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Trick & Magic
「理由」をもっと喋り続けて私が眠れるまで「月光」 （鬼束ちひろ）Tell me about your reasonsUntil I'm able to sleep"Moonlight" (Onitsuka Chihiro)To put this review in context immediately, I absolutely worship the TV drama Trick. It is...
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Try Again
I just wanna say 夢かなえる真実はいつも一つ それは TRY AGAIN"Try Again" (倉木麻衣)I just wanna say You can make your dreams come trueThere's always only one truth Which is Try Again"Try Again" (Kuraki Mai) It's been a...
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Memories of the Past
「しかし毛利さんに負けず劣らずの死神っぷりね…殺人現場に毎回毎回…」 『名探偵コナン』第82巻"But you're as just much a Death God as Mr Mouri, you know... You keep popping up at murder scenes...""Detective Conan"Volume 82Oh wow, I just realized...
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Confused Memories
Confused Memories過去や悲劇さえない箱の中世界をとじこめたいの"Confused Memories" (円谷憂子) Confused MemoriesA boxWithout any past or tragedy insideThat's where I want to put the world Confused Memories (Tsuburaya Yuuko)A new...
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The Butler Did It
"You rang?" "The Addams Family"Oh, wait, there's a Jonathan Creek special coming this month?! Wow, with a new Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo TV series starting early April, the many great TV drama...
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The Cat's Eye
妖しく Cat's Eyemagic play is dancing 月明かり浴びてwe get you… mysterious girl"Cat's Eye" (杏里)Bewitching Cat's Eyemagic play is dancingBask in the moonlightwe get you... mysterious girl"Cat's Eye" (Anri)I had...
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File 3: Music to be Murdered by
And once again a musical post, with the third post in my Music to be Murdered by series, where I talk about music from a variety of detective-related media! It's an irregular corner (I post whenever I...
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Feet of Clay
探せ 追え 謎を解けBD7 BD7 BD7 は 少年探偵団『いくぞ！BD7』 Search! Chase! Solve the mystery!BD7 BD7 BD7 are the Boy Detectives!"Let's Go! BD7About a year ago, I raved about Morikawa Tomoki's Snow White, as an excellent...
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The Red Pavilion
「教えて下さい・・・運命とは定められたものでは・・・」『幻想水滸伝』 "Tell me... Is fate unchangeable?""Suikoden"Shui Hu Zhuan (The Water Margin) is one of the classics of Chinese literature and chronicles the adventures of 108 men and...
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The Fall of the House of Usher
Erst zu begegnen dem Tiere,Brauch ich den Spruch der Viere:Salamander soll glühen,Undene sich winden,Sylphe verschwinden,Kobold sich mühen"Faust. Der Tragödie erster Teil"And it's finally done. With...
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After the Funeral
「お前はもう死んでいる」『北斗の拳』"You're already dead""Fist of the North Star"When I left Kyoto about one year ago, I had a huge stack of unread books I sent back home (they arrived quite a bit later though). Some of...
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E.M.C. 1988.04-1989.04
「英と大学推理小説研究会と僕は、そうやってつながった」「瑠璃荘事件」"And that is how the Eito University Mystery Club and I met"'The Maison Lapis Lazuli Case'I lived near a lot of bookshops when I was in Kyoto, a great number of them...
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再生 -Rebuild-: the Student Alice series
Readers of the blog might have noticed that I often read books from the same series/authors. I often refer, and build upon what I wrote in previous reviews, but I figured that a single post introducing...
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Murder is Served
「謎解きしますよね」「します？」「ディナーのあとですか」「ディナーのあとじゃ、遅いですね」『私の嫌いな探偵』"You're going to solve the mystery, right?""Shall I?""After dinner?""After dinner would a bit late""The Detective I Don't Like"When I step inside a...
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Sins of the Fathers
父なる天九つの龍母なる地 我が友『シェンムー 一章 横須賀編』Father's heavenNine dragonsMother's earthComrades"Shenmue"And let's slip something English in for a change! And a double review, something I haven't done in a long time!...
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Bad City
「浮気調査も金持ちの夫婦しか引け受けないし、 犬も猫も雑種は探しません。探偵業界のブラック・ジャックと呼ばれています」「誰に呼ばれているの？」「基本、私です」『私の嫌いな探偵』 "I only take adultery cases from rich couples and won't look for crossbred cats or dogs. And that's why I am...
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File 4: Music to be Murdered By
Let's post this before I forget it: a new Music to be Murdered by post! A corner where I post music from various detective-related media and crappy art drawn in MS Paint to accompany the tune!Title:...
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Mr Short and Mr Long
森へとri ra ra radoorを叩くまい散る風 悲痛な（かなしい）叫び（こえ）が聞こえぬよう祈りながらフラリ フラリ 駆け抜ける「Marionette Fantasia」 (Garnet Crow) To the forest li la la laKnock on the doorPraying I won't hearThe fluttering wind, its sad voiceI...
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Maze
もう二度と迷わないようにその腕を離さないで『Mysterious Eyes』 （Garnet Crow)Don't let go of my handSo we won't get lost again"Mysterious Eyes" (Garnet Crow)I write about detective fiction in any type of medium, so I have also...
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Another Rebuild post, which serves as an introduction post to some of the longer series I discuss here. Links to all related reviews, short introduction, discussion on general series tropes, it's all...
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