The police officer was suspicious from the start simply because he have a face compared to other faceless NPC in the lobby.

As soon as I saw his face and fancy hair, I knew he was not to be trusted.

FR he got such a good design from the rest of them lol

too fancy not to be a antagonist

For a second there I thought that was that Russian guy from season 3

the fog is coming.

Ya and Ranpo is not really the type to be fooled. Though he fooled himself that he was Gifted for a long time. I assume Ranpo is up to something. It's completely in his character.

indeed, he probably picked up on the uniform error

chuunibyou >>>> high IQ

I laughed when rampo said those glassy look cheap and the boss was like yes he bought it on a flower shop was it lol

Welp looks like Ranpo is about to go to sleep rather he likes it or not

I think he knows that guy is the murderer just a guess

what made him really suspicious is how he as a cop treated a mere bodyguard

Same thought, and he is kinda good looking too, besides his odd energetic reactions to Ranpo's crap.

I thought that victim guy was the master of that guy

I also thought of that too since they are look a like.

You mean the dude with cane? If yes then no he isn't.

what if they want us to think like that because they made a whole episode in the "the most suspicious one is the culprit" style

i thought it was Fyodor Dostoevsky when i first saw him

gawd same... I got a chill when I figured he returned...

Yet again I think Rampo knows something that we silly children don't know about. That "Mm-mm". It seems he knows that cop is cooking something up.

thats normal even ranpo isnt a match to that guy the real mastermind is that guy

Absolutely 😆. It's actually an anime rule: if he has a more detailed face compared to other background character, well that character have something in the plot. (KyoAni is an exemption though, even the background characters has a more detailed face/design/animation than MC in some anime).

sus based of how he moved

Ranpo flashback still continue.
Ranpo quickly solves any case.
He doesn't have much fun watching mystery series/movies

This is true and reminds me of the Edgar Allen Poe versus Ranpo. Ranpo didn't mind it even though he stated how bad the detective novel was he was set up in. LoL.

the end was soo good. couldn't take off eyes from my screen! i love the usual bsd, but hardcore detective work was surely great to see!

Oh Ranpo, just because you were told to view everyone else as babies doesn't mean you have to openly advertise it. ^^;

At least he does it seriously.

well that can be interpreted many ways too. depends on your headspace. baby could mean naive / ignorant, handle with care, just accept i'm gonna do dumb/ thoughtless things from time to time. really takes the sting out of bad behavior when you look at it that way

my favorite pose in yoga - happy baby pose

I thought Ranpo was just going along with Fukuzawa's lie, like I thought he would see through it but he seems to really believe in it? Or maybe he's allowing himself to believe it? Either way, it did open up Ranpo's world it seems so Fukuzawa did end up helping him with that lie.

I guess the other guy is the policeman that is escorting Ranpo, I wonder what Ranpo is going to do because it sounded like he was seeing through what was happening.

For quite a bit of the anime he made himself believe he was Gifted but wasn't then more came to acceptance when dealing with Edgar Allen Poe. It more seemed he wanted to fit in with his Gifted co-workers. Tbh it's more made out that he's more special because he's just that brilliant without needing to be Gifted.

It's either:
1. Rampo is a kid so being told that the world doesn't hate him, the words that he always wanted to hear diverted his attention and made him focused on this new thought. This worked well especially since Rampo doesn't know what real gifted people are and thought being gifted means being different.
2. He's allowing himself to indulge in this fantasy, after all he is different from other people, he has supernatural powers. It's better to believe in this to somehow get closure for the bad things that have happened to him.

my thinking is that Fukuzawa didn't want Ranpo to end up hating the world

unfortunately you're all running off false premises. it is called a paranoid persecution complex. it is a clinical term i'm well familiar with since i have it myself. Edogawa Rampo had it himself, the author and this character.

each person with this complex believes the world is out to get them, monsters surround them, and all the tragedy that has happened in their lives is a vast conspiracy involving all of existence. even a true ultimate genius can be deluded by false trails of logic and reasoning. this character truly did see everything except for one fact, he was insane and not mentally stable.

Fukuzawa did not lie in any way, he merely changed Rampo's perspective on reality and focused that genius in the correct direction. Fukuzawa showed Rampo that he was a genius, gifted, and that the entire world around him was filled with idiots. the people around him weren't monsters keeping a secret and conspiring against Rampo. the evidence Rampo had seen throughout his life led him to a conclusion that was false from the outset. or was a compounded series of events that led to the false conclusion later on. both are valid states of evolution for a victim of this mental disease.

paranoid persecution complex is one of the reasons 'chuunibio' or childhood self-delusions need to be monitored and curbed and behaviors and thought patterns need to be corrected. you shouldn't stifle the children's creative thought patterns. but, you should reinforce reality and the limitations of thought, body, reality, fiction, and existence. you can dream. but when your dreams twist your perception to one that is harmful to yourself and others...

Isn’t it crazy I can read an interesting analysis as this and hop over to a different topic but analyzing that similarly is taboo? Namely child genitalia mutilation, where adults reinforce certain delusions, or their own, onto a child to harm the child, which is basically another …

Maybe the only way to make sense of the world and see it in a proper light is through a lens of insanity

I've seen you comment on different animes a lot of times but I always forgot to ask this. Who's that guy in your pfp? He's so hot.❤

It's Ban from Nanatsu no Taizai (Seven Deadly Sins)

Oh okay tysm! ^^

Rampo is quite scary to be honest. Even enemies who know what he can do make him a priority target.

If you think about the metaphor he was using, he definitely saw through this. Why he didn't tell Furukawa is the question.

Maybe he left note for him when he put back that front door board that he bumped while walking out.

Ranpo kawaii! Also a pain in the ass! XD

Love how Ranpo is getting lots of screen time.

fukuzawa literally face palming over Ranpo LMFAOOO i love them so muchh

lol gaslighting ranpo into his full potential is a giga chad move

Back then anime ending songs mostly started playing a few seconds before the episode ended. It’s rarely done nowadays. I’m happy bsd still does that. It kinda has a nostalgic feeling to it

Yess I absolutely love that!! That's honestly why the first ending of BSD became my favorite ending all-time. They made me cry by using the first ending at last episode of the second season. Totally didn't see it coming and a wave of nostalgia hit me so incredibly hard. Luck Life also is top-tier when it comes to those melancholic guitar notes at the start of the song