Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo R

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Japan's lenient criminal justice system for the win... seriously though, you kill someone and working hard in school counts as making up for it? 

I'm no judicial expert, but don't most countries give reduced sentences + jailtime in juvenile prisons for an offense committed by an underaged person? Even if it was murder, as long as it was proved to be manslaughter and not outright murder, extenuating circumstances are usually taken into account.

Japan's lenient criminal justice system for the win... seriously though, you kill someone and working hard in school counts as making up for it? 

>the killer is actually you x

>hahaha lol time to escape

>door suddenly locked
>surely we will meet again

wat ?

It's pretty vexing how most cases are revenge stories, while some of them are blown out of proportions or a case of misunderstanding, the rest are situations where you can't help but pity not victims but perpetrators. For example student kengo akechi case, i would never report mikuni of what she did, god knows how many girls that dead guy drugged, raped and blackmailed that's the thrash of society. But even those caused by misunderstanding aren't that easy for us readers, in snow goblin case while 2 of the victims(girls) can be claimed to be innocent, the 3rd wasn't really innocent. His texts caused a lot of people to be depressed, lose their jobs and even commit suicide. One may think that it was because they had weak mind but it still didn't excuse him his behaviour
 
I wonder why author can't give more cases with killers we can despise, scorn and hate. Even the ones with involvement of puppeter can't really be 'i hate the killer' because again they are done with revenge (justified at that at least in my eyes), look at ghost school building murders.
 
Sry for ranting...

It's pretty vexing how most cases are revenge stories, while some of them are blown out of proportions or a case of misunderstanding, the rest are situations where you can't help but pity not victims but perpetrators. For example student kengo akechi case, i would never report mikuni of what she did, god knows how many girls that dead guy drugged, raped and blackmailed that's the thrash of society. But even those caused by misunderstanding aren't that easy for us readers, in snow goblin case while 2 of the victims(girls) can be claimed to be innocent, the 3rd wasn't really innocent. His texts caused a lot of people to be depressed, lose their jobs and even commit suicide. One may think that it was because they had weak mind but it still didn't excuse him his behaviour

I wonder why author can't give more cases with killers we can despise, scorn and hate. Even the ones with involvement of puppeter can't really be 'i hate the killer' because again they are done with revenge (justified at that at least in my eyes), look at ghost school building murders.

Sry for ranting...

I need to ask is this series connected in some way to original or any other series? As in it's a continuation and we can consider that kindaichi experienced those previous cases or it's simply stand alone and it's first time that kindaichi ever tried to solve cases or seen dead bodies?

I think the series is connected to earlier series, since there are references to older cases in Kindaichi R. There are also appearances by characters who were introduced in older cases so I think it's safe to say we consider that the series' are linked, albeit not in a very thorough manner.

I need to ask is this series connected in some way to original or any other series? As in it's a continuation and we can consider that kindaichi experienced those previous cases or it's simply stand alone and it's first time that kindaichi ever tried to solve cases or seen dead bodies?

Kindaichi is still my all-time favorite manga.  Thank you, contributors!

Finally landed here. I used to rent-to-read Kindaichi from a little rent store back in my high school time, 15 years ago. Now i found it on-line and it feels like heaven already.

Thank you all contributor here. 

Chapter 24 is missing for me :c thanks for the uploads, Kindaichi was my childhood manga as strange as that may sound

Yes, the English version will be uploaded in some days!

Chapter 24 is missing for me :c thanks for the uploads, Kindaichi was my childhood manga as strange as that may sound

The Drifting Firefox was sad but a good story anyway, probably my favorite of the Returns series after the Snow Goblin. Which one will be translated next?

Next volume is Akechi case files, so we'll be doing that next. I expect it will be up in 3-4 days from now.

The Drifting Firefox was sad but a good story anyway, probably my favorite of the Returns series after the Snow Goblin. Which one will be translated next?

Where is chapter 24?

Thanks for reminding me! I'll have it up ASAP.

Where is chapter 24?

Thanks! It was worth the wait.

The Ghost School Murder Case was interesting. I didn't expect the short-haired girl to be the killer! Oh well, at least her motive behind the murders was somewhat reasonable.

Drifting Firefox should be complete in a week, max. After that will be a volume dedicated to Akechi!

Ghost School Murder Case is complete!

