...I'll shut up now.

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In one hand I appreciate how Akechi is still in his refined, beautiful self like we all know and love even in his late 40s but in another hand he really should look more mature for his age...

His hair was already silvery since the beginning tho so I guess there's that