Start Date: October 10, 2015 Episode four rating: 10.2% Director: Toya Sato
Main Cast:
Yui Aragaki as Kyoko Okitegami
Masaki Okada as Yakusuke Kakushidate
Mitsuhiro Oikawa as Horo Kizunai
Arioka Daiki as Nuru Narikawa
Rio Uchida as Makuru Makuma
Another enjoyable watch but do have to admit that the first three episodes were better, hope this series doesn't fall into that 'mid season blah' period. This was a bit of a continuation from the third episode which had featured the mystery of a vandalized painting. Actually the mystery didn't turn out to be about the painting but dealt with the frame for it which had been created by Sensei Wakui who is this episode has called Yakusuke for some help.
Wakui owns an apartment building where he allows struggling painters to live there for free. Wakui has created a contest among the 35 painters who live in the building, one of them winning it would really help their career. Wakui has announced that the winning painting will be the last one he creates a frame for as he wants to retire, he's set it up so the winner will have their painting shown in a museum.
Four episodes and now the fourth job for Yakusuke who is a person who has been saddled with eternal bad luck. Wakui feels that the contest may bring out the worst in some of the painters so he's hired Yakusuke to guard the paintings for 12 hours a day, Wakui will take care of the guard duty in the other half. During his shift though one of the 35 painters has broken into the studio and stabbed him, Kyoko and Yakusuke just happened to make it in time to save him.
Kyoko has deduced that the culprit has to be one of the painters living in the building as there was no way for a person to have entered and left it without her seeing them. The stabbing had occurred when she and Yaukusuke tried to get into the building but it was locked, Kyoko had to jump a fence for the pair to enter the apartment building.
The pair ended up interviewing the 36 who lived there, 35 had been entered in the painting contest but Wakui had told one he wouldn't be allowed to enter it. Naturally this person, Riku, was considered the main suspect at first and much of the evidence had pointed to him. Riku was a younger boy who we had met in the third episode, he was quite talented but Wakui had refused his entry into the contest because he didn't like to paint with colors, all of his works were in black and white.
Riku lived on the 14th floor but was a short boy, in the elevator he could reach up to the 12th floor button so he would get off there and walk the remaining two stories. Outside the 12th floor elevator Kyoko had noticed a drop of fresh blood, all signs thus pointed to Riku as being the person who had stabbed Wakui. Least to us it appeared as though he was the main suspect as none of the other painters really stood out when Kyoko and Yakuskue interviewed them.
However Kyoko knows more than we do and though she says Riku is the main suspect she knows it isn't him and instead goes to confront the real culprit. That person was named Kaga who lived in apartment 202 which was 12 floors directly below Riku's. At the building the painters weren't allowed to socialize with each other but she and Rika had communicated with each other via notes. Riku would use a fishing pole to lower and raise the notes, the pair had developed into friends though Kaga was much older than Riku was.
Though Kaga ended up admitting to the stabbing Riku wasn't entirely in the clear as he had helped Kaga after the stabbing, he had taken the knife back to his place and cleaned it off. Not much if anything escapes Kyoko, though we don't always know how she does it she figured out all of that out, we viewers and Yakusuke still don't quite understand her methods but whatever they are she always solves the mysteries.
For the most part that's the fourth episode's story, didn't think it was as strong or interesting as the first three episodes. We do learn just a tad more about Kyoko, we finally find out where she's living which is at the Sandglass Cafe. First three episodes many of the scenes took place at the cafe but not so this time around which also meant we didn't see too much of the other characters.
An intriguing question though was raised at the conclusion of the show as Yakusuke had asked Kyoko why she's a detective? Seeing as how her memory resets each time she wakes up it is a good question, how does she know what she does for a living and even Kyoko didn't have an answer for him. There still are quite a few other questions about her that need to be answered, the above is one of them and the main one is how did her condition start?
Seeing as how there's at least six episodes left sure those and a few others mysteries surrounding her will be answered. Like I mentioned it was a so-so episode or at least compared to the previous episodes, certainly not bad at all but just wasn't nearly as interesting. As usual have a post after this one with many screenshots from this episode.
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