: Ranpo, an orphan struggling to hold a job because he views the world as "too simple," immediately solves a murder mystery that had the police stumped.
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Set roughly 12 years before the main series, the episode is presented in a cinematic grayscale "noir" style. : Ranpo, an orphan struggling to hold a
The fourth season of premiered on January 4, 2023, produced by Studio Bones . The first episode deviates from the present-day timeline to adapt the light novel The Untold Origins of the Detective Agency . Plot Summary The first episode deviates from the present-day timeline
: The use of monochrome visuals throughout the episode serves to highlight the "colorless" world Ranpo perceives before meeting Fukuzawa.
: Fukuzawa is stunned by Ranpo's deductive power. Despite his desire to work alone, Fukuzawa takes the boy under his wing, promising to help him find work if he assists with a death threat case involving a theater performance.
: A 32-year-old Yukichi Fukuzawa , working as a stoic freelance bodyguard to distance himself from his past as a government assassin, encounters a 14-year-old Ranpo Edogawa at a crime scene.