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Mar 19, 9:00 AM
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Back to the mystery and solving problems again for Takao. This one isn't really medical related but still requires a lot of logical thinking.

Seems this is part of a multi-episode arc dealing with a strange room. it's a strange episode but one for Takao to prove herself again.
Mar 19, 9:18 AM
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Yet another mysterious detective case. Well, let's put our genius doctor back to work again.

Kotori's new car looks good.

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Mar 19, 10:07 AM
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Poor Kotori he had a nice and exciting car but now he is doomed to boring SUV life and to make things worse it's a black SUV.
There aren't much cars that lack more personality than a black SUV, the only thing worse is a grey SUV.
Driving a black or grey SUV is like announcing to the world that you are boring, and the guy used to own a RX8 but now all hope is lost.

Anyway Takao has a new case to solve and with more motivation than usual seeing as she wants to keep Kotori close.
Mar 19, 10:28 AM
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oh no! Takao gonna destroy Kotori's new car. He shouldn't let her drive at all cost.
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Mar 19, 10:49 AM
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After his RX-8 exploded, Kotori bought a diesel CX-8. A boring SUV compared to the sporty RX-8, but a nice car nonetheless. They made the car look very detailed, down to the interior, especially the shifter and wiper stalk. I'm suspecting Mazda paid them for product placement.
Mar 19, 10:53 AM
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An interesting new mystery, seemingly with lots of moving parts and suspects.

I'm pretty sure that whatever the victim was coughing up wasn't water... The problem will be how to prove it. Could be a massive fluid build-up in the lungs, but I somehow doubt that the fluid can shoot out like a fountain during CPR.

But I'm sorry, the animation is just pitiable at this point... Nobody can walk properly. Lips moving when the character isn't even talking. Characters looking at the wrong spot. Lots of cut-aways and slideshows.

It's no longer just animation, even the art is constantly falling apart, in static shots as well. Characters have outright lopsided pupils and mismatched limbs.
Mar 19, 10:57 AM
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ok, who did this?

the brother??? naaaah, i don't think so even if...

the dad, impossible...

so who???
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Mar 19, 10:58 AM
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Another interesting case for Dr Takao to solve I just love how involved she gets in them.
Mar 19, 11:18 AM
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Here's what I think I solve (probably), I think the culprit is the first one who perform a CPR, he pretend that the door is lock when in fact it isn't, and I suspect he also in a position to gain something if Seiji is suspected (maybe the position of hospital's chairman? even though he's already a director?), but the black box is still at large since I can't figure out how the murder was performed.

But let's look at another way, Seiji can't be a murderer on the fact that if he is, then Takanashi will have to transfer to university hospital, it's kinda a cheat way to solve problem with zero knowledge on how detective story work by bypassing all the mumbo-jumbo and just focus on character development.
Mar 19, 11:26 AM
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I know I've heard a drowned on dry land story before, but I can't remember details. (Not trying to imply that this show is copying anything, just a coincidence.) I did find one thing unusual. Was Seiji not around when he was young? The father said that when his wife found out she started to decline. Wouldn't she know he had a different mother if he had been around?
Mar 19, 11:50 AM

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What better way to calm a raging detective down than a classic closed room murder to solve?

Hopefully Kotori's new ride can last until at least the end of the season before joining his previous car and Mai's bike in vehicle heaven.
Mar 19, 1:06 PM

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Takao's furious Kotori is transferring. With her disorder, she doesn't want to learn how to get along with whoever is replacing him. Thus, she went out of her way to find out why, leading to her specialty; an unsolved abnormal murder case.
Kotori's got his new car.
Speaking of cars, Seiji looks so guilty right now being alone in his car for a few hours instead of going to the hospital where he could've got an allibi.
If it's not Seiji, it's likely someone who doesn't want to see him succeed Ryuichiro as chairman.
Ryuichiro filed the cause of death as illness and cremated the body before there could be an autopsy. He feared Seiji going to jail and claims the police got involved via an internal complaint.
Possible candidates are the uncle and medical director, Kojiro, the one who did chest compressions on Daiki.
Dr. Yuko, who's married, could she be having an affair with Seiji?
Takao has a license but her sister has forbidden her from driving (another car wreck averted).
It took the whole episode for Kotori to realize Takao is intent on solving this case for his sake.
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Mar 19, 1:07 PM
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So Japanese hospitals are just as morally corrupt as Japanese businesses, treating and moving around employees like numbers on a spreadsheet. Good to know, remind me never to get treated in a Japanese hospital
Mar 19, 1:24 PM
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Reply to Luminova_
After his RX-8 exploded, Kotori bought a diesel CX-8. A boring SUV compared to the sporty RX-8, but a nice car nonetheless. They made the car look very detailed, down to the interior, especially the shifter and wiper stalk. I'm suspecting Mazda paid them for product placement.
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Mar 19, 1:44 PM
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She needs to be 40 something and flirt with Dr. Takanashi for this to be more fun.
Just don't get the young brilliant genius and of course ageism in Anime is a thing.
Mar 19, 1:44 PM

