I'd have figured they'd have introduced some editorial rearranging for the anime but evidently not?
Huh. I thought I had made a comment along those lines. But I have a bad habit of typing gobs of text (even more than what you see here!) and deleting it several times over, to the point where something might be lost in the mix.
Anyway ... yeah, that was one of my thoughts. In the manga, there were certain things about the setup sequence -- the murder that sets things off -- that strike me as rather failing for the "murder mystery" aspect. Basically, there are details shown that might be mistaken for *clues* about the killer's identity (but only clues that we, the viewers have, because we get to witness the victim's murder), and later on, when we get introduced to what might pass for the cast of possible suspects, there's really only one realistic candidate based on what information WE as viewers know ... but he didn't do it.
It feels to me as if the author intended a particular character to be the "baddie," but spent a little too much time developing his conflict with the protagonist, to the point where if he were "revealed" to be the killer, the readers would probably yawn and think, "Well, DUH." But instead there's this other character who shows up several chapters into the story, and suddenly we're seeing a lot of him, and in short order, BOOM -- reveal! He's the killer! I can flip back and ... hey, why isn't he in the background in any of the previous scenes? (I did a quick Wiki check, and in the manga he doesn't even first appear until Volume 6 -- the "murder solution" story arc -- and in the anime he doesn't appear until the 8th episode.)
What's really annoying is that there is NO GOOD REASON for him to not appear until then. I think it's pretty clear that he wasn't even conjured up for the story until late into the manga ... but for whatever reason for the anime, they didn't decide to fix that by at least having him in the background earlier on.
This story fails as "murder mystery." As soon as we are introduced to him, it's time to show that he's the killer. There's no "aha, it all makes sense now!" at all. There's no PRETENSE that, "If you had been paying attention, dear viewer, you would notice these CLUES that pointed to the true culprit!" No, if anything, those clues CONTRADICT it ... and yet they didn't bother to fix them in the anime.
So far as I can tell, two episodes in, the anime adaptation is pretty faithful to the manga -- and in this case, that's (IMHO) not a good thing in all respects.
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Huh. I thought I had made a comment along those lines. But I have a bad habit of typing gobs of text (even more than what you see here!) and deleting it several times over, to the point where something might be lost in the mix.
Anyway ... yeah, that was one of my thoughts. In the manga, there were certain things about the setup sequence -- the murder that sets things off -- that strike me as rather failing for the "murder mystery" aspect. Basically, there are details shown that might be mistaken for *clues* about the killer's identity (but only clues that we, the viewers have, because we get to witness the victim's murder), and later on, when we get introduced to what might pass for the cast of possible suspects, there's really only one realistic candidate based on what information WE as viewers know ... but he didn't do it.
It feels to me as if the author intended a particular character to be the "baddie," but spent a little too much time developing his conflict with the protagonist, to the point where if he were "revealed" to be the killer, the readers would probably yawn and think, "Well, DUH." But instead there's this other character who shows up several chapters into the story, and suddenly we're seeing a lot of him, and in short order, BOOM -- reveal! He's the killer! I can flip back and ... hey, why isn't he in the background in any of the previous scenes? (I did a quick Wiki check, and in the manga he doesn't even first appear until Volume 6 -- the "murder solution" story arc -- and in the anime he doesn't appear until the 8th episode.)
What's really annoying is that there is NO GOOD REASON for him to not appear until then. I think it's pretty clear that he wasn't even conjured up for the story until late into the manga ... but for whatever reason for the anime, they didn't decide to fix that by at least having him in the background earlier on.
This story fails as "murder mystery." As soon as we are introduced to him, it's time to show that he's the killer. There's no "aha, it all makes sense now!" at all. There's no PRETENSE that, "If you had been paying attention, dear viewer, you would notice these CLUES that pointed to the true culprit!" No, if anything, those clues CONTRADICT it ... and yet they didn't bother to fix them in the anime.
So far as I can tell, two episodes in, the anime adaptation is pretty faithful to the manga -- and in this case, that's (IMHO) not a good thing in all respects.