Detectives These Days Are Crazy! – Season 1 Episode 2 Recap & Review
Episode 2 of Detectives These Days Are Crazy begin with Mashiro and Magumo freaked out watching a ghost documentary together. Mashiro has never really been able to handle this, and challenges Magumo's nonchalant attitude, asking if he could actually walk through the graveyard naked at night.
They're interrupted though by the doorbell going. It's Hayashida, one of Mashiro's classmates. He's here for a request. A ghost keeps showing up at his house and he needs the detectives to help them out. Hayashida has a cheap surveillance camera that seems to show something horrific but he's not sure what.
Mashiro is freaked and struggles to hold it together, while Magumo is convinced this is some sort of prank. Mashiro eventually holds it together, remembering her coach's advice to always go for the knees when it comes to ghosts. Quite how or why her coach is teaching her how to defeat spirits though is hilariously left unclear!
The duo need to approach this with speed, and after seeing footage from the camera, Magumo tasks her with trying to catch the ghost before it disappears. Mashiro speed-runs her way through the days, but to no avail.
Magumo soon figures it out, and realizes that it's actually Hayashida dressing as a ghost and distorting the footage without them noticing via r emote control in his pocket.
Magumo actually figured this out on the first night but he waited this long because he's figured that Hayashida has a thing for Mashiro. He knows he's trying to find an excuse to talk to her and get close. Hayashida apologizes and that's the end of this case!
Find the Real Thief!
Some time later, Nagumo is arrested on suspicion of stealing underwear. At the station, he's interviewed by Chief Inspect Mimasaka. These two actually go way back, given he and Magumo used to be high school detectives together but alas, the pair's fates have changed.
Mimasaka doesn't believe he's the real thief but he does have an SD card containing footage recorded from the victims. Magumo isn't really aware of what this card is, and even worse, the footage definitely shows him on there. However, he believes someone is trying to frame him.
It's all up to Mashiro and Nezu to try and figure this out and save Nagumo. Well, with a trap sprung involving white underwear, they manage to track down this guy who looks very much like Nagumo, but with a slightly different complexion.
He winds up stealing Mashiro's underwear while she's trying to stop him and she's obviously mortified as a result. Mashiro eventually manages to catch the thief but he's beaten and in a pretty rough state when she arrives at the station.
Three Minutes Until Mashiro Explodes
We then cut to Mashiro capturing serial arsonist, Knit Man in the third and final case of the episode. At the station, he's interviewed and tells them to check out parking lot #1 for some of his 'art'. Knit Man happens to have a bomb ready and primed to go.
Mashiro takes a selfie with it while sending her picture to the station, which is pretty funny, and she decides to try and disarm it herself.
Having seen disarming scenes in movies, she takes inspiration from this and tries to cut the wires. However, there's way too many and she grows flustered.
Grabbing the bomb, Mashiro takes off and decides to let it detonate by kicking it right into the stadium… where Nezu happens to be taking photos. The bomb explodes and Nezu is caught in the blast. RIP Nezu!
The Episode Review
Detectives These Days Are Crazy! returns this week with a crazy trio of cases all jumbled up into one. It seems this anime is leaning hard into the comedic angle, and intending to try and throw as many of these different scenes as it can into each chapter to keep up the comedy shenanigans.
The meme faces are definitely a mainstay here, while each of these cases work to develop Mashiro as a character. Nagumo is still here of course, with the first case involving the ghost working to show how he still has excellent powers of deduction. However, Mashiro is the main draw of the show and she's undoubtedly a little firecracker, throwing herself head-first into every case.
Of course, some of this comedy also comes at the expense of toilet and pervy humour, with the second case revolving around underwear. However, the show never dwells too much on any one style, leaning into rapid-fire pacing and throwing as many jokes and memes as possible instead.
The show is definitely weird and unique, but whether that's enough to keep people invested long-term is still to be decided.
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