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in CR it looks as if episode 11 would air today as well?
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Mar 19, 1:52 PM

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Random Ooishi vocal cameo? I normally don't notice too much or comment upon overlapping VAs since there's a lot of that, it all kind of blends together, and I just like to first and foremost focus on the world of the show I'm presently in and discard such external distractions, but it's such a distinct voice. Unfortunately too minor of a character, at least as of now, to be apparently listed and accounted for in the casting information to check.

Anyway, I do prefer when they mainly stick to the hospital setting as was the case in the last few episodes, but it seems so many mystery series cannot resist the classic locked room/closed room setup and ultimate dilemma. It can still be entertaining. I have no clue and I honestly don't even try to deduce it in advance as I just prefer seeing the characters work through it and explain when the time comes, letting it unfold naturally in real time without getting into theorycrafting and speculation. Mystery is up there among my favorite and preferred genres, but I'm not an active or proactive but very passive mystery watcher. I don't take it as an interactive experience.

Concerning the series in general, the repeated delays are annoying but they don't impact the quality of the show as a whole, in that how many delays there are or whether or not there were any at all will be completely and totally irrelevant to anyone watching the show in the future, whether one day later or 20 years from now, after it finishes airing. I favor this realistic art style because it feels appropriate and fitting for a series with a realistic scientific focus in a modern-day setting. At the same time, on numerous occasions the characters have gone off-model making it all look a little cheap and half-baked, but luckily art and animation aren't what I put too much stock into as far as what I value and prioritize in a series.

This didn't end up as much of a standout as I would have liked or hoped as I previously thought handled the right way and with a couple of the right decisions this could easily have ended up as a shoo-in for my favorite of the season, one of my favorite and one of the better ones of the year and from recent times in general, and so forth. As it stands it's still my second favorite airing seasonal, but I've tempered expectations a bit. I think it's because Takao is really the only interesting, endearing, or compelling character whereas the rest are mostly props for her to shine, but that's honestly true as well in a lot of the hour-long medical and crime/lawyer/detective/police live action American serials this seems modeled after or inspired by. Plus, I would like them to use their runtime even more effectively when not showcasing Takao's antics and eccentricities to just pack as much in-depth and obscure medical info and details as possible, which, while they've had a few rarer or more pondersome cases they've only really been okay on that front without too much revolutionary or requiring of knowledge of too rare conditions as they mostly peaked in the first case in terms of rarity, novelty, and complexity/amount of moving parts, with the blue-blooded amputee two-parter. They probably were wise in having that one serve as the introductory hook.

Still, one thing I've both enjoyed and admired throughout which has remained consistent throughout, is how open and unreserved they've been in showing Takao as a semi-functional autistic. It always helps in your medical series, I find, when the star and ace doctors aren't themselves the picture of physically and/or psychologically or behaviorally perfect healthy normality. She's a savant and not modest about it, she admits herself she "can't read the room" and doesn't know what to say to console or pacify people or have accepted social interactions (relates to "theory of mind", but I don't personally like using this term because the way it's usually discussed is wildly misleading and widely misunderstood), can't work well with others and really only has a few special people like Kotori and her sister and to a lesser extent maybe Mai who she feels she can rely on, is hugely messy whether when eating or housekeeping and organizing her living space but has a system which makes perfect sense to her in her own mind, has angry and sad outbursts and meltdowns regardless of her audience and who's in the room, her older sister functions as her kind of parental figure or minder and she's not even trusted to be allowed to exercise certain adult responsibilities like driving despite being a highly intelligent, educated, and trained medical doctor in a position of authority as second in command of a major general hospital. And on and on.

Basically, she has major issues of executive dysfunction impacting her daily life in a way which aren't just differences of minor personality traits.

At this point, her being neurodivergent is as canon and integral to the character as Gregory House being a sarcastic misanthrope and opioid addict.

She also reminds me of Sakurako Kujou and Maomao, but I actually feel that this may be the instance of doing a character like that which to me has rung the most true.

