The ultimate ruthless boss, Yuichi Kaneda
金田一少年、不死身説。#犯人たちの事件簿 pic.twitter.com/47FHDakzRX
— 船津紳平@犯人たちの事件簿10巻発売中 (@fnt_shinpei) 2019年5月21日
The main character, Kazuichi Kaneda, is the last boss of the story, but he is impossible to defeat in this story.
All the characters in “The Case Files of Boy Meets Girl” are the criminals who were solved by Kaneda in the story.
With that premise, they are extremely vicious because it is certain that no one can defeat them.
As for the boy Kindaichi, even if you don’t know about him, even if you don’t know about The Case Files of Kindaichi, you can expect him to be a good guesser since he is the protagonist of the mystery.
However, his true greatness is not only in his powers of deduction.
First of all, Kindaichi is immortal.
He doesn’t die even if he is thrown into a bottomless swamp or left on a snowy mountain.
I don’t even know how he can die.
In “The Legend of Sesshomaru’s Murder”, there is a huge bridge made of ice that the murderer took a lot of effort to build.
This bridge is built by the killer to demonstrate his trick, and he crosses it without hesitation.
I don’t think he built it by himself, but it’s still pretty amazing.
In truth, he is a genius with a 180 IQ, but he is usually an inferior student with poor motor skills and an aversion to learning.
But the interesting part of this gaiden is that to the criminals, the character is made to look like a monster who is not only a guesser, but also a canned luck and physical person.
[The policy is to play with popular characters as well]
「金田一少年の事件簿外伝 犯人たちの事件簿」LINEスタンプが発売になりました！やることが多い時などにご活用ください！！https://t.co/UE3OWufuWL pic.twitter.com/cynZt42iTW
— 船津紳平@犯人たちの事件簿10巻発売中 (@fnt_shinpei) 2018年6月15日
Kindaichi Shonen no Jikenbo Gaiden: Yakuza-tachi no Jikenbo” plays with popular characters equally.
In this story, there are popular characters such as the so-called “handsome” police inspector Akechi and the main character’s nemesis, the puppet master of hell, who are good-looking and popular, but we play with them as much as we can.
First up is Akechi, a handsome and talented police inspector.
His first appearance in the book was as a villainous character who suspects an innocent person and falls for a misleading criminal.
It’s true that it was hard to take too kindly to his words and actions.
But in this movie, the image of her dancing with her palm when she falls for a mislead is really drawn, and the way she dances around with her hair fluttering is quite surreal.
Incidentally, this image is also a line stamp.
The handsome man is a disaster.
Next, I’d like to talk about Haruka Takato, the puppet master of hell, but according to the author of “The Case Files of Kindaichi: The Case Files of the Kindaichi Boys”, he wasn’t originally planning to draw the sorcerer train murders in which he appears.
It’s true that Koen is a character who should be a nemesis and a powerful enemy, but he is not allowed to be shown to struggle.
However, treating Koen alone as a special case would distract from the concept of the manga, which is to depict the struggles of the murderers.
As a result, the manga overcame this difficulty in drawing Takato’s actions by interpreting them as “the crimes went so well that he was unfulfilled and the tension was low, but after Kaneda appears, he feels the thrill of almost solving the mystery and starts to enjoy the crimes.
The thrill of the crime is depicted in innovative drawings, such as pole vaulting, dancing at a disco, and beating a Japanese taiko drum in the nude, as a metaphor for the thrill of the crime.
No one would have expected that Kaneda’s nemesis, the man who had just before performed the outrageous trick of carrying his head around with him, would be depicted in this way.
Takato was also caught once after this, but escaped from prison to work as a crime coordinator.
He is treated as a suspicious middle child by one of the people who gave him the trick.
It is true that some readers may have thought so based on his words and actions.
But I never thought I’d see the day when that would be said from an official.
【原作ファンが楽しめる小ネタ満載】
左がfileのカバー下、右がcaseのカバー下…本家が変わるから、こちらも変えるぜ！ということです。……わざわざ写真まで撮って何を説明してるんだ俺は… pic.twitter.com/BpfijlPd52
— 船津紳平@犯人たちの事件簿10巻発売中 (@fnt_shinpei) 2019年4月20日
Looking at it alone, “The Case Files of Kindaichi Shonen no Jikenbo Gaiden: Yakusha-tachi no Jikenbo” may seem like a pretty self-indulgent work, but I haven’t forgotten to respect the original work.
The cover of the book is based on the picture of the book at the time of publication.
Nowadays, only the paperback version is available, and it is not the same design.
Some of the volumes are based on drawings from more than 20 years ago, which will be very nostalgic for those who knew at the time.
On the contrary, even the extra pages of the book and the back of the cover are reproduced.
It’s a small detail, but I think this attitude of love for the original work is what makes this work so interesting.
Summary
That’s the charm of “The Case Files of the Kindaichi Boys”.
Of course, if you read it, you’ll see that there are many more interesting parts to the story. This spin-off is well-received by both those who know the original work and those who don’t, so please give it a try.
