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Never Go Away
愛よ消えないで もう u umI need you ずっと捜してた『CITY HUNTER～愛よ消えないで』 （小比類巻かほる）Oh Love, pease don't goI need you / I've searching for you"City Hunter ~Oh Love, Don't Go Away" (Kohiruimaki Kahoru)Another non-Japanese...
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No Time To Die
"It belongs in a museum!""Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"Oh man, it's been more than six months ago since I last did a review on a TV drama! I used to do these more often... Anyway, two Japanese...
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The Truth Can Never Truly Die
"The dead shall speak. Let's put together the truth of what happened here." "Trauma Team"Trauma Center: Under The Knife (2005) was one of those quirky Nintendo DS games that really showed off the use...
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Goodbye Despair
「才能がなくても、希望がある」『ダンガンロンパ3 -The End of 希望ヶ峰学園-』"Even if I don't have any talents, I still have hope.""Danganronpa 3 - The End of Hope's Peak Academy"I read a lot of mystery series (in any medium), but...
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Rhythm and Police
「レールの上を走れる電車は走らない電車よりもいい電車」『クビキリサイクル』"A train running on rails is better than a train not running at all""Kubikiri Cycle"It's been like two or three months since I last wrote a review for the blog, but...
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Over The Truth
It's time for my annual finally-it's-not-a-review post! I really should try doing more of these feature posts...Longtime readers of this blog will have noticed that I am a big fan of puzzle plot...
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Cyber Sleuth
すべてハイになっちゃて 爆発 バトって（イェイ！イェイ！イェイ！イェイ！）「大！逆！転！」（仮面女子）Everything becomes high and explodes in a boom (Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!) "Great! Turnabout!" (Kamen Joshi) Riajuu is a word in Japanese internet slang...
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Unnatural Death
Ride on shooting star 心の声で散弾銃のように唄い続けた 「Ride on Shooting Star」（The Pillows）Ride on shooting starWith the voice of my heart / like a shotgunI kept on singing"Ride on Shooting Star" (The Pillows)Okay, my...
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Negative Reaction
混ぜるな。危険。Danger. Do not mix. As always, I only started watching the 2015-2016 season of Aibou after the 2016-2017 season started. I really always forget about this series until a new season starts......
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Zapping Operation
"Vous avez raison. Ce qui a été sera toujours. Arsène Lupin n’est et ne peut être qu’Arsène Lupin.""Sherlock Holmes arrive trop tard"“You are right. Nothing can be changed. Arsene Lupin is now and...
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Color of Memory
あなたの世界はあなたの色になるよ「 世界はあなたの色になる」（B'z）Your world will be painted in your own colors"The world will be pained in your colors" (B'z)Man, I had to wait long for this release! Usually, a Detective Conan film...
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Il nome della rosa
過去の僕は今いるボクへ何を残し歩いて来たの？自分に問いかけて考えてみれば見えてくる 「Advance」 （TOKIO）From my past self to my current self:What did you leave behind as you walked to the present?Ask yourselfAnd the answers will come to...
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Plot It Yourself
「現場百遍」Going over the crime scene hundred times. (Japanese saying) I talk more often about my reading backlog, but I'm even worse with games. I think I bought my copy of this game back in 2010...
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Golden Cocktail
危険。混ぜるな。Do not mix. Hazardous. Seems like it's been a while since I did a review on a 'proper' Japanese detective novel, instead of a Japanese translation of a Western novel or reviews on (Japanese)...
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Deep Blue Island
「備中笠岡から南へ七里、瀬戸内海のほぼなかほど、そこはちょうど岡山県と広島県と香川県の、三つの県の境にあたっているが、そこに周囲二里ばかりの小島があり、その名を獄門島とよぶ」 『獄門島』 "Seven ri south of Bicchuu Kasaoka, around the middle of the Seto Inland Sea, about where the three...
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Turnabout Time Traveler
「検事として犯罪と戦っていくのか、弁護士として人を助けていくのか」 『逆転検事２』"Will you punish crime as a prosecutor, or save people as a defense attorney?""Turnabout Prosecutor 2"Once more, with feeling!In 2011, I wrote a review of the...
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Try and Catch Me
"You see Henry, the pen, the pen is mightier than the sword" "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"Hmm. I have seen and read many works of mystery fiction that end with a variation on the Reichenbach...
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It's Show Time!
"The show must go on" (Adage)Yep, another review of a mystery story performed on the stage!Defense attorney Naruhodou Ryuuichi and his assistant Mayoi managed to get tickets for a stage play of Mayoi’s...
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Thou Art the Man
It is probably no exaggeration if I claim that perhaps the most revered character in mystery fiction is the detective. Indeed, the genre is often also called detective fiction, and as the genre...
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Overture
運命のルーレット廻してアレコレ深く考えるのはmysteryほら運命の人はそこにいるずっと君を見ていた『運命のルーレット廻して』（Zard）Turn the roulette of destinyThinking deeply about this or that is a mysteryLook, your person of destiny is over thereAlways looking...
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