Category: No Case Too Small

No Case Too Small: My Little Pony – Friendship Is Magic

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The case in question is episode 50 of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic – “MMMystery on the Friendship Express“

hisuiconMurder on the Orient Express is one of Agatha Christie’s most famous mysteries with countless remakes and homages over the years.  But one of the most unexpected places to see such a tribute is My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. While Twilight Sparkle is not investigating the brutal stabbing of criminal Pegasus who previously was caught up in a tragic kidnapping, the story is fairly faithful to original. Over all it is a clever little episode that manages to take a classic mystery and make it accessible to a younger audience. It even manages to reference several other famous mysteries and spy stories in the process.

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No Case Too Small: Urusei Yatsura

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The case in question is episode 75 of Urusei Yatsura: “And Then There Were None“

hisuiconNo Case too Small is the ongoing feature of the blog where we look at a mystery based episode of a non-detective related show. Since today is Halloween we decided to do a very thematically appropriate episode of Urusei Yatsura. Usually Urusei Yatsura is a madcap screwball comedy where the most lecherousness young man in Japan is engaged to a beautiful but jealous alien princess with electrical powers. Around this time in the production of the show you can sense that the crew was getting bored with straight adaption of the manga and were pushing the boundaries of what they could get away with in the series. Episode 71 was “Shinobu’s Cinderella Story”  which was a mostly a humorless noir story involving a Shinobu getting involved in a murder over the inheritance of a vast fortune. This episode also takes the crew of the normally goofy series and places them in a terrifying murder mystery with the cast dying one by one in various gruesome ways. While the mood might be in strong contrast to the shows’ normal vibe it is perfect macabre story for today.

Lum is the type of show where you never know what the next episode will be about, it is a rather odd and varied assortment of short comedies running the gamut of success. But you always expect comedy, and maybe the occasional tender moment, so this episode comes off as particularly creepy. And even the few attempts at silly just cement how bizarre the tale is.

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No Case Too Small: Yankee-kun to Megane-chan

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The case in question is chapters 115-117 of Yankee-kun to Megane-chan.

hisuiconThe story starts off without a hint of mystery. The new student council is taking a trip to a beach-side inn to plan for the upcoming school festival alongside the old student council made up of the main characters. They blow through their meeting to get as much fun in the sun as they can and then relax at the inn when night falls. But when they find Izumi has been attacked and is covered in seaweed and fish. After talking to a local hooligan who works at the inn the group discovers they have triggered the wrath of a local sea-god. They barge into the only other occupied room in the inn and find an ominous message that they all shall feel the wrath of the curse. Soon they are being taken out one by one in an equally bizarre manner.  Can Shinagawa discover who or what is behind the attack before they are all subject to the brunt of this fearsome grudge?

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