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Mar 19, 3:28 PM
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Being relieved of his position huh damm thats cold given how much of an asset he's been to Takao. Being a murder suspect defo is a reason why he can't work for sure. Looks like the vic was one hell of a loser. Still this case sure has a lot of unknowns thats quite curious.
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Mar 19, 3:35 PM
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Well, he certainly looked like a thug. I'm guessing.... No, I won't let's just see where this goes.
Mar 19, 3:37 PM
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19 minutes in episode 9: I couldn’t stop myself from crying πŸ₯Ί
Mar 19, 3:50 PM
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This is the first episode where poor animation has jumped out at me. I know people had mentioned it before but I'd not really noticed. I wish they'd been given enough time to finish things properly, because I love it otherwise. I really hope they get the chance to make a series 2, with more reasonable deadlines. It's been very beautiful and touching at times.

As for the actual episode: I don't really have a clue how the drowning could have happened, so I'm looking forward to part 2!
Mar 19, 5:07 PM

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Kotori changed from his coat back to a scrub when Mai talks to him
Mar 19, 5:27 PM

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Oh, locked room mysteries are always nice
It's cute that Takao is doing all of this just to keep Kotori around, she really does care about him
Let's all pray for Kotori's new car

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Mar 19, 5:37 PM
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Very good episode -- welcome back, Dr. Takao!

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Mar 19, 5:44 PM

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Another three episodes murder case for the season finale?
Mar 19, 6:45 PM

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I'm just gonna put that there:

Mar 19, 8:05 PM
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The old men in this episode looked like they were from a totally different anime, the difference in the artstyle between Takao, Kotori and the other younger cast was staggering.
Mar 19, 8:23 PM

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Yep, and the minute they stepped out of that hospital I immediately went back to losing interest in this show. Yet another case that I could really care less about and has little to no stakes.. great for the final arc of the show.

Add into the mix the TERRIBLE AD work, the horrible melt, stiff movements, and overall just now fucking consistency, and I could really rather care less for what else this show has to offer from here to the end.

This image alone sums up everything I said above and more.
Mar 19, 10:45 PM

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Holy heck, Project No.9 WTF is this? This show started off so well, and now you're letting it down with this god awful production this episode. Basically no movement, poorly drawn characters, a scene change for everything, dialogue mismatching the scenes. At this point I don't even care whether or not it's their fault the episodes can't be finished by the air date, their track record for having poor and unfinished productions is so high they might as well just not make anything instead of making shows worse by failing to properly display the story to us.


This isn't even about "Is the animation great, average or mid?" this is basically a slideshow of pictures getting moved across our screens, it's unacceptable, especially in the year 2025, I'd rather go watch Pokemon (The OG 1995 one) if I was watching this just for the animation.

This show deserves much better, if they actually release the Blu-ray version and don't fix this crap then there's absolutely a calling for this to be redone. Heck there probably is one already considering what happened with Kimisen S2. At least that one is getting properly finished and re released.
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Mar 20, 8:13 AM

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The most logical choice would be the younger brother, but that would mean that Takanashi would end up being transferred. Another option is that the culprit could be the hospital's general director and he does not want the president's younger brother to take over the hospital and wants to ruin his reputation by blaming him for the death of his stepbrother.

As hard as it is for him to admit it, Takao likes being with him. That said, Takanashi should be careful that Takao touches his car: going from driving a sports car to a basic SUV is just tragic. Also, I think he also had to pay for the bike that Takao wrecked. Poor guy, maybe the transfer isn't so bad after all.
Mar 20, 8:23 AM

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boring episode meh
Mar 20, 8:44 AM

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Ahhhh I thought there was no episode this week, I misunderstood the forum post. Damn it
Mar 20, 1:28 PM
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I can usually look past poor animation if I'm invested enough in the story, but a complete lack of animation really takes me out of it. Multiple scenes of what is clearly meant to be important dialogue laid over a slideshow of static background images...really distracting, actually! Which is a shame, because the actual story of this one seems reasonably interesting.
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This case seems interesting, but as others said, it's the first week where animation was really noticeably bad. I can forgive subpar animation when I'm engrossed in a story, but the walking and talking animations, the still shots, and some characters designs were really distracting. I swear Kotori became an idol boy for a scene in the ep.

My guess for the mystery is that it was the dad who did it, but I don't have a clue aa to how so far.
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Mar 21, 2:22 AM

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Well, after the last amazing and impactful two-parter, back to status quo mystery investigation. This new new multiparter feels very reminiscent of Dateline, a mysterious murder shrouded in incompetent mess ups and an unusual cause of death with a suspect with all the evidence leading back to them.