Damn, the last two chapters of the Snow Goblin Case hit me right in the feels. :'( It's a great story arc.

Not gonna read the Ghost School Murder Case arc just yet. I'm gonna wait for the remaining chapters of the Ghost School Murder Case to be scanlatted... then I'll read the whole arc in one go.

Ghost School Murder Case is complete!

Here is my theory for the snow goblin case:

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I think the CEO is the killer. This is because when Miyuki's room is attacked in chapter 6, the CEO told kindaichi that the laptop is destroyed in order to destroy the evidence. How can the CEO know that laptop contains evidences, since Kindaichi specifically told Miyuki not to tell anyone else about the laptop?

Here is my theory for the snow goblin case:

Pretty interesting analysis. Yeah, the mangaka's works do seem to introduce characters at random sometime.

 

I wonder if the murder in the village 50 years ago was related to the amber that was found in the village.If it's precious somwhere, it would be incentive to kill the entire village. I'd bet that the girl who was rescued from the village was someone's mother who goaded the killer into committing the crimes.

 

More chapters on the way!

Okay, based on having read a bunch of these mysteries in the past, here's my guess:

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The secretary is the killer. He doctored the maps so that the first victim went to a different cottage — probably also did something to the signage — and had already rewired the intercom so that button 2 called a different cottage. When the chef left him alone in part 2, he went and undid the intercom rewiring and restored the signs.

The chef will turn out to have come from the village, and will be suspected of being the killer, but that's just a red herring. If a mutilated corpse shows up and he disappears and is blamed, then you know he is actually the corpse; otherwise, he'll either be an explicit victim after he becomes a suspect, or else it will end with Kindaichi clearing him of suspicion.

The whiny other older guy who's always annoyed will either survive to the end or discover the killer's identity and become a victim.

Yeah. I think so as well but i also hope that it's wrong too since this trick have been used before in amakusa treasure case and also in Q academy, that dragon box case.

Kindaichi killers seem to be motivated by revenge a lot. (A lot. In the ones translated by Tokyopop a while ago, there were

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13 stories

with revenge motives out of 16.) Even if

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blandly-smiling secretary guy

isn't the killer, chances are pretty good that whoever is doing it has some particular victim or victims in mind who wronged them in some way (or were perceived to do so — some of those stories with revenge motives ended with Kindaichi revealing to the killer that actually the victim was innocent, just to add some cheap drama at the last minute). The first victim is young, so it's possible the revenge is against the family or something, not the victim personally. But we haven't had enough backstory yet; I'm sure we'll hear more about the village which was killed. Maybe the legend is a hoax which was deliberately created by the ultimate-target-of-revenge to cover up some sort of less-lethal crime; they've done that kind of thing before.

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The chef almost certainly knows what really happened.

The other motives in those 16 books (plus the others I've read) were all either "I have a loved one who will die if they don't get cash soon so I'd better kill everyone who stands in the way of (inheritance or contest prize)" or "I am being blackmailed and must kill the blackmailer, whoops someone saw me do it better kill them too, oh no someone saw me do that one I guess I have no choice but to kill again, oh darn not again".

(Does anyone else find it creepy, by the way, that in the series translated by Tokyopop,

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Kindaichi's recurring-character-friend gets killed horribly and they replace the character with his lookalike younger brother who is basically identical and who, thanks to the custom of calling people by their family names, is even addressed the same way

? (And it was blatantly because

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the character's habit of recording video all the time

was too useful as a plot device. You can just imagine them talking in the studio:

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"Wait, how does Kindaichi figure out that the killer is actually the woman with the trained dog?" "I dunno. I think we wrote ourselves into a corner this time." "If only we still had whatsisname the video guy around, we could have planted a clue in something he recorded." "Hmmm. Well, one kid is pretty much like another, let's just bring in a relative of his who happens to have the exact same habits and pretend he's not totally freaked out hanging around with the guy his brother was hanging around with when he was brutally killed." "Sounds totally plausible to me! Let's get drawing!"

)

Pretty interesting analysis. Yeah, the mangaka's works do seem to introduce characters at random sometime.

I wonder if the murder in the village 50 years ago was related to the amber that was found in the village.If it's precious somwhere, it would be incentive to kill the entire village. I'd bet that the girl who was rescued from the village was someone's mother who goaded the killer into committing the crimes.

More chapters on the way!