It's a real bone chilling reality that these things really do happen. Not a whole lot to go off of, I'm curious to see what Dr. Takao finds out next week. Also, it's hilarious to learn that she is indeed licensed to drive, just hasn't been allowed behind the wheel for a while.
Mar 21, 11:11 AM
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Nice cliffhanger
Mar 21, 3:59 PM

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Looks like Dr Takanashi got that loan for the new hatchback Mazda, not nearly as sweet of a ride as his RX-8 sports car that got blown up though.

Quite the beautiful mansion in that estate. It's definitely right up my alley for places to I'd love to live in in if I were filthy rich. Although being rich comes with it's pitfalls, like higher chances of getting spoiled kids like Daiki.

What a bizarre way to die, drowning in a locked room on the 2nd floor. I thought maybe the old director was the culprit who wanted the position of chairman that was going to be appointed to Dr. Seiji. I guess we'll have to wait until next week. I'm hoping it wasn't Dr. Seiji, because that would mean Dr Tanakashi wouldn't have to be transferred back to his university hospital.
Mar 21, 3:59 PM

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Before the case lets talk about how much of a piece of shit this oldguy is. He got his wife killed cause of his infidelity and then married the woman, later kicked out his legitamate son who yes went bad but after what happened to him it's no surprise. For once I'm hoping this Seiji guy really is the murderer so the old piece of shit would maybe reflect his shit decisions in life which only he himself to blame.

As for the case a wild guess but is this married woman doctor actually the deceased guy's wife and has an infidelity case with the younger brother? I mean the apple doesn't fall far from the tree so who knows.
Mar 24, 5:10 AM

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so many nice shots of Kotori. he is an angel for little twisted takao
Mar 25, 6:42 AM
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this shit got butareba syndrome
Mar 25, 7:39 PM
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she is such a tsundere.
Mar 27, 3:41 AM
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Thinking about it a little, the police seem to be truly -IQ. Supposing the victim "drowned" or was already dead, the guy was able to pull down a phone and TALK. If they could talk they could likely cough out the water and not be drowning, and if they were dead they couldn't be talking. Also liquid coming out of mouth doesn't necessarily have to be from actual drowning, likely some kind of gas or poison likely caused fluid build-up, which is also what affected old man.
It's likely the guy who did the chest compressions. Seemed like he deviated from usual procedure that a doctor would know to do.
Guessing on the back story, I would guess that the bro hated the father guy who got away with cheating (maybe he liked the newer wife) and also the younger kid who's doing something scandalous with maybe a hospital friend, and also baited the older bro with something like telling him that her mother's will or diary is in that study or something. Also the kid that is being framed would have jumped over the director's position, so probably some jealousy there as well.
Mar 28, 8:54 PM

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With each episode I like Ameku as a character less and less. Shes rude, immature, and self serving.
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Mar 31, 6:53 PM
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I guess the doctor Kotori would be replacing is practically ruled out as the culprit for story reasons.

I don't think the art issues affect this show too much.

I feel like the Adult Cast tag doesn't really apply due to the protagonist, who's gone back to being obnoxious.
Apr 1, 2:13 AM

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The final mystery of the season, where Kotori has to be posted back to his university hospital to fill in for another colleague, it greatly displeases Takao and the rest of the doctors who've worked closely with him. But for him to be filled in because of a murder case involving a doctor by the name of Seiji Kuwata, Kotori's new Mazda CX-8 SUV for his replacement RX-8 looks good, albeit being less sporty, to interrogate the Kuwata's father Ryuichiro involving both the suspected murderer and the deceased of half-brother Daiki having different mothers, in a family proceeding business passover from father to eldest son that went awry.

Clearly a locked-room incident, Takao begins filling the gaps where Ryuichiro might've faltered, as well as the Kuwata General Hospital's staff who tended to the half-brothers, especially Seiji.

The clear case of a drowning in a locked room, Takao will get her detective instincts going for this big case.
Apr 3, 9:38 PM
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After skipping a week for the dub and letting us sit with the ending of the last episode this was a nice way for us to sit and have our minds thinking on this show and what happened in the 9th episode. I really enjoyed this one because I'm interested in how this mystery happened!!
Apr 5, 8:22 PM

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holy shit look at this dude's eyes

Also lol, the animation error around 11:42. Wrong character is moving their lips during dialog.
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Takao should've paid for Kotori's car and motorcycle since its her fault >:(
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I think this one is quite hard to discover...
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Apr 20, 1:03 PM

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Dude, Takao is definitely insufferable.
They had to give someone like that that much intelligence... Lol
Takanashi should be happy about any news that meant having her away.
I don't know if it's me or the execution of the episode but I found it a bit boring.
Anyway, I find it strange that so much screen time is given to unrelated medical staff...
It could be that somehow, a big part of that hospital is involved in something dark.
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